identity theft problem

  • sagaroth

    (@sagaroth)


    12 years, 3 months ago

    Hello everyone, I have a concern rather annoying.

    Here the administrator of my site display their nickname as the name displayed plubliquement.
    But I’ve realized that if a member used the nickname of my admin as is firstname and it showed this firstname as the name displayed publicly, I met a kind of identity theft. Rather annoying.

    How can I do?

    thank you!

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    12 years, 3 months ago

    Can you give an example of what you mean?

    Thread Starter sagaroth

    (@sagaroth)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    My site is about MMORPG. So the majority of users use nicknames.
    Imagine my admin have the nickname Bobby.
    A member with the nickname Mike subscribe to my site.

    Mike goes into his profile and decides to use Bobby as name.
    He then chose to display this name as the name shown publicly.

    So when Mike comment on something, the nickname will be displayed Bobby.

    My admin use Bobby as the name shown publicly. So if he comment, the nickname will be displayed Bobby. This could create hugely conflicts.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    12 years, 3 months ago

    Aren’t you using another means of identifying yourself as an admin? For example on these forums I could change my display name to “Andrew” but I still have my status “Volunteer Moderator” underneath my name.

    My admin use Bobby as the name shown publicly. So if he comment, the nickname will be displayed Bobby. This could create hugely conflicts.

    What conflicts other than two people with the same name?

    Thread Starter sagaroth

    (@sagaroth)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    For example, someone could easily pass for one of my admins. if there is a lot of comments. No there is not a way to restrict the ability of public display name choice?
    For example, since you can not even have 2 nicks on a site, I would leave the default name of the user as shown publicly name and I do not have to change the name would authorize shown publicly.

    Is this possible?

    (Sorry for my English šŸ˜‰ )

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    12 years, 3 months ago

    Let’s see the website and webpage in question

    Thread Starter sagaroth

    (@sagaroth)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    The site is http://historyofrappelz.com/
    We can test this on http://historyofrappelz.com/bonjour-tout-le-monde/
    (The site is in creation, so if he is no perfect its normal :P)

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    12 years, 3 months ago

    Can you also link to a page that has comments (other than the author)?

    Thread Starter sagaroth

    (@sagaroth)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    Here’s your comment is approved.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    12 years, 3 months ago

    Yes that is a bit rubbish.

    Can you ask your theme’s vendors to put a class into the author’s comments? Then you can just use CSS to style authors differently.

    Thread Starter sagaroth

    (@sagaroth)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    Okay I’ll watch with them šŸ™‚

    Thank you very much for your advice and your time!

    Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    possibly related
    http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-to-restrict-usernames-and-disable-nicknames-in-wordpress/

    Thread Starter sagaroth

    (@sagaroth)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    I will see that ! Thanks !

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