1. You may not use any names that violate the General Rules. This includes the use of names that are hateful, defamatory, racist, ethnically offensive, obscene, vulgar, sexually explicit, or any other language that is offensive in nature. Open to opinion. Personally, my cousin's name is Franklin but we have always called him Spanky because he is short and squat like the Lil Rascals character. 2. You may not use names that are harassing or defamatory to other players or employees of EA, BioWare or LucasArts, e.g. EASUX, Timsretarded, and Biowaresux. Apparently, it offends someone 3. You may not use names of any EA, BioWare, or LucasArts employee or service related to Star Wars: The Old Republic. Spanky is the name of an EA, BioWare or LucasArts employee??? 5. You may not use names from popular culture or media, e.g. Lady Gaga or George Lucas. Doubt Lil Rascals is considered pop culture. I would even go so far as to bet less than half the players even know about the show. 10. You may not use names that refer to drugs or that are drug related. Never done any illegal drugs so there might be a drug out there known as Spanky? 11. You may not use names that contain an inappropriate phrase, sentence or any fragment of a sentence or Leet speak, e.g. uberhaxer, xxspeederxx, lolface, rofl, Noobwhacker, TimmyF**k, kock, fuk. I could see Spankmeister needing changed, but Spanky?

I may be an exception but I pre-ordered from Wal-Mart on 10/8 and got my pre-order code via Fed-Ex on 10/12. After reading the forums, started to panic and was checking Wal-Mart.com and my bank online daily. First saw processing on both, then the charge went away on my bank. Called Wal-Mart and they said it was scheduled to ship on 12/23. However, the very next day I got an email saying my order has shipped and I have been watching Fed-Ex's website every couple of hours. Could have it tomorrow, most likely on Tuesday. I know many have been burned, but I must have gotten lucky.

Same reason we Americans drive on the right (wrong to them) side of the road.

Totally agree with the OP. Since there is a way to /addignore in-game, can we get the same option on the forums?