Timeline for Allow for Comment Reply to Usernames With Less Than Three Characters in First Word
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| May 23, 2017 at 12:36 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://stackoverflow.com/ with https://stackoverflow.com/ | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:30 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Apr 24, 2014 at 13:12 | history | edited | CommunityBot | Migration of MSO links to MSE links | |
| Jan 21, 2011 at 12:29 | vote | accept | Yi Jiang | ||
| Jan 21, 2011 at 12:25 | history | edited | balphaStaffMod | edited tags | |
| Jan 21, 2011 at 12:25 | answer | added | balphaStaffMod | timeline score: 10 | |
| Nov 14, 2010 at 2:44 | history | bounty ended | CommunityBot | ||
| Nov 7, 2010 at 2:43 | history | bounty started | Yi Jiang | ||
| Oct 13, 2010 at 8:24 | history | edited | Yi Jiang | CC BY-SA 2.5 | Removed useless link, other minor edits, bump :) |
| Oct 10, 2010 at 5:53 | history | bounty ended | CommunityBot | ||
| Oct 3, 2010 at 9:58 | comment | added | Andrew Grimm | Why is it three characters in the first place? Probably because of this gentleman. | |
| Oct 3, 2010 at 5:01 | history | bounty started | Yi Jiang | ||
| Sep 2, 2010 at 14:00 | history | bounty ended | Yi Jiang | ||
| Aug 31, 2010 at 11:43 | answer | added | Benjol | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 31, 2010 at 11:42 | comment | added | Marcel Korpel | @Georg: Agreed. Another reason why auto-completion (à la chat) or a reply button would be useful. | |
| Aug 31, 2010 at 11:33 | comment | added | Marcel Korpel | “I've basically been reduced to opening up questions with my six last comment and refreshing them one by one to watch for replies.” I have to say I ‘need’ to do that, too. The majority of users on SO don't know about comment replies at all. I even see people with high rep who don't use them. But I have to admit that it's great I can edit my own comments, because I forget the @user-name part occasionally, too. And I agree about the space issue, I hardly see anyone write @MarcelKorpel, though of course the system works with solely my first name. | |
| Aug 31, 2010 at 10:19 | comment | added | Yi Jiang | @Pekka Yes it does, but if you look at the question, I've noted that literally nobody does this. I mean, nobody. Not even Jeff Atwood. meta.stackexchange.com/questions/61780/… | |
| Aug 31, 2010 at 9:07 | comment | added | Pekka | Wasn't the solution to this to just leave the white space out? IIRC, @YiJiang should work. Admittedly far from optimal - this should really be fixed the right way. | |
| Aug 31, 2010 at 8:57 | answer | added | Yi Jiang | timeline score: 13 | |
| Aug 26, 2010 at 15:28 | comment | added | Georg Fritzsche | Note that the suggestion of passing more than one white-space seperated word can't work: users don't always put : or similar delimiters after the user name (e.g. "@foo is right"). | |
| Aug 26, 2010 at 15:22 | comment | added | Yi Jiang | Maybe if I give this question a sharp enough jab the power that be might at least respond. Feels like talking to a wall here... | |
| Aug 26, 2010 at 15:21 | history | bounty started | Yi Jiang | ||
| Aug 25, 2010 at 11:55 | history | edited | Yi Jiang | CC BY-SA 2.5 | added 586 characters in body |
| Aug 24, 2010 at 10:44 | history | edited | Yi Jiang | CC BY-SA 2.5 | Changed the title to something more descriptive |
| Aug 23, 2010 at 14:34 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | Actually, that feature was supposed to prevent people who are entirely impossible to contact. You can be contacted, it's just that many people unfamiliar with the system will probably fail. People who actually had display names of 1 or 2 characters could never be responded to, no matter how well you understood the system. For the reasons given in my last comment, I don't think it would be wise to restrain users from having the first part of a display name be 1-2 characters. | |
| Aug 23, 2010 at 14:29 | comment | added | Yi Jiang | @Grace But given what that "feature" was suppose to prevent, clearly my username had slipped through a crack | |
| Aug 23, 2010 at 14:27 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | @Rob I had the advantage that my original display name wasn't my real name, though. For people who do have short given names or surnames (depending on your name order), though, I think it's more power to them to be able to keep their names if they use them. | |
| Aug 23, 2010 at 14:25 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | Regarding your edit: your display name is 8 characters long, not 2. So it would be let through. | |
| Aug 23, 2010 at 14:20 | history | edited | Yi Jiang | CC BY-SA 2.5 | added 245 characters in body |
| Aug 23, 2010 at 13:47 | comment | added | Andy E | @jinguy, @ccornet: I can imagine that must be very annoying :p | |
| Aug 23, 2010 at 13:43 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | @jjnguy That issue is entirely why I switched to Grace Note. It was slightly entertaining to see the wrong name sometimes, but I eventually noticed just how many comments I had been missing because people wrote "rn" instead of "m". | |
| Aug 23, 2010 at 13:35 | comment | added | jjnguy | I have a similar issue where people think my name is jinguy, when it really is jjnguy. It is really annoying to miss comments directed at you. | |
| Aug 23, 2010 at 13:33 | history | asked | Yi Jiang | CC BY-SA 2.5 |