Re: Using nicknames on planet?

Devrim GNDZ wrote:
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> On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 17:55 +0100, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote:
> > I asked planet team to change "Hubert Lubaczewski" into "depesz" on
> > planet.postgresql.org, but was told that current policy doesn't allow
> > it, but it can be discussed. So I'd like to discuss possibility to
> > change the policy.
>
> Given that planet.postgresql.org is being synced to www.postgresql.org,
> I am (still) against adding nicknames instead of real names.
>
> If we allow nicknames, then we will need to figure out a policy of what
> nicknames should be used or not, to prevent people using abusing
> nicknames.

True, but real names could sound abusing too. Can't we just reject
silly user names at our discretion. I doubt it would ever happen, at
least in our group.

> > Given the fact that on irc it is not very common to use full names - I
> > would say that it makes sense to allow same nicknames on planet - at
> > the very least to allow newcomers easily associate person from irc
> > with author on planet.
>
> I don't care about IRC, as long as logs are not synced to our main
> website. IRC and Planet are not the same thing.
>
> (and .../me uses realname in IRC.)

As do I, and frankly can't figure out the purpose of unrecognizable
nicknames, but then again, I don't understand key signing parties
either.

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