A difficulty's name must indicate its level of difficulty, with the exception of the hardest level of difficulty in a set. The mapset's hardest difficulty may use an appropriate custom difficulty name, unrelated to an username. Mapsets may also use a complete set of custom difficulty names that clearly indicate their level of difficulty to the player. Marathon maps with a single difficulty may use free naming.

A difficulty's name must indicate its level of difficulty, with the exception of the hardest level of difficulty in a set. The mapset's hardest difficulty may use an appropriate custom difficulty name, unrelated to an username. Mapsets may also use a complete set of custom difficulty names that clearly indicate their level of difficulty to the player. Marathon maps with a single difficulty may use free naming. Potentially rude or offensive difficulty names are NOT allowed.

Lach wrote:

Imposing even more restrictions on difficulty naming is entirely draconian. If you think a name is distasteful, take it up with mapper, the bats who qualified it, and the qat. Please don't make rule amendments just because one thing (that probably won't stay that way for long at all) got through.

You may not like it, but one might argue that Maware is the embodiment of cancer. in which case, it does have something to do with the song.

Yuzu- wrote:

If anything, just add something like "Refrain from potential offensive names"

Lach wrote:

Okay, go complain about that specific map, and abandon this thread.

You don't have to go on about how serious cancer is. It's obvious. The word itself is not offensive.

"an evil or destructive practice or phenomenon that is hard to contain or eradicate.
"racism is a cancer sweeping across Europe"
synonyms: evil, blight, scourge, poison, canker, sickness, disease, pestilence, plague;"

The mapper is referencing a mapping style, or specific technique.

Yuzu- wrote:

Lach wrote:

Okay, go complain about that specific map, and abandon this thread.

You don't have to go on about how serious cancer is. It's obvious. The word itself is not offensive.

"an evil or destructive practice or phenomenon that is hard to contain or eradicate.
"racism is a cancer sweeping across Europe"
synonyms: evil, blight, scourge, poison, canker, sickness, disease, pestilence, plague;"

The mapper is referencing a mapping style, or specific technique.

And someone who has absolutely no experience in mapping should know this?

First impressions count here; people download this, read the difficulty name and are like "wtf?". They don't google the meaning and exactly what's behind this name, they just look at it.

Just the name "cancer", by the meanings you wrote brings a "bad omen" that has no logical sense towards the song at first glance and as such isn't even justified.

Hard wrote:

I would go with the offensive names. But I like stupid names. I think the rest should be up with the mapper doing so and also it's about the BATs not bubbling those diffnames. They can say "I won't bubble this". I had a diff and I called it Hard's Harder and people told me I can't rank this and it's okay and now it's a normal name so let's just stick with common sense.

"But no offensive names" is a good way to go.

Charles445 wrote:

"Potentially offensive" is too broad, people get offended over very many things as of late, and adding a rule like that would open up a new can of worms.

We shouldn't strictly disallow all diff names that could be considered offensive, it should stay case-by-case, as it has always been.


In the specific situation of "cancer", the only issue present would be the connection it has to the disease, as the mapper the map is parodying is okay with it.
Now, the use of the word "cancer" in the context of the internet either refers to something that is perceived as a potentially spreading problem, or something so bad as to give the user cancer, as a joke or insult ("that post gave me cancer" is a commonly used example).

I'm not sure how this use of cancer would be offensive to those with cancer, though. If anything, this constant comparison to something not desired and/or widespread and problematic only supports the notion that cancer as a disease is a huge threat to many human lives.

Yuzu- wrote:

Charles445 wrote:

Right now, I just see "any name is allowed". BATs can't halt a rank, it's not written anywhere at all.

Charles445 wrote:

If a map is perceived as able to be improved somehow, the QAT can stop it from being pushed forward. It doesn't have to be listed as a rule.
It happens a lot actually, with spinners in particular. There are no rule specifics for objects soon after spinners, only a very broad guideline, yet lately the QAT have been enforcing it as rule on Easy and Normal difficulties based on perceived potential improvement.

The Q is supposed to stand for quality, and QA often does not involve strict adherence to rules.

With that said, an actual written guideline for this sort of thing would be fine, as it is effectively an unspoken guideline as-is. Not a rule, though.

tiper wrote:

It can be a guideline. Just to make obvious things more obvious.