Very interesting because, from my observation this is exactly what you did in the tessera thread; turning it into a negative debate that didn't even relate to the topic. It'd be nice to see pots refraining from calling the kettle black.
Yup, you're exactly right. Funny thing is I just posted an apology over there before I came over here and saw your post. Sometimes we're all guilty of being hypocrites, and I'm no exception to that. I made a mistake and have since apologized for my crap behavior. I'm just happy that others resurrected that thread and kept it going!
On a different note, I think that trade names can be somewhat touchy because people that have been an integral part in the production of certain morphs would most likely want to be involved in some way shape or form.
I agree, however, a lot of these morphs are produced by people who wanted to make something new and could care less what it's called. In that situation, and that happens a lot, I don't think it's showing disrespect to the original producer of the morph if someone attaches a trade name to that morph.
Regardless, trade names come and go, just as many people in this thread have pointed out. While I might have done a piss-poor job introducing the intent behind this thread as a purely fun exercise:
Maybe the problem was it wasn't presented as 'just for fun?" Some people are really twitchy about trade names.
...it was my intent to just have a good back-and-forth with all of you. I thought we'd get some good names, some silly ones, and ones that would make me laugh out loud. It was never my intent to have any of these names permanently stick from this one thread. The day I wrote this I was just in my snake room and was looking at the animals I had. Some of the animals I could name with one word, while others had four to five word names. It was that situation that made me come over here and post something up for all of us to consider. So, now that it's taken to page 6 for me to I guess explain my intent, I hope we can have some fun coming up with names that aren't meant to ever stick in the community!
So far I've really liked the names
shadow (sunkissed + anery),
honeycomb (honey + diffused), and
magma (lava + blood).