[Foundation-l] Top posters

Chad innocentkiller at gmail.com
Wed Jan 9 20:10:29 UTC 2008


Same reason I choose not to be on the "List of Wikipedians by edit."

Chad H.

On Jan 9, 2008 2:53 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> Or pointless all around? If we were using it for some reason beyond
> snickering and ogling and a little bit of "Oh shit I post too much"
> then making it more technically correct would be key, but...
>
>
> On Jan 9, 2008 2:47 PM, Michael Bimmler <mbimmler at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jan 9, 2008 8:40 PM, Kalan <kalan.001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 2008/1/10, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
> > > > Is there any way you could merge the counts for people with multiple
> > > > email addresses? Some way for people to enter addresses into a form to
> > > > say they are the same person (and some way for others to review it)?
> > >
> > > Sure, that is quite possible. To prevent abuse, such form may require
> > > login and accounts may be restricted, for example, to me and list
> > > moderators (or maybe also stewards or even any user in good standing).
> > >
> > > By the way, grouping is performed not by email address, but by "real
> > > name" setting.
> > >
> >
> > I might be missing something but wouldn't confirmation emails be
> > easier for this than a set of admins and manual approval? Something
> > like "Thomas Dalton (thomas.dalton at gmail.com) claims that your
> > email address should be grouped together with thomas.dalton at
> > gmail.com Please click here to confirm"
> >
> > Or is this technically more difficult?
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
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