On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
And manual approval. 'niceuser' suddenly
renaming itself to "Brion is a
***" is not good.
Well, neither is creating a brand-new account with that name and can't
do much about that except block the account(s), which is what would
happen in either case. Also in either case the account would be
forcibly renamed to something completely different if the name is too
offensive.
So what's the difference, the number of edits? Maybe you could let
regular admins rename the really common cases where some new user
misspelled their namesake pokémon, or forgot to capitalize their
surname, or included a swearword, etc. but require that serious
"bigrename" users (with, I don't know... 5,000–10,000 edits) have to
talk to a crat.
Seems like a reasonable compromise to me.
—C.W.