What would you do if you THINK you see inappropriate name?

[Meleena]

Let them be
I dont care what other players do with their accounts.

[DeadRiser]

These people just don't like when other people have fun. I laugh everytime I see this one guy pass me up on the Lindblum server. Hope he still has the same name.

I name my person for alliteration. Other's for roleplaying. Some just do it for humor. Why do you have to get so mad about it, not just OP, but every other internet police person out there. The game is rated T, and there are swearing words in it already that's been previously stated. I don't see what's the big problem.

[Keith_Dragoon]

Probably depends on the name. There are probably more times where someone's doing it to be a smart-ass than they are being genuine to their real name.

Mike Hunt
Bignick Diggers
Mudda Fuggas
Chimpo Theamazing

You know what you're doing. You can have your laugh and know someday, you're gonna get reported, and a GM or some such could offer you the name change.

What is wrong with Mike Hunt and the Chimpo one? I may be overlooking it but I don't see the bad in those. >_<

[Aleczan]

What is wrong with Mike Hunt and the Chimpo one? I may be overlooking it but I don't see the bad in those. >_<

Mike Hunt could be pronounced My C*nt.
But I can't decipher Chimpo One either.
Gonna wait for the answer with you. XD



OK, slowly making my progress in replying to everyone.
Here goes;

If I saw someone with an inapprioriate name, i'd say to myself, how does this affect me? Oh wait, it doesn't. I'd ignore it and keep playing. There's thousands of people playing, if it bothers you that much, just don't play with them. I see names which might be considered "inappropriate" a handful of times, and I say to myself "eh, to each their own." Is there really a need to be so uptight about what other people do, so long as it's not hurting anyone?

I’m not upset but it’s disturbing to a degree. But you’re right, his name is not interfering with my gameplay.

I have to admit, I've seen some pretty funny names out there. Most of the time though, it effects them more so then me. I pretty much 90% of the time make my own groups. If your name is Dookie Poo, Big Olanus or Warcraft Cataclysm you're probably not going to EVER get an invite to anything that I'm involved with. In truth before this person speaks a word blacklist them.

If someone is going to name there character something immature, or trollish, it's obvious the person behind the character is probably young and not worth my time.

You are right, avoiding them sounds like a good solution. Thank you.

I'm just kinda amazed you needed help in making a yes or no decision.

If it really bothers you then do it, if you are just reporting him to be cyber police and a jerk then don't. (But if you are a jerk then you wouldn't ask here, you would just do it.)

I thought it was quite an interesting case. It was controversial enough within my brain alone, so I thought I might get various kinds of responses from the public. I also like to hear opinions to broaden my view and perspective. Because sometimes, even when we people think we made a decision carefully, or judge something with all accurate information, or are being in the right, someone or something might still change our mind or alter the action we would take.

It’s like when, hypothetically, I think someone offends me in real life and I feel the urge to punch his face, but think I would feel guilty for doing so. Then, I would try to seek second opinion from a friend who’s standing right next to me. Maybe he would say, hey he didn’t mean that. Or maybe he would say, you’re overreacting, calm down. Then I can be like, oh, I see, I misinterpreted it, and then walk off without punching the poor guy who didn’t mean any harm.

What would I do?

I'd mind my own damn business.

Sounds cool. Thank you for the answer.

I wouldn't do anything, because I don't get my feelings hurt over trivial crap.

Sounds fair. Thank you for sharing.

Depends on the amount of profanity and if it's blatant. If it's excessively vulgar or derogatory in the slightest bit then yes I report without even thinking about it.

I also feel this way too. Explicitness does count in my eyes.

i dont mind offensive names i think ppl who report them are being crybabies. if it bothers you that much you are overly sensative and need to man up and as far as americans being the ones who report these thing F@#$you to that poster quit being a hater

People are sensitive to different things. It wouldn’t be fair of me to say someone is a crybaby for getting bothered by people who made generalization about Americans being those who report every little thing. Right? To each their own. People tolerate different things to different degrees.

