(Nov 19, 2018 10:17 PM)LoRdVagrant Wrote:  how can a system be built that can prevent special chars?

let's say i wanna switch my username to Eagle 95 and impersonate him.

i can add special char

but how can HF make system to chagne username to prevent specail char?

how is this possible? is it possible? easy to do? if it's easy to do and possible, can it be done? is there reason it won't be done? or?

just wondering. ty.

(Nov 19, 2018 10:18 PM)UpTheCrust Wrote:  I know Omni recently said if he started HF over he would disallow special characters. I dont think it would be hard to disable them but he might not want to force everyone using them now to change their username

(Nov 19, 2018 10:19 PM)PerfectStorm Wrote:  Hmm I don't know.. it doesn't sound very easy to me. Impersonators get wacked pretty quick anyway, don't they?

(Nov 19, 2018 10:20 PM)LoRdVagrant Wrote:  yeah i am wondering how could it be done programmatically. never done it in code, curious how.

basically to prevent people stealing other people's usernames etc.

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yeah they do, but hwen they do it during a deal in marketplace, not quickly until a scam happens u know? thts wh i ask

(Nov 19, 2018 10:23 PM)PerfectStorm Wrote:  Well its an interesting Idea but I don't think anything is set in place to detect it. I guess let others reply.

(Nov 19, 2018 10:31 PM)Narrate Wrote:  I mean, there's a way to block characters in usernames. It could be done in two seconds.  

The issue is that a ton of people already use invisible characters in their usernames, and it would probably be pretty difficult to set a system for them to have the characters removed from their names. But again, not impossible. There's just so many invisible characters though, so that would take a while. Plus you would have to make it where, if someone with an invisible character in their username has their base username taken, has the option (or more likely forced) to change their username to something available.

But again, that seems like it would be pretty time consuming for something that's really a non-issue. You can't really impersonate staff since you don't have the usergroup.

(Nov 19, 2018 10:36 PM)LoRdVagrant Wrote:  no need to get them to change usernames.

if they try to change their username AGAIN, it should enforce this new rule. Therefore, no site-wide change is required. all future changes must abide by the rule, done programatticaly.

(Nov 19, 2018 10:36 PM)LoRdVagrant Wrote:  no need to get them to change usernames.

if they try to change their username AGAIN, it should enforce this new rule. Therefore, no site-wide change is required. all future changes must abide by the rule, done programatticaly.

(Nov 19, 2018 10:38 PM)Narrate Wrote:  Again though, it's really a non-issue. You can tell if someone's an imposter just by taking the minute to look at their profile.

And then once they get reported, they're gone.

(Nov 19, 2018 10:43 PM)Xerotic Wrote:  It would be easy to do programmatically. Just limit allowed characters to ASCII range 32-126. At this point I just assume Omniscient doesn't want to because so many usernames already use special characters.

What is the solution? Tell all users on HF that they have a deadline to remove special characters before their account names are randomized? Then we have a bunch of random string usernames all over the place. You have to consider members that are not active as well.

(Nov 19, 2018 10:43 PM)Xerotic Wrote:  It would be easy to do programmatically. Just limit allowed characters to ASCII range 32-126. At this point I just assume Omniscient doesn't want to because so many usernames already use special characters.

What is the solution? Tell all users on HF that they have a deadline to remove special characters before their account names are randomized? Then we have a bunch of random string usernames all over the place. You have to consider members that are not active as well.