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Roto13
05-22-2006, 07:05 PM
As evidenced in the attached picture.

At least, I think so.

Khaotic
05-22-2006, 07:14 PM
Yeah, I saw that person too, and was alittle confused why neel had to change his name for disrupting the forum layout, however, as clout says:


The limit when you register is 25 characters

I may be wrong, but I count 24 characters in that name.

Roto13
05-22-2006, 08:46 PM
Maybe the limit should be closer to 18-20, then.

Khaotic
05-22-2006, 09:04 PM
I agree, I just don't think anyone really cared much to make it a dire rule because people usually don't go out of their way to make a huge nickname on a forum.

Leeza
05-22-2006, 09:28 PM
At the moment you may have 25 characters for your screen name...according to cl_out. If he's okay with it, then it should be alright as far as stretching tables, etc.

Dr Unne
05-22-2006, 09:38 PM
Make the limit seven characters.

Raistlin
05-22-2006, 09:42 PM
Yeah, that person's stupid. What a dumb noob.

rubah
05-22-2006, 11:47 PM
hahaha yeah, there's no way an established member of the community would have such a stupidly long name!!

bipper
05-23-2006, 12:00 AM
Or an established Administrator would give an established member such an <del>established</del> long name . :eep:

RSL
05-23-2006, 12:35 AM
Before I changed Monkey's name I made sure it was under 25 characters. I"m sorry, but that's just the way it is. What about The Summoner of Leviathan? No one ever complains about his name. Just live with it.

Dr Unne
05-23-2006, 12:54 AM
"The Summoner of Leviathan" would not stretch the tables. Mandating a space or two in names that are 25 characters long would possibly prevent them from stretching the tables. Given the proper CSS/HTML I guess.

RSL
05-23-2006, 01:00 AM
It would still stretch the tables in roto13's example, just like "Neel With a Spicy Buffalo Chicken Melt" did. This is because on the main page, the text doesn't wrap around.

rubah
05-23-2006, 01:03 AM
*panicks*

I think the solution here is to use a monospace font so 25 characters=25characters=25characters

crono_logical
05-23-2006, 01:06 AM
That one's not actually breaking the tables like Neel's old one was :p Also, it fails to stretch the tables with side-postbit style templates due to nice CSS cutting it off/hiding it at a certain length :p

That 25 character limit's only a guide anyway - it's still nicer if they don't stretch the tables, that limit's just there so less people can actually register with obscenely long names :p

Dr Unne
05-23-2006, 01:07 AM
Someone just needs to take the nowrap="nowrap" off of that TD tag in the template. Then it will wrap the names. (But probably not if they don't have spaces in them. Though I may be wrong.)

crono_logical
05-23-2006, 01:10 AM
It doesn't if there's no space, hence why we added that ages ago :p

EDIT: I think it wraps the name if there's spaces - it only cuts if it can't wrap. It's the custom title that set to not wrap and always cut it. I don't think there's actually a nowrap="nowrap" attribute, it's all CSS.

RSL
05-23-2006, 01:12 AM
So do we think 25 characters is too high a limit? Because that would make several usernames illegal if we changed it.

rubah
05-23-2006, 01:12 AM
set nowrap to something else like custom titles?

crono_logical
05-23-2006, 01:15 AM
I'd rather the limit be "don't stretch the tables" :p

RSL
05-23-2006, 01:15 AM
Yes, but what limit should that be? Is 25 fine? Jojo's new name does stretch it a bit if she has the last post in a thread somewhere, but it isn't that bad.

Roto13
05-23-2006, 01:23 AM
20 sounds good to me.

crono_logical
05-23-2006, 01:25 AM
Make your name extra long again, RSL - it should no longer stretch the table if you're the last poster in a thread :D

RSL
05-23-2006, 01:26 AM
No way, it took like five minutes to change back and I was freaking out.

20 would make several usernames illegal, roto13.

Rye
05-23-2006, 01:40 AM
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f302/ryessica89/gaspRSL.jpg

Gasp!

Though seriously, I have no problem with giant names. It'd be cool if we could take some characters from usernames and say... maybe... put them in custom titles? :D

Leeza
05-23-2006, 01:51 AM
Make your name extra long again, RSL - it should no longer stretch the table if you're the last poster in a thread :D

It did not stretch the tables. I seen it as <i>RSL is changing his name for just a moment do</i>.

The last two words were cut off.

RSL
05-23-2006, 01:54 AM
In a thread, it would. But if I had the last post in a forum, on the main page, it would stretch the tables (like the image in roto13's first post, only more extreme.)

Raistlin
05-23-2006, 02:02 AM
I agree with clout: a set limit is fine just so people don't make obscenely long names, but I think a more general rule of "don't stretch the tables" is fine. It doesn't have to be a set number. If someone hypothetically made a 20-character name which stretched the tables, it shouldn't be allowed - though other people with 20-character names that don't stretch the tables can be allowed (is that even possible?).

-N-
05-23-2006, 02:27 AM
I'll just pre-emptively state that I hate you all. Just in case, you know?

Roto13
05-23-2006, 03:36 AM
20 would make several usernames illegal, roto13.
I can live with that :p


I'll just pre-emptively state that I hate you all. Just in case, you know?
*shun*

Samuraid
05-23-2006, 07:24 AM
Use the "M" rule. You know, use the letter "M" to measure a good character limit since it's one of the widest letters in most fonts. That should establish a good limit.

Xaven
05-27-2006, 06:25 AM
Use the "M" rule. You know, use the letter "M" to measure a good character limit since it's one of the widest letters in most fonts. That should establish a good limit.
I thought it was W.

Maple Story tards use @ signs. :D

Samuraid
05-27-2006, 08:04 AM
M or W, they are both among the widest.