Or do we already have something like that in place?

Sort of. The admin mailbox is notified anytime someone registers. The problem is that we don't watch the mailbox 24/7.

When Astarte came on board as Ro, a bunch of people mixed her up with Rio; she was the one who offered to change (iirc, anyway), but if she had expressed a longtime attachment to the name, we would've gotten used to that too.

I was just thinking of that myself. As Ro and Astarte are both pseuds I've used it was no big to shift to the less confusing one. I've had this sort of thing come up with my real first name too, and that's harder to sort out. As noted.

As y'all have already discussed the rest of the issues, I'll just point upward and say "me, too" regarding VIP and malicious masqueraders.

The admin mailbox is notified anytime someone registers. The problem is that we don't watch the mailbox 24/7.

Thanks.

More thought: It seems to me that making the effort to INSTANTLY NOTIFY stompies of problematic usernames would be more trouble than it's worth, given that this so seldom comes up and most posters would switch when asked. But I do think adding some text to the registration page asking people not to choose VIPesque names would be a good thing.

I don't want this to turn into, like, Jets-and-Sharks time, only with keyboards instead of switchblades.

I'd be up for some song and dance numbers, though.

Now we know how you got the guacamole on your pants.

it's a membership page that lists all registered users, then (my guess) some people opt in to have their email, webpages, location, etc available. It also lists date joined and tallies the # of posts.

That does sound useful, though with almost 1200 users, I wonder how much of a strain it would be on the server every time someone accessed it?

I didn't say I'd be any good at them.

Huh. I stopped by Minearverse and saw what was up. Yeah, it looks like a simple delurking misunderstanding, and nothing to get up in arms about. I still think the person was overly defensive, but whatever.

Yeah, I guess I don't really have anything important to add.

Just for the record (and mea culpa), I think I was rude to JohnSwedon when I first saw him post. (It was at peoplesforum, and I was already feeling confused and off-kilter.) But he bounced back! It was all OK!

I agree with Jess -- we have almost twice as many posters as the example. I think a search function for users may be on the request list (so you don't have to go hunting for someone's posts to be able to call up their profile).