I am surprised this hasn't been suggested before, but obviously there are problems with users who choose names that have periods, commas, grave accent marks, quotation marks, etc... in their names. They may run into strange problems with the website or game sooner or later.
Wouldn't it just be easier and a better solution for future users if they weren't allowed to choose usernames with those problem characters in them?
They could be told that is not a valid username because of blah blah and to please choose another.
I don't think it would be so hard to limit the username generation to names containing only alpha-numeric characters. It also would save the people trouble who do register with problem names only to later complain about it, be told they cannot change their names, and then have to start new accounts.
Such testing for bad characters could even be done in JavaScript on the client side so that way if someone is intentionally trying to break that and register an improper name anyway, they can deal with the consequences (of having things break on them/etc)
+1 for this idea?
Wouldn't it just be easier and a better solution for future users if they weren't allowed to choose usernames with those problem characters in them?
They could be told that is not a valid username because of blah blah and to please choose another.
I don't think it would be so hard to limit the username generation to names containing only alpha-numeric characters. It also would save the people trouble who do register with problem names only to later complain about it, be told they cannot change their names, and then have to start new accounts.
Such testing for bad characters could even be done in JavaScript on the client side so that way if someone is intentionally trying to break that and register an improper name anyway, they can deal with the consequences (of having things break on them/etc)
+1 for this idea?
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