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I don't understand the rationale of preventing a user registration because you found a forbidden string in the name/address/town field. I can understand not wan
by qwery 4y ago
I don't understand the rationale of preventing a user registration because you found a forbidden string in the name/address/town field. I can understand not wanting "offensive" usernames (that would be displayed by your service) but surely they aren't sharing user's addresses publicly?
- prepend 4y agoI think it’s because handles are so frequently shown in online interactions. AOL chat rooms at one point did allow people named “Dick Cuntpuncher” and so they wanted to clean up a bit as they went mainstream in the early 90s (and thankfully also did stuff like ban rampant child porn and other truly bad things). I think it would be better to just have a sensible reporting mechanism and expect it’s probably easier now with enough trained modes to differentiate Scunthorpe from actual offensive names (although I don’t really care if people name themselves with curse words so I’m not offended).
- Symbiote 4y agoCommon forum software at the time would often show something like qwery · · L \_/ Scunthorpe, UK 332 posts Online now by the side of a user's comments.
- soco 4y agoBy calling a local ISP they explained to me that I cannot login because my password contains offensive language. Indeed it contained (I was angry with their arcane password rules) but... they had my plain text password?!? Okay this happened a decade ago and I also switched the provider promptly but how on earth anybody thought it was a good idea???