Comments on: YOU CAN STILL CAP WITHOUT A PASSWORD (if you’ve never registered)

By: ReptilianSamurai

ReptilianSamurai — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:44:49 +0000

Actually, I thought the similar looking handles thing was a hoot. Once we spotted the clever changes (I went by another1one, the number 1 was changed into a lowercase L, which looked similar in that font. Another poster has some numbers in his handle reversed.)

One thing is for sure.. Cappers can find humor in the strangest things. ;-)

Also - thanks for finally adding handle registration! I think it’s the best new addition yet. I love that IS is always being improved. :-)

By: GersonK

GersonK — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:27:30 +0000

Unfortunately, one of the new system’s drawbacks is that it can’t protect against similar looking handles. I think systems that do so automatically are pretty rare, and this isn’t Fort Knox. (Deep down, I acknowledge that this security is just a little better than nothing - it will get better, and it helps me offer things like the profile link, which I also hope to make easier) .

Ultimately people have to look at a handle closley before they decide who to get pissed off at. The rules of the net are that ServoDude54 and ServoDude58 would be different people, and around here GersonK with an oh and Gers0nK with a zero can be two different people (for the time being). GersOnK on the other hand would be me. Well, actually nobody can cap as GersOnK because of the case sensitivity thing. I’m looking into that.

By: UpSky2

UpSky2 — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:30:29 +0000

(I knew MirandaRamsey had Iverson and Jeff, but I hadn’t heard of General Weirdness as being among her friends. He should get back to the war instead of messin’ with the menage.;)

By: tinaw

tinaw — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:51:39 +0000

There was also the whole ****i debacle (I dare not say the name), where the person would change one letter and basically steal another capper’s name. Thankfully, that hasn’t happened here. Just Mrs. Ramsey’s general weirdness.

By: E_the_E

E_the_E — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:27:11 +0000

Hey Cam, I believe you can cap without a password only if your handle isn’t registered. If you registered your handle at Wasting Precious Time, that handle will now require a password to use on Inventing Situations. Makes sense to me… that’s how we did it back in the Caption This! days, and this just allows us cappers a little ownership of our handles. While I’ve never even thought that somebody else would use my handle… let’s face it, we may be a loose conglomerate of loons, but we’re still a tightknit community of trustworthy cool people. I think the only time there’s been a handle hijacking is every once in a while when somebody pops up as Miranda Ramsey.

By: cambria36

cambria36 — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:59:42 +0000

I know you’re SAYing we can cap without a password. I, however, cannot.
It will not post my caps. I’m wondering why…???

By: SilentFilmStar

SilentFilmStar — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 06:43:03 +0000

Works now. Thanks so much! I’ve said it before, but I’m gonna say it again–Gerson, you rock the world! (And don’t forget it!)

By: GersonK

GersonK — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 06:27:12 +0000

Ok, I just fixed it. Sorry about that, a bug crept into that page a while back due to security fixes. Of course. Really should’ve doublechecked it before this change, but of course it wasn’t touched by *this* change.

By: SilentFilmStar

SilentFilmStar — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 06:08:42 +0000

That’s actually the page I tried, but it says I don’t exist, no matter which information I enter (username or email).

By: GersonK

GersonK — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 05:48:43 +0000

You can retrieve your account with this page provided you still have access to the email account you registered with.