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Re: Allocation of member #'s
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 2 Jul 1999 16:42:31 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, "Nick Goetz" <ngoetz@iquest.net> writes:
> Along the lines of the community map, I suggest starting each of the numbers
> with some type of classifying attribute. In other words beginning all member
> numbers with the year of birth, or year they started reading rtl, they year
> they signed up to post on lugnet, etc. This method would give individuals
> character according to their number. For example Gary Istock (because nearly
> everyone knows who he is (and is aware of the London Bus story )) might have
> a member number that would begin with 25LB000 representing 25 London Busses
> in his collection.
I wonder if that opens up to too much variation and confusion. No one can
ever change their ID# once it's been chosen, so the more variation or
flexibility there is, the more chance there is for frustration when
someone's tastes change.
> I just think that since it is not really possible to keep track of all
> members it would be nice if you could know where they are coming from, a
> little bit about them.
That's what the pages themselves are for, and associations with various
groups.
> I don't know if alphanumeric is a possibility but another thought would
> be to begin the ID with a letter representing favorite theme or subtheme.
Ten years ago my favorite theme was Castle (sic). Five years ago it was
Space. Now it's Aquazone (sic). What do I do when my tastes change?
> If
> I knew of a lugnutter that was as disappointed by the loss of the time
> twister series, I might be more inclined to contact them in a non public
> forum. (I am joking of course)
Oh, there'll be plenty of other, more efficient ways to find like-minded
people, don't worry about that. :)
> This would also be a useful feature if say
> there were a chat room. If you had enough "fields" the possibility also
> opens up that multiple participants could have 8880 or 6990 as their
> favorite set represented by the last four digits of the member number. You
> could easily identify who has similar interests etc.
>
> Just a few rambling thoughts.
Thanks for your thoughts, Nick. I see what you're getting at. Having
unique ID#'s are (from the system's point of view) actually mostly for
internal database purposes and URL purposes... On the human level, there
will be much nicer ways of learning of/about other people, etc. -- more than
what any small coded number could convey. When links to people's pages show
up on other system pages, BTW, the hyperlink will show their name and not
their number. And then from their page, you can visit and learn all that
you want to know (from what they have chosen to tell about themselves).
--Todd
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| (...) <snip> (...) I have several suggestions: 1) Why not just make the numbers internal to the system so that we never see them. That way we could all be given any old number and the part that we would see would be a username of some sort. I'm sure (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| Along the lines of the community map, I suggest starting each of the numbers with some type of classifying attribute. In other words beginning all member numbers with the year of birth, or year they started reading rtl, they year they signed up to (...) (26 years ago, 2-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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