Name Change Issues For Dyslexia

[Bacent]

This post is not about using a dyslexia card. It's about being more understanding of human error. You misread my whole point.

And if my disabilities were actually cards, I would have gotten rid of them by now. It's not a card I pull out of my pocket when I want to play it. It's permanent.

Then why did you feel the need to bring up your dyslexia begin with? You could have simply suggested a small window where someone could make an edit to something they may have typo'd and didn't see at first.

But instead you made the post about 'why are they mean to people with disabilities' to sum it up. You lost what you were trying to say by bringing it into the main focus.

[Elkanah]

This is something that would probably step on more toes than you think. There's a lot of people who make basic mistakes, and on the internet where anyone can be faceless, how many people do you think would use the dyslexia card to change their name? There's a lot of people who will/do use disabilities as a way to get an easier treatment on something, or even free.

Online, how are you gonna be able to confirm with a big busy corporation that you have dyslexia?

If they put a rule for something like that in, how many people do you think might try to say they have it just to get something free?

People need to be held accountable for whatever they do, even if it was a mistake. I have a friend who changed his name in game for RP reasons, but had to change it a second time because he forgot an apostrophe in his character's last name. Everyone has to be treated at the exact same level with no one getting special treatment.

I have multiple disabilities, that I won't delve into here, and I don't want to be treated like some special case, like you said, I didn't choose for my mind to be the way it is. But you're a person, so you'll get treated normally like everyone else does.

As someone who has worked for gaming support in the past for another company, I can't tell you how many times I've heard the dyslexia excuse (over a 4 year period) of calls/chat support engagements. And I couldn't agree more. I'm sure there ARE people with dyslexia (like the OP), but we had to treat everyone the same and denied name changes too. You can't tell who is and who isn't doing things to scam companies anymore. Every user is different, but all it takes is a few bad apples to make things change or stick to the guns of the company standard policies.

[Doozer]

A 24-hour 'oops' period I think is fair. It doesn't allow people frequent shady name changes, but still allows you to correct any minor mistakes. Telling someone to double, triple, etc., check it doesn't matter if you're dyslexic. I understand you OP, truly. And sometimes you just make a typo, you're tired, distracted, maybe your keyboard input lags and doesn't register one of the letters, etc.

Things happen, and a single do-over should be allowed per name change. It would also be cool to have something like that for character creation or fantasia use, but that's less of an issue.

[Freyt]

They implement such a thing and then someone says "it should be 48 hours" and the process all starts over again.

[DamianFatale]

They implement such a thing and then someone says "it should be 48 hours" and the process all starts over again.

That argument makes no sense. 254 hours would be enough. They could just say tough cookie.

[Theodric]

You can't even activate a name change without already confirming that the information is correct numerous times. That's the grace period to ensure that everything is in order.

[MrKusakabe]

I think this thread is...an experiment, isn't it?

Your whole posts are 100% perfectly written and very long and detailed. I had a friend with dyslexia in school, he was allowed to use a laptop for his school day (which was very unique in 2001!). Felix, despite having spellcheck programs, was still often typing very hard-to-read stuff. One example stuck in my mind: He wrote difficat instead of difficult. Also, due to that, he refused to write much, it was more bulletin type of notes and many dyslexic people also can not read much and for long because of that. You write entire paragraphs flawessly, your whole post history has not even a single typo, even names the spellchecker can not know are perfect:

What if Haurchefaunt and Ysayle are [...]

Papalymo, Moenbryda, Haurchefaunt, Ysayle/Shiva, and etc.

[...]

Doma's crisis was set up in the 2x series.

Sharlayan's main city has been set up since awhile ago.

Thavnair is a thing.

Bukyo is a thing.

[...]

But "Sven" was too much?

Also, the structure is strange, you start from Dyslexia and go to colorblind to broaden your audience and impact. Your name is displayed perfectly fine here, and you said you bought it today to fix it to "Sven" at 5:00 AM GMT according to the timestamp of your post. I post at 8 AM GMT. Doesn't it take often take hours up to days to change names, levels etc. from the Lodestone and thus forums?

For my fellow users here and moderation/GM: I am not making fun of people with dyslexia here. I had, as said, a friend going trough what you call middleschool to graduation, and I know how hard it is. He even got extra time for written tests, and he compensated his lack of writing skills with a great character and intelligence. If you are really having dyslexia and are also randomly for colorblind changes, I apologize honestly and I do not intend harm. I am just a very curious person and like to see the whole puzzle at once, it is even in my zodiac sign (Scorpio)^^ But right now, many puzzle pieces do not match. But if I have the chance to ask and broaden my horizon, I'd rather use it. If it causes unease for the OP I am deeply sorry!

But so far, it looks like you are trying to create a thread like a certain green-haired Elezen to see what happens and how far you get. If not, then you are a really strong and admirable person because writing such perfect and structured, long posts with perfect fantasy names is an immense task, including the PTSD and Fetal Alcohol syndrome you have according to your post history which makes it even harder then.

Sincerely,

[Doozer]

Your whole posts are 100% perfectly written and very long and detailed.

That's extremely insensitive, and no one cares if you had a dyslexic friend and that you think that makes you immune to consequences. I'm dyslexic as well, though it comes around more with reading things incorrectly instead of typing things wrong, though that still happens on occasion.

Did you know that copy-paste exists? Did you know spellcheck exists? Did you know autocorrect exists? Did you know that some words are easier for some people than others? I can type pretty complex things as well, but as soon as I have to enter a code for DLC or something I really struggle because I mix up letters and numbers. Everyone who has dyslexia experiences it differently, and if you're actually sitting here accusing the OP of faking it because they spelled some more complicated words correctly, I have a huge problem with that. Stop acting like such a know-it-all. It's pretty damn rude to actually tell someone you think they're making up the conditions they have. Get over yourself.

[Freyt]

That's extremely insensitive, and no one cares if you had a dyslexic friend and that you think that makes you immune to consequences. I'm dyslexic as well, though it comes around more with reading things incorrectly instead of typing things wrong, though that still happens on occasion.

Did you know that copy-paste exists? Did you know spellcheck exists? Did you know autocorrect exists? Did you know that some words are easier for some people than others? I can type pretty complex things as well, but as soon as I have to enter a code for DLC or something I really struggle because I mix up letters and numbers. Everyone who has dyslexia experiences it differently, and if you're actually sitting here accusing the OP of faking it because they spelled some more complicated words correctly, I have a huge problem with that. Stop acting like such a know-it-all. It's pretty damn rude to actually tell someone you think they're making up the conditions they have. Get over yourself.

Personally I think the person you're replying to made a much kinder and more thoughtful post, albeit critical, than your own reply to him. Between him and you, if there were to be one person I would have to label as problematic, it would be you.

[AngelCheese77]

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Please don't use orange on these white background posts. Difficult and painful to read. Thanks!