Habitual
05-13-2008, 05:48 PM
These problems in particular:
if your particular user ID is already being used over on LiveScience, Space.com or Aviation.com, you’re out of luck. I went over to Space.com and created an account to use on the Space.com message board. I then went over to Aviation.com and tried to do the same thing using the same user ID. No dice. It said that user ID was already taken. What this means is that someone, anyone, can go over to any one of these “sister sites” and create a user ID using an existing Newsarama user ID and there is nothing the person over on Newsarama that originally had the user ID can do about it. The potential for abuse it great.
Another problem people will have is that over on the other Pluck-based message board system, user ID’s using two words is not possible. That means instead of using John Smith, a person will be forced to use John_Smith.
Both of these wrinkles will make it difficult to find and read past messages posted on the originally Newsarama website.
Hab
if your particular user ID is already being used over on LiveScience, Space.com or Aviation.com, you’re out of luck. I went over to Space.com and created an account to use on the Space.com message board. I then went over to Aviation.com and tried to do the same thing using the same user ID. No dice. It said that user ID was already taken. What this means is that someone, anyone, can go over to any one of these “sister sites” and create a user ID using an existing Newsarama user ID and there is nothing the person over on Newsarama that originally had the user ID can do about it. The potential for abuse it great.
Another problem people will have is that over on the other Pluck-based message board system, user ID’s using two words is not possible. That means instead of using John Smith, a person will be forced to use John_Smith.
Both of these wrinkles will make it difficult to find and read past messages posted on the originally Newsarama website.
Hab