Timeline for Is imitating allowed - mainly with names?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:25 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://askubuntu.com/ with https://askubuntu.com/
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| Mar 2, 2014 at 7:41 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/AskUbuntu/status/440029075458244608 | ||
| Feb 21, 2014 at 10:51 | comment | added | don.joey | @MarcoCeppi "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"? I don't think one should be flattered by the action of a bot... | |
| Feb 17, 2014 at 6:26 | comment | added | Registered User |
I think imagemagick does not only give if images are exactly same, but also tells how close to exactness they are.BTW I'm just a 17 year old computer science student.I've got no experience with image processing. :-)
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| Feb 17, 2014 at 6:15 | comment | added | Wilf | @adityapatil Nice thought - they could be scaled to the same size to counteract the different sizes of image (as that is why the top pic is blurry) - though there could be varying issues with that... also what if two similar emails/IDs (I think that is what they are based on...) encode similar images? (the ones like this) | |
| Feb 17, 2014 at 6:12 | vote | accept | Wilf | ||
| Feb 17, 2014 at 5:59 | comment | added | Registered User |
why not use imagemagick to check avatars for equivalence.If both name and avatar is same, we should suggest user to change one.
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| Feb 16, 2014 at 10:27 | history | edited | kiri |
not a bug
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| Feb 15, 2014 at 23:34 | comment | added | kiri | @Wilf: The user you referenced has been deleted. I'm asking about in future. | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 23:32 | comment | added | Wilf | @minerz029 - I think the user I was reffering to currently has no user | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 23:30 | comment | added | kiri | Question: How do you flag a user if they've no posts? | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 23:29 | answer | added | kiri | timeline score: 11 | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 18:03 | comment | added | Marco Ceppi Mod | imitation is the sincerest form of flattery | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 17:37 | comment | added | Wilf | @Mateo - weird ain't it - I think they take advantage of blade*'s user name having lots of numbers in it. | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 17:35 | comment | added | Mateo | that is not the only one... i.sstatic.net/unLhf.png | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 17:35 | history | edited | Wilf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 15, 2014 at 17:34 | comment | added | user98085 | Well, suggest a better solution, then. This is the kind of thing that's best handled manually (because there's inherently personal user information involved) - it might just take a while. | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 17:33 | comment | added | Wilf | I don't really have a problem with it, just puzzled why there does not seem to be an attempt at a better solution... | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 17:31 | comment | added | user98085 | I'm not sure what your problem is, really. Flag any of the user's posts for moderator attention, and they'll suspend the fake. There won't be a blanket ban on this, however. | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 17:28 | comment | added | Wilf | That's sort of the problem - I think there are lots of users called 'Alex' etc, and they can happily use that as their name - it is just problems occur with this sort of thing, where the name + pic are roughly the same... I dunno, really. It is annoying on other sites having to be called User2224 or whatever... There is this as well... | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 17:28 | comment | added | user98085 | Related: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/25404/… | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 17:27 | comment | added | user98085 | Of course impersonation isn't allowed. Users on SE are, however, identified by ID not by their name. After all, two users could have the same real name, why should they not be allowed to use that name? | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 17:21 | history | asked | Wilf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
