Timeline for Use dictionary words for new-user usernames
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:30 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Aug 5, 2014 at 23:11 | vote | accept | msh210 | ||
| Aug 5, 2014 at 21:34 | answer | added | LauraStaffMod | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 5, 2014 at 21:29 | history | edited | LauraStaffMod |
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| Jul 28, 2014 at 16:35 | history | edited | msh210 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 28, 2014 at 16:20 | answer | added | Monica Cellio | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jul 28, 2014 at 16:15 | comment | added | msh210 | @fredley, usernames are reused anyway. As long as two people to keep track of don't have the same username (which will happen very seldom), we're okay. It's much easier than keeping track of users with similar names all the time. | |
| Jul 28, 2014 at 16:15 | answer | added | ChrisFMod | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jul 28, 2014 at 16:14 | comment | added | fredley | @msh210 Wat. I thought the whole point was keeping track of users? But now the users' user names are being reused? Wat. | |
| Jul 28, 2014 at 16:13 | comment | added | msh210 | @random, no biggie. I bet someone's even already compiled a dictionary of non-vulgar non-offensive words good for all locales. | |
| Jul 28, 2014 at 16:13 | comment | added | msh210 | @fredley No need to combine them. There's no problem if two people have the same username, as the chances of two newbies with the same username near in time is slim. | |
| Jul 28, 2014 at 16:11 | comment | added | fredley | @random Yes. Words have different meanings within the English-speaking World. This is an impossible task. Places like gfycat work with a much, much smaller corpus of words, and end up having to combine 5-6 as a result. Their solution smacks of a lot of engineering effort. And I'll take user1234567 over CorrectHorseBatteryStaple any day. | |
| Jul 28, 2014 at 16:09 | answer | added | Taryn | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jul 28, 2014 at 16:08 | comment | added | random | Are we using a US dictionary? "Fanny" might mean something ho-hum in the US, but it sure doesn't elsewhere | |
| Jul 28, 2014 at 16:06 | comment | added | fredley | @msh210 In the longest english dictionaries there are about 100,000 words. But we have more than that number of users, so we'll need to combine them. Now we need to make sure the combinations aren't vulgar (I can think of many combinations of mundane words that are very rude). Want to volunteer for the job? | |
| Jul 28, 2014 at 16:06 | comment | added | random | How do you make it quicker, and on uniqueness check, than just using the number? | |
| Jul 28, 2014 at 16:04 | comment | added | msh210 | @fredley, I wonder if it's a big request. Picking a random word from a standard dictionary? Sounds like one line of code (though I don't know). (Plus the manual labor involved in editing the dictionary to remove vulgarities.) | |
| Jul 28, 2014 at 16:03 | history | edited | fredley | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 28, 2014 at 16:03 | history | edited | msh210 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Grammar.
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| Jul 28, 2014 at 16:02 | comment | added | fredley |
@msh210 It's a big engineering ask for something with very little provable utility. I've never found the user1234567 format to be a problem.
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| Jul 28, 2014 at 16:02 | history | edited | ChrisFMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 28, 2014 at 16:00 | comment | added | msh210 | I wonder whether downvoters don't see the need for this feature or think this isn't the solution for that need. If the latter, I recommend you post a better solution as an answer. | |
| Jul 28, 2014 at 16:00 | comment | added | yannis | If all there is to this is keeping track of patterns of behaviour, why not just annotate the account? | |
| Jul 28, 2014 at 16:00 | history | edited | fredley | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 28, 2014 at 15:55 | history | asked | msh210 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |