Title: [CKEY] banned by [Admin’s CKEY]
CKEY:
Sumter
Admin’s CKEY:
Tyranicranger4
Ban Type:
Appearance
Ban Length:
One Month
Ban Date (YYYY/MM/DD/):
2022-07-09
Round ID:
39172
Ban Reason:
‘Failure to comply with naming policy. After having been asked not to use the name ‘Bar-Nih’ went on a rant on the forums where they threatened to use other similarly improper names. Then uses the name ‘Maybeline Blumenburger III’. Already has a previous note for the use of the name ‘Maybeline’.’
Appeal Reason:
Maybeline is naming policy compliant. Admin is attempting to abuse their power over a personal grudge against me by falsifying information and abusing the naming rules.
Additional Information:
Maybeline is a character I used to play a long time ago before the Felinid naming policy. When the policy was implemented @Crossedfall noticed and notified me that my name was not compliant due to not having a last name (I was just “Maybeline”) on the date of 2021-10-18. For that round my name was randomized to “Carole Park” and I was ordered to make the name compliant.
I had used variations of the character since with no issues but eventually retired the character about a month or two after and moved on to other characters.
Recently I was enjoying a character I made called Bar-Nih. They were a female purple lizardman with strong cultural beliefs and talked about them often. The gimmick with her name was related to her past as she had inherited it from her great grandfather who visited Earth long ago and became a children’s TV show star.
The name fit the naming scheme for lizards, the gimmick was good and I even made a friend with another player who had only even bothered to talk to me due to the strange name. Tyranicranger4 apparently did not like the name so much, and left a note demanding I change it on 2022-07-08 saying “Please stop using the name ‘Bar-Nih’, yes it’s a funny joke, but it doesn’t fit an RP server” which killed the character.
I had been playing the character for over a month and was an established character on the station. Naturally I was a bit upset over the loss of this character I was enjoying and over several other problems I wanted to vent with how this server is run and so I made a forum post about it.
The forum post didn’t come out as intended as it was unfocused and well… a mess. I apologize for that as I don’t have anyone or anywhere else to go to talk about my perceived grievances with how my favorite server/game is run. I’m sure I’m not the only one whose had a bad day one in a while or have criticisms about the server.
Later that day I decided to play and was attempting to come up with a new name for a character. I did adminhelp and try to run through some names I was thinking of with the admin that was online (I didn’t write down his user). I decided to revive my Maybeline character and give her a funny randomly generated last name from the in-game name generator and just for some added fun I added the third (III) at the end. The server restarted before I could get the admins approval, but I didn’t think the name would cause a problem as it still follows the guidelines.
About 15 minutes into the round Tyranicranger4 bwoinks me and tells me he doesn’t like the Maybeline name because my characters a felinid. I attempt to tell him that the name is real, as the meaning of it is “loveable” and is a name at least 500 children have been given in the last 20 years. He then refers to the note by Crossed that name had to be changed and declares that it was because Maybeline was a bad name, even though the note doesn’t say that. He then claims he looked up the ticket and it confirms what he said that crossed thought Maybeline was an inappropriate name.
Considering there is an engineer running around named “Robert Mcsteal” this very round, I start to think that this admin just has it out for me due to the previous problem with my other character and say as such. He refuses to continue discussing this with me and issues me the ban citing I was warned before not to use Maybeline despite that not being the case and that note was almost a year old. He also tells me to go ahead and try to staff report him, knowing what the outcome would be since he’s a seniormin.
Personally I’d name my own kid Maybeline if I had a girl. I think it’s a cute name and I can imagine her having so much fun using the tagline from the commercials “maybe she’s worth it”. I genuinely don’t get what Tyanicranger4’s problem is with a felinid being named that. I’d think he’d have more of a problem with the last name since it sounds like a sandwich.
The general consensus I get from other players and even other admins is that my names are fine. I get no one saying the names are stupid and I get more people to talk to me than if I had a generic name like “John Smith” and I have fun roleplaying my characters and their admittedly strange names. I’ve broken no rules here as both names follow the naming guidelines and I play them with respect to rule 1. I feel that “Maybeline” can be reasoned well enough that it’s not related to the beauty care brand of the same name as real world children have been named Maybeline IRL. Bar-Nih is sufficiently obscure because it is not spelt the same and the show originally aired in 1992 which was almost 30 years ago. It’s unlikely Zoomers would even get the reference.
I’ve spent over 4 hours writing this and so I hope I’ve made some kind impact here. What I’m hoping for out of this is for Crossed to clear up what that original note was for (If he remembers, it was a year ago after all) and what other admins opinions are on the names of my characters. I’d like to at least keep the Maybeline first name and optimistically have the notes on my account re-written to reflect whatever is decided here so I can get Tycringer off my backside.