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  • 29-07-2008 10:04am
    #1
    mdebets
    Registered Users Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭


    I'm not quite sure if this is the right place to report an offensive username, but I couldn't find any other place.

    The user drmengele is clearly named after Josef Mengele, a physician at the Auschwitz concentration camp and probably one of the most brutal and sadistic war criminals.
    Could one of the moderators please delete this user, as I don't think that this is an appropriate user name on boards.ie.
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    #2
    Slow Motion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,831 ✭✭✭Slow Motion


    Just because you find it offensive doesn't mean everybody else does, I can think of quite a few usernames at least as bad as that one! Is the user in question being offensive? Proposing mass exterminations?


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    #3
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,471 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Well if you say so, sure...


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    #4
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    So because you take offence at the fact that he is named after a Nazi you want him to simply disappear into the night? Surely there are less ironic ways to deal with it?


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    #5
    Munya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭Munya


    Well I agree with you.


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    #6
    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    mdebets wrote: »
    Could one of the moderators please delete this user, as I don't think that this is an appropriate user name on boards.ie.

    Where do we draw the line though?
    There are many, many members on this site with nicknames that could offend someone.
    Why not take it as tongue in cheek humour?


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    #7
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    mdebets wrote: »
    Could one of the moderators please delete this user, as I don't think that this is an appropriate user name on boards.ie.

    Your final solution is a bit OTT, in fairness. There are other names on Boards that I don't like too, but as the last post said: where do you draw the line?


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    #8
    Winters
    Registered Users Posts: 14,761 ✭✭✭✭Winters


    Ban anyone with "SS" in their name. Its clearly an attempt to overthrow the Zionist world government!

    :rolleyes:


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    #9
    Munya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭Munya


    stovelid wrote: »
    Your final solution is a bit OTT, in fairness. There are other names on Boards that I don't like too, but as the last post said: where do you draw the line?
    | At people involved in genocides?


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    #10
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    It is the general view of the mods that the username is accaptable but I can assure you that such a nick will attract greater notice and their actions checked for muppetery.


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    #11
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Munya wrote: »
    | At people involved in genocides?


    I wouldn't choose the name myself, true. If it's OK with the admins, though, I don't give it too much thought after that.


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    #12
    Winters
    Registered Users Posts: 14,761 ✭✭✭✭Winters


    I wonder how many people that would be complaining about this were in some way effected by the events in question abd lost relatives during that period or are just part of the "PC Brigade" trying to make sure we don't possibly offend anyone.


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    #13
    Slow Motion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,831 ✭✭✭Slow Motion


    Surely he is already paying for the crime of picking that name ;)

    DR.JPG


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    #14
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    I for one would like to welcome our new Nazi overlords...

    OP, your username has the word "bets" in it. What if I had a gambling addiction?


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    #15
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Slow Motion wrote: »
    Surely he is already paying for the crime of picking that name ;)

    DR.JPG

    He's getting a stalk-post ratio of 41:1 though.

    Handy days work. Maybe he put the OP up to this?


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    #16
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,108 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Some might find your choice of avatar offensive. A cartoon character running around all day with no pants on? Don't get me started on his "friend" piglet.


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    #17
    Seifer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,265 ✭✭✭Seifer


    Having visited Auschwitz I think that this name is ridiculously insensitive. I would in no way call myself pc but there is no reason for this name to be used. Beyond being an advocate of Mengele (or it being his actual name, highly unlikely) someone would only do this to get attention.
    There are plenty of strings of random letters and numbers and ones like this shouldn't be allowed.


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    #18
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    .... in your opinion.

    but thankfully, your opinion doesn't count for all that much.


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    #19
    Slow Motion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,831 ✭✭✭Slow Motion


    Seifer wrote: »
    Having visited Auschwitz I think that this name is ridiculously insensitive. I would in no way call myself pc but there is no reason for this name to be used. Beyond being an advocate of Mengele (or it being his actual name, highly unlikely) someone would only do this to get attention.
    There are plenty of strings of random letters and numbers and ones like this shouldn't be allowed.

