I don't think we'll really deter people who really want bogus names. What I'm looking for is a way to make sure people realize what they are doing. You could call it informed dissent.
So running various checks we think will work to detect non real names and prompting the user to acknowledge that a particular community prefers real names and they choose to not by in. I know several people who didn't read the why full names are important page until after they had created an account,started editing and someone pointed it out to them. Since we don't have any way to rename a user they are now stuck or have to kill their account and start a new one. So I'm thinking of legitimate users who just didn't read too carefully. Another way to solve the same issue would be to find a way to allow for renames, possibly through a workflow that requires human approval to make the change to prevent abuse. Thanks, Alex Philip Neustrom wrote: > As a note, in the old days we required people to enter NamesLikeThis > into the signup box. People still made up plenty of bogus names, > though. > > -p > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Alex Mandel <tech_...@wildintellect.com> > wrote: >> Seems like a fair number of people, especially on new wikis seem to pass >> over the whole, we recommend you use your real name. I'm wondering if we >> should add a check or 2 on the registration process that looks for odd >> things like numbers in the name, and prompts. "This doesn't appear to be >> your real name, real name's are important ....are you sure you want to >> use this name, checkbox." >> >> It's been so long, I actually don't really remember what the >> registration process says, guess I should look it up on me dev box. >> >> What do people think? >> Alex _______________________________________________ Sycamore-Dev mailing list sycamore-...@wikispot.org http://www.projectsycamore.org/ https://tools.cernio.com/pipermail/sycamore-dev/ https://tools.cernio.com/mailman/listinfo/sycamore-dev
