On 7/30/12 5:35 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:
- Block creation of usernames o ending with two or more digits o with more than one x or q o starting with "buy" o longer than 20 characters o with more than 4 consonants in a row
As other's've mentioned, many of these constraints impose undue burden on users with linguistic heritage outside of western Europe. Creating a decent filter for recognizing legitimate names across the majority of languages is quite difficult. Though there's no reason this has to be a strong blacklisting of usernames. If there's a willing volunteer (as seems to have been implied), then something like this could serve as a filter requiring manual override. All usernames are available... but some take longer to activate. Of course, there's always the power-to-weight issue for this kind of solution. -- Live well, ~wren