@jokerdino Some grumbling about promotion here and rumors (link) but I guess I should have done it in a quiet way to be not part of it. I would leave it at that now.
@HenriMenke See my previous messages, I'm fine to not continuing talking about that topanswers.xyz promotion, since @AlanMunn has a point, at some time it's annoying. But I shall answer you.
@HenriMenke My original post did not contain topanswers.xyz. I used @user_likes_viagra.com or @user_is_at_bitcoin.cc as fictional examples. Also, to avoid being heavily downvoted by the topanswers.xyz fans here. Since 6 downvotes hit me immediately, I called the elephant in the room by it's name (after the word edit).
@HenriMenke The strawman agument is, is may be about the topanswers, but it's actually currently only topanswers that I see promoting here that way. Tell me another one?
I rather hoped we may get a reference for local netiquette to avoid names like @user_likes_viagra.com or @user_is_at_bitcoin.cc, but now I understand the voted result: @user_likes_viagra.com or @user_is_at_bitcoin.cc shall be allowed.
@HenriMenke I rather hoped we may get a reference for local netiquette to avoid names like @user_likes_viagra.com or @user_is_at_bitcoin.cc, but now topanswer friends delivered us a precedent for reference and I understand the voted result: This site name promo, and to not treat web sites differently, @user_likes_viagra.com or @user_is_at_bitcoin.cc shall be allowed.
As above, I hope we can finish that now. I saw the topanswers maintainer posted a good statement.
@StefanKottwitz well, this example is exaggerated; you would probably consider these malacious e.g. even in the user's profile. However, that's not the case for other TeX-related websites, as your own profile shows :-)
@yo' As I answered the TA maintainer (his post in the meta thread), profile texts and links are fine for me, since they are rather passive and not repetitive.
@yo' Common sense, there's a wide range between Q&A sites, forums, homepages, and commercial sites, or even fraudulent or malicious sites. The latter I did not see here.
@yo' Regarding that example: Maybe even the official manufacturer site is ok. Maybe a normal seller is ok. If it's a very promoted sales site, like those pharmacy addresses we get in actual spam mails, I would be very sceptical.
@StefanKottwitz well, that didn't answer the question. And yes I agree, it is common sense, but in the same way, it's (IMHO) common sense to allow users to have anything in their username which is not considered malacious.
@yo' Our messages crossed, I answered the question right above yours. I did not check if viagra.com is from the manufacturer or a SEO site for sales, whatever.
@yo' Yes, that was the point of the meta question, to ask the community to which extend (for example) URLs in user names are ok.
@StefanKottwitz sorry, I don't see our messages crossing in any way. You answered to the question about what is allowed in the profile text by saying that this is common sense. I countered it with saying that what is allowed in the username is the same common sense.
@StefanKottwitz well, the point is, I am 100% against saying what should or shouldn't be in the username, other than clearly malacious content (like Moderator that was discussed many years ago)
I'm sorry, but keeping mixing topanswers (or any websited) into the discussion about how annoying it is to have 30 character username is plain wrong, as I mentioned before
@yo' Ah, that one! Yes, I said, in contrast to user name handles, "profile texts and links are fine for me, since they are rather passive and not repetitive." And the meta question was about promotional material in user names, not profiles. See you.
@StefanKottwitz sorry I don't think that it is fair to put topanswers "in the same drawer" as viagra or bitcoins. And if you dislike a name so much that it is painful for you to use it in pings, then don't use it. Some time ago, somehow choose the name "LaTeXhater" and as consequence I choose to ignore this user.
I wasn't gonna go visit the website under discussion if it wasn't brought up in meta and chat. It's too much work to copy the text and visit the website, as it is not a clickable URL.
And after visiting the website, I closed it because.. yeah.
@UlrikeFischer Thinks are only painful if they get very repetitive, that happened and so I questioned it. I got a lot of arguments, I'm tired of responding, so I try it with the ignoring advice.
@PauloCereda I was probably messing this up. I was the first to post a comment under Paulo Neys answer, so @pings normally don't work but I added it manually. Not sure why you were pinged, but probably I was not supposed to add it.
@StefanKottwitz Oh, I'm not in favour of promotion in usernames and especially topanswers.xyz at all. I just disliked the constructed argument. Banning specifically topanswers from usernames is a sound decision, in my opinion, in particular because the whole premise of topanswers is to avoid the “Stack Exchange censorship”, i.e. the fact that these people can't shitpost here.
@JosephWright Berlin, in the breakfast room of the hotel. They took it from my chair while I was sitting in it and eating. Everything in it - smartphone, cards, money, identity cards. But the hotel just wrote an hour ago that the police found it - minus money and keys but the rest is there. Uff.
@PauloCereda I'm recovering now - and I learned a bit how to look cards. The best was the SIM card: the website had a menu, but they sent a code to the handy for confimation ;-).
@JosephWright I'm really grateful that they found it and I was lucky that I had a mail from the hotel in it, so the police knew where to go. The money is not a problem, I never have very much in it, but currently it take weeks until you get a new identity card and setting up a new phone it trouble too.
@UlrikeFischer Very sorry to hear this. The other thing to be careful of is any sensitive sites that require two factor authentication via text message.
@AlanMunn yes, on the way back I was already starting to make a list of all site where I should perhaps change the passwords. And I have also some authentification means on the smartphone. But as it has been recovered, I won't have to work through it.
@Skillmonlikestopanswers.xyz it won't be too bad, but until I have new keys we will have to organize the coming and going ;-).
@UlrichDiez yes sure it was a very fast and invisible thief - I even didn't see anyone passing - and from now on I will put my bags on the table or before my feets ...
@UlrikeFischer The fact that you're okay takes away some of my worries. However, it is possible that the perpetrator, when looking through the bag, may have obtained data or items (home address and imprint of the front door key, etc) that allow him to cause more damage (identity theft/internet fraud in online shopping, burglary, ...).
@UlrikeFischer Sorry to hear this! It happened to my nephew this winter too, but the thief was not so considerate and the bag never appeared... so apart from the loss of the phone, laptop, and money, she had a two-months hell for redoing all the documentation. She also was seated in a restaurant, with lot of friends around, and nobody noticed anything.
@UlrikeFischer -- I'm so sorry you had this experience! A few times I've left my bag behind, at a library and a theater, but in both places they knew me, and kept it safe. Losing your ID is the worst! Yesterday I left my bag home when we went out to dinner; no problem, really, unless I would have had to drive home without a license. I'm very happy that Bär is safe.
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