(12-15-2016, 02:41 PM)Jansen Wrote: It has come to our attention that there are quite a few characters with names containing obvious meme-related or otherwise OORP-related content.
Considering that this is a Roleplay server with a set of guidelines for character naming, we will delete all ships that do not meet these guidelines in 7 days, this should be enough time for you to rename them.
As I can forsee that a lot of people will ask 'Is this name ok?', I will give you a short hint.
If you have to ask if a name is ok, then you likely should change it to prevent the character from being deleted.
Bank characters that we can definitely consider as such will likely not be affected.
(12-15-2016, 02:41 PM)Jansen Wrote: It has come to our attention that there are quite a few characters with names containing obvious meme-related or otherwise OORP-related content.
Considering that this is a Roleplay server with a set of guidelines for character naming, we will delete all ships that do not meet these guidelines in 7 days, this should be enough time for you to rename them.
As I can forsee that a lot of people will ask 'Is this name ok?', I will give you a short hint.
If you have to ask if a name is ok, then you likely should change it to prevent the character from being deleted.
Bank characters that we can definitely consider as such will likely not be affected.
Define "meme" -- this isn't a joke; I don't remember ever seeing the word until I started seeing Discovery players and Admins obsessing over memes. I've looked for the definition of "meme," but the definitions I've found are vague references to popular cultural ideas and beliefs. Are you really prohibiting players from using ideas for characters that they got from books or movies?
I suspect that most of my characters are now facing deletion. Even my forum name is based on a meme.
Where will you draw the line between acceptable and unacceptable names?
I feel like the admins here are expecting players to role-play human characters without any references to human history or cultures, as if we're aliens who've landed on Earth and are trying to pass for human (which ironically is a meme reference to "Starman" and/or "V").