I still have my Billy and the Boingers Bootleg record that came with the book.
Bureaucracy 3: Oh, so now you want to be part of the SOLUTION?
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
I still have my Billy and the Boingers Bootleg record that came with the book.
me, too!
I think mine might be at my parent's house. I should look for that.
Natter 35: Now Sockpuppet Free!
Natter 35: Still not married and that's ok.
Natter 35: You must be this high to Nat.
Also, I like "What happens..."
and I'm interested in what that process is.
For thread naming, the process has tended to be: the wittiest thing wins by popular acclaim.
Now it's a bit more: the wittiest thing proposed that a stompy likes wins.
In brief, it's sort of like the court of King Charles II (aka, Restoration Chuck).
nevermind
There are a number of obviously misspelled user names on the list, as well as examples of multiple variations of the same name being registered again and again.
It sounds like some people register variations on their name so that no one else can login with anything too close (e.g., if I registered lyrajane and Lira Jayne). Is that what you're describing? Or is it more like people who are indecisive and register Lira Jayne, then decide that spelling would be annoying and register something else? Or a little of both?
Sorry for the 20 questions ... this stuff just faascinates me.
I changed the code to display thread headers on every page.
Verra nice!
My vote is for "What happens in Natter 35 stays in Natter 35". And I also like the thread headers on each page--very handy.
Is that what you're describing?
That could be some of it. It could also be people hitting the submit button before they notice a typo in their username.
Would it be worth deleting some of those half-registrations just to clean out the database? (Say, if someone registers but doesn't complete the validation process for three months, we assume they're not coming back for that account.)