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SandmaN
Starting Member
Brazil
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 Posted - 29 November 2001 : 14:18:41
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I would like to see this feature on snitz.
So it would be easier for people that wanted to change their public displayed names, and would avoid creating other usernames...
Is there a way to do it and forbid people to use public names already existing on other paople's usernames??
dont know if i have successfully made myself clear...
ask me if something got confused... tryed to express myself as clearly as possible...
this feature is on the latest versions of ultimatebb (if thats a reference)
thanx for the attention
Carlos 'SandmaN'
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 29 November 2001 : 14:31:02
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quote:
So it would be easier for people that wanted to change their public displayed names, and would avoid creating other usernames...
Is there a way to do it and forbid people to use public names already existing on other paople's usernames??
Do you mean you'd want something like this:
Person 1 registers as Person1 (as his username)
Then person 2 wants to register as Person2 but won't be able to because the name contains the word "person"? |
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asp_storm
Average Member
USA
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Posted - 30 November 2001 : 14:09:59
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quote:
I would like to see this feature on snitz.
So it would be easier for people that wanted to change their public displayed names, and would avoid creating other usernames...
Is there a way to do it and forbid people to use public names already existing on other paople's usernames??
dont know if i have successfully made myself clear...
ask me if something got confused... tryed to express myself as clearly as possible...
this feature is on the latest versions of ultimatebb (if thats a reference)
thanx for the attention
Carlos 'SandmaN'
that would be sweet
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
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SandmaN
Starting Member
Brazil
22 Posts |
Posted - 30 November 2001 : 16:33:44
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for example...
leuts call his user name as Name1 and the name displayed on the forums as Name2...
Person1 registers his login as Person1... and sets his Name2 as Bob
If someone tries to set thair Name2 as Person1 they wouldnt be able...
Frutzle, go here and see an exaple of what i said... dunno how i can explain best, perhaps you can understand me better testing on your own... register as a login as then change your displayed name...
Anything i can do to explain better just ask me
Thanx for the attention
Carlos 'SandmaN'
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 30 November 2001 : 17:00:19
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Okay, so you'd have a login name that you can't ever change and a screen name that can be changed. And if you don't enter a screen name your login name will be used as your screen name until you enter a screen name. Correct so far?
And if one person uses Bob as screen name, the same name can't be used by anyone else as screen name even if the login name is different? Oh how I hate having such a pea brain  |
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SandmaN
Starting Member
Brazil
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Posted - 01 December 2001 : 01:18:07
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yeah you got it!!
thats quite what i eas talking about...
yout think its possible to do so??
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Nathan
Help Moderator
USA
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Posted - 01 December 2001 : 03:54:25
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The problem with this is confusion. . . if people change their names all the time like that you start to think "who is that?" and "do I know this person?"
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May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 01 December 2001 : 13:36:56
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The problem with this is confusion. . . if people change their names all the time like that you start to think "who is that?" and "do I know this person?"
I have to agree with Nathan on this.
I'm having a hard enough time remembering who all the people on my MSN messenger list are. The only thing I can use to see who they are is by looking at the e-mail address.
Maybe you could incorporate some sort of recognition to the members? Like a certain avatar they have to use and can't change? Still that would probably keep it very confusing and would defy the point of the option to change screen names...
Roland
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http://www.frutzle.com |
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SandmaN
Starting Member
Brazil
22 Posts |
Posted - 01 December 2001 : 16:09:38
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this could, in fact, lead to chaos on the forums, however if we trust on the users, this could be very usefull
my planning on using this is on a games forum.
if any of you have ever played some kind of multiplayer games, you know the existence of diferente "clans" wich players associate.
nowadays if someone wants to put theis clan tags on their nicks, they must register again, and again... players change clans all the times, so now you got the picture...
with a system like this, to put the clan tag would ease the process so they wouldnt have to register again, just change the screen name...
that is what i was trying to figure out how to do, and i wondered if snitz would incorporate that idea on the next version...
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 01 December 2001 : 16:27:57
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Okay, now it makes sense. Still I think you should have both the login name and the "clan name" shown to have some way to remember who the members are.
Roland
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http://www.frutzle.com |
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snaayk
Senior Member
USA
1061 Posts |
Posted - 02 December 2001 : 11:56:25
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Already done....somewhat. FrutZle, thi sis what I have been trying to do all week. Sandman, go to the following 2 topics and you will see that I have accomplished what you are suggesting.
http://forum.snitz.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=18372
http://forum.snitz.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=18636
The first topic: Basically, I added the code and a field to post.asp that you can place any name you want to post as in this particular post. It is an empty field that you can type anything in and it appears instead of the username. Then, the relevant code was added to post_info.asp to add the info to the db and then the code added to display the info on topic.asp.
The second topic: Instead of writing any name on the blank field, it is now a dropdown menu that gets the values from another table. and only these values are selectable.
I think I am going to make this an official MOD (my first one  )
But I need to add all the following functionality first:
- Create the form that will register the alias on the db. The form will have to check to see whether that alias exist already, and whether tha same username exists
- currently, every topic shows who the owner of the alias is (username). I need to add a field that will determine if this is a "private" alias and the owner (username) should not be shown
In post.asp:
- Check for login, if not logged in do not display dropdown menu, and display message that says "login to see registered aliases"
- add a selection to the drop down, in case you do want to use your real username
In topic.asp:
- Check to see whether alias field is null. If it is then display username instead of alias
- if alias is to be shown, check to see whether this is a "private" alias and whether the owner (username) should be shown
- Currently, the alias is linkable to the usernames profile sheet. Make a new profile sheet for the alias, in case it is different than the username
I think this fills your description pretty nice. The whole confusion with whos who is only an issue if everybody makes thier name "private" which I don't think they will.
I will be working on this in the coming days (weeks  ) I, too, am setting up a gaming site, roleplaying (DnD) which is why I came up with this. I am going to start a thred on MODS W/O CODE as I work out the bugs and figure things out then I will post the completed MOD on MODS W/CODE.
So keep coming back...
You can see it action at my site.. http://208.61.4.156/forum Its XP which only allows 10 concurrent users, so...
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Nathan
Help Moderator
USA
7664 Posts |
Posted - 02 December 2001 : 23:34:43
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snaayk. . . is that hosted at on your personal internet line?
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snaayk
Senior Member
USA
1061 Posts |
Posted - 02 December 2001 : 23:37:09
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snaayk. . . is that hosted at on your personal internet line?
Nathan Bales - Romans 15:13
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Yep.
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snaayk
Senior Member
USA
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Nathan
Help Moderator
USA
7664 Posts |
Posted - 03 December 2001 : 10:03:02
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May I ask what kind of ISP you use ??
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