[wp-forums] Usernames and WordPress

[James Huff]

Banning "wordpress" from new usernames would probably be a good idea.

For now, I'd say remove any URLs from their profile (since it's more than likely an SEO stunt), bozo them, and keep a close eye on them.

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On Dec 20, 2010, at 2:28 PM, Mika A Epstein wrote:

> Huh, well it's not against trademark I think, but it is distasteful. What would happen if we put wordpress in the banned name filter for the forums?
> 
> On Dec 20, 2010, at 4:17 PM, esmi at quirm dot net <esmi at quirm.net> wrote:
> 
>> on 20/12/2010 22:11 esmi at quirm dot net said the following:
>>> What's the current process for dealing with users who have the name
>>> "wordpress" in their user name?
>> 
>> And another:
>> 
>> <http://wordpress.org/support/profile/wordpressfun2011>
>> 
>> Mel
>> 
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