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Re: Quora has blocked me because it doesn't think Theodore Ts'o is my real name

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Post by ChoHag »

gbog wrote: post #71
seiryuz wrote: post #44

Oh boy, Indonesian here, I only have one name (No last name). Websites that require me to have both first name and last name are the bane of my existence. Quora also blocked me, despite me sending an email to their appeal division with a copy of my ID. In the end I gave up fighting for it.

Yes, I had this issue when working for some administrative software, and other problems like what date of birth do you input for the many people which have unknown date of birth? I have also seen many handwritten "identification papers" which you'd have very hard time deciphering anything from it with some degree of certainty. We believe our times are more free than past times, but that's only partially true. In some…

> in some past periods, people did not have "identification papers"

You mean last century? People are still alive from then.

Re: Quora has blocked me because it doesn't think Theodore Ts'o is my real name

#102

Post by ChoHag »

5555624 wrote: post #66
parennoob wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know about Quora's "work with a mod to verify the name" policy works, but I have heard from at least one friend that Facebook makes you give them a scan your driving license or other Government ID in order to show that your slightly unusual name is actually what you say it is. Which is just absurd. A random social network should never be so powerful as to demand your Government-issued IDs for some bogus "real…

In the US, As long as "other Government ID" is not an actual Government ID. Scanning/photocopying is a violation of Title 18, US Code Part I, Chapter 33, Section 701. While there evidently are exceptions for government agencies performing official business, Facebook is not a government agency.

Is it a crime to require that a person commits a crime before being admitted into a private club?

Re: Quora has blocked me because it doesn't think Theodore Ts'o is my real name

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Post by danieltillett »

gpvos wrote: post #100
raarts wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where is that? Dutch so I'm interested.

The USA. People of German descent are, at least historically, the largest population group.

Actually people of English decent are the largest - Germans are second.

Re: Quora has blocked me because it doesn't think Theodore Ts'o is my real name

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Post by KyleBrandt »

joelthelion wrote: post #81

Quora has been completely ruined by dogmatic Silicon Valley thinking and poor monetization attempts. Content cloaking, removal of the credit system, deliberate choice to promote crappy clickbaity answers as opposed to quality ones, aggressive question length limits... I think there is definitely space for someone to recreate the original Quora without the delusions of grandeur. A place for people to exchange question…

Sounds like you are describing reddit to me :P

Re: Quora has blocked me because it doesn't think Theodore Ts'o is my real name

#105

Post by cyberferret »

gbog wrote: post #71
seiryuz wrote: post #44

Oh boy, Indonesian here, I only have one name (No last name). Websites that require me to have both first name and last name are the bane of my existence. Quora also blocked me, despite me sending an email to their appeal division with a copy of my ID. In the end I gave up fighting for it.

Yes, I had this issue when working for some administrative software, and other problems like what date of birth do you input for the many people which have unknown date of birth? I have also seen many handwritten "identification papers" which you'd have very hard time deciphering anything from it with some degree of certainty. We believe our times are more free than past times, but that's only partially true. In some…

Yep, I used to do a lot of work for indigenous communities, designing databases and the like. I was amazed to discover that something like a known date of birth was a rarity, especially amongst the Aboriginal elders. No birth certificates. Usually the data was obtained from other family members, purely from memory or based on other events around the same time.

In a lot of cases, only the year was known. If you were lucky, the month as well. We had to strip out all the DATE data types from our database because the validations were constantly failing, or we would have an inordinate number of people born on the 1st of January on a given year. We had to split the date fields out into three separate drop downs, each with a '(unknown)' option so that validation and statistical reporting would be meaningful.

Re: Quora has blocked me because it doesn't think Theodore Ts'o is my real name

#106

Post by _swa8 »

ChoHag wrote: post #101
gbog wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I had this issue when working for some administrative software, and other problems like what date of birth do you input for the many people which have unknown date of birth? I have also seen many handwritten "identification papers" which you'd have very hard time deciphering anything from it with some degree of certainty. We believe our times are more free than past times, but that's only partially true. In some…

> in some past periods, people did not have "identification papers" You mean last century? People are still alive from then.

Yes, absolutely. I, for example, am one, though I admit I was born only after humanity has visited the Moon. Still, more than 16 years ago.

Re: Quora has blocked me because it doesn't think Theodore Ts'o is my real name

#107

Post by SSLy »

hornetblack wrote: post #36
Cyph0n wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha, now I'm curious! Could you please provide some examples of Native American names?

There's a few on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_real-name_policy_cont... Eg: Robin Kills the Enemy

Isn't that SV/WASP-centric policy virtually racism?

Re: Quora has blocked me because it doesn't think Theodore Ts'o is my real name

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Post by walshemj »

ChoHag wrote: post #102
5555624 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the US, As long as "other Government ID" is not an actual Government ID. Scanning/photocopying is a violation of Title 18, US Code Part I, Chapter 33, Section 701. While there evidently are exceptions for government agencies performing official business, Facebook is not a government agency.

Is it a crime to require that a person commits a crime before being admitted into a private club?

Yes obviously

Re: Quora has blocked me because it doesn't think Theodore Ts'o is my real name

#109

Post by cdubzzz »

parennoob wrote: post #50
stormy wrote: post #15

Unless 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

I don't know about Quora's "work with a mod to verify the name" policy works, but I have heard from at least one friend that Facebook makes you give them a scan your driving license or other Government ID in order to show that your slightly unusual name is actually what you say it is. Which is just absurd. A random social network should never be so powerful as to demand your Government-issued IDs for some bogus "real…

If the you find the policy so absurd, why not just stop using the service now? This sort of behavior, opposing policies but only acting on it when it affects you directly, is precisely what gives this "random social network" so much power.

Re: Quora has blocked me because it doesn't think Theodore Ts'o is my real name

#110

Post by Veen »

_swa8 wrote: post #106
ChoHag wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> in some past periods, people did not have "identification papers" You mean last century? People are still alive from then.

Yes, absolutely. I, for example, am one, though I admit I was born only after humanity has visited the Moon. Still, more than 16 years ago.

There's one person left from the previous century too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Morano

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