Poor, Edmund W wrote:
I think the standard on user names should be:
"Anyone can call themselves anything, until and unless several people say that it offends them."
By that standard, TMC had to be changed. But JisL has only 1.5 objectors so far: one says they're offended (after I SOUGHT a list of offended people), and the other says they slightly or mildly offended. That's no consensus.
Much ado about nothing.
It's more like 19 favor a name change, IIRC.
So yes, there is a consensus (unless you twist things by only counting people who you think are truly offended).
You should work in politics Ed. ;-)
--mav
I think the standard on user names should be:
"Anyone can call themselves anything, until and
unless several people
say that it offends them."
By that standard, TMC had to be changed. But JisL
has only 1.5 objectors
so far: one says they're offended (after I SOUGHT
a list of offended
people), and the other says they slightly or
mildly offended. That's no
consensus.
Much ado about nothing.
It's more like 19 favor a name change, IIRC.
So yes, there is a consensus (unless you twist things by only counting people who you think are truly offended).
You should work in politics Ed. ;-)
--mav
Most of those people only thought that others would be offended. I don't think that if a critical mass of people think that others will be offfended by the username, that that user should have to change names. I guess that's kinda what happened to me, but it was consentual on my part, and you weren't considering banning me if I didn't change. Did anyone ask these people if they'd switch usernames? LDan
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