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I was scrolling through the Goods board and saw this topic (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5499744.0), got me curious that he's got that name. Didn't know that there were no policies in the forum about names that would be offensive to some people, in the image below is the screenshot of the name of the user. I don't know if there's a rule in place regarding names or I'm just sensitive about this particular name or something.

LOL


Yeah ultimately it comes down to just you being sensitive. There is no rule regarding offensive names that I'm aware of.

Of course its a stupid name, but the only thing he's really harming are his chances of anyone taking him seriously. Not that they would anyway with that kind of an advertisement. Looks like a lowbrow scam. His name could have been "SunshineKittens" and he would have gotten the same level of interest.

"Hitler" is a German family name. It didn't belong just to Adolf Hitler, many people have that family name. I guess with the tolerance for free spech there is no such rule. Although I see that you are partly right and if someone would nickname himself for example "AdolfHitler" or "Let's kill jews", "Let's kill blacks" and things like that, he should be banned.

That's fine, Hitler is human name, it doesn't automatically mean to Adolf Hitler that killed the Jews. Actually there's someone named Adolf Hitler that win the local election in Namibia. (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-55173605)

There are many clear offensive usernames in this forum, but didn't get banned.
1. suckmydick (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1769430)
2. suckmycock12 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3304896)
3. suckmynutsLOL (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3521101)

Even if that's the logic of things, when people that have a knowledge of things, that's probably the first person that they would think about when they hear the name Hitler and it really doesn't matter if it's a name of some politician in Namibia, it's that the user that made this username doesn't have that Namibian politician in mind. I guess with that kind of name, it's safe to say that there's no rules about offensive names here.

No, there aren't any rules against "offensive" usernames, and I'd argue that Theymos would probably never implement such a rule given how subjective offensiveness is.  Personally, if I just came across a post by hitler420 I wouldn't think anything of the moniker.  Jesus, if your fur gets ruffled by the mere mention of a word or name, you really need to grow a thicker skin.  There aren't any safe spaces here on bitcointalk.


See, I don't think it's a stupid username or a good one or clever or anything at all.  I wouldn't judge that person by what he chooses to call himself on the forum; I'd judge him on the quality of his posts and that's it. 

This isn't the place for people who get offended easily.  OP, you've been here since 2016 and you ought to know that.

To everyone who says "its a family name." No its not, not for the last 75 years. When's the last time you ran into someone with that as a surname?


From a marketing perspective, its a terrible choice. In the case of the account in question, I would have named myself "apartment4bitcoin". Also, good luck getting into a sig campaign with that name.  :D

Here in the Balkans, a music star is called Adolf. The irony is that he was born in 1949, only a few years after World War II. I don't know how common the name is in the world, but everyone's first association is Adolf Hitler.
We probably wouldn't have known that someone was using such a name if he hadn't become a popular musician.

To be on topic, I am certainly in favour of banning offensive and confusing usernames and making them impossible for registration and further use. It doesn't have to be exclusively offensive but does anyone remember ~DefaultTrust (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2526482), obviously only with the idea of ​​trolling and creating confusion? I am surprised that the account is still active.

Now when I come across forum names such as these I cannot help but just literally laugh out loud  ;D

I would be inclined to ban offensive names but only is a caveat is added.

First, I think members should probably not be allowed to create an offensive name but no matter how brilliant a word filter is added it will not pick up every word. In that event it can be reported and admin can advise the member to change the name before their account will become active again. If they do not change the offensive name the account remains banned. Another option is for admin to forcefully change a name and re-activate the account.

I am sure it sounds harsh to some members, it might be the wrong approach but at we are sharing ideas.

It would just depend on how members are going to see it, I mean its not going to be offensive to everyone.

In the end, there was no rule about having this kind of things on names so, I don't see anything about it, so as long as we still doesn't have somekind of rule about it, there was nothing we can do about it for now.

But I would agree that there are some names that should not be allowed just like some of the examples of the other members.



It just wasn't a good example here in the forum.

How come Hitler is an offensive name while it’s a surname of some German people. Adolf Hitler is not the only person who use this surname and also it’s not an offensive name imho unless some name for example “holocaust is good” or some sort that directly make fun of the tragedy.

Also this forum is an anonymous forum which means anyone can choose their name even with name “ littledicky” is allowed  :D

Don’t use public forum if you are easy to be offended or else you are entering voluntarily on living hell since there’s a lot of uncensored words here.  :D

I scoured the Internet and did not find any affirmative conclusions that the surname Hitler is a frequently used one. However, there is information that, after well-known events, people who are related to her tried to change her surname. But it made me laugh out loud when I found out Hitler’s real name, which he so diligently changed. And so its meaning was as a person who cleans out cesspools—Schicklgruber. In truth, everything related to shit was on this “man’s” forehead.

