can @Brigby please enlighten us why CS is changing so many IGNs today? These are players that had the same inoffensive name for years and today there’s a whole swath of names being changed.
You do realize that this is a social game first and foremost and name recognition is very important in game, right?
Please change Actuaryal to “Definitively not Actuaryal”. In seriousness I agree name changes should be very rare.
My user name is “sambrookjm” but it’s actually pronounced “Throatwobbler Mangrove”
If we are changing names, any chance you can change DarthDevo’s IGN. I find it highly inappropriate!! Changing it to DarthDevo would work I suppose..
You’re a very silly man and I’m not going to talk to you any more.
Oh, you’re no fun any more.
I would imagine if someone reports a name as offensive, CS will probably change it. Perhaps an overzealous player has gone on a crusade to clean up mpq user names.
I’m kind of surprised anything remotely offensive manages to get through, given that when I set up an alt account, it wouldn’t let me name it “TPF Classic” because that contained a forbidden word.
Short for Toilet Paper Flinger?
Nah, it’s for Tiny Purple Fishes, from the Cream song Tales of Brave Ulysses. It’s also part of my main account name with no problem. “Classic” was the word it had a problem with.
At least I know there isn’t a bullet with my name on it because I’m Yarzo Spatenfloot!
They had no problem with my name… at least I didn’t have to show my degree certificates to prove my qualifications!
Can you at least give me my proper nose back?
I don’t know how my name passed inspection. I mean, obviously, tinykitty isn’t allowed on the forums right?
Well, if i’m going to have a song stuck in my head the rest of the day, I could do a lot worse than that one… 
What does tinykitty stand for? I think it represents more than one word. When I try to substitute it for offensive words when I read others’ posts, it makes sense sometimes.
They probably have a list of forbidden words and any user name that contains a forbidden word gets rejected automatically. Then when people complain about user names that got through the filter an actual person looks at it and determines if it is out of line or not.
The devs decided to use it as the standard replacement for any filtered word. So if you type [censored], [donteventhinkaboutit] or [ohnoyoudont] it ends up as tinykitty, tinykitty and tinykitty.
Why tinykitty? Because whoever was in charge found it amusing. There’s another word for a small cat that people tend to take offense at after all…
One of my alliance mates got his user name changed by the way since it was apparently a reference to a sexual maneuver. He had no idea, neither did anyone else in the alliance. So thanks to whoever reported the name as offensive we all learned something new!