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Now, I felt this was an interesting topic :/
'Odd' tags.
What gave me this idea was earlier today, I was in Sky's Rim.
Nothing wrong, until I saw someone with the nametag 'M Assassin'
Er, what?
Turns out they "Killed templars", so they were basically playing Assassins Creed the fail way. :/
Also, the other day, I saw the tag 'F DragTeen' in Bonfire. Why is being a teen so important in FH?
Anyways, have any of you seen odd tags like these, or that make NO sense?
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Usually they put those there to shorten the tag, about the F DragTeen thing. Usually I guess they just want to add that there because they don't want to write it in the bio or something, or people ust don't write or look at bios really?
I don't know. I'm curious to know why they actually add that there, but it's their character and it isn't a crime.. but it can be a bit derpy.
Now that I look at this... I'm a bit confused on what to say here, like if I experienced them? Not sure I've seen tags that literally make no sense... o3o Though, F Mare and M stallion are derpy tags I dislike to see.
I'm a bit confused though.... sorry. XD
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I have seen my fair share of add tag names, but for the teen one I know for sure its important for a RP to just distinguish age within a pride. I however don't do this but have seen this around some of the mappies.
But yus like Hugrf said, its there character and they run around with it. As long as they arn't making you wear a tag like that then it should be fine.
Sometimes I do wonder why some info they put in tags cant be in bios. Such as the M, and F tags ive seen sometimes.
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Ahh, I've seen users who have these tags in their name. During my first days of playing Feralheart, I would put the "M" or "F" mostly because I hadn't a clue there were bios to which you can store info about your charrie.. Perhaps that is why you may see quite a bit of that going on? There are many floofs who are quite new to the game, and as they familiarize themselves a bit with the game, they may put an end it possibly.. Though as Hugrf said, maybe they don't expect others to actually view their bios so they would want to assure everyone what gender their character is.
Feareh also stated a valid point that the "teen" tag is crucial in a few packs / prides. I've seen many with "pup" or "adult" at the end of their names as well, though it doesn't particularly bother me much. Some have just grown into a habit of acquiring those specific tags in their names, nothing more and nothing less. As stated above me a couple of times, since it is their own character, they should be able to name it whatever they want {well... appropriate names of course}.
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Yeah, i've seen weird tag's before. They were like this: <???>
And i was like: "WTF?" It was kinda weird looking at that tag. How can a player have tag with these: '?'
It's impossible, FH dosen't let you have these: ' " . > < ? / \ | : ; [ ] { }
It's just so weird when you see it. e.e
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I have no real problems with tags. Though, my blood boils when I see "M", "F" and "Teen" tags. Pride/Pack/Clan tags are fine, but I mean, there are bios for a reason.~ People most likely put tags there to quickly view the species and gender. However, the people own these characters, so they might as well do anything with them, as long as it complies with the rules.
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I have no problem with tags... Just when I see someone running around with "F Lioness" tag it is kind of strange or as Hugrf said about the Mares and Stallions tags.
So for me it is keep them if it gives some info you want to give us quickly. Also I feel those tags are for lazy people:
1. The person who adds tags has to add less stuff in their bio
2. People who want to talk with the "tagged person" get quick info about the person without looking into their bio.
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2011: Chip the Pup
2013: chip m wolfpup
Times have changed XD But back to the subject; I never really have a problem with it either, unless it's something like F wolfcub or inheat...that's kind of wrong.
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I don't mind tags. Only a few I've seen really bother me.
I once say someone with the tag: M GayEmo. I was just like "Wait, what?"
I also have recently been seeing people with the tags "M Indian" or "F Indian" running around. That's struck me as pretty racist, or at least disrespectful. Why can't you just put human in your tag instead?
Or If you put it there because you are roleplaying a historical Indian, you could at least do some reasarch and find an actual tribe for your character to be from. Not all native Americans are the same, kids, all the tribes have vastly different cultures.
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I find tags like Wolfdog, Teen, M, F, or whatever else odd. There really isn't much of a reason to have them in your name if they can instead be placed into your biography. In my own opinion, I often have an awkward feeling with people who use those kind of tags. I mean, I don't mind stalking a bio or two to see who and what you are, no one should be that rude and not read another person's bio themselves. Even if it's a relatively short or straight forward bio, anything's better than simply try to put it as a tag, it just doesn't seem like natural approach to me.
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Tags such as M, F, Teen or any other things that could easily be put into a bio bother me a little. I Can understand species tags if your character is often mistaken for another species. Like if you were a red maned wolf and people kept calling you a fox.
