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In lugnet.admin.general, "Greg Majewski" <citrusx__@yahoo.com> writes:
> How about people just use whatever they have been called in the past? As for
> new members and garbage names, you could have a submit area that sends chosen
> names to a special LUGNET email, where they then could be manually read, and
> the garbage names could be denied memberships until they change their name to
> an acceptable one. A little redundant, I know, but I am just throwing in my two
> cents..
That was a thought, but think about it from the censorship standpoint:
On the legal side, when you start trying to filter out things that are
offensive or vulgar or profane, you open yourself up to more scrutiny if you
then accidentally miss something and it passes through and someone really
freaks out. And I believe you're at risk even if you don't advertise that
you're censoring (or keeping things 'clean'). That's an important concern.
On the social side, and this is probably the bigger concern, there are all
sorts of possible usernames that walk the gray area between what would pass
and what would fail. Certainly there are things that would obviously fail
that weren't offensive, and things that would obviously pass that weren't
offensive, but things aren't always black and white. When you draw the line
(and it might even drift over time) and consider all of the gray-area cases,
some people are bound to get very upset if their username isn't passed,
especially if someone with a very similar name was passed and they were
failed (it might have been on purpose for very subtle reasons or it might
simply have been accidental, who knows). The gray area cases are 100%
subjective (kind of by definition of their being gray), and this would bring
things into a very uncomfortable territory.
--Todd
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