Could Facebook implement a PageRank type algorithm that gets people with already verified real names (perhaps they paid for something by credit card on FB, or are registered with a .edu email that matches their initials), to then say whether their friends name was real? Surely there's a way of proving someone's real name without making them use their legal name.
My name is only real enough to work at Facebook, not to use on the site
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#12How illegal is to provide a fake ID documents to Facebook? ("fake" in the sense of "editing it in Photoshop")
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just stopped caring about being invited to "events". If the event is so impersonal that it needs to be broadcast rather than two or three people organizing and then blasting a simple text message like "Hey beers at 5PM at . Come if you can!" I just don't care.
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> Sorry if your comfort zone is too small
Please don't be personally rude in HN comments. This comment would be fine without that bit.
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#14I guess this is the work of a bunch of trans-haters abusing the report feature.
Assigning the right amount of power for an automatic filter is a science itself, though. Heuristic AV scanners and spam filters suffer from the same issues.
For example even big telco providers (Ay Yildiz Germany) get caught up for now MONTHS in Gmails spam filter with no way to change this. Their emails are discarded already at SMTP delivery...
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#15So, "Zip" used to work there and she hasn't used her connections to get this resolved? While it's unfortunate that this happened, that's pretty standard in this situation. Make a call - it sounds like she knows the right people.
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#16Facebook needs to be replaced by something that is people oriented instead of marketing oriented. Fat chance, but one can dream.
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#17I guess this is the work of a bunch of trans-haters abusing the report feature. Assigning the right amount of power for an automatic filter is a science itself, though. Heuristic AV scanners and spam filters suffer from the same issues. For example even big telco providers (Ay Yildiz Germany) get caught up for now MONTHS in Gmails spam filter with no way to change this. Their emails are discarded already at SMTP deli…
I have my doubts about that since they also seem to go on spurts of banning Native American using their real names.
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#18Not trans but I identify with the letters "chx" much more strongly than my real name. There are thousands, perhaps ten of thousands of people out there who know me by this nick and nothing else. My own brother often calls me that. British Columbia doesn't allow me to take a single word as a legal name but once I get citizenship I am very seriously considering changing my legal name to a name where the abbreviation makes it a sort of retronym. (Charles Harry Xavier?)
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#20I guess this is the work of a bunch of trans-haters abusing the report feature. Assigning the right amount of power for an automatic filter is a science itself, though. Heuristic AV scanners and spam filters suffer from the same issues. For example even big telco providers (Ay Yildiz Germany) get caught up for now MONTHS in Gmails spam filter with no way to change this. Their emails are discarded already at SMTP deli…
I have my doubts about that since they also seem to go on spurts of banning Native American using their real names.
I don't know Native American names, but I guess the filter classifies their names as having too much entropy when compared to the other 1.1bn FB users.
1.1bn gives a pretty exhaustive list of common names for a given country region.