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Originally Posted by branamil
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If a character with a so called "naming violation" is a level 1 or level 5 then who cares. But if it's a level 60 with 5 years played time... You need to have a conversation with that person before randomly changing their name because...
1 - Randomly tampering with something that someone has invested a lot of time, and offering no recourse, in is bizarre and unsympathetic. It's like telling someone to paint a picture, and 5 years later you make an ugly blue paint smear across the whole thing. And if they complain, you tell them you'll burn the whole thing. So you better tell them how lovely their blue smear is.
2 - A lot of these "violations" are a huge gray area and you need to err on the side of caution, because people have invested time into these names.
3 - If you're just relying on player petitions .. you may not be considering whether the petitioner is has a vendetta or just wants to grief someone.
*not personally affected by these changes. Just arguing on behalf of the downtrodden.
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Exactly this. ^
I have not even had a name changed yet, and I can sympathize with those who have had a name they identified with for years instantaneously wiped off then replaced with some generic name like "Arleigh."
Hey Loramin, let's say they changed your name a day ago before Llandris posted that they were doing so, say you log in to play Loramin, and find your character now with the name "Himpuh" or some other name which you have absolutely no connection to, would you simply say, "oh well hey I understand, it was found inappropriate and I am just fine that it got wiped off." Time to log in and play now!
No you would not.
People are not being "whiny-asses" as you said when they are upset that their long established names have been wiped off, and even with justification now as to why the names have been wiped off, it still doesn't make it less hurtful to these players.