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Re: Member Name Best Practice(s)? #wiki #username #displayname #database

 
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Barry,

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But, in our case, we want full and real names to appear with every post made. My question is how best to use the platform to ensure that?
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I think the simplest thing to do is establish a group rule (via the group's guidelines) that members must put their full name into the Display Name field in the Group Profile tab of their Subscription page for your group. That field will have defaulted to their Display Name from their account profile, but they can change it separately in each of their group subscriptions.
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If you check the New Users Moderated box in your group's settings you can double-check that they've set their name before you approve their first message(s).
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For the 300 that are already members, if you didn't have that setting in place you can (with some tedium) go through the Members list and change each of their Posting Privileges setting to Override: new user moderated to get the same effect going forward. You can change a page full of them at a time using the checkboxes in the Members list and the Actions menu at the bottom of the page. In your Account Preferences page there's a control for how many items are shown to you on each page.
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Both user name and display name are controllable by the member so no way (unless I'm wrong/unaware) for me, as an owner, to force one of those to be the real name.

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Correct. Signature line too.
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If a member "forgets" and changes their Display Name to something else you'll need to handle that as a member management issue. You can contact them off list, you can even put them back on Override: new user moderated until they correct it.
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There has been a suggestion [] that a group be able to prevent member changes to their Display Name. I'm not fond of that idea, but I can see how it could be useful in a group with a strict rule about posting under your real name.
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... so just have to manage it by a rule requiring members to sign any post with first and last name?? Did that on a yahoo group.

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An advantage here is that the members can also set a signature line in their group subscription, so they don't have to remember to do it in each message (or do it in their email interface).
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Whether you require that they use their Display Name or their Signature for real name identification is up to you, and how you want group messages to "read". Using the Signature line has the look of a formal letter. Enforcement (by peer pressure and moderator action) would work the same either way.
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Shal
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