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Originally Posted by Alawen Everywhere
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Nalkin gets it; Lazortag never will.
I really don't care about appropriate names. I've never participated in any of the name nazi antics. I don't really care if my name gets changed. I am super amused that Starklen immediately launched into google to search for my randomly generated elf name.
My entire point is consistency and even a vague semblance of fairness. I like Cyrius and I think Uthgaard is alright, too, but they both are taking the server farther in the direction of "because I said so", which I personally consider a mistake. Without the player base, this server is just another personal playground in that long list of emulator servers we all ignore every time we launch the software.
Maybe you don't think that can happen here. You would be wrong.
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This isn't really a fair account of what happened in this thread. You asserted that IB was somehow going to be favoured by not getting its name changed, after which it was clarified that the policy wasn't aimed at guild names. This is what you said in response to Aasimon concerning this:
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Originally Posted by Alawen
I would also say that you are making it very clear that equal justice does not apply on Project 1999, which is, of course, something you are clearly entitled to do. It is, at the end of the day, your sandbox, and you can make whatever arbitrary rules and rulings you so choose about who gets to play, with what and for how long.
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As far as I can tell (since I can actually read, and you can't), this isn't at all consistent with Nalkin's interpretation of the meaning behind your posts in this thread - which is curiously what you stuck to in the end. Nowhere in your post does it say, "it's inconsistent that the policy applies to character names and not to guild names". Maybe Nalkin has a point, but you never did. You just kept repeating things that were already adequately responded to. I actually can't believe that I had the courtesy to respond to everything in your enormous TLDR posts and you didn't respond to one word in mine.
Also, on an unrelated note, Estu is very smart.
My opinion in the end is that this "policy change" will change very little and people are overreacting, since the guides will probably just adhere to something resembling the old standard and only change really egregious names that they see or are petitioned to them. If the old standard was technically the same as this one as Uthgaard and others have said, then I think some fault lies with whoever wrote the old policy, because it does seem overly strict (names that are anachronistic, or references to real-world media, are probably harmless, but like Nalkin I care really little either way and can't fathom why people like Alawen have shat a brick over this. Also, it's pretty much classic, so I can't complain).