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Claudio González
Legend
April 21, 2010
Question

Two persons with the same screen name?

  • April 21, 2010
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Am I seeing things, or here we have two persons with the same screen name?

http://forums.adobe.com/people/Federico_Plat%C3%B3n

http://forums.adobe.com/people/federico%20platon

(Yes, I know it's really two identities belonging to the same person, but to my eye both screen names look identical on screen; and I thought the system prevented entering a screen name already in use).

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    Captiv8r
    Legend
    April 21, 2010

    I note that one of the names contains a simple " o " in Platon while the other has an accented " ó ". So it would not surpise me that any software (Jive or otherwise) would not be able to recognize that Platon and Platón were supposed to be one and the same name.

    Just observing... Rick

    Claudio González
    Legend
    April 21, 2010

    Captiv8r wrote:

    I note that one of the names contains a simple " o " in Platon while the other has an accented " ó ".

    ...

    Well, your monitor must be much better than mine:

    Captiv8r
    Legend
    April 21, 2010

    Hi Claudio

    Here's where I see it:

    Click the image to see at full size...

    Cheers... Rick

    Inspiring
    April 21, 2010

    Claudio González wrote on 4/21/2010 2:47 AM:

    I thought the system prevented entering a screen name already in use).

    Maybe on the side of an Adobe ID. On the Jive side only ID and username

    are required to be unique. The system does not prevent duplicate

    firstName and lastName and users can choose to be known by their first

    and last name instead of their username. See the difference in the

    nameVisible element between:

    http://forums.adobe.com/rpc/rest/userService/usersByID/1

    http://forums.adobe.com/rpc/rest/userService/usersByID/311302

    Jacob Bugge
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    April 21, 2010

    Does this mean that the issue with forum members that lost their screen name because they had a Macromedia doppelganger before the Adobe/Macromedia merge could have retained/regained their original screen name?

    Inspiring
    April 21, 2010

    No.