Comments on: Swâpped Letters in Namês

By: Nico

Nico — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:20:29 +0000

Swapped letters are a pain in the ass. I actually had a guildie once who’se name was ßö. He’d even criticize if somebody in guild chat wrote his name as Bo. At which point I started addressing him in vent the way those letters are supposed to be pronounced(s-sound and the u-sound of words like turn)

By: Frijona

Frijona — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:00:12 +0000

Being on an RP server I really hate names that aren't real names like "killuded" and such previously mentioned, or names that are words stuck together trying to sound fantasy-ish such as "Starbreath" (not an actual name I've seen). These can only work for Night Elves. There's one in my guild who has a name similar to that, and funny thing is he's probably one of the best RP-ers we have. He plays his character very well, but I still hate his name!

By: Mavfin

Mavfin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:05:33 +0000

If I need a group invite for a name like this, I can use their PM to me to do it, or if their friend says to invite them, I’ll have them whisper me, so I can right-click and invite.

I don’t like the names, but for the moment I have to deal with them. I don’t report them. I save that for the truly over-the-top stupid/offensive names.

By: Kikidas

Kikidas — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:30:53 +0000

Names with the special symbols never get a /tell unless I can shift-click or left-click them.
Others that get under my skin? As people have said… ripoffs of fantasy or science fiction works. Legalos, Gandalf, Sephiroth, Drizzt. Some make it through and are cool, like Seyonne, Ysanne, Artemis, etc, because they’re not ‘main stream’ and are spelled correctly.
Then there are the statement names: Ikillu, Stabsudead, etc, etc.

By: Tatiana

Tatiana — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:18:39 +0000

I hate names like these and I report them anytime I see them. They’re against the ToU. I’m sorry that some names are taken that people would really like to have, but that happens to everyone; you just have to suck it up and move on.

Also, dunno if you know this, but if you shift-click a name when you have a text box (or GM ticket!) open, the name will be pasted into your text box. Makes this sort of thing, or those people who go for impossibly long and convoluted names, a bit easier to deal with.

By: Larísa

Larísa — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:13:12 +0000

I was just about to say that I’m sorry to have that strange little ’ thing in my name when I saw you had already read my mind… :)

If I had known of any other solution I wouldn’t have picked it up. But transfering and finding another Larisa on my new server, wanting to keep my name, what else could I have done?

It’s good though that the Larisa on my server without a ’ is a horde character. If not there would have been a risk that guildies and myself would have sent stuff to the wrong person. Now it’s impossible.

However I agree about what you write. I can’t really understand why people are so obsessed with having some well known fantasy names like Gandalf, making them finding up stupid ways to spell it just to get it… Silly, really. Shows an incredible lack of imagination. Even randomly scrabbling letters would make better names.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:07:54 +0000

Your future post could probably contain an entire Legolas section, but in truth it’s probably just a sub-family of “bad ripoffs of fantasy staples”.

Ghandalf and Drizzit come to mind.

By: GoW

GoW — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:57:16 +0000

Oh, and I wrote this article while not forgetting the existence of Larísa, whose writing I greatly enjoy. All the same, I'm glad I'm not typing her name into my chat. To her credit, when you copy and paste Larísa into google, that's her internet footprint you're looking at. Is it weird to be the first to comment on my own article? Feels that way. Oh, well. Still learning this blogging thing.