white space for names

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theTrav
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white space for names

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Looks like you can create characters with nothing but white space for the name.

Seems like a way of anonymising. Punctuation alone is pretty annoying, but white space just seems wrong. Please do some basic validation on names, not censorship, just validation
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Peter
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Re: white space for names

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What, you don't like people named 'iiiiiiii'? or ' '?
Surprise.
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Re: white space for names

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but you can only have one blank right?? right???

surely thats no different from everyone naming themselves raephire
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Peter wrote:What, you don't like people named 'iiiiiiii'? or ' '?
I have no problem with using letters.

I have a problem with white space particularly as ' ' is counted as different to ' ' and it can be used as anonymity.

I have a lesser problem with pure punctuation names in that I simply don't like them.
Jackard wrote:but you can only have one blank right?? right???z
That's not my understanding, you can have single space, double space, triple space etc.
Jackard wrote: surely thats no different from everyone naming themselves raephire
If that's currently possible then I would think that's a bug as well...
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theTrav wrote:
Jackard wrote:but you can only have one blank right?? right???z
That's not my understanding, you can have single space, double space, triple space etc.
i thought you had some way of checking account names
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Re: white space for names

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Jackard wrote:i thought you had some way of checking account names
Oh, right, the account name is not blank.

Most people can't see account names though and I won't be able to for ever either
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Re: white space for names

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Well, yes, I know it's kind of a problem. I'll do something about it sooner or later.
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