[Aleczan]

I didn't imagine my questions would be catching so much attention. Thank you all for replying. So much input. Glad I've decided to make the thread.

I apologize for not replying to everyone in chronological order. But many of the replies need more elaborated responses, and are longer than others. So I have to give them a lot of time in reading and responding.

lmao... really? its the Internet, grow up.

http://www.engrish.com/wp-content/up...s-somebody.jpg

It's the internet grow some tougher skin or keep out. Hell it's the world , grow up.

Firstly, being on the internet doesn’t justify anything. People talking to me through the internet are real people, not coloured pixels. So in my standard, I treat people with the same politeness I treat people in real life. I would expect the same from any other decent person as well. Internet should not be used as a shield for people to misbehave or misconduct, exploiting the anonymity within.

Internet doesn’t mean an automatic grant of toleration from other people towards your disruptive behavior. I shall demonstrate it with an unrelated, yet very simple example; if you feel it’s wrong to cuss at your father in real life, talking on the internet with your father doesn’t automatically make it feel right to do so.

Secondly, thank you for your concern about me to grow up. But by my definition, which I believe is also a commonly accepted standard, being grown up includes, but not limited to;

• Handling matter calmly and politely, no screaming, yelling, pouting, crying, shouting (Santa Clause is coming to town).
• Exchanging opinions in a civil manner.
• Presenting my thoughts and opinions in a rational way.
• Responding to people nicely, even if they’re disagreeing or nonconstructive.
• Stating my point of view without belittling other people’s opinion.
• Keeping in mind that people have different sentimentalism and perspective, and trying to not be disrespectful.
• Taking care to not despise other people who disagree or are not handling the situation the way I would.
• Being informative and not using angry rant.
• Reading other people’s replies carefully to try to understand them.

If my attempt in being grown up does not satisfy you, well, that’s too bad. I tried.

A person in an old linkshell I was in was named Itchi Ballzak. It honestly drove me up a wall. The guy had a jerkface attitude to match the offensive name.

I quietly celebrated when I logged in one day and he was complaining because he was prompted for a name change before he could log in.

And, no, I wasn't the one who reported him. Someone else did it before I had the chance.

LOL. That name is kind of explicit, though it did crack me up from the spelling (such dedicated attempt!) I am not surprise other people also wanted to report it.

Hmmm now, since you personally know the guy (as linkshell member) and told that story to me. I find it amazing to see that the person’s personality/attitude probably would have a big influence on the decision whether to report or to not report.

For me, if it is someone I know, I would more incline to NOT reporting. Yet, if he’s a horrible person and I hate his personality or attitude, I will be more likely to report on him. If he’s a really really nice guy, I would probably be angry and cursing at whoever unknown person that reported him. Talk about bias. Oopsie me!

[Aleczan]

My last reply for tonight. Going to bed.
Talk to you again tomorrow (or day after tomorrow).

and some people are too stuck up in their own little world to learn how to take a joke and laugh about something. omg..... i heard a joke at work let me go report them all to get them fired.

sometimes people need to get their noses out of other people's business and this is just one of those instances. if it was not a racial slur or profanity laced i look at the name, laugh to myself, and move on.

ispano had pretty much said what I feel. One thing to add, if you think name like “Muthfecka Dickhead” is funny and is laughable, then good for you. But sad to say, I do not share the same humour with you. However, I am unable to confirm whether the name was meant to mean that way or not.

As for your jokes at work example, it’s fine if people find entertainment and fun from jokes. They have their rights to have fun. However, supposed their fun is not just being entertaining to themselves but being unpleasant to me, or is ruining my fun, or invading my peace, do I not have the rights to do something? Jokes are good. But it should be done or told at appropriate time, in appropriate place, and, of course, for maximum effectiveness of the jokes, to appropriate audience.

I am not saying the guy’s name is violating my rights, because he hasn’t been nagging me. He passed into my awareness just twice, both by the mentioning from my LS friends. We probably won’t run into each other. So you can rest assured I won’t be trying to get him fired.

