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Someone on the moderation team might correct me on this, but I believe one-word usernames get rejected automatically, because spambots like to register with usernames like ThunderSplat112358. So register your username as "John Smith" not "JohnSmith", for example.
Graeme Cole wrote:Someone on the moderation team might correct me on this, but I believe one-word usernames get rejected automatically, because spambots like to register with usernames like ThunderSplat112358. So register your username as "John Smith" not "JohnSmith", for example.
They're not automatically rejected anymore, but it does make it easier to spot a legitimate user.
Graeme Cole wrote:Someone on the moderation team might correct me on this, but I believe one-word usernames get rejected automatically, because spambots like to register with usernames like ThunderSplat112358. So register your username as "John Smith" not "JohnSmith", for example.
They're not automatically rejected anymore, but it does make it easier to spot a legitimate user.
It's because bots.
"There's leaders, and there's followers, but I'd rather be a dick than a swallower" - Aristotle
Oh Jennifer.
It's not purely 'because bots'. I have first hand experience of it being precisely what I said it was in my post above. i.e. A preference for real names (a la facebook). When it was known for definite that I was a real person, the admins *still* would not approve the username "Ayum" for use here, and requested that the username consist of a forename and surname.
However cute it is that you presume to know things about my motivations, I wasn't actually going off half-cocked with the comment above. It came from a place of being pretty well informed.
S:778-ochamp
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Why are you always so weird about everything?
