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Use character name for poster name

Jul 21, 2013 Savet link
Suggestion: Give logged in user the ability to select a character to post under.

Reasons:

1. Account login name as poster name is (albeit minor) a security risk.
2. It will allow users with multiple characters to better represent their characters in the RP section.
3. It will give a general idea who a post is from, so people like DE-A can at least be loosely correlated with an in-game character.
4. Lists are good.
Jul 21, 2013 DE-A link
+1 this make most sense- and this way my thread dont lock cause ryan cuss
Jul 21, 2013 Pizzasgood link
+1.

Several considerations, however:

Needs to be optional, so that people can opt to use their account name as a consistent handle even if they frequently delete and replace their characters. (I think you did intend that, but I wasn't sure so I figured I'd make it explicit.)

Needs to distinguish whether a post is signed by an account name or a character name, since the game allows character names to overlap with other people's account names. Alternately, pool all character and account names when checking for uniqueness for setting either. That would require somehow handling any overlaps that already exist, however.

Might need to have a way to distinguish between posts signed with the same character name but originating from different accounts, for when a character gets deleted and the name is reused by somebody else. Maybe by formatting a post by a deleted character differently, and by having all character names link to their character information page by ID number (e.g. Rin Ganborro).
Jul 21, 2013 ryan reign link
+1

DE-A, VO has users from all over the world... you might consider posting in whatever language you actually speak and have some one who can at least type in English translate for you... your average post makes about as much sense as one that was created by Bablefish.
Jul 22, 2013 DE-A link
ryan you say what you will. you are just troll obliviously. here here image for you

Jul 22, 2013 ryan reign link
DE-A, say what you will... you festering sore... but I was trying to be helpful as English is very clearly not your first language.
Jul 22, 2013 tarenty link
Back to the topic at hand... +1.
Jul 24, 2013 coteyr link
+1 plain and simple