But anyway mildly back on topic I've seen a tag that read: M y P n. After a good ten minutes of staring at this tag and being confused I whispered the "owner" of the tag. From what they told me that managed to stick in my sleepy brain the tag means "Mate yes, Pups no" or something to that effect
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Well, I can't say I disagree with this. I've seen odd ones, too, and I even had a character whom was named "PEM M Corgi". Yes, this is odd. It stood for "Prince Ein McNolegs" or, what PEM stood for, I knew it didn't fit, and the characters name was much too long. I decided to shorten it to that, but afte a while, I just made it... Corgi. It was bothering me a bit.
Now, for others, yes I have seen some confusing tags. But as some above me said, it could be for roleplay purposes. Who knows!
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I find it really wierd when people put "F Lioness" or, "M Stallion" Because... if you are a stallion, we KNOW you are male... stallion means MALE horse. You don't need the M. Same with Lioness... a lioness is a female lion, you don't need the "F"... it's kinda stupid to put "F Lioness"... Lol.
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I think the only feasibly excusable time for these tags is if it's a species that's out of the ordinary and you would not be able to tell what it is any other way. Yes, I know there is the bio and that is suggested to be used as well, but not many people go through and read every single bio of every single player that is around them because this can be taxing at times on larger maps, bigger meetings, etc. So yeah, if someone's like a horse, dinosaur, shark, whale, mouse, dragon, etc sometimes I think it may be necessary just for that fact. Just because no matter how convincing one tries to make these things look on FH, in the end it all still kind of looks like nothing but winged or oddly colored lions/wolves...
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I don't mind tags. Only a few I've seen really bother me.
I once say someone with the tag: M GayEmo. I was just like "Wait, what?"
I also have recently been seeing people with the tags "M Indian" or "F Indian" running around. That's struck me as pretty racist, or at least disrespectful. Why can't you just put human in your tag instead?
Or If you put it there because you are roleplaying a historical Indian, you could at least do some reasarch and find an actual tribe for your character to be from. Not all native Americans are the same, kids, all the tribes have vastly different cultures.
I don't think that was racist or disrespectful. It's not like they put "M WhiteIndian" or something like that. Not trying to put your opinion down, but I'm just saying think a bit before you define something like this as "racist".
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Actually thinking on it the tag "teen" bothers me more than anything. People put this in because they want to make their character seem young and vibrant, however any wolf, lion or just about any other commonly role played species the teen years or lets say about 13 and up is extremely old. In horses it's middle aged. So what I'm trying to get at is that a proper version of this tag would be some short form of adolescent, not teen.
Off topic mini rant over
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Most of the time, I don't mind certain tags at all for sometimes such tags are used to specify a general roleplay (take TEC for example), and it could be one's preferable preference. Nothing more, nothing less. No harm done.
Though, I must admit some have me sit there and just ponder for a while. Like stated before me, the 'M Stallion' and 'F Mare', or 'F Doe' and 'M Buck' via the deer species, 'M Lion' and 'F Lioness' via the lion species, etc. Though, one tag I saw confused me the most. I was in Bonfire on Vaughn when I happened to be glomped by someone with the tag 'F Prince' (forgot their name for it was months ago when it happened). Accidentally, I addressed them as a male due to the 'Prince' in their tag though they corrected me saying they were a female. I merely went along with it in the end to not cause an argument though it confused me greatly for a female is usually a princess in royal families, not a prince.
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I respectfully disagree about some gender tags. -perks ears- The use of gender tags at least is completely acceptable to me, for the main reason that wolves and great cats, not to mention many other species with a good nose, can tell quite a bit about another creature by scent, gender included. So, if you can tell the gender at a glance, it is sort of realistic. I've also seen that it can be considered rude to be going through random bios without asking, but then some consider it rude NOT to go through the bio. -droops left ear, right ear stays perked- Go figure. I do agree that the 'M Stallion' tags or similar are redundant and a bit laughable though.
As for the laziness idea. -perks both ears- Often I see both the gender tag and the gender note in the bio, so they are doing more work, not less, for the sake of convenience.
Ending sort-of off topic part. The strangest tag I can remember seeing was F CAR, for a floof who was just having fun running random people over in Bonfire with the car item equipped. -tilts head- Not my kind of fun... but everyone seemed to be having a good time.
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I don't mind tags. Only a few I've seen really bother me.
I once say someone with the tag: M GayEmo. I was just like "Wait, what?"
I also have recently been seeing people with the tags "M Indian" or "F Indian" running around. That's struck me as pretty racist, or at least disrespectful. Why can't you just put human in your tag instead?
Or If you put it there because you are roleplaying a historical Indian, you could at least do some reasarch and find an actual tribe for your character to be from. Not all native Americans are the same, kids, all the tribes have vastly different cultures.
