Re: Offensive Screen Names
If a screen name bothers you, it can't hurt to send an e-mail to the site expressing this.
It is in a Poker site's best interest to create an atmosphere that offends the least number of reasonable players.
If a player's name or behavior is upsetting players and they quit the session or leave the site, it will be of interest to the poker site.
Since the site is their private property, they are entitled to make the final determination on what is offensive or not.
If a Poker Site support staff is staffed primarily by persons for whom English is not the native language, or whose social knowledge is different than mine, I don't see a problem with informing them about the potential offense of screen names.
For example, there are occasionally players with cryptic "license plate style" playernames which are euphemisims for sexual acts or various body parts. I can't imagine a support team catching that when they have 10k+ players on at a time.
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