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• userbinator 2y ago
  If anything, allowing names to be literally unnameable is the "backwards attitude".
  • HeatrayEnjoyer 2y ago
    No, it's not. Also "Null" is a perfectly pronounceable and fine name. A brief search reveals several people with that name on Facebook, so it's clearly not abnormal, nor impossible to design a name field to handle it.
    • userbinator 2y ago
      Null is not a problem and I agree it should be accepted. The problem is with people who want names which resemble online handles more than legal identities. See: Elon Musk's son.
• Simon_O_Rourke 2y ago
  Of course they should, having worked in London previously if you went about there insisting people call you whatever, you'd be mercilessly derided and heckled by colleagues. Here it's seen as legitimate to go about forcing your notions onto others. Elsewhere, the community forces it's notions onto you.
  • numpad0 2y ago
    This isn't about "call you whatever", this is about family names. They were likely born as a Null between a Null and a Null. Null is a valid Irish surname long before NULL was a type. "I go by throatwobbler mangrove" part compounds on it only if they decide to do so.
  • HeatrayEnjoyer 2y ago
    Where is "here"? You are still exhibiting that harmful attitude. I know plenty of British people who are not so daft - most of them in fact, so I don't believe your supposition that it is a common attitude. And even if it was, that's never a justification.
    • Simon_O_Rourke 2y ago
      How can it be harmful? "I want everyone to call me ABC123!" "No, will you ever knock it off Bob" The majority of people outside the coastal tech bubble would simply tell anyone making this kind of demand to catch themselves on. There's not enough of the community reining in this kind of hubristic nonsense.