OP, just add him to ignore. Everyone who is not bothered by his nickname reacts calmly. This just characterizes the personality... although is there a personality?

I do not see any issues with anyone trying to keep an offensive username, there is nothing wrong with it. It is their choice moreover I have never seen any policy on keeping weird usernames. I have read a few topics on this board which were asked what is the meaning of using a username or what thought process was used to keep such a username. This is the first time that I have encountered a topic where you seem to think that some username is offensive. This is an anonymous forum and everyone here does not care about the username. If you are finding it offensive then report that user to the mods and let them decide. I do not think they will look into such report as they are busy with other important works.

There is no rule that bans offensive name on the Forum, "Hitler" is not a bad name, we cannot ascribed the fact that because someone else baring the name probably did some odd things, users should be banned from using the name. I can choose to answer whatever name I like, it my right and such observation is improper as far as that name does not go against any norms of the society.

I don't see anything wrong with the name it all depends on your individual perceptions and emotions regardless of what you feel about the name, it is what it is the forum is an anynomuse place and anyone is free to bear whatever name they wishes and nothing can stop that, infact not everyone even look at forum user name because names can be changed at anytime if you contact the admin.

Unlike what many websites try to make you believe, you can't have objective rules about something as subjective as "being offensive". Grow a thicker skin.

Here you go:
8098. hanshitler (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=8098)
13395. hitlerlair (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=13395)
23638. hitler (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=23638)
36930. hitler_69_lol (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=36930)
83077. Adolf Hitler (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=83077)
189657. asian_hitler (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=189657)
325306. IconicExpertIsHitler (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=325306)
325307. IconicIsHitler (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=325307)
325315. IconicHitler (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=325315)
330238. hitlercat (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=330238)
376406. Adolf_Hitler (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=376406)
401025. altcoin hitler (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=401025)
401026. not altcoin hitler (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=401026)
509703. A. Hitler (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=509703)
559178. hitlership (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=559178)
685012. hitlerbitcoin (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=685012)
730334. Hitlerhalq (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=730334)
880108. JaHitler (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=880108)
1007293. AdolfHitler (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1007293)
1190359. Hitler08201993 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1190359)
1221138. hitlerme (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1221138)
1227308. Je.hitler (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1227308)
1257850. hitler007 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1257850)
2083217. Hitler66 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2083217)
2083237. Hitler666 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2083237)
2117752. HITLERS (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2117752)
2253275. assihitler (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2253275)
2332691. AdolfHitler2.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2332691)
2335576. Hitler Klshikov (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2335576)
2376383. Riefhitler (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2376383)
2464737. HitlerCoin (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2464737)
2544067. Jasonhitler10 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2544067)
2619730. Hitlerdidnothingwrong (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2619730)
2679836. Hitler23 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2679836)
2730041. HITLER SCP (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2730041)
2750387. hitler12 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2750387)
2768476. Hitler04 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2768476)
2812441. Hitlerchong (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2812441)
2823415. Hitler2313 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2823415)
2881786. madolfhitlergerm4 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2881786)
3202269. hitler201 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3202269)
3260117. hitlerdgs (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3260117)
3281492. hitler_hitle (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3281492)
3397396. AIDS-Hitler (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3397396)
3586810. BossAdolfHitler (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3586810)
3637395. hitler420 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3637395)

You reminded me of my own post again:

Or listen to Steve Hughes... Offended? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHMoDt3nSHs&t=28s).
Or listen to Roan Atkinson on free speech (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiqDZlAZygU).

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Bitcointalk offers more freedom than any other forum I've seen. Don't take that away because you choose to make something hurt your feelings.

So if there is a punishment for answering a name that you consider offense, should there be a reward for people who answer non offensive names like, "Muhammed" Jesus, Islam, Christian?
Come on, there are many people answering same names but they ain't same people. So why put a stigma on some names and consider it offensive?

I think this has got to be one of the funniest thread's I've read in my LIFE  ;D.

But for real, these psychopaths naming themselves these things should not be able to.

The guy who did hitler420 knows EXACTLY what he doing lol, and should be banned.

