I think I'm with msbelle on the voting. Maybe the vote could be a straight yes/no on adding language like this (only prettier) to the etiquette/rules/whatever:
Please choose your user name with care. Offensive names and the names of celebrities are to be avoided, unless you are the celebrity. In general, it's one login to a customer; if you register another one, please provide a way to link the two in your profile or tagline. Stompies have the right to reject any name, or to make you to prove it if you claim to be someone famous.
I'm with Cindy on the hesitancy to codify this.
...and this is why we vote, people. If where we're at now is some people want to add a suggestion to the Site Etiquette and some don't, we need to find out how many people think each thing.
We could vote about whether we need the vote.
One proposal at a time! When we're done with this, we can vote on whether we should have voted on it.
We could vote about whether we need the vote.
One proposal at a time! When we're done with this, we can vote on whether we should have voted on it.
Are you positively sure that neither one of you works in DC? That's the House of Representatives in a nutshell.
The very first vote we had was whether or not we wanted to start voting. Sophia's wording on it was great.
If we vote and it is decided not to codify sockpuppetry that does not stop us from adopting a custom of disclosure in the profile. Even in DC there are both written rules and customary behavior. When a sockpuppet appears I could shout "Hey Bozo! It's customary to disclose your board name in your profile," or something.
When a sockpuppet appears I could shout "Hey Bozo! It's customary to disclose your board name in your profile," or something.
And when they say "I don't want to. Stop yelling at me." what happens next?
