Follow-up poll about the taken character list.

[burningvigor.livejournal.com]

Okay, so the name order question ended up getting more varying opinions then I'd expected, so we'll resolve this with a poll!

However, while some of you suggested using lastname-firstname order, we think that would generally make things kind of awkward, as some people said -- we understand that for medical records and such it would make sense, but since the list is meant for convenience, we think that using last-first would be a bit unwieldy. Like someone said, if a potenial applicant was looking to see if a character was taken (let's say they wanted to play Cloud Strife), they would probably look in the C area before the S area. (Making everyone last-first would also require the most reworking. ;;) We hope you all can understand that!

That being said, here are the three options we're left with.

1) Standardized to be all firstname-lastname.
2) Western names are ordered first-last, whereas Eastern names are last-first.
3) Name order is decided on a canon-by-canon basis (the players of each canon would vote for what they preferred).

[Poll #1446658]

Keep in mind that regardless of what is picked, a note would be made at the top of the list noting how it was organized to avoid confusion.

Another poll/mod entry should be coming soon, either later tonight or tomorrow.

Comments

[lady-angelina.livejournal.com]

Erm, sorry about that. ^^;; I'm just being an anal retentive dork again, as usual. XD; I'll pick 3.

[burningvigor.livejournal.com]

No need to apologize! Everyone's allowed to voice their opinion, after all. ♥

[tiassa]

So if 3 wins, then would we have to have a list saying "canons x, y, and z are all ordered firstname-lastname and canons r, p, and q are lastname-firstname"?

[burningvigor.livejournal.com]

In that case we'd probably just note that they differ depending on the canon since it would take a lot of space listing specifically what canon went by what rule. Which means it would be a little more confusing, but a few people wanted that option so I put it on.

[tiassa]

Yeah, I was thinking that would get a bit...crowded. ^^;

[nest.livejournal.com]

Kind of curious to know what you guys would do if 3 won, and a casts' preference changed later down the road (since casts tend to come and go over time as it is). Would people need to ask for a re-vote if it bothered them? Seems like it could be a lot of work.

[stopcounting.livejournal.com]

I...missed the earlier poll so this might have been suggested, but maybe put a * next to names that were in family/given name order so that people didn't have to refer to the top of the list?

I personally don't care less about name order...the only thing that ever frustrates me is when people put their character journal hover-overs in kanji or katakana so that I can't figure out who it is. XD

[valentinite.livejournal.com]

I don't care as long as it's clear. (And a suggestion: perhaps the template for profiles could include a reminder to note the name order? I rarely go to the taken character list for names, myself.)