use a real sounding name - no edge cases please

https://permies.com/name.jsp

I like that the names on Permies seem like real names, even when they aren't. It's easier for me to build up a model of a real person behind their persona.

r ranson wrote:Having edge case names is making a lot of work for moderators of this site.  It's causing a slippery slope that isn't working.

I don’t understand why it matters what anyone calls themselves.
What is the slippery slope and where does it go?

Surely what one says/writes is far more important and significant?

Here is a painting that started off as a different painting.  Somebody bought a painting at a thrift shop for a dollar and then added something to it:



The first painter clearly liked landscapes.  Especially with some ocean in the background.  

The second painter clearly had a different vision.

Some people like the original better.  Some the hybrid.

I ran this site your way for a while and eventually got tired of accounts like "Goat Fucker7".  I decided to take the site to a new direction featuring real sounding names.  

I think of it as a sort of artistic choice.  


Everything you are saying is true.  And everything I am saying is also true.