Medris game guide suspended me for asking questions

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Dolalin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Perhaps a weekly job could be run against character_data.lastname, then emailed to guides to peruse as part of their volunteer work [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Or piped to an appropriate profanity API.

I could probably wire up a bash script to do this actually.

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.