Names could be funny to see others people bearing them, you may not have to be surprised in seeing that some are using some names in which they don't even know the meaning behind those names, you can create your account here on the forum with any name of your choice since there is no verification on which username you should use that suite or go along with your own personal given name, but in this case, i think he is just a random guy being freak about using random names like that if hitler.

Ha ha ha. This is a funny topic on the forum because everyone will initially feel a little giddy and then laugh that such a person couldn't come up with a good name.  The account opener may not know that Hitler 420 has opened his account with it, but is it good or not?  Although there are no rules for such a name in the forum, he will not be banned.  But he should have understood what it was called in the ordinary mind.  However, reading the name made me want a little.

The forum has been too broad to capture every terms of it if not going back to re-read again at where complicated but with how far I've known, there's no restrictions for forum usernames.
Most certainly bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency which gives its users the free will to determine how they'd handle their funds on the self custodial. So this forum being an avenue to discuss about bitcoin can't go against that decentralized privilege.
Most importantly, this forum is a global forum equipment to the free and fair awareness on decentralizations as bitcoin so, any username should be acceptable as it doesn't feel comfortable of being username biased.

If you've those few names mentioned for instance, what then can we decide about some names that doesn't seem meaningful and can't even be pronounce? I get your point though but there's no just justice to that because it's a privilege to bear whatever name as long the forum is concerned but though, lot of names can Inflate sentiments, fun and harmful.

You can always ignore somebody that you don’t like or find offensive. If we could ban everybody that we found offensive or stupid, there wouldn’t be many people left on the internet. Sometimes you gotta learn how to ignore people. That works in real life too. Some people smell like shit and smelling like shit ain’t a violation of law. You just move away from that person and pretend he doesn’t exist. Some people wear ss tattoos too. What you gonna do about that? Call the police? No, you just ignore that person… That’s how it is.

LOL. Quite funny how humans make and twist logics. How are you sure that names like Muhammad, Jesus, Islam and Christian are non offensive?
To some Islam's, the name Christian is offensive;
To some Christians, the name Islam is offensive;
To Hitler descendants both Muhammad and Jesus could be offensive to them. What would have been the best is a world of total freedom, where anyone does what they think is good to them.

We have different cultures and values and what might sound abusive or inappropriate to you might not be nothing to the other persons and that's why we don't have any rules like that, there are many users using similar usernames here on the forum. If you find any username abusive or appropriate use the ignore button and that's all.

I won't even judge them -- assuming Theymos decided to implement the KYC system and, they had their real name as "Adolf Hitler"... Isn't that gonna be more like making an entirely different person pay for the hitman's deceit because he's got an inherited name?
Exactly! It could look unusual or a little bit frustrating atimes, but the reality is that these set of people can give a different vibe; I mean, just scrolling through, after making up a serious discussion and boommm., you're reading something that actually sounds funny and stupid at the same time.

One of these users, namely suckmycock12, is banned. As for the other users you mentioned, there is nothing to ban them for, they don't have any posts written. And for a nickname on the forum do not ban, no matter what it is. The only exception might be imposters.

Well the forum bans violent threats

so a member named “someone crucify philipma1957” would be banned as it advocates an act of violence against a forum member.

Hitler420  is about pot? not violence. thus no ban.

If you've read your history, you'd know by now that there's no Hitler descendants anymore or a direct one, they know the sins and atrocities associated with the last name and so they are either not Hitler anymore or they've castrated themselves to break the bloodline associated to them. Also, how can Jesus be offensive to someone that bears the Hitler surname? Most of the Nazi Germany at that time was of Catholic faith so there's no way that it can ever be offensive. Also, a lot of people would be sure that those names that you've mentioned aren't offensive, have you heard of Muhammad Ali? Christian Dior? How about the Latinos that have Jesus as their names?

Unfortunately, ignore feature doesn't hide the username.

You're correct, I thought "archived" means inactive, but actually it's an another name of being banned. The user posted fake GMiner's download links, probably the moderator nuked him for doing that.

whoops! These are too extreme and dark! I mean, are these kind of names even necessary?just sucks and speaks volume of the bearers even if I'm trying not to be judgemental😊



have you considered that it's possible that he actually bears that name? I know of someone with the name " ESAU"in my region and because of how unpopular the name is and the biblical story behind it, people are always confused if that's the real name of the person or not.

Most of the names I find on the forum aren't the real name of the owner of the account and apart from some individuals that might name her account with something that promotes a particular idea or brand they are affiliated with, the choice regarding which name one wants to near is totally a personal thing.

