Cranky. (eta: about the errant capitalisation)
I also have some poorly-verbalised hesitation here.
I
know
it's not efficient, but I'm not agog with the idea of a pages with all the user names available to unregistered users. It's sort of naked-making. I know it's completely ineffective in my case, but I wouldn't want my name there.
I'll work on articulating or abstracting that, but I got nothing better at the moment.
None of this is to say that I won't go along with community desire, and it's not like opt-out can co-exist with a useful list.
Implementing an opt-out would be easy. The capitals thing is pretty straightforward, as well.
Unregistered users can read the user names when they read the threads, so I am having a little trouble getting a handle on what is troubling ita, here. Anyway, if it bugs you, it bugs you. I don't suspect there will be enough opt-outs to invalidate the primary use of the list. I am seeing that use as avoiding near-duplicates, and giving examples of what names are like around here.
Implementing an opt-out would be easy.
Implementing it is relatively easy. It just nullifies the point of the system, especially since then it'd have to be opt in, to be fair (since we didn't tell anyone we were publishing their user names, and not all of them can be gleaned by looking through threads).
We don't have a privacy policy, but that strikes me as a sort of line that bears consideration.
It hadn't occurred to me that username searching would be available to non-registered users. I need to think on it more.
As I said, if everyone wants it, I can hardly object on the part of anyone but myself -- however, this discussion might want a larger audience than us geeks.
What can you do with a username besides know that someone is part of the board? I'm asking because that would have a lot to do with whether or not I'm in favor.
What can you do with a username besides know that someone is part of the board?
Nothing as presented. We can make sure the page is blocked from search engines.
I have a roll call allergy, which might just turn out to be only my idiosyncrasy.
As I said, if everyone wants it, I can hardly object on the part of anyone but myself -- however, this discussion might want a larger audience than us geeks.
I definitely think it should be a wider discussion.
I kind of like being able to see the names, myself, but it's a significant change in information available. For lurkers even more so than posters.
Fixed the captilisation thing and improved the column partitioning logic. Gawd, I hate it when I say I am going to stop fiddling with a thing, then don't.
There is no robots instruction in the thing, yet. No brainer, there. I swear I will not add that one line until we have some idea if we even want the the thing.
I swear I will not add that one line until we have some idea if we even want the the thing.
Not to say "fiddle", but shouldn't you put in the no robots instruction anyway?
For lurkers even more so than posters.
This. This is exactly my squick point. I'm having trouble articulating exactly why it is, but it is.
