Dear Devs: Please make another pass at restricting offensive names

[Doki]

Again... this is a name I first encountered IN GAME. Upon reporting it, I looked in Lodestone and noticed just how rampant offensive names are.

[Aelin_Ashryver]

Those names don't even seem that bad tbh, they're not racial slurs or anything.

[Bukachu]

Jesus christ how do some of you survive on your own in real world

[Sebazy]

News at 10, guy with bad pun name gets offended at others with equally bad pun names.

In other news, it's rainin sideways

[Jagick]

News at 10, guy with bad pun name gets offended at others with equally bad pun names.

In other news, it's rainin sideways

Sounds rough Sebazy, do you have an umbrella?

[Doki]

I think a name that is a sound effect of a heartbeat is a bit different than "Aborted Fetus" unless there's a pun in there somewhere I'm missing.

I can say that reporting a name does sometimes work... except, they'll handle the specific name on the specific server you report, and then not bother to go ahead and do a scrape of other instances of the same name. Why does this sort of thing have to fall entirely on user reports? I feel like everything bad in the game, the devs are like "go say something on the forums about it" as a catch all for things that in all honesty they should just be addressing themselves.

[Shibi]

I think a name that is a sound effect of a heartbeat

It's not really a 擬声語 / 擬情語 is it though? ドキドキ is correct and わくわく is correct but ドキわく doesn't become "excited heartbeat" - it's likely more accurate as something like "Time Slot". The Nine O'Clock News, so to say.

I can say that reporting a name does sometimes work... except, they'll handle the specific name on the specific server you report, and then not bother to go ahead and do a scrape of other instances of the same name..

Yep, it works, see bad name, report bad name, GM makes a decision on *that* active person.

GM's are human, and doing it this way allows the affected player to dispute the action with another GM on their next login. If they've been seen in world, then it's a given they are an active player and this dispute can happen while it's fresh.

If they do a global change, someone might not log in for 10 years, and it's too hard to dispute then, all the details and the GM in question are likely long gone.


The advice; "if you don't want to be offended don't specifically search it out" applies here. It's a bit like a gay guy searching photos of beavers and then going "ewww".

[Doki]

I guess I'm just getting old. It seriously astounds me that anyone would defend this, unless you're taking devil's advocate just because.

[Seera1024]

I guess I'm just getting old. It seriously astounds me that anyone would defend this, unless you're taking devil's advocate just because.

No one's defending it. They're just saying report them as you see them in game. Don't go on the lodestone and hunt them down.

Because here's the situation:

1. Could be permabanned for a reason other than their name and since they can't log in to change their name, they'll stay on the lodestone.

2. Inactive because they got bored with the game and the name will remain as such on the lodestone because they obviously can't change the name if they aren't even subbed and the player has no intention of returning.

[Lihtleita]

is it just the word fetus or the way its used? for example aborted fetus versus funky fetus

also whats your stance on the word embryo?