So back again, and now using a name that belongs to an established user...
This should be controlled as it now starts to harm users...
A delay loop of users with a rep less than 10 would be a start...
See: I would like to get a job but I have little experience. What transferrable skills might ...
@JoeStrazzere yeah that feels like a bit of an oops.. although that said it wouldn't really solve the problem completely, it's easy enough to make a very-similar-but-not-exact name for this kind of f##kwittery
@Joe also you'd probably have to enforce some sort of freeze on changing ones username if you stopped dupes
because otherwise someone could just swoop in and steal your username if you amend it to (say) reinstate Monica and then you couldn't get your origination back
Unfortunately though - my oneDrive didn't seem to back up friday so I lost all the files I had open (although I'd put most changes online already)
Anyway - the company I work for actually rents all the machines (new) and so if anything breaks you just call up the rental company and they send a temporary one whilst they fix the problem
I wonder if the username field has restrictions on special characters? I do see some people with special characters but I wonder if it restricts the ♦ character.
@motosubatsu I would give it a try but I once tried to create a different account to test something else, and I couldn't figure out how to get fully logged out of my google account on SE. Every time I tried to go to the create new user page it somehow already had me logged in, even when I explicitly logged out. I couldn't be bothered to try another browser or anything. As someone who's made a career in IT, that's pretty embarrassing, but it's the flat out truth!
@Bee I've always thought allowing duplicate usernames was unnecessary and a poor system design decision. And changing usernames for public commentary reasons should be allowed if people wished to risk it - that's their choice. I just don't understand the thinking behind the design. I see no advantage in permitting duplicates. Where could one ask such a question?
@ArthurHavlicek That only serves to make me wonder what counts as a "letter" then, because there are a lot of usernames that contain things that aren't standard English letters.
I recently changed my username to Undo. I was amazed when I pressed Submit and saw that it actually went through - surely someone somewhere was using this same username.
Out of curiosity, I then search the SO user list for Undo - and found another user with Undo as thier name. They have 50 rep. ...
interesting that right in that very question there's a contradiction, in terms of a user with a period in their display name, despite period characters not being mentioned as allowed
What is the reasoning behind the design decision to allow users to create a display name which matches another existing users exactly?
This is opposed to the common practice of enforcing unique user names, and I'd really like to learn something.
Someone with the display name of "Jeff Atwood" wrote: "Think about the implicit message we're sending here: if you want to be unique, then choose a unique name. If you don't, then don't." Obviously, it could be some other Jeff Atwood. And just as obviously, it's not much of an answer.
@JoeStrazzere I'd go with flattered. Not much SE can do about an IP hopping jokester that finds joy in mildly irritating a few people for a few minutes
@Magisch I'm not really concerned. But I disagree about the "Not much SE can do" part. Unique usernames is something that could have been done but wasn't.
@Magisch I agree with that, and even mid low rep people can be pretty bad as well, imagine trolls commenting as impersonates on a question of a mid low rep user
@Bee yeah their new "thing" is posting sh't "questions" under accounts matching the name of well known accounts, they posted the exact same question over the weekend
I didn't get a raise, so I have been refusing to wipe in the office but myy boss is mad about the smell and is threatening to fire me for doing that. now the hair and poop are stuck together. how can I remove it?
I didn't get a raise, so I have been refusing to wipe in the office but myy boss is mad about the smell and is threatening to fire me for doing that. now the hair and poop are stuck together. how can I remove it?
I didn't get a raise, so I have been refusing to wipe in the office but myy boss is mad about the smell and is threatening to fire me for doing that. now the hair and poop are stuck together. how can I remove it?
Pls answere here:No raise so I pooped and did not wipe?
Evidently the mods and CMs dont want to ban him, so lets try and push him away to be some other sites problem. Posting with a throwaway to avoid retaliation from the mods.
@JoeStrazzere Some also do it the SO way such as facebook. It may have been a model here. I think unique nicknames make sense if you don't want to end up with a thousand Naruto on an anime site but don't make sense if you expect people to use their real name. They may have chosen not to enforce it for the latter reason. But pure speculation here anyway
meaning you have a network-account-id and an account-id on every site you're on. For instance my account-id on TWP is 44144, my network account-id is 7034529
It would be possible for me to have different names on each community I have an account, and on my network account
I also think having non-unique names is not a particularly wise move, but fixing it now would be completely unfeasible. There are people on SO using their real name where 10+ others with the same valid real name are also members
The competition for the unique names would be an absolute crapfest, considering people would argue up and down who is allowed to keep theirs.
I saw the "boss demands I don't talk to any people, because I can get coronavirus" question earlier today and recalled this similar question:
Boss has banned cycling to work because he thinks it's unsafe
I make this meta post to attract attention of the network since more similar questions can ...
it's here too, I hope we'll avoid having to close the whole nation down like italy and thousands of deaths
people are already stockpiling hygiene articles and masks like crazy here, some are even buying it out and re-selling it at a markup on ebay and amazon
don't blame them, I'm ok, I'm always cyclone prepared so I have stores of all the basics.
actually I'm topped right up. There was a cyclone warning a week ago so I checked everything. Cyclone turned out to be a no go. Only stores got used was a bottle of whiskey.
@Magisch Yes thanks, already noticed it. For now we are suspending the account and notifying CM. Instead of destroying the account, so there is evidence or reference for the CM to analyze.
in a way it complements the mod timetable, usually the downtime in mod coverage is during the european working day, which is the time when a report to charcoal deletes a post in seconds
So back again, and now using a name that belongs to an established user...
This should be controlled as it now starts to harm users...
A delay loop of users with a rep less than 10 would be a start...
See: I would like to get a job but I have little experience. What transferrable skills might ...
What is the reasoning behind the design decision to allow users to create a display name which matches another existing users exactly?
This is opposed to the common practice of enforcing unique user names, and I'd really like to learn something.
Many participants here have been beheaded in a digital way in the past few days.
Evidently the mods and CMs dont want to ban him, so lets try and push him away to be some other sites problem. Posting with a throwaway to avoid retaliation from the mods.
I saw the "boss demands I don't talk to any people, because I can get coronavirus" question earlier today and recalled this similar question:
Boss has banned cycling to work because he thinks it's unsafe
I make this meta post to attract attention of the network since more similar questions can ...
