Change to real names policy.

James Puckett

I have decided to relax the real names policy a little. If you do not wish to use your real name then you may use a trade name that obviously identifies you. Examples of an obviously identifiable trade name would be Yanone, KLTF, or Chank. Please do not use the name of your business if your business is not obviously the business of one person. An example of a name that does not obviously identify one person is “Dunwich Type Founders”.

Ermin Međedović

How about one person company "Lettermin"? Is it obvious enough?

D. Epar ted

Oh, I was hoping to change my name to Guy O'Teen.

Scott-Martin Kosofsky

David, this is infringement. I'm Guy O'Teen™, you're Sal Minella.

James, this is a slippery slope--a bad idea.

SiDaniels

Great idea!

Jan Schmoeger

A step backwards, imo.

Nick Shinn

Pandering to the Smart Alecs.

LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland

Finally I feel like myself again.

John Hudson

James, I think the sort of thing you want to accommodate could be done by changing the rule to say that one must either post as an individual under one's real name or as a business entity under a recognised corporate or DBA designation.

Dave Crossland

I think this is fine.

@John I think its too much beaurocracy

Sye Robertson

I don't know if this is anything to go on, but the Recent Activity section shows a lot of names that don't obviously look like 'real' names.

James Puckett

There have been a lot of spambots joining lately, and I took a break from culls after moving house. Yesterday I banned a bunch, and more will be banned later. I tend to sit on them a while to differentiate returning forum lurkers from spammers creating sleeper accounts and not visiting the site again.

Chris Lozos

I recently marked a post as spam because it seemed obvious. Should I be doing that though?

Stephen Coles

Yes.

James Puckett

If enough users flag spam it automatically get sent to the spam queue. This is useful when moderators aren’t watching.