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oranges wrote:

CitrusGender wrote:

oranges wrote:The entire problem of this policy was enumerated, it's not enforced by the majority of the admin team because (speaking personally) it's a horrible policy and I won't ruin peoples rounds just because they have a funky name. (Excluding those who name themselves hitler or stalin, like come on it's been done, although there’s' RP potential to play someone unfortunately named Hitler).

Only admins I ever see enforcing this are the "/tg/'s RP needs to be higher group" who are bananas god rest their souls

The headadmin team seem to realise this but don't appear to care, or only plan to double down which seems insane to me.

Why would the man who says that headmins shouldn't step into policy that is enforced inconsistently say that?

You've literarly said before that headmins shouldn't step into policy because they will inevitably make inconsistently enforced policy.

The point you should have taken away from that discussion is that policy will never be consistently enforced because admins are only human, that is why it's very important to have a robust appeals process (which we do) and that trying to overly heavily handedly prescribe policy (like say the naming policy) will only cause trouble.

Grazyn wrote:Clowns and mimes are exempted from naming policy

Lazengann wrote:The policy should be whether most admins think it's too dumb to stay

Lazengann wrote:The policy should be whether most admins think it's too dumb to stay

Floiven wrote:

Lazengann wrote:The policy should be whether most admins think it's too dumb to stay

This, just write as something like: Names are decided on a case-by-case basis, if the admins that are currently around to make the decision decide that your name is too dumb / doesn't pass the entertaining enough / named in bad faith check, welp too bad, please change it. Just add a note to the player along with their name so that if they've been asked to change it already, if the issue comes up again the online admins at the time can see that it was decided to be allowed or changed, and defer to that judgement. If you feel that it wasn't fair that you got certain bias from the people that were on at the time to make the decision, hey maybe don't toe the line so hard that you need someone to judge your name in the first place, if you wanna stand out with a special name that goes against normal naming conventions, gotta take the exposure that gives you.

Excessively OOC names fall under rule 3. Make a minimum effort to have your name fit in a setting involving a wacky space station in the future. A firstname lastname minimum is required and no honorifics are allowed. Nicknames in the middle are ok. Admins may get involved if your name is dumb and can approve or disallow names at their discretion while ingame.

Not-Dorsidarf wrote:"nyanaroni" is hot fucking garbage and not even remotely a name, while I could see shitty parents with the last name Cake calling their daughter "Cup Cake" pretty easily.

I play as Max Imumfuhk tho so

cedarbridge wrote:Anyone unironically posting in this thread thinking "if your name even looks like or sounds like food you're getting banned :^)" is retarded and needs to stop posting in bad faith.

Grazyn wrote:

cedarbridge wrote:Anyone unironically posting in this thread thinking "if your name even looks like or sounds like food you're getting banned :^)" is retarded and needs to stop posting in bad faith.

So is Brad Wurst allowed? What's your ruling?

Saegrimr wrote:Putting Space in your name automatically absolves you of punishment. Should have been Nyanaroni An'Spacecheese

SpaceInaba wrote:can we please just delete posts that are going IS X A GOOD NAME ADMONGS

Grazyn wrote:all I get from this thread is that no one agrees on a common policy, some put Nyanaroni and Cup Cake on the same level, some advocate for zero tolerance, some allow anything as long as it's funny (to them), some say that nicknames are allowed, some say they are not and so on

It is only fair that people bring up specific examples to get at least a ruling about those since anything else is vague and fuzzy

Nilons wrote:I don't think a name being dumb should be the criteria, Ive known people with some dumb fucking names. For example, Harold Balls is a real person

cedarbridge wrote:

Nilons wrote:I don't think a name being dumb should be the criteria, Ive known people with some dumb fucking names. For example, Harold Balls is a real person

Gay Bowser is technically somebody's name in America, but I'll still ban you for using it.

Lazengann wrote:t. Reginald Spessmen

cedarbridge wrote:

Grazyn wrote:all I get from this thread is that no one agrees on a common policy, some put Nyanaroni and Cup Cake on the same level, some advocate for zero tolerance, some allow anything as long as it's funny (to them), some say that nicknames are allowed, some say they are not and so on

It is only fair that people bring up specific examples to get at least a ruling about those since anything else is vague and fuzzy

So what you're saying is that people need to rules lawyer LITERALLY every rule in the game (including "don't use stupid names that aren't actually names") and that these needs lead to endless bikeshedding. Color me surprised.

Grazyn wrote:or argue in bad faith that Nyanaroni is the same as Cup Cake is skyrocketing.

Saegrimr wrote:Pinning things on a boogeyman doesn't stop your opinion from being any less subjective.

Saegrimr wrote:How does that make Cup Cake less of a stupid name?

Nilons wrote:Why do people immediately jump to "YEAH WELL ILL PLAY A GUY NAMED BIG FUCKING IDIOT IF YOU DONT MAKE STRICTER POLICY" every time one of these threads happens

Grazyn wrote:Have you ever interacted with cup cake in game? It's a whimsical "lolrandom" character which may be annoying but it's at least a honest attempt at playing the game and the name fits that character

captain sawrge wrote:

Lazengann wrote:t. Reginald Spessmen

Yeah thats what I mean its a fucking stupid policy I've had that dumbass name for like six years and no one has said a word to me but something equally stupid isn't allowed because ??? so everyone just tries to brainstorm where the line is but there is no line it's just at the whim of the admin it's so incredibly inconsistent and stupid to even bother trying to enforce that it's pointless.

OOC names are covered by no OOC in IC. Why does it need to extend further beyond that? Every time we have this thread it's an endless cycle of "this is good and this is bad and these arbitrary standards are actually VERY EASY if you use common sense by reading my mind GOD its so SIMPLE"