'Serenity'
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Policy question -- should Joe Random be allowed to register as, say, Dave Fury? Even (or especially) if the Mustard Man himself is already registered as David Fury, or whatever?
And if the answer is no (which I think it should be), we need to state that clearly.
I think an appropriate policy would be "If you claim to be somebody famous, we'll ask you to prove it."
What if it's ... David Furious, or Joss Sweden, or say (and this is where we leave the realm of hypothesis) Tim Minaer?
ahhh. Sigh.
I'll be over here in the bunker, whimpering.
David Furious, or Joss Sweden, or [...] Tim Minaer?
The first two are funny.
"Parodying other people's names (whether real or adopted) is tacky. We ask that you don't do it."
Welcome to the real world, folks. Possibly a statement of "We suspect you're not who you're almost pretending to be, so we may mock your efforts to look important."
He didn't though. It's more like he registered as David Fruy (edit: or as Tim Minaer). It's a deliberate misspelling.
Christ on a crutch.
I say, if any stompy foot doesn't like a user name, they can shut it down. Anyone who doesn't like it can go somewhere else.
What if it's ... David Furious, or Joss Sweden, or say (and this is where we leave the realm of hypothesis) Tim Minaer?
I say we do as the Jockey Club and disallow names which are too close to names of Famous Horses to be used. (Which is why you won't see any Seebiskits or Secretaryuts around, FWIW.)