No, "archived" and means the user is inactive, IMHO. I don't know why BPIP doesn't show that the user has been nuked. BPIP can have such missteps. I didn't pay attention to the fact that the user had posts, you're right about that. I personally nuke such users who post phishing links and links to viral software, too, regardless of his nickname.

Personally I can't even remember when last I saw a case of someone being banned on the forum because of their user name. I have come across a bunch of crazy usernames and what popped in my head was what the heck was some of those users thinking when they picked up those user names. The fact is everyone has their reasons for picking a particular user name . However most of the time the crazy user names we come across are as a result of them just picking up some crazy random name to use.

I think most of the time the forum members don't even care about user names except they are outrightly offensive otherwise what they care most is your contribution to the forum rather. Some usernames make me laugh a couple of times like they are just crazy.

I don’t really think it’s worth spending any man hours on but it would probably be a nice feature to be able to censor words that offend you. I wouldn’t care personally, but I know victims of certain crimes can suffer from seeing certain words. Having them **** out instead of showing the whole word might be nice for those who would want such a thing.

There is a browser addon for that actually and It works pretty well. Years ago I used to use it on some other forum where I couldn’t even stand to see a few nick names. But using more and more browser addons create more and more attack vectors on your PC and I didn’t want that so I deleted it and a few others.

A built-in forum feature would be nice though. When I ignore somebody, I don’t want to see anything about him/her. That account should disappear completely.

Really? It's a surname of the German people? When was the last time that you've heard of a person that's got that last name? Pretty sure that no one's going to be associating themselves to the Hitler family name if they can you know. @nutildah already stated that it's never been in use for like 75 years and if I recall, the relatives of Hitler have all changed their surnames because they don't want to be associated with Hitler and they did it as a way to atone for the sins in proxy.

There is a rule regarding names been use on this forum, and the simple rule is that no name can be used twice (i.e you can't use a name that is already in existence without adding either a prefix or suffix to it), hence, for me, I will say that inasmuch as the person who bears whatever name on this forum do not disobey the rules that governs this online community, I don't think such name should be a big issue, because just as this is a global community, there is every tendency we finding funny kinds of names.

I registered "Flash Cunt" as an alias here. I registered it to enter into dialogue with Tman, but I haven't used it since he left the forum.

I also think that username isn't stupid because we at this forum give priority to one's choices and freedom of speech and if someone chooses a username that he/she likes or prefers then we should interfere with that member's choices.

Yes, I agree, one should never judge someone just because he/she choose a name that majority find offensive. It's a user's posts and their quality that should be the determining factor to consider someone as good or someone as not so good.

If a member with a very eye-catching username makes low quality spam posts then that person shouldn't be praised for choosing that eye-catching name and similarly if someone chooses a name which society doesn't accept, and the same person creates quality posts then there's nothing wrong in saying good words about such person.

Banned for what? I went through list of Bitcointalk rules and I don't see that this guy broke any of rules.
There is rule No. 8:
But he didn't broke this rule, maybe this name looks offensive for someone, but not calling to harm or kill someone.
People shouldn't react so sensitive to things on internet. As you, guy knew what he is doing and kinda achieved what he wanted - someone got offended.

 It's not something you should be concerned with because as this is an anonymous place, anyone is entitled to choosing any user name he/she wants and is comfortable with. Just like the others have said or have tried to imply, there's no rule against offensive usernames, as long as you don't make yourself conspicuous by doing things that will attract attention to you like deliberately spamming or trying to scam users here, you are good.
 

I wonder what you'd say about my username, op 8)...quite disturbing, eh?

What is offensive to you may be normal to someone else. Who decides whether it's offensive or not? If we ban everything that is "offensive to some people" as you say, I'm sure there will be very little left on the forum. Instead of wasting time on this, you can Ignore usernames you don't like.

I do, says everyone. And that's the problem :)

I'm offended by LoyceVbanappeal (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3560814)!

I would be inclined to go along with this. What is (and what is not) offensive is down to a matter of opinion. As capable and understanding people we can always decide what we might or not be offended by but we cannot apply our personal barometer to the one that is making statements and claims.

If someone wants to use the Ignore button on another member for the sake of them using an offensive account name then that is their prerogative but it does not necessarily automatically mean some/all of their their posts will be low quality or even spam. Each member has to navigate their way around this I suppose.

In my opinion, the username is not a problem if you still use a positive name, if the name is sensitive or dirty, that's the only thing that should be an issue, because it doesn't uphold this forum.

A dirty name can make us lazy to express opinions because the name is not pleasant to look at, therefore we use our own name or a pseudonym for a name that is pleasant to read.