BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

The names don’t bother me that much, so I’ll defer to our Proprietor if he feels strongly enough that the names need to be thematically consistent.

sic semper memes

I do not think this accomplishes what it intends to. For example, “Grandpa Fuller” is an obvious meme name, but not Famous. On the other hand, “Tom Hand” is apparently not intended as a meme name, but the search finds the sentence “Tom hand carves a traditional dugout canoe” in addition to a long-retired football player.

Trying to make new names from scratch, the more common the forename and surname, the more likely they are to coincidentally appear in Wikipedia, so invented names that look like “Amelia Davies” that look plausible probably don’t work (and indeed this example does not) while weird and implausible names like “Rekage Greyjoth” are encouraged for safety.

I don’t really see a solid reason to have this in the ruleset, if people want to have fun with their visitor names I don’t see the issue with it.

The intention was just that “the kind of two-word name you wouldn’t find on Wikipedia in any context” might be an interesting constraint, when finding a way to resolve the emergence of celebrity and invented camps. The flipside might be “must have a Wikipedia page”, but I think invented names are probably more interesting.

I’d be fine seeing Rekage Greyjoth queueing behind Grandpa Fuller, while Amelia Davies instead has to be named Angelica Davies to pass the filter.

I would not object on thematic grounds to putting some sort of leash on meme names, for example by requiring Group members to share a surname, but I’d rather have some meme names than only odd ones.

By locking most existing Visitors out of the game until they change to a compliant name, this proposal is also so highly disruptive even in the short window until it’d be amended. So .

What do you mean when you say “meme name” here?

References to famous people

Withdrawn to keep the queue moving, since proposals are timing out a lot.