    Oh please, your breaking my heart, get over yourself, if you are offended by this then I think you should rip out your internet connection and trash your computer for your own sanity!


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    #20
    Dragan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    mdebets wrote: »
    I'm not quite sure if this is the right place to report an offensive username, but I couldn't find any other place.

    The user drmengele is clearly named after Josef Mengele, a physician at the Auschwitz concentration camp and probably one of the most brutal and sadistic war criminals.
    Could one of the moderators please delete this user, as I don't think that this is an appropriate user name on boards.ie.

    Why do you find it offensive?


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    #21
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,108 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    mdebets wrote: »
    I'm not quite sure if this is the right place to report an offensive username, but I couldn't find any other place.

    The user drmengele is clearly named after Josef Mengele, a physician at the Auschwitz concentration camp and probably one of the most brutal and sadistic war criminals.
    Could one of the moderators please delete this user, as I don't think that this is an appropriate user name on boards.ie.

    Godwins law. You fail.


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    #22
    c - 13
    Registered Users Posts: 5,584 ✭✭✭c - 13


    Seifer wrote: »
    Having visited Auschwitz I think that this name is ridiculously insensitive. I would in no way call myself pc but there is no reason for this name to be used. Beyond being an advocate of Mengele (or it being his actual name, highly unlikely) someone would only do this to get attention.
    There are plenty of strings of random letters and numbers and ones like this shouldn't be allowed.

    Well maybe i'm offended by your username, because Siefer was mean to Squall :mad::mad:

    Seriously, OP your being offended by a string of letters.

    Once you start asking people to change their usernames then where do you stop ?


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    #23
    JIZZLORD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,484 ✭✭✭JIZZLORD


    offensive usernames ftw!


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    #24
    Munya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭Munya


    Princess Innocent Knickers wrote: »
    .... in your opinion.

    but thankfully, your opinion doesn't count for all that much.

    That's not very nice.


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    #25
    Seifer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,265 ✭✭✭Seifer


    SlowMotion wrote:
    Oh please, your breaking my heart, get over yourself, if you are offended by this then I think you should rip out your internet connection and trash your computer for your own sanity!
    I didn't say I was offended by it just that I could understand how some people could be.
    So it'd be fine if I create account called AdolfHitler?


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    #26
    hussey
    Registered Users Posts: 6,240 ✭✭✭hussey


    I too have found someone offensive,

    The user DeVore is clearly named after Irven DeVore, an anthropologist and evolutionary biologist at Harvard University's Peabody Museum and probably one of the most brutal and sadistic war criminals sociobiologist.
    Could one of the moderators please delete this user, as I don't think that this is an appropriate user name on boards.ie


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    #27
    Seifer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,265 ✭✭✭Seifer


    Princess Innocent Knickers wrote:
    .... in your opinion.

    but thankfully, your opinion doesn't count for all that much.
    What a useless, redundant post. No everything that everyone posts is fact.
    Its always the high post counters with the least to say.


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    #28
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Seifer wrote: »
    So it'd be fine if I create account called AdolfHitler?

    Best be quick. The dictator name-pool is shrinking fast:

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=34022
    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=21652
    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=48143


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    #29
    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    There are also 11 users with Hitler used within their nicks.


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    #30
    c - 13
    Registered Users Posts: 5,584 ✭✭✭c - 13


    Seifer wrote: »
    I didn't say I was offended by it just that I could understand how some people could be.
    So it'd be fine if I create account called AdolfHitler?

    Well you could but theres one already


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    #31
    Steve
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 22,584 CMod ✭✭✭✭Steve


    Seifer wrote: »
    So it'd be fine if I create account called AdolfHitler?

    There are already 2 users with variations of that name..


    Edit....meh need to reply faster...:(


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