Name Ban - Establishing guidelines for which a particular NAME would qualify to be banned.

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by 0x613e052555ac74ff6af0fc64e40e8035c1e9dcf8 (DripGod)

Summary

Seeking feedback on whether we should establish clear guidelines that will define a specific criteria under which NAMEs will be deemed eligible for a ban.

Description

Under “The DAO Smart Contracts” from Docs - it states, “The list of names that have been banned from the Decentraland client is stored in a contract owned by the DAO. This list can only be modified after passing a vote by the community that is then enacted on-chain by the DAO Committee.” for banned NAMEs.

Looking for reasons on why a Decentraland NAME would be banned, I stumbled upon the “DAO User Guide” - where it states, “The “banned name” list includes offensive or harmful avatar and location names that are not permitted in Decentraland. Any names on this list cannot be claimed, used, or transferred between users. To suggest banning a name, you can use the Name ban proposal category in the DAO.” I found this to be unaligned with the current “Terms of Use”, 12.4 Ownership and management of LAND, Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and Content created by users. Which shares similarities with the ENS DAO Constitution under “I. Name ownership shall not be infringed” - protecting one of the main core values of Blockchain technology and Decentralization, ownership and control over one’s data, digital assets and online identity.

The purpose of this poll is to obtain feedback and gauge community sentiment around proposing to work on setting up specific criteria for which a Decentraland NAME would be eligible for a ban instead of it being “Ban an offensive name from Decentraland” as this seems too vague at the moment. Example: NAMEs of racist and/or predatory nature.

Docs: DAO Smart Contracts - https://docs.decentraland.org/player/general/dao/overview/what-smart-contracts-does-the-dao-control/ DAO User Guide - https://docs.decentraland.org/player/general/dao/dao-userguide/#-name-ban Terms of Use - https://decentraland.org/terms/ ENS DAO Constitution - https://docs.ens.domains/v/governance/ens-dao-constitution

Great reads:

“How does the taking of offense happen? What actually motivates this ubiquitous phenomenon? The taking of offense—or feeling offended—often involves an experience of negative emotions caused by a word or an action which is in conflict with what we expect and believe to be the right, appropriate, moral, and acceptable behavior. Feeling offended or describing something as offensive is deeply rooted in those expectations that govern our daily interactions.”

https://www.fastcompany.com/90472232/these-are-the-reasons-why-you-find-something-offensive

https://theconversation.com/what-really-makes-something-offensive-66706