Groentjuh's Server

[tushaar]

lol, yea , too much rum distorted the rule number, was 5 indeeed.
Nice one Stringer
Can we all just be friends?

[djinghis]

The rule states "impersonates" meaning person, it means what it means and impersonating someones real name over their game one I feel has more severity in fact. I think a simple task for refs to rename someone is one of easier jobs, I was renamed over a thousand times by refs on groents, why - because it was an admin or ref I was impersonating. So lets not twist the rules out of laziness, or ignore them out of grudges or whats convenient, that's called selective enforcement and like drk states - Europe is 3rdworld (or words to that effect)

[Stringer]

Firstly, what drk said. Drama over nothing much?

On topic.

Impersonate

Question: Did that guy actually pretended to be you, or just used that name?

I mean, if someone with over 300 ping and a star trek icon will name himself Stringer, he will hardly be impersonating me - it will be blatantly obvious to anyone that this is just some douche trying to steal a bit of attention he so badly needs.

The rule is there to prevent trolls from assuming someone's identity and thus giving that person bad rep.
That doesn't even necessarily mean changing nickname btw: One could name himself XR_FirstTimePlayer, then tell everyone in chat he is actually TRA and try to act like him. And that would be impersonation unless he actually is TRA.

Did that guy do something like this?

[tushaar]

[djinghis]

[Stringer]

[The Raging Asparagus]

[bullet]

Quite obviously, the main reason for rule #5 is to avoid players nicklaming as known referees, for then to pretend to be referees and create confusion on server.

Fortunately,the savage community is really small and you very quickly notice if its the real person or not. However, impersonating with other peoples real name, I can understand that such a thing is offending to the person who gets "namelamed" (you see what I did there ).

I a earlier complaint I had, I was told to post screenshots directly from the event, to proove my claims, I simply suggest the person impersonated have to do the same if someone else shows up with his real name in game. In this case, that would maybe be a screenshot of facebook profile or something while logged in etc. (but just paint draw over personal stuff). Its a pain in the ass process, but burden of evidence is more often than not on the offended and not the offender in this commnunity.

Regarding normal nicklamers, nicklaming NICKS and not real names, If someone is offended by it, simply say the word to the ref, and renaming should be ok. if person is not offended, its not a problem. Keep it simple.