Re: HTML encoded user names

[mrbbking]

I see that someone has also created the user -->

So long as --> is always around to immediately post right after <!--, and so long as --> doesn't mind never being heard, there shouldn't be a problem. Oh, we'll also have to be sure that there's always a --> article rated just below every <-- article. Expanding or contracting any lists to compensate.

Just kidding, of course...

Seriously, though, I've wondered the same kind of thing with some of the less-pronounceable user names around here.

For the most part, if someone wants to choose a name that's difficult to say/type/remember/read, that's fine with me. The more of them there are, the less distracting they are. But I agree that we should not allow ones that get in the way of the site.

I think HTML-encoding will do part of the trick, but don't know if there's a programmatic way to really solve this one, unless *all* input is HTML-encoded. Otherwise, someone could accidentally cause problems just by using another person's username in a post or chatterbox message.

[Kanji]

I created --> thinking I could close the comment started by <!--, but it dawned on me after that the sorting on Newest Nodes would list --> before <!-- when it needs to be listed after (d'oh).

So instead, I've set up a "I've checked all of these" form on my home node that should update the appropriate timestamp to sometime after <!-- got here, so they no longer show up on Newest Nodes.

Update: Removed the form as the offending users have been deleted and fixes put in place.

    --k.

[little]

Well actually, it WILL BREAK the LAYOUT OF ANY SITE where its displayed on.
I just had a very strange view of newest nodes, where the sidebar nodelets where AFTER the content and not aside. And this is formerly unknown behaviuor to me. So Usernames and Nodetitles that screw up the sites design have to be disabled. Well for me it looks like portion poisoning code as it sometimes occures in open source projects. You bring in a bug in pieces. Once complete just use it - and if there is a way to break the server PM is running on ONE will DO it, just to show that he could.

Have a nice day
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