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

[Aleczan]

Hi all.

Today I found myself in a big dilemma.

Friends in my Linkshell have been pointing out and laughing at a character's name of someone on my server. The first name sounds so much like the full form of insult word Mofo (but, like, kiddie pronunciation, you know, strong lisp). And their last name....pronounces exactly like a word in my language which would directly translate into "d**k head."

My brain keeps debating to itself back and forth.


Report it because it's bad!

No, it might be some weird language, like Chinese or Korean!

But it's hard to have such coincidence. He must have done it on purpose!

But what if he's just a foreigner who was using his language's name? Reporting on him would be mean.

First name really, really looks super suspicious, he must have meant mofo.

Maybe it has its own meaning in his language. Me not knowing it, or it sounding similar to other languages' obnoxious word doesn't mean it doesn't exist in his language.

It's not good to let him walking around with that name, it will humiliate my country.

But if I don't tell or don't translate it to anyone, other people will never know what it means!



So I can't decide what to do.

I would probably try to forget about him and do nothing. It would be a bad bully to report him based on my assumption alone.

But out of curiosity, have anyone around here experienced such unsure moment? Also, I wonder what would happen to a person whose name is reported to be inappropriate. Force-change of name?

I heard stories from FFXI where people who got reported for inappropriate name was forced to delete his character and start over again. It's.....too....harsh, I think? But at the same time I also heard stories of people who made rude name and was caught, then was given a chance to rename their character.


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I tried to shorten the name of my thread but it wouldn't show up as changed in the index page. Eeep! ><