I don't think that was racist or disrespectful. It's not like they put "M WhiteIndian" or something like that. Not trying to put your opinion down, but I'm just saying think a bit before you define something like this as "racist".
It's the fact they are simplifying all Indian cultures into one that gets to me. They are roleplaying out a stereotype. That's what's racist about it.
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Well, not everyone knows every Indian culture. It is not racist in any way, they are just roleplaying. It's not like they were saying rude things about Indians. Plus, maybe they weren't RPing a specific Indian group. Just.... indians. Random indians. It's not racist, it's just Rp.
That's like saying tags like "Cat" are racist, since there are more than one species of cat. .-. It isn't racist.
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SOrry for the double post, the edit button is being stupid.. -.-;
But, also, to add on to that: Racism would be something such as; Indians suck. Indians should die. Indians are stupid. Indians are dumb. Indians are ugly, and so on.
These roleplayers were not being racist.
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Well, not everyone knows every Indian culture. It is not racist in any way, they are just roleplaying. It's not like they were saying rude things about Indians. Plus, maybe they weren't RPing a specific Indian group. Just.... indians. Random indians. It's not racist, it's just Rp.
That's like saying tags like "Cat" are racist, since there are more than one species of cat. .-. It isn't racist.
It's a stereotype.
Sure it was a just a roleplay, it was just mildly offensive in my opinion. Racism is more than just insults. It can be unintentional, very much like these stereotypes.
It's fine for you to have your own option and I will have mine. I don't really care if these role-players want to continue their roleplay. I personally found it not exactly rasist, just...I don't really know how to put it. Offensive? Possibly.
I just really dislike when people sterotype Indians (or anyone for that matter, but because my dad is native American and I am 1/2, sterotyping Indians tends to bother me quite a lot. Especially when wolfaboos do it...but that's a different story).
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-tilts head- Beg pardon, but didn't you just say that stereotyping is a bad thing? Then you turn around and use a term like 'wolfaboo'? I get that they can rub your fur the wrong way, but then in the next breath giving worse treatment to one group of people in game, rather than treating all with an equal-opportunity callout, seems like doing the same thing. I admit that this is a bit off topic, and I do apologize for that. Shall we get back to what this thread was meant for now?
-perks ears- I saw a character tagged 'toilet'. Enough said.
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-tilts head- Beg pardon, but didn't you just say that stereotyping is a bad thing? Then you turn around and use a term like 'wolfaboo'? I get that they can rub your fur the wrong way, but then in the next breath giving worse treatment to one group of people in game, rather than treating all with an equal-opportunity callout, seems like doing the same thing.
Wolfaboo is an obsessive wolf fan who tells lies about wolves. Nothing more. Many people think wolfaboo means someone who simply likes wolves, but it does not. I was a wolfaboo once; I know what it's like to be one.
But anyways, yeah. This is way off topic.
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They were not 'stereotyping'. Roleplaying a random indian is not stereotyping. That's like saying roleplaying a cat is stereotyping becasue there are many different cats.
Playing as something tagged 'indian' is not stereotyping at all. Maybe they weren't a specific TYPE of indian. Just, a random indian. It does NOT make it a stereotype, or racist, or offensive. At least their tag wasn't: "M Black." or, "M Nigger." :I THAT would be offensive and racist.
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*Sigh* Alright, I think I started something here.
And if I did, sorry; I just never expected it to turn into this whole discussion -_- Now can we just go back to the main topic of this thread?
Went online earlier. Saw a red wolf named "F frost spirit".
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I once saw someone with the nametag "M TeenPunkWolf".
What is a PunkWolf?
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Alphazai, isn't that... the N word? o_o Meh, never mind. I guess it's probably not a cuss or swear word.. o.e
Anyway, this was actually one of MY characters. XD
I forgot his name, but... his tag was "couch". Yes, I made a very random couch character. I just remembered that.
Does this count as an odd tag? XD
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No, Alphazai means Alpha in Varg. XD
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No, Alphazai means Alpha in Varg. XD
Off-topic: No, I mean what he/she said. XD
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"Dolphin" :I
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I've seen group tags, gender tags, age tags, the works. The few that irritate me the most are the "Wolf" or "Lion" tags. I don't get why they put it there, it should be obvious if it's a wolf or a lion, or there's also the bio to put it there. Now, don't get me wrong. I know that some new members don't know where, or what, the bio button it...
Anyway, that's where I'm going to finish my ranting, before it gets out of hand.
-Wolfie
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Only thing that bothers me is the preggo tags. I just don't get the point of roleplaying pregnant.