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Delete or rename Player 'V'

PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 9:47 pm
by patrickaa317
I always end up inviting the below person to a game by not holding ctrl hard enough. By deleting his account or renaming it, it would alleviate this issue. This player never played any games and the last time he visited was the exact same time he joined. This should be a quick, easy thing the new webmaster could do and immediately make all the tournament organizers that make this mistake happy. Let's get it done!

V or http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=38954

Re: Delete or rename Player 'V'

PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 10:15 pm
by Metsfanmax
Well, you picked just about the worst day of the year to make this recommendation.

Re: Delete or rename Player 'V'

PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 10:35 pm
by maxfaraday
I'm gonna make another account called X
Or C.

Re: Delete or rename Player 'V'

PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 10:53 pm
by patrickaa317
Metsfanmax wrote:Well, you picked just about the worst day of the year to make this recommendation.


Why's that?

Re: Delete or rename Player 'V'

PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 10:54 pm
by Metsfanmax
patrickaa317 wrote:
Metsfanmax wrote:Well, you picked just about the worst day of the year to make this recommendation.


Why's that?


I'm sure that if you think hard and remember, remember, you'll get it.

Re: Delete or rename Player 'V'

PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 12:00 am
by patrickaa317
Metsfanmax wrote:
patrickaa317 wrote:
Metsfanmax wrote:Well, you picked just about the worst day of the year to make this recommendation.


Why's that?


I'm sure that if you think hard and remember, remember, you'll get it.


Nope, I'm drawing a blank.

Re: Delete or rename Player 'V'

PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 12:06 am
by spiesr

Does this refresh your memory?

Re: Delete or rename Player 'V'

PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 12:12 am
by patrickaa317
spiesr wrote:
Does this refresh your memory?


Actually, it doesn't refresh my memory since I have never seen that movie but thanks for posting. Quite the coincidence here isn't it... :lol: :lol:

Re: Delete or rename Player 'V'

PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 12:44 am
by agentcom
Metsfanmax wrote:Well, you picked just about the worst day of the year to make this recommendation.


I got it instantly Mets :) That is quite a coincidence.

I have no idea whether just deleting an account happens. Also, I assume that you'd want some sort of restriction on signing up for an account with this name?

maxfaraday wrote:I'm gonna make another account called X
Or C.


This wouldn't present the same problem ...

Re: Delete or rename Player 'V'

PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 12:50 am
by Metsfanmax
agentcom wrote:
Metsfanmax wrote:Well, you picked just about the worst day of the year to make this recommendation.


I got it instantly Mets :) That is quite a coincidence.


Yeah, just finished my obligatory watching of the movie when I saw this thread :)

I have no idea whether just deleting an account happens. Also, I assume that you'd want some sort of restriction on signing up for an account with this name?


It's not common practice to delete accounts entirely, but name changes happen relatively often in the case of inappropriate usernames. Since the account in question has not played a single game, I don't think anyone will complain too loudly if we change this person's username, and block anyone from creating the username "V."

Re: Delete or rename Player 'V'

PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 12:56 am
by agentcom
I didn't even think of a name change. Patrick, I'd suggest PM'ing an admin about this. It's something they can do with their tools and they'd probably be able to tell you right away whether it will be done.

Re: Delete or rename Player 'V'

PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 1:04 am
by patrickaa317
PM sent. Thanks.

Re: Delete or rename Player 'V'

PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 1:21 am
by king achilles
If a username has been changed, as of right now, we do not have any tools to prevent anyone from coming up with that former name once again.

Re: Delete or rename Player 'V'

PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 5:57 am
by greenoaks
king achilles wrote:If a username has been changed, as of right now, we do not have any tools to prevent anyone from coming up with that former name once again.

so someone could join the site as david h****a and there's not a Glg we could do about it

Re: Delete or rename Player 'V'

PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 6:18 am
by king achilles
^ Correct. If he happens to be a multi afterall then that person made that name no longer available after the bust and we'd be back of having an existing account named "V".

Update: PM replied to the TS.
As for other similar suggestions, we will still stick to no.4 of the FAQ's page regarding username change requests.

Re: Delete or rename Player 'V'

PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 8:18 pm
by patrickaa317
Thanks to KA, this can be moved to implemented. =D> =D> =D> =D>

Re: Delete or rename Player 'V'

PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 11:12 pm
by agentcom
but at least it would solve the problem for now ... And anyone picking that username in the next few days is probably a multi who's seen this thread and is being a smartass. And if it did happen again, perhaps we could just politely ask the user if he wouldn't mind his name being changed to "V." or "Vee" or something similar.

Re: Delete or rename Player 'V'

PostPosted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 1:05 pm
by blakebowling
This has been done, and the username 'V' has been restricted from further use.

Moved to Implemented.

Re: Delete or rename Player 'V'

PostPosted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 1:17 pm
by MoB Deadly
What problems did this cause?

(I am just oddly curious)

Re: Delete or rename Player 'V'

PostPosted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 2:02 pm
by Metsfanmax
MoB Deadly wrote:What problems did this cause?

(I am just oddly curious)


Basically, if you're a tournament organizer and you're sending out invites to a lot of players all at once, you're going to copy and paste (e.g. Ctrl+C and then Ctrl+V on many operating systems) the usernames into the invite box. The problem is that if you accidentally don't depress the Control key during the paste step, you're just going to invite player "v" to your game. This is problematic because as there's still no way to cancel a game invite, that spot is held up for 24 hours by a player that's not on the site, much less in the actual tournament.

Re: Delete or rename Player 'V'

PostPosted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 2:05 pm
by trinicardinal
MoB Deadly wrote:What problems did this cause?

(I am just oddly curious)


when inviting someone to a game TO's often copy the name from some where else (using Ctrl C) and paste it in the invite section (Using Ctrl V) especially for multiple invites.
Sometimes they'd slip on the CTRL and end up inviting user V instead of the correct user and have to drop the game, remake it and send back the invites... Could be time consuming.

lol... fastposted by mets

Re: Delete or rename Player 'V'

PostPosted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 5:42 pm
by agentcom
Our first IMPLEMENTED suggestion of the new leadership! Hey it's a start ...

Re: Delete or rename Player 'V'

PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 2:01 pm
by plurple
agentcom wrote:Our first IMPLEMENTED suggestion of the new leadership! Hey it's a start ...


i know this happened i'm not able to accidently invite them anymore