Cannot use "Dick Richards" as a name.

[Dr. Farson]

BYOND Key: Dr. Farson
Staff BYOND Key: Melariara
Game ID: cfy-aTjQ
Reason for complaint: I used the name Dick Richards for my Investigator character, thinking it would be witty, and was promptly told it was immature, despite the fact that not only is it an incredibly common name, but also one shared by a prominent director. When I contensted this with the admin, they promptly told me that "it's a reference name" so I couldn't use it. I find this rather irritating.

Evidence/logs/etc:

[Pratepresidenten]

Ill take this complaint. Just need to hear the side of our resident admin @Melariara

[Melariara]

Hi.

As mentioned in the original ticket, please don't talk in OOC about the ticket. Posting this before the round it was involved in ended is pretty much the same thing. Please, keep that in mind.

First of all, I originally bwoinked you for having the name "Dick Richards" because, essentially, I believed it looked like you wanted to go around being called Dick Dick, which is again, not very mature. We agreed on a name change, I changed the name.

Secondly, you made another ticket on it, which I have no problems with. I told you you could make a complaint if you disagreed with it. Unfortunately, the moment you brought up the fact that the name is shared with a director, makes it a reference name which I won't go back on. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Richards )

 

...That's it.

[Pratepresidenten]

On 18/12/2021 at 06:12, Dr. Farson said:

When I contensted this with the admin, they promptly told me that "it's a reference name" so I couldn't use it. I find this rather irritating.

I am not entirely sure why you've made this complaint when you painted yourself into a corner like this. The name now clearly violates the no reference name rule as Mel pointed out.

Although we live in a world where people have wacky names such as "Mike Hunt", "Richard Cummings" and "Ben Dover", its not something we want on the server. Even if some of these can be interpreted normally, the fact they can be interpreted in a funny or bad way is something we wont make an exception to despite the former being true.

None of us on the moderation staff wants to keep a tab of every exception for every person with a "Legitimate" character name, so we simply make no exception for anyone.

 

That being said, I'm considering the matter resolved and Ill close it in a day unless there are any other questions.

[Dr. Farson]

2 hours ago, Pratepresidenten said:

I am not entirely sure why you've made this complaint when you painted yourself into a corner like this. The name now clearly violates the no reference name rule as Mel pointed out.

Although we live in a world where people have wacky names such as "Mike Hunt", "Richard Cummings" and "Ben Dover", its not something we want on the server. Even if some of these can be interpreted normally, the fact they can be interpreted in a funny or bad way is something we wont make an exception to despite the former being true.

None of us on the moderation staff wants to keep a tab of every exception for every person with a "Legitimate" character name, so we simply make no exception for anyone.

 

That being said, I'm considering the matter resolved and Ill close it in a day unless there are any other questions.

Thank you for offering clarification, please know I completely respect your decision.

On the note of funny names, my IRL doctor is actually called Micheal Cummings, and he used to be a GYNECOLOGIST.