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Old 06-23-2020, 12:16 PM
Dolalin Dolalin is offline
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Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Awhile back someone mentioned that the staff fixes names when they are reported (via /petition), and a group of players went on a crusade to make the place more classic (something I'm sure you can identify with [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]). Those players would look at every name in places like EC and /petition every violator they found. In short, they were a human version of your script.

Now the staff did fix the petitioned names ... but then that created a ton of drama, as people who'd had their (violating) name for a long time felt A) betrayed since they were allowed to have it that long, and B) unfairly targeted, since other violating names (that hadn't been petitioned) were still around.

This created some forum drama, and very likely a ton of in-game drama as well. So as much as I'd love for the staff to use a script and clean up names, I suspect the real cost of that operation isn't finding the names ... it's dealing with the fallout of fixing them.
That's a good point. I'm an asshole by nature so it's probably just as well I'm not a staff member.