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I think 10 million plus people thinking it's my name is close...
speramus in juniperus
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Yeah, but at least half of us are still looking at your profile picture and trying to work out which one is you. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Does this[^] help?
speramus in juniperus
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Not really - I'd have to sign up to Farsebook if I wanted to post abusive messages on your "wall". 
On a not-even-slightly-stalkerish note, if you type "vilmo" into the Twatter search box, the first suggestion is "Vilmos Nagy de Nagybaczon". I'm assuming that's the name you put on your Hungarian forms?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Not me, for twatter I'm @GinAndBacon
speramus in juniperus
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While it may be 'difficult' to get a display name that is your actual name, there are a myriad of varieties of said name.
I do have a display name that is my name, but I also have relatives with the same first/last name. So, what to seperate us? The same thing I do when I find an e-mail address for Tim.Carmichael@whatever.com is taken - use my middle initial or special characters.
So... Tim Carmichael, Tim I Carmichael, Tim_Carmichael, Tim_I_Carmichael, etc.
Or, Tim Mac Carmichael, Tim Bar Ivan
If a user REALLY wants to be a part of the collective, they can put some effort into finding a name that isn't taken.
And, for simplicity sake, plain text only, and squeeze out instances of multiple spaces.
Tim
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What happens if the message gets voted up?
At the moment the message and the username both go green - which is handy.
But an upvoted Chris Maunder would look like an upvoted Chris Maunder...
Can I suggest that instead, "dormant" usernames are recycled instead?
If an account hasn't been used for a year, or two years maybe, the username gets recycled and the original user gets a generic "Member xxxxxxxx" instead. Send 'em an email saying you've got a month to reclaim it maybe?
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Or change the name to "XX (retired)"; like "Henry Minute (retired)"
speramus in juniperus
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Just say no. Or if you must, some form of account name retiring and the retired account is reassigned "Member <datetime>"
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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If this is your biggest problem to solve today, you should take a long well earned vacation.
I'm with Griff on this one, by all means recycle unused accounts, but otherwise let the users solve their own problems.
I'm pretty sure John Smith has encountered this problem before and has a solution for it.
Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller
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Let me offer a simple solution.
Example using My name: User request's David C# Hobbyist You could suggest C# Hobbyist, David. Simple but elegant. 
David
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Sounds like someone in marketing came up with this idea.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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how about....No.
You've done enough fiddling and pharphing around with CP over the last few years as it is.
As i'm sure your mum told you - "Stop playing with it or you'll break it."
Bryce
MCAD
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You'e a bit late to all this aren't you Maunder?
A quick search for me shows 2 imposters with identical spelling.
164,269 and 4,796,628.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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One of the reasons I went with my Display Name, was because my real name was already taken[^] a loooong time ago and I didn't want to do something like this[^].
Anyway, I like my Display Name and would not change it, but I imagine there are people who would like to get a chance to use their real names.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Please, no.
thanks, Bill
"What Turing gave us for the first time (and without Turing you just couldn't do any of this) is he gave us a way of thinking about and taking seriously and thinking in a disciplined way about phenomena that have, as I like to say, trillions of moving parts.
Until the late 20th century, nobody knew how to take seriously a machine with a trillion moving parts. It's just mind-boggling." Daniel C. Dennett
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It should be perefctly acceptable to have multiple identical display names, after all, your name is your name, and there are other methods to identify a user. Image and member id/since date.
It is a fact of life that users can be impersonated, e.g. any email system can display any name you want.
To this effect, I would suggest you restyle the message template and;
1) Do away with the profile pop up (on Name Hover).
2) struture the left of the message with a small user profile section, comprising:
a) smaller 64x64 thumbnailed user profile image (derived from profile image)
b) Display name in plain text, with no user styling, html etc. permitted.
c) Display member since date
d) Display message count
e) Display member debator rating
f) clicking the User image or the User name would take you to the member profile
3) You could always support R to L by flipping the layout also.
Just my thoughts as an initial thinking out loud.
(Don't like the SO layout with the small box in the bottom of posts, looks scrappy, MSDN forums are closer to what I was thinking, the profile part to the right of a phpbb template is more in line with what I'm thinking, e.g. https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=543515[^])
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Bad idea, I think you will be opening Pandora's box with such "feature", I second the motion to recycle unused accounts, say if an account hasn't had activity for 3 years or more; anyway, I think that anyone who hasn't used his account in 3 years, it doesn't even remember his password nor that it have an account on first place.
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How does this solve the issue?
It seems like its simply creating a new namespace with the same old problems. If you allow multiple people to post under the same name, but only one gets it rendered dark, wouldn't that be hugely confusing for casual users?
Personally, I'd rather have unique user names on every post that're easily trackable back to that specific user.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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(Just asking here before digging in the WordPress support and user pages)
Dad maintains a couple of blogs on WordPress.
One issue he's having is spam in the comments; the comments section is moderated and he has to manually delete all spam before event starting moderating reall comments.
Do you have suggestions for WordPress plugins or mechanisms to help him manage that?
Thanks.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Stop using t' interwebz?
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Buddy of mine suggests 'anti-spam[^]' and 'akismet[^]'. He uses them on the client sites he hosts for people.
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Akismet. 
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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