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http://www.lfgss.com/conversations/253347/

1st post - look I found some goodie on eBay... Not my size... Boo...

Agreed, nuked.

http://www.lfgss.com/conversations/253387/#comment11765705

From the back of a lorry?

(Please can someone tell me to go offline and do some work. Days to go before the end of my masters... Bu here is just so much more fun!!!)

Apologies if the bike isn't stolen, but the wording doesn't look like the usual round here and this guy has also posted another thread of another very fast bike... And it is a new account and all that...

Not sure it's stolen, but nuked it for breaching classifieds rules as it's on Gumtree too.

@Velocio / @hippy
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/253425/
First post eBay link

Deleted and banned

Am assuming all this guys posts have been deleted, as none appear to exist though they are listed on his user page.

@ben001
Member since Apr 2014 • Last active Aug 2014
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Some numbers are cached. They will catch up in time.

Is the nursery period going to reinstated? We seem to be getting a few people launching into sales as their first posts.

Yeah, I'd noticed that, and I was going to try without... but yes I think it's necessary still.

Some people ain't even bothered with usernames...??

We could probably do better on this.

We started with the view that if someone wants to comment then we should get them to the point of leaving a comment by the quickest route and not stop to change your username, etc.

But I'm of the opinion that we could do with a set of guides to help new users, so that if they still have a username that is user\d+ that we put a notice at the top saying "Hey, you appear to be new "user78657", you can customise your profile and change your avatar over here.".

Basically little helpers that step people through customising their profile, making their first post, setting their notification preferences, and finally an optional and dismissiable step for "site rules over here".

Plus, some sites... such as local groups and committee groups... might actually have a real name policy. So we'd have to make sure that was known early enough.

we put a notice at the top saying "Hey, you appear to be new
"user78657", you can customise your profile and change your avatar
over here.".

Needs one of these.

Low priority, but could you delete all my PM please.

Done

Including the ones I sent you? sobs quietly

Nice idea. It'd need to be a really obvious notice though, none of your usual leaning towards the subtle.

I vote for it to be a bright red banner that blinks on and off and plays a really annoying noise until they've fixed it. And the reply and create conversation links and buttons should fly away from their mouse pointer like frightened rabbits until they've successfully named themselves like a good human should. And definitely add Clippy.

"You look like you're spamming the forum with a shitty sales thread! - Get help with your shitty sales spam; - Just spam the forum without help"

You may not remember but the old vBulletin forum had this.

Notices would appear at the top, under the navigation, on every page.

The only way to get them to disappear was to do what they asked.

Nah, I remember them well. Not nearly obvious enough, though. Where was the blinking, eh? And the scrolling marquees? Where was clippy? Where were the obscenely annoying popups that cover the entire page until you have carried out their bidding, Quora-style?

Thanks.

No dear, I had them transcribed to an illuminated scroll by a reclusive monk.

Or did I...

Would it not make sense to just use the email address people have signed in with? Gah... Just realised the reason why not... Ignore this

Would you be happy if I leaked your email onto a highly Google-indexed website upon signing up?

If I took just the bit before the @ I'm still leaking enough info given that most people are on Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo.

And then the chances of non-unique usernames are fairly high too.

We did think of this, but there are far too many negatives associated to using the email address as the username. One of the great advantages of having a profile name you can change is the pseudonymity it grants, and we would be shattering that from the outset.

Of course I wouldn't like it, which is why my user name here and my email are totally unique {shiftyeyes}

On the other hand if users email was showing maybe they'd change their username a bit faster! :)