Good evening, fellow knights. Unfortunately, this post is going to be a controversial one, I know, most likely because people didn't read the whole thing. In order to avoid that part at the very least, allow me to make one thing very clear
The person depicted here may have chosen the name corona-virus, but he did so before it became a pandemic, and indeed he was a vanguard by that name before I even knew about covid-19. He regrets his choice of name, and this protest is NOT to get that name back. Just to be completely clear:
CORONAVIRUS NAMES ARE NOT OK. HE AGREES WITH THIS AND REGRETS CHOOSING IT. THAT DOES NOT MEAN HE DOES NOT DESERVE A LITTLE FAIRNESS
Ok, so, with that out of the way, let's get into the story and what exactly those who join us will be protesting for
Corona chose that name when he created the knight, sometime in february before coronavirus was a big thing causing school closures and such. When I met him, he was already a Vanguard, and I didn't know about covid-19 at all. With it recently becoming a pandemic, the laughs and smiles of everyone became disgust, and he was reported profusely. In the end, the admins changed his name to snipe-bug, without consulting him at all about what he would prefer, or any look into his side of things, not even looking at the logs to see when he created the knight or changed it to that name. first thing he knew about it was a message saying he had been "punished for misconduct" when he logged in, and then the new name appearing when selecting a knight. When he asked about it and if he could get a name of his choosing, given that he regretted having the name once the pandemic hit and all, they responded:
"I'm sorry. When we rename a knight due to it being in violation of our rules on decency, vulgarity and/or appropriateness, it is a disciplinary issue. We do not provide them with a free rename of their choosing in disciplinary cases. When you choose to make an offensive name, this is part of the penalty for having made that choice."
He could not have known Corona would get this bad when he chose it. If he had, he would've chosen something else. For reference, imagine he called himself Black-Death, and then we suddenly saw a resurgence of the Bubonic Plague. Funny to some at first, but suddenly it's not okay, and he's expected to have seen it coming. The admins are treating him like a troll, when he just thought it'd be funny and had no idea it would get this bad.
He doesn't want the name back, and he agrees it's horrible to have that name in these dark times, he just wants to be able to choose what name he has instead. But the admins refuse to recognise that. When I learned of this, I sent them the following message:
Snipe-bug was originally known as Corona-virus, and as you can guess he caught a lot of flak for this once the virus became a big deal and got his name changed by the admins. I have no issue with this, as he himself says he regrets his choice of name in light of the pandemic. However, I can attest that he had the name and had managed to reach vanguard long before I learned about covid-19 at all, much less started to hear about a pandemic and had my school shut down campus, etc.Thus, my issue is that the admins refuse to allow him to choose an alternate name because he "clearly chose it to troll and harass people", meanwhile I have seen that there is a guild called coronavirus, and even a knight elite called go-corona, neither of which have gotten the same flak. GO. CORONA. Meanwhile, the guildmate's former name was merely corona-virus. No support or encouragement, merely the common name. I can send screenshots of the knight if need be, simply get in touch
Regards, Emburren, Vanguard and officer of Immortal Flames (also known as the knight elite Cahlzinn and knight Henry-Murdoch, both members of same guild)
to which I got the response, and this is the entire quote:
"Greetings! Thank you for that information, but due to our policy of account confidentiality we will not discuss this with you. I'm sorry that will be a disappointing answer."
In other words, mind your own business. In light of this, I sent another message asking if they would prefer if Corona himself sent the message. Their response was pretty much more of the same. But since they didn't say no, Corona sent in my message exactly, apart from changing every instance of "he" to "i" in a deliberately transparent attempt to make it look like he wrote it. Their response:
"If someone is being problematic, then you should /complain them and we can investigate further. Unfortunately, you have already been clearly told that we will not grant you a free rename and that decision has not changed. For you reference: "I'm sorry. When we rename a knight due to it being in violation of our rules on decency, vulgarity and/or appropriateness, it is a disciplinary issue. We do not provide them with a free rename of their choosing in disciplinary cases. When you choose to make an offensive name, this is part of the penalty for having made that choice.""
Basically, they completely ignored the content of the message, including the bits about other such offensive names that could do with their attention, other than telling us to use /complain on them. I am not happy with this, and neither is Coro- Sorry, Snipe-Bug. Thus, why I am here talking to you all today:
If any of you wish to join the campaign against this treatment, and try to get the admins to let him choose, I propose this: Send an exact copy of the original message, edited only so that the signature is your own rather than mine, to Support. They can't ignore all of them if we send enough, and sooner or later they will have to accept that this wasn't ok. Once again, for your convenience, here is the original message once again, with the signature space left blank so you can put your own name, and if you wish any other identifying info such as other knights, guild, etc.
Snipe-bug was originally known as Corona-virus, and as you can guess he caught a lot of flak for this once the virus became a big deal and got his name changed by the admins. I have no issue with this, as he himself says he regrets his choice of name in light of the pandemic. However, I can attest that he had the name and had managed to reach vanguard long before I learned about covid-19 at all, much less started to hear about a pandemic and had my school shut down campus, etc.Thus, my issue is that the admins refuse to allow him to choose an alternate name because he "clearly chose it to troll and harass people", meanwhile I have seen that there is a guild called coronavirus, and even a knight elite called go-corona, neither of which have gotten the same flak. GO. CORONA. Meanwhile, the guildmate's former name was merely corona-virus. No support or encouragement, merely the common name. I can send screenshots of the knight if need be, simply get in touch
Regards, [your name here]
Thank you for your time, dear reader
so this is what has become of forums xd