Really, I don't think there is much that can be done. This person has either a sense of humor I find very distasteful, or else opinions I find objectionable, but since this person is-
1- inactive at this site
2- not activley spreading or insulting using antisematic statements
3- not activley causing offence to others
then I don't think he should be banned. I would support a moderator/admin suggesting a change of picture to this person, but unless they activley begin causing offence they can be left alone to live their life of tasteless humor and/or racism.

If you don't like them, don't play against them, not that it seems to be an issue since he has been inactive for 3 months.

Life is and always will be full of people with opinions and views that offend others and may even be generally unnaceptable in society but you just have to learn to ignore them and take the moral high road. If you can't take the moral high road I don't think you should critisize someone else for not being moral either.

I'm not saying I support the action Hitler took, or any other instigator of genocide, but really people just have to get on with their lives and ignore the d**ks that are trying to cause you passive offence. Its the real world.

I agree with bills.

http://warlight.net/Profile.aspx?p=346091709

http://warlight.net/Profile.aspx?p=905386975

Ban them too? I mean there's tons of players using names that could be taken as offensive, just get over it.

Sry for the double post, but I played those two players...TODAY, I didn't go searching. I can post links to the games if you wanna sit there say I'm looking for trouble.

As posted earlier I'm really interested into how/why the original poster looked this person up.

I personally would love to play a game with Adolf Hitler.

I would think anyone with negative views towards him would also relish an opportunity to say that they defeated Adolf Hitler in global combat. Offensive? More like issue resolving. Assuming you win that is. If you lose, well, that just shows how much of a threat Hitler was and how vigilant we must all be to ensure such people don't rise to power again (though history suggests they'll continue to do so regardless...)

So yeah. Perfectly valid name and is just begging to be the enemy of every other player.

I really can't see why this name isn't disallowed... In Poland, he could even go to jail for openly identifying with Hitler.

Anyway, thank you for the profile links, updated my blacklist :).

I just stumbled over the name in the 512 player tournament, I didn't actively look for such names. I do have a life apart from "whining" about inappropriate user names. ^^

...as for the rest of the discussion: I think there's a big difference between genocide and war. In a war it's soldiers against each other, although that is really horrible it's still a "fair" battle. If children are put in a gas chamber by armed men it's a lot different, right?

Anyway, I don't want to compare Hitler to other dictators, I just thought that this profile was highly (and probably deliberately) offensive. At least to me it is and I'm not the only one as I see. I didn't see that the profile wasn't used for a while, maybe I would have left it that way...

Ps: Stalin -> blacklist.

PS: Also in my homecountry (Austria) you can go to jail for identifying with Hitler. Also you could not name your child like that... if you originally carried that name (and didn't change it) you might still be named Adolf Hitler... but I don't think there's a person named like that nowadays.
So is it a valid name? Only theoretically I think.

Davean:
|> I really can't see why this name isn't disallowed... In Poland, he could even go to jail for openly identifying with Hitler.

Not really. First, Warlight servers are not (probably) located in Poland, and Polish right doesn't really have much to do here. Second, It'd have to be open "promotion" of nazism or similar system (it doesn't have anything to do with Hitler himself), and I highly doubt any court would sentence anyone to jail time for using "Hitler" for a nickname and his photo for an avatar.

Let me cite an excerpt from the Penal Code (Kodeks Karny - I'm not certain of that translation):
|> Kto publicznie propaguje faszystowski lub inny totalitarny ustrój państwa lub nawołuje do nienawiści na tle różnic narodowościowych, etnicznych, rasowych, wyznaniowych albo ze względu na bezwyznaniowość, podlega grzywnie, karze ograniczenia wolności albo pozbawienia wolności do lat 2.

My rough translation for English-speakers here:
|> Who publicly promotes fascist or other totalitarian political system or incites hatred on national, ethnic, racial or religious grounds can be subjected to a fine, restriction of freedom or imprisonment up to 2 years.

There's also an article in the Constitution which explicitly disallows existence of political parties and other organizations referencing fascism, nazism and communism (and some other things in similar vein which are not important here).

(Source: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazizm#Sytuacja_prawna_w_Polsce)


(I'm a Pole too, if you haven't guessed by now ;) )

I think it's ok.

me too

Lol for the Hitler/Rommel cameo.

Anyhow, should the owner of the account be brought before a Polish court, he could argue that he does not *promote* nazism, he merely uses it as an alias.
So even if the servers *are* in Poland, the defendant should normally get the benefit of the doubt. There is an *unwritten* law, though, that European sites may and are ought to forbid this kind of nicknames.
Where *are* the servers anyhow?

I was just following orders.

Really? Complaining about the username Adolf Hitler? Some of you folks need to loosen up.

http://www.casimages.com/img.php?i=111022103118664048.png .. Can you ban players for anti-semitism ? Thx.

http://www.casimages.com/img.php?i=111022103412187643.png and this one for Erwin ..

It's amazing to see this kind of purposes in a game ..

snitch

Meh, see, that is a valid complaint.

What is really dumb about the anti-semetic posts above is that Rommel was not anti-semetic, refused to kill jews when ordered, and was implicated in the plot to kill Hitler.

So yeah, people on the internet are stupid sometimes, it's best to ignore them.

I can choose name whatever i want. I can be named after Barbra Streisand and be offensive to jews, because it is NICKNAME. I know who Rommel was
JacksterFr: You died first, i dont know what were you doing there at the and of game and you know why we were offensive to him, so... shut up next time. And officialy join kgb or something like that