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"The name uses profanity that cannot be used over the public airwaves as defined by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission." is pretty arbitrary. I understand what you're getting at, but unfortunately the FCC is so haphazard in how it determines what is allowable any given day that it seems difficult for admins/b-crats/users to try to predict how they would rule on a given word. I'd propose instead to either a concrete list that we can point to, or go more vague and just codify "common sense"/discretion. If you've heard/read some of the podcasts you'll see that the lines that Standards and Practices people/FCC write in are not only not written in stone, they're not even written in sand. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 12:53, 18 January 2007 (CST) | "The name uses profanity that cannot be used over the public airwaves as defined by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission." is pretty arbitrary. I understand what you're getting at, but unfortunately the FCC is so haphazard in how it determines what is allowable any given day that it seems difficult for admins/b-crats/users to try to predict how they would rule on a given word. I'd propose instead to either a concrete list that we can point to, or go more vague and just codify "common sense"/discretion. If you've heard/read some of the podcasts you'll see that the lines that Standards and Practices people/FCC write in are not only not written in stone, they're not even written in sand. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 12:53, 18 January 2007 (CST) | ||
:I actually thought hard on that, and had to select some group that is sufficiently anal. It was arbitrary, and leave the floor open for any other authority that can keep usernames at a "G" rating. --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 12:58, 18 January 2007 (CST) | :I actually thought hard on that, and had to select some group that is sufficiently anal. It was arbitrary, and leave the floor open for any other authority that can keep usernames at a "G" rating. --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 12:58, 18 January 2007 (CST) | ||
:I can see both sides. Using the FCC as any kind of standard is a bad, bad idea. But own standards are just as arbitrary. Like saying something like "Names that violate decency and courtesy". What does that cover? And creating a full list of banned names is impossible too --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 13:01, 18 January 2007 (CST) | |||
== How to deal with violations == | |||
Where would admins discuss if a username is inappropriate or not? The user talk page? The admin board? --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 13:01, 18 January 2007 (CST) | |||
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Vague and Arbitrary
I mean no offense, but the following: "The name uses profanity that cannot be used over the public airwaves as defined by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission." is pretty arbitrary. I understand what you're getting at, but unfortunately the FCC is so haphazard in how it determines what is allowable any given day that it seems difficult for admins/b-crats/users to try to predict how they would rule on a given word. I'd propose instead to either a concrete list that we can point to, or go more vague and just codify "common sense"/discretion. If you've heard/read some of the podcasts you'll see that the lines that Standards and Practices people/FCC write in are not only not written in stone, they're not even written in sand. --Steelviper 12:53, 18 January 2007 (CST)
- I actually thought hard on that, and had to select some group that is sufficiently anal. It was arbitrary, and leave the floor open for any other authority that can keep usernames at a "G" rating. --Spencerian 12:58, 18 January 2007 (CST)
- I can see both sides. Using the FCC as any kind of standard is a bad, bad idea. But own standards are just as arbitrary. Like saying something like "Names that violate decency and courtesy". What does that cover? And creating a full list of banned names is impossible too --Serenity 13:01, 18 January 2007 (CST)
How to deal with violations
Where would admins discuss if a username is inappropriate or not? The user talk page? The admin board? --Serenity 13:01, 18 January 2007 (CST)