Users are also allowed to register whatever accounts they'd like, and there is no requirement to play. They just have to log in every 6 months to keep the account. Whatever motives someone has for creating an account are up to them.

Indeed. Shame to see such anti-freedom double-think from people who want to keep this shadowy figure from squatting on the usernames.

Some people go out of their way to be offended.

I suppose we should be glad there aren't more serious problems in the world to complain about than username squatters on KGS /s

If you want to see a mysterious username censor, try to register vvms: you can't and it says in use, but if you try to view that user it doesn't exist. My guess is wms (KGS creator) banned it due to the similarity to his username.

I suppose we should be glad there aren't more serious problems in the world to complain about than username squatters on KGS /s

If you want to see a mysterious username censor, try to register vvms: you can't and it says in use, but if you try to view that user it doesn't exist. My guess is wms (KGS creator) banned it due to the similarity to his username.

Yeah … there’s this joke about an old lady who called the police because of her neighbor who, as she said, was standing at his window, naked …

When the police people arrived and looked out of her window, they couldn't see anything.

The lady shoved a stool towards the window and said, “here, you’ll see it if you stand on the stool.”

If they wanted to discourage squatting on a name, I suppose they could make a requirement that an account has games played on it with some established frequency, but I imagine that would generate quite a few complaints from existing users. Some people have good reasons for taking a lengthy break from KGS while wanting to keep their account active.

It certainly would. I have been DrStraw on KGS almost since it started and I do not recall playing a rated game with it for well over 10 years. I do play the occasional teaching game but that also is very irregular and most of the time if shows no games at all in the list. I keep the account because that is how everyone knows me. I have another account, which no one knows about, for playing rated games.

What i find silly is the attitude that says "lets block whatever we can before somebody gets offended." Well, what if nobody gets offended? Why block a bunch of good names for nothing? I understand good intentions, but I think - in real life - most who behave like that become pests rather than saviors.

My personal opinion: people who block names like that are on a desperate quest for self-aggrandization. Get a life.

We all should get a life.

I see that someone has registered "Yahweh" "Elohim" and "Allah" (and probably others) as user names to prevent other people from doing so.

I can appreciate that some people might be offended and that is the motive.

Other people might be offended by a user name such as "Satan" or "Hitler". Yet others by one involving rude words.

I would like to suggest though that the decisions about what names are allowable be in the hands of the people who actually run KGS not some self-appointed anonymous censor.

I am not sure why only the middle eastern religions have been targeted. Christ and Buddha were not hijacked. I have my suspicions as to who may have done it but as that is all they are I will not share them in case I am wrong.

My trouble with the very religious people is that they are less tollerant than they expect from other people.

I do not like when dogma restrict the freedom of others. Therefore, I will create an account "Allah1" or "Yahweh1" for playing when I'm drunk.

I suppose we should be glad there aren't more serious problems in the world to complain about than username squatters on KGS /s

If you want to see a mysterious username censor, try to register vvms: you can't and it says in use, but if you try to view that user it doesn't exist. My guess is wms (KGS creator) banned it due to the similarity to his username.

I was told WMS, at one time, added a user name check to block new usernames that were visually similar to existing usernames. If true, that would explain the mystery.