freaky usernames

Dyr

Attention all: I just noticed some username in what looks like arabic script. Now i'm not neccesarily against diversity and all that oul PC malarky but things could get a bit weird here. What if new users start deciding all the cool names are gone and start using wacky cyrillic handle's instead? Chaos and name's based on crappy tattoo's is what happen's. How am i supposed to report some errant user for gross misconduct when their name is untypable (isdattaword?). It's madness i tell's you. Madness, absolute madness.

And if funky fonts are allowed when do i get an ogham username. eh?

RuggieBear

copy and paste

Hobbes

Bambi wrote:

How am i supposed to report some errant user for gross misconduct when their name is untypable (isdattaword?). It's madness i tell's you. Madness, absolute madness.

Click on persons show profile and report them using that URL.

seamus

As said, copy and paste. We have plenty of multilingual mods/smods here, so although it might just be squiggles to you, they'll be able to tell the squiggles apart.

Dyr

Well if you insist, but it's all so impersonal . Call me old fashioned but i like to know who I'm squealing on

Crash

RuggieBear wrote:

copy and paste

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Talliesin

When you report a post the name gets automatically included in the report. As those the post.

Writing out names isn't a good method anyway, since it could be a spoofed copy of another users name, for example if there was a user called "someone" someone could register the completely different name "sоmeоne" and act up - hence we don't just type what we see.

अधिनायक

পঞ্জাব Bambi
সিন্ধু গুজরাট মরাঠা দ্রাবিড় উত্‍‌কল বঙ্গ

Giblet

You see, I would just call you http://boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=68202

It's all I see now, like the matrix.

D

अधिनाय&#2325 wrote:

পঞ্জাব Bambi
সিন্ধু গুজরাট মরাঠা দ্রাবিড় উত্‍‌কল বঙ্গ

Out of curiousity, what does all that mean when translated?

Google is your friend.
Most people here know google.
Infact firefox users have it as a toolbar.
That search just took a second.
Asking here takes longer.

You wont get an electric shock by using google.

Alkers

D wrote:

Out of curiousity, what does all that mean when translated?

Just shows up as question marks and bambi for me.

Gone West

Simona1986 wrote:

Just shows up as question marks and bambi for me.

thats because your computer is shít

simu

Earthman wrote:

Google is your friend.
Most people here know google.
Infact firefox users have it as a toolbar.
That search just took a second.
Asking here takes longer.

You wont get an electric shock by using google.

^^^

Sarky? :eek:

DeVore

When I see that sort of thing I think of the Artist Formerly Known as Prince and what a little tosspot he is.

Its like people who get arabic or chinese letters tattooed on themselves. Half of them translated would read: This Wide Eye Believes Everything HAHAHA.

Anyway, question answered.

Thread closed.

DeV.

Dyr

It wasnt really so much a question as it was rhetorical panic mongering. Though the ogham issue is outstanding i feel, but i wont dare to hope

hmm ogham tattos...

oscarBravo

tbh.

Mimikyu

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John

**** **** ****

Time Magazine

Mimikyu

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