CoV: Terrorist characters get genericed?

Maybe you should look at what I was responding to instead of taking away the context and then wondering why the post doesn't make sense.

I must confess, I really don't like this trend of banning things (in game OR in real life) because somebody, somewhere MIGHT find something offensive.

I've got a Golden Gate Bridge character- If somebody who is a friend of a friend who knows somebody who jumped, and gets upset, then I automatically lose the character name? Even though there is nothing obscene about the name, no spiteful references to jumpers in his bio, and nothing offensive about his costume, (such as making an outfit of zombie parts and saying "Here's my impression of somebody who jumped off of me") I would still lose a character that I worked on for a long time and was quite attached to? That just really sucks and blows right there.

Now, if I DID make a GGB whose intent was to be offensive and rude, then I could see the point. For example, writing a bio filled with horrid and tasteless jokes about jumpers and traffic accident victims, making the aforementioned "mangled victim" costume and clowning around, or making zombie MM pets and naming them after jumpers- That's the kind of behavior which should be dealth with, as it's pretty obvious that the intent IS to shock and offend.

Now I'm skittish about playing that character- what if somebody complains and I lose him? Renaming wouldn't cut it- without the name, the whole concept of the character goes down the tubes.

There's more to define a character than mearly the name. I'd like to see a screenshot of the costume and biography of the OPs character. Without that we're only getting one third of the picture and can't form an informed opinion.

On that same subject I hope the GM in charge of the matter did the same thing, checking the costume and bio.

With the information I have recived so far I think the generizing was a bit harsh. But I on the other hand never report other players. Though sometimes I have been close. Even I thought the blaster named "I shot Kennedy" was in line for a ban.

//Jack

I'm not the only one. Someone went to the extreme of renaming Adolf Hitler into Dolph Schikelgruber, or some such.

It's overcompensation. Political correctness makes my teeth hurt.

Okay, so...Here's what I get from this...

"We're gonna let you create your own vile, hateful, disgusting, scum-of-the-earth evildoer! But please, don't offend anyone."

Seriously. Guys? What part of "evil" isn't clear? We're supposed to be offensive!

As long as you don't use "choice words" in your name, or name yourself after a real person (IE, Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, George W. Bush...) then it should be no-holds barred!

Admittably, it would be funny if "Demon" was generic'd. Virtue would lose 75% of it's population overnight...

I think I saw you waiting for an ITF last weekend and the first they that ran through my mind was "There's a name headed for the ban bin." Really, you should post a pic of the character so that people can see that it wasn't just a generic looking villian. It seemed to me you had a clearly defined image of the "Extermist Insurgent" based on some current events, no?

You are not supposed to be offensive.
This is a TEEN rated game, not Mature.

Darn. I guess this means I can't call my next villain Durka Durka Mohammed Jihad.

The CS team has the incredibly difficult job of taking a situation and making a judgement call based on rules which are interpreted incredibly differently by different people and are then heaped profound amounts of abuse on for making sure we are playing a game we can all play together.

Let's just say I sympathize with them.

Given none of us but the OP were there, none of us know what happened, and none of us will ever have the complete picture, I think it fairly demonstrates why this sort of conversation is not allowed.