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Jan Dvorak

12:03 AM

I love those images

Unihedron

thanks

Head to skool now, bye!

Jan Dvorak

+1'd

Unihedron

yay theoretical meta points

Jan Dvorak

s/less robo/fewer robo/

Unihedron

status-completed

Jan Dvorak

12:07 AM

yay

jadarnel27

12:20 AM

Does "superflourus edit" mean that the edit glows in the dark?

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Or perhaps you can make tasty baked goods out of it?

Jan Dvorak

#2

Jason C

12:42 AM

@Unihedron Nope. Just right.

Although we all know this is really about you just wanting to show off your page theme.

doppelgreener

I just found a series of questions on the same topic (advertising in user names) which almost certainly need dupe-closures or a canon/faq entry. However at the moment I'm not sure which should be the dupe target, and which should be closed.

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Q: Permissible for display name to advertise another SE site?

Is it permissible to use your SE display name to advertise another SE site or Area 51 Proposal? Is this scrupulous or laudable? I don't refer to my comment box. For example, could I change 'LePressentiment' to 'Commit to Law SE' to advertise the Law proposal?

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A: Are user names that represent domains allowed?

I'm not seeing the downside. If a user is posting good content, who cares what their user name is? If you're implying some sort of spammy-ness to the name they choose, I'm still not seeing the downside. They still have to post good content to get their name in lights. That's a net win to us! Th...

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Q: Usernames as Advertising or Spam?

While doing some flagging (yes, I'm a little bit addicted) I stumbled upon the user StarWind Software. At first the case seemed clear, Spammer, but...and that's a big one, he seems to be a productive member of SU and SO (his account on SF isn't there anymore, but it's still in the Data-Dump of th...

discussion advertising spam

Jason C

At a cursory glance I vote second one as dupe target based on view count and question / top answer votes.

doppelgreener

There is also a meta Q on the contrasting side - Inactive user accounts which appear to have only been created to advertise a product/service? - which says that it isn't OK to do this if you don't then post anything.

Jason C

You could custom flag and request a merge too.

doppelgreener

@JasonC I agree, except that the third covers advertising generically, like "SHOP AT BUY'N'LARGE"

which also covers the first, which is about "commit to {some Area 51 site}!" usernames

Jason C

12:49 AM

@doppelgreener At a less cursory glance I almost feel the exact opposite of what I just said; that the first should be left independent due to it being specific to SE sites, and the second and third should be merged. The second (domain names) is kind of a subset of the third (general advertising) but the answer on the second is a much better answer.

There's also:

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Q: Policy on display names

Curious on a habit I am starting to see on the trilogy. There is nothing stated on this in the FAQ so figured I would ask here. What is the policy on using a web address as your display name? Personally to me this feels more like spamming since the profile gives you a field for a web address. Jus...

discussion usernames

doppelgreener

someone tried to close that as a dupe of #2 above, I see :)

Jason C

Yeah. IMHO that should also be merged into the third one you posted, or marked as a duplicate of the result (if it happens). I flagged them both.

doppelgreener

I'm going to restart that particular close attempt, since that at least makes sense

@JasonC which ones did you flag in particular?

Jason C

I'll support that.

doppelgreener

@JasonC here's where you can close vote then

Jason C

12:56 AM

@doppelgreener I flagged your second one and the one I posted, requesting consideration for a merge into your third one, with the opinion I gave here.

doppelgreener

@JasonC ok, cool. :)

Jason C

We need meta.meta.se.

cVplZ

proposes meta.meta.se , and only users with the pundit badge on meta.se can join

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