what do you mean of title change?

I think Jayde needs a title change. XD.

Also Papa Sangre plaything. That can be a iffy one as well.

These topics are so weird.  If you had told me five years ago that all these names and ranks and such were going to be the subject of heavy contention, I'd have told Dark never to bother creating topics to try and give us more ranks.  Maybe we should have just stuck to a more generic naming convention, if in fact one was needed at all, since at present all the ranks really do is showcase a game and nothing about the gamers/forumites in question.

... what is this? There are many spellings of the name Haily. I've seen so many variations on it ... you going to comment this about every misspelled name on the forum? I'd actually like it if you did, but consistancy man ... consistancy.

I suspect that a very small minority of folks are going to take issue with some of the titles, while the rest will either be trying to make a point, or suggesting that anyone so offended should simply get over themselves. At least that's what I've seen so far. We have one person so far (Haily) who expressed displeasure at a title, and nearly everyone else who responded did so only to make it clear to the rest of us that they didn't care. Yesterday's recreated topic was dumb. It was dumb not because the concern is invalid or the request unreasonable. It was dumb because Alireza was mocking Haily.

First, the ranks don't mean anything. i am not sure why we have them. Second, if a title offends you get over yourself. It is just a title. I am not offended when someone asks me if I saw that, or if I watched that show last night. At the end of the day, the title is a group of words. A group of words can only offend you if you let it. If you don't like it, you are free to leave. In general, I don't like that one forum member got a title change when almost everyone else was against it.

Alireza pretty much admitted that he had no problem with the title he claimed to take issue with. In other words, he was trolling. He was doing it to get back at someone he sees as a troll. And who created a topic with that same name and similar contents not so very long ago? Who would he best be mocking by mimicking her style and subject matter? It's pretty evident to me.

Sorry, but when it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's not a pig. That's why I closed the thread and said what I did.

Remember, I'm not saying he was warn-worthy for misspelling Haily's name. It's just that a screenreader will generally pronounce Haley and Haily differently, plus he was also sort of antagonizing her by all accounts (why mention Charlie at all? Her choice to use a completely new name is her own, and shouldn't be challenged by folks here). It seemed possible, likely even, that it was a passive-aggressive little jab, because unfortunately that user is well known for such things; the very thread I locked is an excellent example. I hate to say it, but I wouldn't put it past AlirezaNosrati to misspell someone's name on purpose after passingly invoking that person's deadname for no reason purely to further the trolling, which was already well and truly begun by mimicking Haily's grievance and post name. That thread was never a legitimate issue that deserved any close scrutiny on its intended basis.

So do I correct all spelling mistakes? Lord no. Probably thirty to forty percent of you spell my name wrong, and I don't give a rip. But in this specific instance, I thought there was good reason to flag it, not as warning-worthy but as something to be aware of going forward. I stand by that.

I actually know 3 female Charlies, plus, lets not forget the show goodluck Charlie.

I've dealt with people who have gone through gender transition. For most of them, the very last name they want to use is the one they were given, because it represents a gender they are now rejecting, one that was forced on them in accordance with their biological sex. Whether or not Charlie is also a female name is irrelevant at this point. It's not even a germain point of discussion.

And you're quite right, LordLundin. Many non-English languages do have different pronunciation rules. I'm referring to the screenreader itself though. Personally, my screenreader says Haily to rhyme with "daily", and Haley to sound a great deal like "holly". It just looks awfully convenient that those who more often misspell Haily's name are also the ones taking issue with it and dragging it up when it's not part of the argument. That is not true for absolutely everyone, nor in every case, but it's jumping out at me enough that there is some pattern here.

I think I know the solution to this, let's shut down the rank system completely. Why keep it when it's a system based on inequality? Why should I have an other rank just because I posted more than other forum members? This is not fair, we should all be equal and have only one rank. What I mean by this is that you get the more awesome ranks only when you have thousands of posts so it's hard to get them and you feel invincible, you feel you are a higher class than the regular users treating them like little children. If names and colours like black can not be used to describe people because it's racist who are we to decide that a number of posts  give you a higher rank?
Remember, afro-american's lives matter! Btw, I live near the afro-american sea. LOL

For christ sake people, if you're going to make racist jokes, at least make them funny. All you do by writing those kinds of posts is make people wanna punch you in the face.

And what do you mean by the Afrocan american sea? My European geography sucks, but the sea that borders europe is either the Atlantic, or the Mediterranean. The latter of which borders North Africa, and Europe. Not America. The former of which borders america, not africa. Please illaberate