I heartily agree with number 1 on the list. I think that using your real name is a great thing when it comes to openness and non-dickery. Not that I'm saying that people are being dicks currently, but I do think that real names are the way forward.

We'll also be demanding three forms of identification and proof of income.

Cheers
Malc

Contested Ground Studios

Hmm.

What do you suggest doing if you aren't currently posting with your full name? Delete account? Full name in signature?

Alex F(radera)
London based indie gamers - we try to get stuff rolling via here
http://www.sunnyblue.net/forum/

IIRC, Matt said it's pretty easy to change people's usernames. If it's not then we might have to address this, but I'm sure there's a way around this.

I just changed your user name as an illustration. It's very easy for admins to do.

Oh, of course I can change it back to Alex F if you'd prefer that.

Hoorah, it didn't break!

Anybody who asks for Member status can change their username themselves.

I changed the signup form intro on Sunday, so it should display a brief note saying what we'd prefer. I'm loathe to enforce it to heavily, some people have reasons not to want their name all over the 'net. Me, you have to go fifty pages into Google before you get somebody else when searchign for my name...

Re: 1a. We get a lot of spam signups. This is a product of being search engine visible, and using an open product. It's easy for spammers to write software to take advantage of that.

GUI is coming when I have a spare moment.

-Matt

Realms Publishing

I did have a poke about couldn't figure out how to do it solo.

London based indie gamers - we try to get stuff rolling via here
http://www.sunnyblue.net/forum/

2) That's a known issue in Drupal's comment module, which doesn't know what size of pagination is in force on the page where the comment appears. I'm crossing my fingers that Matt has a solution up his sleeve, which I can then beg him to let me steal for the forums on my site :)

3) Again a core Drupal issue, I guess you could replace the forum pages with views based on Creation date rather than modification date - but that said, I think the way it works now is pretty much what I would expect for threads, its the ordering of replies that is weird.

4) I've set up the Drupal I'm using at work with TinyMCE as a visual editor, and it seems to work pretty well, I certainly like it more than FCKEditor (which I have also used, and which has a painful setup process).

And finally .... if (1) is going to be policy then maybe you could change my name too Gregor?

Solipsist RPG, on its way ... eventually

Hey David,

I changed your username, but may have mis-spelled your last name. If I've got it wrong, just let me know and I'll sort it.

Cheers
Malcolm

Contested Ground Studios

I couldnt find any option to alter my username. Nothing in the edit tab seemed to work.

Also, could I second the issue about edited posts moving. I found it very frustrating recently when posting my Cold City AP. I posted each scene as its own post but every time I edited one I had to edit all of the others to keep them in order.

Andrew Watson
Currently Playing: Cold City, Pendragon
Currently Testing: Duty and Honour

That's your name fixed too.

My real name is Ben Clapperton. Change away!

Change it if you like.

Steve

...to Spartacus.

That's changed now, GB Steve.

Surely Brian would be more appropriate, given how the general conversation has been headed?

I'm happy to be Graham W, which is my real name, but not my full name. (My memory of the conversation in the pub was that we agreed on real names, which I like, but not on full gas-or-electricity-bill names).

I think that's explicit enough so that I'm not anonymous. People can still come up to me at conventions and say "You wrote that thing...".

I was only my full name before because I didn't think I could change it.

This stems from when I was developing Gay Recruitment Squad, which I didn't really want people to find on the Internet, when they searched for full names.

Graham

I like Matt's point above about it being our suggested preference, and the decision left up to the individual.

...Improvised Spice!

(Sometimes the mandatory post title is a bit of a pain.)

Tim Gray
Silver Branch Games
www.silverbranch.co.uk

On mandatory post titles I have found myself using "Oh", "Um" and other such exclamations to, well, effect (not sure if it's good or bad effect but you get the point).

I'm sure we'll all have a bit of adjusting to reading people by new names at first, so maybe there is something to be said for keeping a well-known handle.

It possibly makes spotting the latest wave of Chinese spammers (sgdgjfefuyui, FEEEERthhdj, etc.) easier to spot...

Well as long as we keep our icons we should be okay ....

Solipsist RPG, on its way ... eventually

I take it this means that sign ups are not human moderated then?

No human moderation on sign up (and given the volume of spam that's maybe a good thing). Akismet does a brilliant job of spotting them when they post and blocking them though.