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I tried to mark something (using Enchanter Mark, but as far as I know, Decorative Carvings works the same way) with "tiny" and got an error "That mark is invalid."
The reason, I discovered, was that in November, someone created a character named Tiny (and, apparently, stopped playing right after creation). Thus, the code enforcing the rule that marks cannot show possession blocked it, despite "tiny" being a perfectly valid descriptive mark.
Either such character names should be disallowed, or the marking spells/skills should be modified not to automatically block use of any word that happens to be a character name, and leave the "no possession" rule to the same discretion that the "no offensive marks" and "no deceptive marks" rules are left to: Use good judgement in your marks, and if you're caught being abusive, you'll be punished.
I think the second option is superior, because it's hard to define what names shouldn't be allowed, unless we go with "No names that are real words." Which may or may not be too restrictive.
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