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[Discuss] OCC bans

Tom Vogt tom at lemuria.org
Mon Feb 4 15:47:56 CET 2008


Jim schrieb:
> Today in Sirion there was a discussion about the responsability of the 
> ruler.
> In cases of an inapropriate name.
>
> The name 'ownage ownr' was banned bu the judge today for the reason of 
> not following orders.
>
> Some people protested the ruler, for they see it as the responsability 
> of the ruler to ban people with such names.
>   

A ban for a character name is always an OOC ban.

In-character, you aren't responsible for your name, are you? It was 
given to you by your parents.

> Other state that it is perfecly medieval to have such names because the 
> EC is not the Far east or dwilight. so not the responsablitiy of the ruler.
>   

"ownage ownr" is perfectly medieval? These dudes need to stop the drug 
abuse. At the very least a medieval noble would have known the 
advantages of capitalisation, especially in english where capital 
letters indicate a name.



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