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[JongnoGuru]

��that I��d like to see but never will:

1. Names must be four or more letters or numerals long. No more two- & three-letter names. ed, jg & jlb? Borrowed Time, my diminutive little friends �� that��s the street where you live. Either submit longer alternatives by Monday, or I��m firing up my Old Testament Name-Generator and you��ll henceforth be known in these territories as Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego.

2. Names must contain no reference, whether explicit or subtle, to the nationality of the poster. Call this the ��I ������Ʈ on Canada�� Rule, but if it��s applied to them, it��s applied to everyone. (sorry, kiwi-posters, but rulez is rulez.) Seriously, no more ��Canuck-this�� and ��Canuck-that�� or ��Kiss My Maple-Leafed Ass.�� Why? You really don��t need this explained, do you?

3. Names must not be so similar that I get them confused. Pest1 & Pest2 �� I never could keep them straight.

4. I want truth in location-names, like mine. These are acceptable only as long as the poster lives there. So if Daechidong Weigookin happened to move to Busan, he��d have to re-register as someone else. And if ��I_hate_Incheon_God_what_a_dump�� were to decamp to Bundang, he��d be required to drop the old name and make an appropriate new one, like: ��Damn_Bundang_sucks_ass�� or ��Gosh_I_miss_Incheon��

4-a. No more mention of ��Korea�� or ��something-something_in_Korea�� names. Really, we guessed as much.

4-b. And while I��m on the subject, you can drop the ��I��m_not_there_yet�� or ��I��ll_be_there_soon�� names. What happens is you��ll get here but many readers will assume they��re talking to an outsider. An exception will be made for ��4_months_left�� or whatever his/her name was, because it��s such good fun seeing that three years later and they��re still here.

5. No more Bizarro-World spellings. If you submit something like ��asainmind��, it will be corrected as ��ass-in-mind��.

[endofthewor1d]

i'm not sure i understand rule number 5.

[Bulsajo]

[Bulsajo]

[JongnoGuru]

EotW, you explained once why you substituted the number "1" for the letter "l", so you'll be exempted from the new rules. These rules will be implemented across the board but enforced flexibly, and unique cases will be given due consideration.

[endofthewor1d]

oh dear... i'm so terribly dense. i read rule #5 about five times and didn't even notice that it was spelled wrong. that's what my confusion was about. sorry guru. your rule was clear. i was dumb.

but i feel good to know you consider me a 'unique case'.

[Newbie]

I wonder if someone smart enough to name himself "Newbie" yet stick around for four years falls under rule #4(b). Guess it goes to show that I never planned on being here more than a year.

I do love when people try to sympathize with me and say things like "just wait until you've been here a bit longer" or "I felt the same way when I first got here"

[Ya-ta Boy]

Can't we have a rule about the total number of letters/numbers in a name? I think 8 is enough for anyone. At my age, my fingers get tired typing long names.

[desultude]

[JongnoGuru]

[Ya-ta Boy]

Hmmmm, is right. I wonder how that happened.

[desultude]

[JongnoGuru]

I just thought of another rule. We'll call it the "RACETRAITOR Rule" -- he's the only poster allowed to use all capitals in his name. I'm also considering introducing standard proper-noun capitalisation rules.

eamo ==> Eamo
kermo ==> Kermo

[Corporal]

Non-capitalized user names is a pet peeve of mine.

[flotsam]