Name Changes

[loramin]

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

I also do not see a problem with Loramin, but the name is literally scripted across drug boxes and I am sure it also has a copyright infringement agreement with it's usage, but I suppose since it's not a famous drug like Motrin it doesn't matter then, right?

There are a lot of obscure names in use all of the world. Like only considering trademarks you've got a hundred ... thousand ... every quarter ,,, in the USPTO alone. If you want to ban every trademark yo're looking at 100k names being removed every quarter from P99, just from American trademarks (not counting global trademarks or other forms of American IP).

The point of the naming policy is not to blindly prevent anyone from naming a character from ever using a name previously used somewhere in human history. That doesn't do anyone any good. The point of the policy is to make it so that when you're playing your elf sim with your elf buddies Skarlorn and Phenyo, you don't have your immersion broken when Pap Smear joins your group .,. because you, Phenyo, and Skarlorn all think of an uncomfortable process a woman has to undergo when she's pregnant when they see that name.

But if "Thoracic" wants to join your group, it's not going to have that immersion breaking effect, because "Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy" is not a common procedure that would break most people out of their elf sim world.

It's 100% legitimate to hold the opinion "I should be able to have a character named Machine Gun", and it's 100% legitimate to think "any name that anyone can prove was ever used anywhere ever should be banned". I wouldn't agree with either, but they're legit, logically defensible positions. But anyone who wants to pretend like they can't differentiate between names 99% of the server would recognize and names 99% of the server wouldn't is just trolling.

P.S.

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

I just think a little empathy goes a long way, and the way some people antagonized others when it first went down was retarded.

In this much we are agreed: whatever pleasure some of us might get (from P99 becoming closer to the way we remember it on live) by enforcing the rules does not necessitate a bunch of schadenfreude over people losing names they've had for half a decade or more.