So if someone chooses to spend what little time they may have for entertainment, playing a game, they should treat that time non-seriously? Because that's basically what you're saying. Not everyone is entertained the same way you are. Someone may take the game seriously because they have very little time, and you telling them to not do so is just as demeaning to them as you being told to be serious about something in said game.

You are right, but in my case it’s slightly different. I don’t take game seriously, I play it to relax. If some profanity – for example – from other people in the game would bother me, it’s not going to be because I take game seriously, but because I feel my relax time is invaded by unpleasant something.

One good thing is that the said person hasn’t been around me yet, which I hope it would remain so. I don’t want my finger to get itched again.

Ever heard of jokes some people laugh at but others do not? What's funny to one or some, may not be funny to others. Don't assume anything someone does with an intent to be funny, is automatically funny to everyone. You don't have to agree with someone on whether it's funny or not, but you should at least understand why they don't. Heard a joke at work... what kind of joke? People that say "learn to take a joke" are basically trying to push their opinions on others.

And it's not just his Business, his name is displayed publicly in game, and if it also violates the rules, it should be reported. If you choose not to report it, no problem, but don't berate those who would.

Well said. I agree with you, wholeheartedly. Especially those bold text, they speak my mind out loud. Thank you.

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as long as what you are doing is not insulting, racist, or sexist i have no issue with it.

if your name calls out any person, race, or sex then yes it should be reported, but otherwise it is taking that too far. [b]this is not a game for 13 year old kids like wow and even states it in the tos.[b/]

i'm not stating that you should either take the joke and live with it. all i am saying is unless that person is doing anything rude or disrespectful towards me or anyone else them i am not going to go play hall monitor and report someone for something like that. if you don't like someone's name treat it the same if you just don't like their personality and just don't play with them.

Wait, I am confused. So would you report or not report?

Also, since I didn’t state clearly what the person name was, I’d like ask you whether this name “Muthfecka Dickhead” would fall into your category of what should be reported or not. Please treat this question as another instance, not the same one in my OP. Because the person I mentioned in my OP does not have this exact name.

Also, by ToS and age, did you mean this;

http://support.na.square-enix.com/fa...d=56665&id=902

Avoid using vulgar, hateful or antisocial terms as a name or first/last name combination. If your name is found to be in violation of the Terms of Service, action may be taken against your account.

And this;
http://support.na.square-enix.com/ru...seragreement_e

3.3 Profanity and Offensive Language. You may not use profanity or any language that a reasonable person would find offensive. The Game is for players aged 13 and older. You agree to behave accordingly.

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[Dekken]

Unless it is an actual inappropriate word like F**k in the name, I really wouldn't care. If its something goofy that sounds like genitalia I may chuckle a bit, but I still don't care. I am more offended by people who use the names of popular anime/manga/other pop culture characters, or use the names of two popular characters to form one name. They have the right to do that but I just feel like it shows lack of creativity and I personally wouldn't make that choice. Unless its in the Sims, then I give them all sorts of horrible inappropriate names.

[Charismatic]

Probably depends on the name. There are probably more times where someone's doing it to be a smart-ass than they are being genuine to their real name.

Mike Hunt
Bignick Diggers
Mudda Fuggas
Chimpo Theamazing

You know what you're doing. You can have your laugh and know someday, you're gonna get reported, and a GM or some such could offer you the name change.

All of these names are amazing. These guys are my true internet heroes.
Bignick Diggers especially.

[Keith_Dragoon]

Yea I got the Mike Hunt one abit afterwards but it could also be a real name. Seeing as its the internet and the huge trend of inuendo names I doubt it but that ONE is probly one to let slide.

Still lost on the Chimpo so back to awaiting a explaination.

[thedevilsjester]

I would blacklist them and report it without hesitation. I have found that people with names like that usually have personalities to match. Obnoxious and immature.