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[Sergarr]

I think it's automated in looking for potential targets but one way you can confirm that it is your actual name is by sending them scans of official documents verifying your identity, so I think that part is actually human.

And yeah, fake last name is probably the way to go in the end :S

I'm moderately sure that there are a couple hundred scans of some poor sods floating around on the Internet, so...

Alternative solution: don't use social networks for anything except private messages.

[Yoink]

grisha5

[Sergarr]

grisha5

I at first thought that was another return of the shock image spammer.

[crazysheep]

On the other hand... POH went round changing some of his thread titles to grisha5. April Fools?

[Loud Whispers]

April's fools day is the best day for any authoritarian power to commit a horrible atrocity; the informational world would be too flooded and self-slided with fools' spam to notice anything.

[Rose]

So Facebook is doing something fucked up and I can't understand why. They're basically hunting down people who don't have their actual names/surnames displayed on their profiles and forcing them to either change them or get banned. A friend is very careful about showing her last name online because of rather valid resons and is now forced to either reveal it or lose a bunch of stuff she's in on over FB (by that I mean actual work or pages she's running).

I honestly can't see the logic behind this, because at best you've forced some people to show their real names thus exposing them to all kinds of potential shitty situations or you've driven off people to the competition because they don't want to put up with your shit.

Yeah, my mom got hit by this. Asses.

[Lord Shonus]

So Facebook is doing something fucked up and I can't understand why. They're basically hunting down people who don't have their actual names/surnames displayed on their profiles and forcing them to either change them or get banned. A friend is very careful about showing her last name online because of rather valid resons and is now forced to either reveal it or lose a bunch of stuff she's in on over FB (by that I mean actual work or pages she's running).

I honestly can't see the logic behind this, because at best you've forced some people to show their real names thus exposing them to all kinds of potential shitty situations or you've driven off people to the competition because they don't want to put up with your shit.

There's no such rule in Facebook's policy, and a proven hoax about such a policy was circulated as going into effect last year around this same time.




My WTF for the day:

I've been working at this place for two and a half months, recieved only positive feedback, and everyone official I spoke to regularly said things like "this is how you use this machine, but you won't get an access code until you're hired in" or "we have to wait until you're hired in to engrave an ID on your tools (done so that they know the expensive micrometer you're taking home is yours and not theirs), so we're just writing it in marker for now, we'll do it when you get them recalibrated".

Much to my surprise, and to the open confusion of my immediate supervisor and his immediate supervisor, I was let go this morning due to "excessive inefficiency", never mind that most of that inefficiency is because I kept having to get someone else to do things that the company simply couldn't spare someone to train me for, or that I didn't have access to yet because I'm not hired in. Literally nobody saw this coming, with even the front office liason with the temp service I went through to get the job being openly baffled by the situation.

My second WTF of the day is the temp service is trying harder to get me back in than the union did when I lost my last job.

[Zangi]

Corporate efficiency at its finest.

[Sirus]

On the other hand... POH went round changing some of his thread titles to grisha5. April Fools?

What the fuck is up with that, anyway?

[crazysheep]

Check for hidden messages, Sirus

[Neyvn]

It still surprises me that people have no idea how to Dungeon Raid in MMOs. I play as Tank so I know that I am doing my job right when people ain't dying yet every time I am forced to PUG I find someone that is playing a squishy caster rushing ahead pulling everything or just not focus firing that of the target the tank is so as not to pull aggro of the Adds...

WHATS MORE, it seems that Boss Adds are foreign things to them and the DPS just left them to overwork Tank and Healer instead of quickly removing them. Or the Caster using their knockback skill to push the Tank Target away from him and thus losing aggro on him as the target returns or such cause he has to keep other Adds aggro'd too...

I would have thought that in this day and age where there is an MMO for every person on this planet that basic Dungeon Raiding would have been clear on what role you fill...

[penguinofhonor]

grisha5

[Sirus]

I didn't realize that spam was considered an April Fool's Joke nowadays
Should we welcome the shock spammer back as well, with open arms? It's just about as funny and creative.

[Jopax]

So Facebook is doing something fucked up and I can't understand why. They're basically hunting down people who don't have their actual names/surnames displayed on their profiles and forcing them to either change them or get banned. A friend is very careful about showing her last name online because of rather valid resons and is now forced to either reveal it or lose a bunch of stuff she's in on over FB (by that I mean actual work or pages she's running).

I honestly can't see the logic behind this, because at best you've forced some people to show their real names thus exposing them to all kinds of potential shitty situations or you've driven off people to the competition because they don't want to put up with your shit.

There's no such rule in Facebook's policy, and a proven hoax about such a policy was circulated as going into effect last year around this same time.

Then explain why she got banned for no apparent reason, she certainly wasn't breaking any rules that she was aware of :S

[Baffler]

Maybe this is Facebook's idea of an April Fool's joke.