... comprehension skills are nil right now.
I agree, but only because so few people responded to my very cleverly constructed socio-historical political joke.
Philistines.
In all seriousness, I personally find a "list" of people that haven't done anything (as far as we know) to warrant suspicion to be rather ... excessively zealous? Keeping a loosely bound list of names meant to warn others of people that have actually proven themselves to be asshats is one thing. Flagging a whole group of people, based solely on an otherwise seemingly innocent action, as "suspicious" ... well, it's quite another. It's as close to ethnic profiling as an MMORPG is ever likely to get, which, admittedly, isn't very close at all. It's still a flawed system in principle, though.
Cubswoo definitely has a point when he says:
There are far more negative reasons to leave one server for another over positive ones, ...
But the only solution to that would have been never to implement the feature in the first place. It was a bad idea, in my opinion. It's done, however, and nothing we're going to do ... ESPECIALLY a "who's new" list ... will make a difference. Why?
The alleged protective benefits of such a system have already been debunked: if a person is notorious on another server, it's easily checked out on a case-by-case basis ... and they're likely to reveal their true colors in short order, anyway. If they've changed their name, there's no helping it one way or the other.
Otherwise, I consider it absolutely safe to give every stranger the benefit of the doubt, just as most of us do with genuine Quetzalcoatl natives. Anything else would do nothing but prove that we're even more of a community of bitter, jaded bastards than is already suspected.
