Obligatory link to Patio11's gem of an article about this: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
Edit: phone typo
Quora has blocked me because it doesn't think Theodore Ts'o is my real name
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Re: Quora has blocked me because it doesn't think Theodore Ts'o is my real name
#12Ted is a long time Linux kernel hacker.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Ts%27o
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#13I dislike real name policies, but I aim for the problems with using real names (aka being non-anonymous) to be fixed if possible.
That it looks real to their customers(advertisers) is all that matters.
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#14I should get a couple of people from around here (Native American reservation) to sign up and see how messy their policy is. If you cannot validate names, then you probably should not use a real name policy. It bad enough Facebook (and I guess Quora) causes people pain, don't add your own wounds.
I have a friend who, courtesy of some... let's say unique parents, was graced with multiple middle names and then multiple hyphenated (and unhyphenated) family names as her parents divorced, remarried and she moved between households. Then she got married herself and tacked her husband's last name onto the end of it.
Her legal name at this point clocks in at enough words and characters to not fit in most government databases. I've been tempted once or twice to create a similar but fake name to use as a test case for things that handle identity information.
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#15Unless their policy has changed, it's a temporary restriction of the account until the user helps work with a mod to verify the name.
Happened to me way back in 2010, because my real name sounds terribly fake: Stormy Shippy
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#16I should get a couple of people from around here (Native American reservation) to sign up and see how messy their policy is. If you cannot validate names, then you probably should not use a real name policy. It bad enough Facebook (and I guess Quora) causes people pain, don't add your own wounds.
I have a friend who, courtesy of some... let's say unique parents, was graced with multiple middle names and then multiple hyphenated (and unhyphenated) family names as her parents divorced, remarried and she moved between households. Then she got married herself and tacked her husband's last name onto the end of it. Her legal name at this point clocks in at enough words and characters to not fit in most government d…
Got a friend from Bangladesh that has the same problem. He went with first, last, and a string of middle initials. Still has problems. I often think we need a whole class in college on these type of issues. Probably right after the ethics class.
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#17I got blacklisted because my name is the same as a baseball pitchers name..
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#18Real name policies would probably be a lot more accurate if they let the people who know you pick it. Arguably, your name is more for other people than for yourself.
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#19I was a sysadmin a while back and a user's last name was literally O.
It was an effort to get the back end systems to tolerate that!
Re: Quora has blocked me because it doesn't think Theodore Ts'o is my real name
#20I should get a couple of people from around here (Native American reservation) to sign up and see how messy their policy is. If you cannot validate names, then you probably should not use a real name policy. It bad enough Facebook (and I guess Quora) causes people pain, don't add your own wounds.
Facebook's policy is so weird. I have a ton of older test accounts that literally include TEST and other such very obvious fake text in the name.
Oh sure, you getaway with test and I have kids coming to me in tears because Facebook killed their account. I'm the local sysadmin, but I can't help with SV companies without an actual contact number.