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Improving the permies.com sign-up process

 
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I personally was completely caught off guard by the naming policies, and had to wait a few days for an acceptable name to be approved before I could post (consideringhow busy the mods must be i dont blame you. Its just a but inefficient) . I don't know if it's there and I just missed it, but a noticeable note about no obviously fictional names right next to the name box when you sign up would be nice. Also, this is a bit beyond my abilities, but perhaps some sort of program that automatically flags obvious names and rejects it during sign up, that way anyone (like me) who didnt notice the requirements would be more likely to be stopped and fix it immediately themselves during the sign up process. It would save staff time in sorting through names too. Just having the computer flag commonly used words or phrases would probably cut down on much. For instance animal names or agriculture words?  Real or fictional. I imagine just that would stop a huge portion of mistakes. (Ex I tried to use "Gardenfairy")
 
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All that the forum asks is that you use a real sounding name.

Paul said, "If you use a name that is not your real name, but sounds like a real name, that is great. I have only one requirement in that space: never publicly announce that your name is fake.

As for "why": because I wanna. Why does an painter use blue instead of teal? Why does a sculptor use clay instead of granite? It has been my experience for over 25 years of running on-line forums that this is the path I want to follow.



https://permies.com/t/12298/permies-real-sounding-policy
 
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