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Advertising & Username Prefix Changes

(#1172) Feature Declined community moderation
by RexSystem edited originally by @OsmanBubba on GitHub

Problem

People keep making special usernames to appear on top and advertise stuff, not that I am against it, but it feels like exploiting the mechanism of sorting members. I don't wanna see the first 15 members with prefixes in their name for this purpose.

Proposed solution

Give an option of listing members randomly or by their id adress on members-sidebar to prevent people from using certain notations on their username to appear on top for advertising, not that I am against advertising, but the action to advertise more effectively sounds not right to me, I don't want to see the first 15 people doing the same thing and appear on the members section with repeating notation at the beginning of their username

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Comment by Rex
RexSystem 1 vote
Status changed from Shipped to Declined
Marked declined because staff said they will likely not add other member sorting options, so shipped was wrong.
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Comment by ternera
terneraMod 1 vote originally by @ternera on GitHub
BTW, it's usually referred to as "hoisting" when users add special characters to put themselves at the top of the member list.
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Comment by @IkariuPrime
RexSystem 1 vote originally by @IkariuPrime on GitHub 1 reply
Would be cool if we can choose between different options (oldest to newest or newest to oldest Fluxer/server join date...)
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Comment by @Fer2G
RexSystem 1 vote originally by @Fer2G on GitHub
Some alternatives:
  • allowing "starts with" filtering so usernames that start with certain patterns are just filtered out
  • allowing sort-by (username/displayname/id/newest-join/oldest-join/etc)
  • having a list of disabled character patterns from community nicknames
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