Appropriate?
 

Perhaps I'm reading to much into this but isnt there something innapropriate about this?

newest member: maHdeRFawKeRz

I don't think there's anything we can do about account names here.
I don't think they can be censored out, although I may be wrong.

Personally I think they should be forced to change it. I know on one game I played if your name was in appropriate it would appear with stars and you would have to e-mail customer service to set it to something appropriate. Then again it could be argued its goes against the agreement for appropriatness. ;x

Nothing can be done. vBulletin doesn't have censoring in the names, it does have words that can't be used in the account name though, like mod, supermod, administrator, etc.

You can't change his name either, without changing everything for him on Graal. vBulletin here is set up to read exactly from the account database.

I say just ban him. Obviously if the person is *****ic enough to make an account with that name, their language and attitude surely wouldn't be much better.

Be pointless to write one. Unixmad wouldn't install it.

He told me he would install some patchs I made to some of the current hacks.. never did.



Also, give the guy a chance. Don't sterotype him automaticly.

Thats why I said perhaps force him to make a new account name. ;x Not just for the boards but an account name on graal like that should be illegal as well. As for giving him a chance. If he's old enough to read and write shouldnt he be old enough to know better?

Some people do it on purpose. And even then it does not mean automaticly that it is for immature purposes. Also, someone might have done the account for him. Dunno.

Like I said, just wait for him to post, etc.

Forcing him t change his account name would not change his behaviour, for the postive or negative

if thats true.. why do we have to register & get it activated? what is it reading from the database? x.x
(not saying I don't believe you, I just think its strange)

...he means it looks to the database for registering

Indeed, very good. Sorry I didn't make that clearer.

vBulletin looks at the MySQL account tables and makes sure you have either a gold or VIP account and if you do it let's you register. (it also checks onw whether you are globally banned or not).

Lycia was always strict about offensive account names. She banned many of people with offensive\bad account names.

Ofcourse this was when you didn't pay to play GraalOnline. Which when Graal went pay to play - I would think- the bar to ban people was raised.

This may seem like a dumb question, but what is that account name suppose to mean. I tried to figure it out, but no luck.

Oh... I get it, I went back and looked at it and finally understand. Thanks.

In other words if it happened in a movie it would be borderline PG-13 to R.

Probally R....

The guy may not be that bad, people are sometimes forced to use accounts they don't want. Give him a chance, don't stereotype for God's sakes! Sheesh.

account name censoring was build in to a degree. but with all the alternate spellings out there the filter will never catch them all. as it is, when I last saw the filter, there were at least 40 patters used to match against

Maybe the account was upgraded to only play classic servers a while ago...and now they decided they wanted to update to gold (or VIP). It's easier to upgrade your classic account than making a new account and upgrading it twice...


That's the only situation I can think of. That's the only reason I'm using this account and not my "Ian" one.

Re: Appropriate?
 

kids cant really even permounce his name right so.....

I'm sure somebody held a gun to his head and forced him to make that account. :rolleyes: Seriously, it's not hard to create a new account and then upgrade it. It's not like you're stuck with that one account to upgrade. The fact that he made the account with that name in the first place (or that he uses it) only proves that he uses it at his consent.

Of course, he could have been forced to use that name... if "urmomizawh**e" was already taken. :p

it doesnt really refer to any sexuall meaning...its like saying something english to a japanese person that doesnt understand english....anyways it doesnt say any cusswords in his account so he cant get in trouble its like saying 2374/\/ 27|_||''!|)

It could have sentimental meaning to it. :P

So with your logic that means ban evasion is ok?

Using something to get around rules or filters is not ok.

Example: Logging on another account immediatly after being banned on another.

Respelling something so that a filter doesnt block it. etc...

Yes you can, account names are viewable to all players same as profiles so inappropriate names can be banned and are banned on Npulse from playing if they insist on playing that account. Misspellings of a word are nothing more than an evasion of a rule or filter if one is on and banning will occur if they do this. Playing word games with the rules of Graal on profanity won't help a person who does this; it is a deliberate act and a Graal violation of terms of use to play the game and/or Forum.


added note:
Unixmad is French and may not have even noticed what he had done, Unixmads English isn't the greastest and something like this can get by him , that is why there are Mods for the Forums and Graal Admins (Managers) on all PWs to catch and point things out like this. We cannot expect Stefan and Unixmad to catch everything like this that happens on the game, that is our job as Mods/and or Managers to catch it and see that something is done about it.

I didnt anderstand in the start what the name ment either.


But i do now :o , sick sick sick

When I read that, I thought of what would happen if you told them that they couldn't pm unixmad. lol

I don't contact Unixmad on this Board. I am one of the few on his visible ICQ list.