Same User Names

Nosh*tsherlock

Do I really need to start looking for glasses or have these 2 users got the same name?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=38032

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?userid=46622

Matthewthebig

Yeah someone has worked out how to do it

Giblet

And somebody worked out how to ban them /

seamus

It's a simple HTML trick. Some people think that by doing so, they can escape detection by the Mods.

astec123

Can I ask why the user was banned as they appeared to have done nothing. No rules against this when it was done.

monkeyfudge

Yeah.. if you look at the 'o' in mobile it seems to be in a slightly different font or something...

seamus

astec123 wrote:

Can I ask why the user was banned as they appeared to have done nothing.

Appearances can be deceptive.

Nosh*tsherlock

seamus wrote:

It's a simple HTML trick. Some people think that by doing so, they can escape detection by the Mods.

Ah I see it in the source now!

astec123 wrote:

Can I ask why the user was banned as they appeared to have done nothing. No rules against this when it was done.

Why would you want someone else's nic unless you wanted to cause trouble???

Raphael

Wow, gotta give the guy an A for effort.

Wonder how long it'll be until someone registers Ecksоr....

The Sweeper

/me runs off to register Ecks0r...

seamus

Raphael wrote:

Wonder how long it'll be until someone registers Ecksоr....

About 4 seconds faster than ecksor bans them.

Mimikyu

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Matthewthebig

There is no visual difference, as said above, its in the source code

the_syco

seamus wrote:

It's a simple HTML trick. Some people think that by doing so, they can escape detection by the Mods.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=38032
[php]MobileInfantry[/php]

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?userid=46622

[php]MоbileInfantry[/php]

seamus

Solitaryman666 wrote:

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monkeyfudge said that purely so you'd waste 5 minutes flicking between tabs trying to spot a difference.

TerrorFirmer

Oh come on wtf -

You guys want wierd??

I clicked on this, wondering hmmm, imagine if it was my name!

Couple thousand members and it WAS me.

Wierd.

But anyway. Hang on - its possible its a genuine mistake though - my name is taken from the movie Starship Troopers, and its not uncommon I meet people on CS or other games with the same name as me....could be a coincidence in this case also?

Shabadu

Go read the prison forum. It's the same guy registering to pretend to be other users. He uses a different font for a vowel. He registered Zaph and pretended to be him for a while, and was being a right spa. Am I the only one who subscribes to the prison forum? It's the funniest read ever.

Einstein

Shabadu wrote:

Am I the only one who subscribes to the prison forum? It's the funniest read ever.

no, no, you have a partner in crime right here

monkeyfudge

seamus wrote:

monkeyfudge said that purely so you'd waste 5 minutes flicking between tabs trying to spot a difference.

Haha.. I wish was that cruel.

But I can actually see the difference... perhaps it's an OS X thing...

Baldie

Shabadu wrote:

Am I the only one who subscribes to the prison forum? It's the funniest read ever.

Ya, i go in there now and again! Some good reading! All the lads begging for forgiveness!! funny stuff!

Gordon

monkeyfudge wrote:

But I can actually see the difference... perhaps it's an OS X thing...

ditto on OSX (and Cloud skin).

grimloch

There's a tiny difference but you'd only notice it if you were actually told there was indeed a difference.

I think someone did register as Ecks0r or something like it. I also know there's a 'grimlock' knocking about somewhere, although he's here longer I think.

Talliesin

monkeyfudge wrote:

But I can actually see the difference... perhaps it's an OS X thing...

Given that they should be rendered identically, it's a bug in your browser and/or your OS's text rendering then.

StupidLikeAFox

Divers wrote:

no, no, you have a partner in crime right here

and me! We're like prison wardens





















who never say anything and just hide in the shadows

Gone West

Yep, shabs I look through the prison forum too. I guess more people read it than you'd expect, obviously because we cant post there (how I would like to!) and we dont register as page-views either.

Some stuff there can be funny as hell. And you get to see the nice, cruel side of the Smods

rsynnott

Talliesin wrote:

Given that they should be rendered identically, it's a bug in your browser and/or your OS's text rendering then.

Wrong; the specified code is a Unicode thingy that looks just like an 'o' in some fonts, and not at all like an 'o' in others. It's becoming common to differentiate them at least slightly, mostly because in browsers that support IDNs (international domain names) which is basically everything except IE, it is important to be able to tell that difference.

rsynnott

Yep, prison forum is great fun.

DrIndy

It can be a good laugh sometimes.......

Another reader of the Prison forum.

Tar.Aldarion

most the time...especially when they give up hope...cry...and then abuse..:)

LegacyUser

Where is this prison forum!?!

bruachain

bruachain wrote:

Where is this prison forum!?!

Here.

System > Prison.

Tar.Aldarion

hmm it's in system under the devious name,prison.

monkeyfudge

rsynnott wrote:

Wrong; the specified code is a Unicode thingy that looks just like an 'o' in some fonts, and not at all like an 'o' in others. It's becoming common to differentiate them at least slightly, mostly because in browsers that support IDNs (international domain names) which is basically everything except IE, it is important to be able to tell that difference.

Thank you!

Sheesh.. the very idea that there might be a bug in my OS and/or browser...

I'm not using Windows and Internet Explorer here you know?

Lump

If you stick [ b ] infront of it with out the spaces and [/b] after.... it should let you register.... right?

John

Talliesin

rsynnott wrote:

Wrong; the specified code is a Unicode thingy that looks just like an 'o' in some fonts, and not at all like an 'o' in others.

Right you are, it's an о not an o (Cyrillic rather than Latin).

rsynnott wrote:

It's becoming common to differentiate them at least slightly, mostly because in browsers that support IDNs (international domain names) which is basically everything except IE, it is important to be able to tell that difference.

There's a plug-in for IE that fixes the lack of IDN support. We need better solutions to the spoofing issue than relying on subtle differences in fonts, but that's another matter.

Zaph

I see that bollox is up to his old tricks again. Good to see the mods are being their usual efficient selves and banned him pretty quickly. Another fan of the prison here. It's just like the real thing - everybody's innocent!