 | | Change in handling of real names on LUGNET web pages? — Gereon Stein
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| | | Hi all, recently we receive quite a number of requests from individual users to have their real names and/or profile pages removed from search engine result pages. We realize that some of you probably would rather not see their names on such pages (...) (16 years ago, 27-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | Re: Change in handling of real names on LUGNET web pages? —Frank Filz
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| | | | | (...) Would this affect NNTP reading? Frank (16 years ago, 27-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | | Re: Change in handling of real names on LUGNET web pages? — Gereon Stein
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| | | | | | (...) No, because the news server is unaware of membership and profiles. That's why posting through NNTP always requires the email authentication process. However, individuals' names and profile data are not an issue with NNTP anyway - apparently (...) (16 years ago, 27-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | Re: Change in handling of real names on LUGNET web pages? —Michael Huffman
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| | | | | (...) I think this is a good move in the right direction. A quick tangent: for those of us who have been around the LEGO community for awhile now, having our real names out in public on LUGNET has helped me to associate names of builders to people I (...) (16 years ago, 28-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Change in handling of real names on LUGNET web pages? —William R. Ward
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| | | | | (...) Would it be enough to let people change their names to an alias or screen name? (16 years ago, 18-Feb-09, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | Re: Change in handling of real names on LUGNET web pages? —Dave Sterling
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| | | | (...) I am of the opinion that having your real name attached to your posts cuts down on the amount of trolling and silly flame wars. People are much more likely to get involved in flame wars if they can hide behind an alias. I think that is what (...) (16 years ago, 19-Feb-09, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | Re: Change in handling of real names on LUGNET web pages? —David Eaton
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| | | | Honestly, using people's real names is part of what I always liked about LUGNET-- when someone says "Did you see that new model by Edgar Jones?" it's more personal than when you say "Did you see that new model by ButtonBlaster26?" It gives you a (...) (16 years ago, 19-Feb-09, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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