Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Choli

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Originally posted by fluffy_lobster
surely banning the character is just the lazy way out...

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yes, but however i agree that some characters shouldn't be allowed in nicks.

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Yeah, I think that's more of a personal preference thing, but I agree that such characters aren't really necessarry in usernames.

this is a bit offtopic, but i think it's related to the discussion here:

IMO, nick names should:

• Begin with a non-space character (maybe only with a letter or digit
• Contain only (english) letters (A..Z, a..z), digits (0..9) and a very reduced set of signs (maybe only these: +-_.,
• Be at least 2 characters long (maybe only 1? that's weird for a nick)
• Have no more than X characters (where X = 20? 25? 30?)
• Have at least one space every X characters (X = 10?), to avoid that long nicks mess the layout of the forums (for example that PiratesOfTheCaribbean (no offence, fraisie))
• Not have 2 or more spaces one next to the other, to not confuse "This is my nick" with "This is  my nick")
• and, of course, the nicks would be stored case sensitive, but there wouldn't be 2 users with the same nick without caring about the case (<- thi is like it's now)