Naming Police = Nazi's ?

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Alistar

Alistar

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I get the premise of the naming policy...

I like that no one can be named Joe Bob, or Masher, or Flyingfists or Twinkles or Bettyboop or Dontaskmeforsow.
Great, cool, wonderful.
But I chose a phrase in "LATIN" for christ sake.


298 out of 300 peeps would never even know it was Latin.
So one GM did and I just think someone's getting bored if I gotta change a name like that.

So where does one go for "cool old-world ficticious names that aren't about anything, don't mean anything,
don't stand for anything, don't happen to mean something in some perverse language, or have ever been used
in any way, shape or form by someone else ?

I thought names were supposed to mean something, not just something that doesn't make sense and doesn't have enough vowels, and sounds just as stupid backwards as forward.

Anyway... I just think there should be some real guidelines... The present ones are obviously flawed...

Just voicing my opinion, not looking for a fight, but I'm sure there's alot of 12 year olds here, so you kids Flame away.





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Sometimes I don't like the policy either, but if it IS enforced it should be done so uniformly. Your name meant From Nothing. I wouldn't allow that in english, spanish, finnish, or swahili. If it's obscure enough that no one catches it, great; you can snicker softly to yourself as you escaped the nazi's wrath. But considering someone said in ooc right after I flagged you "oh I see someone else caught it," I doubt you and I were the only ones who knew what it meant.
 
I agree with you that the naming policy should be perhaps spelled-out in more clear language. And in regards to certain names, there are valid points. We're willing to listen to valid reasoning for certain names, but Fromnothing probably isn't going to fall under that.

edit: your use of "nazi's" implies that i am the only naming nazi, which is laughable. Of all the GMs, I'm probably the most lax on names, simply because it ALWAYS causes a huge fuss and a McCarthy-era blame game. I'm sorry for shitting on Cheerios by flagging Exnihilo.
 
How about people just make up their own names instead of trying to find ones already in existance and try to apply them to a "world" where they don't/shouldn't belong?

I would rather have the naming policy be too strict then have ten people all trying to use different variations of names found in our real "world". I like the naming policy, leave all of the other names for WoW, Guildwars, and live.
 
Here's my sugguestion- add a link and/or an in game function like the buglist. GM may review and nerf names that are reported stating what's questionable about them. This way it should alleviate the numerious player ooc over the matter. :roll:
 
Alistar said:
But I chose a phrase in "LATIN" for christ sake.
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I stopped reading at this point because you incriminated yourself.


Alistar said:
I thought names were supposed to mean .
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No , names are a form of recognition, Last time i checked maybe in some situations like SITTING BEAR , ect or names can be tied to a meaning.

However that does not make a phrase a name.
 
i think i just gave up after i had to change my name like 5 times.


give it a few days and you'll be laughing it off. i don't know anyone who hasn't had their name changed at least once.
 
Heh what I really love are the ones who change their name from one stupid phrase to another. Maybe they won't notice that I'm violating the naming policy even more eggregiously than before!

You said yourself, your name was a phrase. If someone's name is phonetically "Christ the Fucker" in French (yes, I really did come across that one, and he threw a shitfit about having it changed), should I ignore that because it's in French? Or because it doesn't actually spell it; it simply sounds the same? If it is a word, name, or phrase that violates the naming policy it does so regardless of the language you use. As Rabb said, if you're subtle enough not to get caught in violation, bully for you. But don't come bitching here if it gets changed.
 
I think the best is to have a balance between an 'Immersion-Ruining Anything-Goes' policy and 'RP-Enforced Make Up Something That Sounds Like a Silmarillion Knockoff' policy. The server generally does pretty well with this, but I think most will agree that the rules are enforced somewhat inconsistently; I could probably find violations with half the active people on the server if I followed the naming policy to the letter.

That said, it isn't your server so tough titty. These are the rules that Wiz set up, so we can either abide by them or choose not to play here. Try to be respectful and articulate in your reasoning instead of posting flame-inciting polls and you'll probably see more favorable results. My rogue got name-ganked, I had a polite conversation with a GM and came up with something acceptable to both of us.

also hooray for SA emoticons. :q:
 
Your name was a phrase. No matter what language it was in, it was a phrase. Simple as that.

Amazingly this isn't a server only played on by americans - it may have not been someone on the staff who noticed your name to begin with. It very well could have been reported by a player who knew what it meant.
 
If you can't deal with having a name that doesn't mean something REALLY REALLY AWESOMELY COOL WOOT, then don't play SoD. Locked.
 
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