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Re:Terrorists Mock Bids to End Use of Social Media by jessaustin on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @10:51AM (#10697055)
A "real names policy" is not appropriate to every situation, since it is inherently hostile to users. Some have even criticized its use at FB.
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Re:Terrorists Mock Bids to End Use of Social Media by RegW on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @12:30PM (#10697867)
I agree, but the point I was trying to make (perhaps unclearly), was that the username can be checked against a list of blocked patterns at account creation time.
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Re:Terrorists Mock Bids to End Use of Social Media by shadowfox on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @12:10PM (#10697712)
While quite true, that is a "business and policy decision" for the most part.
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