I've created a pet with a forbidden name a while back and it got deleted. After that I regularly search for the name and saw that many people created the name after me and also get their pet deleted. Currently the name is back in use again. I mean people creating a pet with a name which the like and put effort and sP/CSC in it but than it got deleted, cause the user didn't knew that the name was forbidden.

So it would be really great that words, which are forbidden to use on Subtea, get blocked and wouldn't be available to create as a pet.

Support, because prevention is better than punishment. Plus no one would need to check for the banned names.

Do the pets actually get deleted rather than renamed to something random? That seems like a huge waste of the user's time and resources when a simple rename would fix the issue.

Oh. Geez. You mean pet names don't have blocked/forbidden content that either gets blocked completely from use/creation or something?

That's.... veeeery troubling to me. I see how it could be a slippery slope, since some words could cause debate on whether or not they're slurs or something, but I think there's a few things that should probably be blocked/not allowed whatsoever as names. :I

Just making it impossible to rename to/create that pet name seems a lot better than having to repeatedly delete the pet.

the pets get renamed to SpeciesID#

I support, but also, it sorta falls under 'read the rules' too for a counter argument. I Do support tho.

Thanks for clarifying that. c:

I does seem rather odd that there's no barriers in place to stop people making pet names that are against the rules, especially if they have to keep on removing them. And sure, it is in the site rules, but people don't check the rules every time they do something new. Plus, the information in the rules explicitly doesn't list all banned subject matters, and the ones that are listed are still somewhat subjective. What might appal one person might be seen as tame to another, and it can be difficult to know exactly where site standards sit. Blocking certain names from ever being created in the first place would at least make it clear where the lines are drawn.

Back on Neopets, I had a username which contained the word "hell", and I'd occasionally get some boring and whiny people threatening to report me because of it. I'd always reply that there was no point because of my username broke the rules, I'd never have been able to make it in the first place.

The only words that I know are forbidden are ones that break the filter rules. like Fk or Ct.

Neopets.... yeah... I am so thankful Subeta isn't like Neopets ^_^ A user has Hell as a UN here.

I mean, even though it does state in the rules what isn't allowed, a safeguard is always good.

I'm glad that we're talking about neo here, and their awful censor system. I remember a username I replied to on the boards had smexy in it (and I did the little @ thing or something of the sort) and I got a warning from TNT.

My little 13 year old self was traumatized.

While I can echo a lot of the comments made here, I will say this: it's always bothered me how we aren't suppose to have a pet that conflicts with the word filter. I've never really been sure on the extent of this, so I've avoided creating pets that technically have 'shit' in it (shita is common to find in a lot of Japanese names), so if this was done, I'd want to see something that also kind of clarifies that, too... Normally I'd ask an admin but I'm not sure if there is a consensus in regards to that, or if it might be something more subjective...

I support the blocking of the petnames that're point blank against the rules to create (the two mentioned above, and two others off the top of my head where one doesn't exist and the other is inactive, so I won't mention either). These names shouldn't exist because the petname bypasses the no-cussing filter & thr other two are hateful (I imagine there's more than four though).

However I really think just the word itself should be blocked, not actually words/names that just so happen to have a word in it (like Shita as used above), because yeah that's a slippery slope. Especially of you consider f*ck verses Fuk, which could be used in place of the actual word but is also contained in names/words y'know?

I like to tiptoe lines, and sometimes a name should be clearly a "no, no I shouldn't be able to make that" but I'd love for this to be clearly defined all around. The pet name Dick is fine to have because it's a nickname for Richard, but I was told I can't have a graphic that had a pets nickname (Richard, who goes by Dick) on it because it's not appropriate. It wouldn't annoy me much to alter the character to have a different name if it also meant a user couldn't have a pet with that name.