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    Default There needs to be a size limit on screen names

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    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.

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    Maybe the limit should be closer to 18-20, then.

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    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.

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    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.
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    Make the limit seven characters.

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    Yeah, that person's stupid. What a dumb noob.

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    hahaha yeah, there's no way an established member of the community would have such a stupidly long name!!

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    Or an established Administrator would give an established member such an <del>established</del> long name .

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    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.

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    "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.

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    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.

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    *panicks*

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

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    That one's not actually breaking the tables like Neel's old one was 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

    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
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    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.)

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