Offensive words in usernames: policy?

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Did a little search and found 8 forum users with "F***" as part of their usernames. One especially prominent user who's been posting in IG in recent days is "I f***ed up". Also, another 10 have "s***".

What is our policy with regards to the presence of offensive words in the username?
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greasy_grasshopper · Apprentice Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 171

I don't think that "I f***ed up" is offensive because it means "I messed up".

Now I can see 3 situations for a person with crude language in his/her post:
1. The person is a troll. (This person will get banned anyway eventually.)
2. The person is asking for help. (If the person is not wise enough to not offend a potential helper, then he/she deserves what he/she gets.)
3. The person is helping out. (Just take the help and ignore the user.)

I personally think if it's not a personal attack (like an attack that can get you banned from OTW) against a person or group of people it shouldn't become a problem. I think the policy that applies to posting on these forums can be applied to usernames as well.

Bob P · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:22 am Post subject:

funny. i found this thread while coming to this forum to report the same problem. i don't think that its in good taste for Gentoo to allow people to have usernames like "i-fucked-up". this guy needs a name change:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-325606.html
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Flammie · Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 9:59 pm Post subject:

Bob P · Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 1:57 pm Post subject:

penguinlnx · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 9:00 pm Post subject:

How thin should our skins be?

This is always a difficult call, but there should be a wide 'gray zone' to include as many diverse people and cultures as possible.
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nephros · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:33 am Post subject:

Fuck this shit.

People regularly abort processes (by killing them in a shocking variety of ways), reap their children, nuke filesystems, do quite a lot of bashing, burn innocent software and do much, much more gruesome things.

To be criticizing them for using "fuck" is to be a hypocrite.

Oh and by the way, the unixishly poltitically correct term for "fuck" is either mount/umount, rm -rf or mkfs. Use those if you want to avoid it.
There is no term for shit, but you can always substitute M$ (don't forget the $!) or win{dows,blows,slow,doof,...}, dependency-hell or RPM. Be creative!
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SlicerDicer · Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 8:16 pm Post subject:

Username: Unacceptable for these forums.

http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=58791
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opentaka · l33t Joined: 18 Feb 2005 Posts: 840 Location: Japan

I think its no problem with those " I fucked up" or etc unless you saying " fuck you" or booing other peoples making personal attacks
if we start filter all this words we might accidently filter application names (such as bitchX, pornview etc with funny names

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opentaka · l33t Joined: 18 Feb 2005 Posts: 840 Location: Japan

and also programming language called Brainfuck

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pjp · Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 2:36 pm Post subject:

And a button called "Edit."
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aidy · l33t Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 915

Maaan... what are you yelling at. What's the problem with having 'fuck' in a username?
-Will you die from it?
-Will you get very hot because of seeing 'fuck'? I hope not.
-Will we be better people when we ignore that there is a word 'fuck'? No some people will be better Cristians, Muslims, or some other religion/morality that does not like people to (say) 'fuck', but certainly not all people have such a religion.

Agreed, people saying everything is fucking are not much fun to live with... but f***/S***/... are getting widely used expressions, and we must democratically bear them.

AlterEgo · Veteran Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 1619

This thread would look great in OTW :wink:

aidy · l33t Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 915

Ohno please please please! It won't look serious anymore!

pjp · Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 10:01 pm Post subject:

CitizenX · Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 10:43 pm Post subject:

These forums are meant to be a little more professional than its turned out to be....like pjp says....we should be at least safe for work. This is the face the Gentoo community presents to the world....while we don't necessarily have to be uptight and proper, there still is plenty of reason for cleaning up our act. If you were trying to get your boss to implement Gentoo at work, and you brought up the excellent support of the Gentoo Forums.....He logs in and sees what looks like a bunch of little children swearing at each other over their little hacker arguements. That's it for the 'professionality' of Gentoo.

Outside of that context, I really don't mind the profanity...it's not excessive, and it's not like there isn't profanity out in the world at large. It's just how you want to present the community to outside people.

aidy · l33t Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 915

Oh... didn't think of any practical reasons for not using 'fuck'...

But to solve your problem, every word that has just something to do with sex will have to be banned. And I bet the word 'gay' will get banned too. Remember: if you do that, 'hetero' (at least if that's how it's called in English) should be removed to OK? If not I will get you to some human rights commission, I swear it!

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pjp · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 7:22 pm Post subject:

Slalomsk8er · Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:06 am Post subject:

Sainticus · n00b Joined: 05 Dec 2005 Posts: 7

I don't mean to bump this thread or anything, but I was doing a forum search on my BitchX emerge error and found this thread and I really felt compelled to reply. I see issues like this any and everywhere in the world today, people who get easily offended over the ever more common use of the "F" word or any other curse words in a sentence. Most of the people who bring it to others attentions such as in a workplace or in an online community like a forum or an irc channel are people who commonly use foul language themselves, but feel they need to somewhat tattle on the person to gain appeal from their bosses or in this case forum admins. Words can be interpreted differently by different people, but you must remember that 9 times out of 10 the person using the language uses it to not be offensive, but uses it as an emphasis on the frustration of the situation at hand. I strongly agree that people should abide by any and all rules, but taking the time to write frivilous forum posts just because you can't look away from whatever common language insults or offends you is a waste of time, just ignore it.

Forums have admins for a reason, they monitor accounts and i'm sure they are totally aware of which user registers with what explicit usernames. Instead of wasting time making posts like these you could be making one which actually helps someone instead of expressing how picky you are in what someone decides to call themselves online, justlet the admins handle it how they see fit and move on.

Omega21 · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 4:23 am Post subject:

As long as it doesn't show hate to a person, group, or race I dont see any issue with it...
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