About those pluses added to your names in the comments
Many of you may have noticed that suddenly there’s a plus added in the comments between any username that has two parts, such as a first and last name. I’ve been told it can be remedied if you just take the plus out of the name field once, and it won’t show up again.
Hope that works.
I like my plus (+). Don’t mess with my +.
Jahaziel + :
I always say – if you like your plus, you can keep your plus.
Be careful neo I’ve heard Amy Coney Barrett is coming for your plus!
Oh, and I thought it was your way of marking us in your “little black book”.
Jahaziel+Maqqebet: Plusgood. (Man, that name is tough to pronounce. Arabic second half?)
Neo, your guidance worked for me already. It was just a question of catching it the one time, and then saving it with the plus subtracted.
Maybe at some point we’ll start seeing other random mathematical operators. Trying to / us, you know, based on our mathematical
preferenceorientation.Usually when a work-around is used for white space, it means there is some dumb code which splits a string into two tokens if there is a space, which then throws off the parsing code further downstream.
Thus “John Smith” might become:
Name: John
Address: Smith
My guess is WordPress got jammed up that way, forced a fix by replacing all spaces in logins with pluses to buy time so blogs would keep working, then quietly fixed the real bug, so users can now restore their spaces if they want.
Ugly, though understandable.
I spotted that at the time . . . at first I was nonplussed, but then I regained my composure. Restored the spaces, all’s well that ends well.
M J R: To this day I will not put spaces in any of my directory names to avoid this problem.
I’m still mad at Microsoft for the “Program Files” folder.
I’m leaving this comment primarily to find out if I merited a plus, which indeed I did, until I took it out as per Neo’s instructions. But while I’m commenting, let me just say that the commenters before me certainly found a bunch of different ways to be very funny indeed.
I was wondering about that!
Now, perhaps someone can inform how to add an avatar to the signature name. Scott – how did you do it?
I didn’t ask for a plus, and don’t want a plus, so I’ve deleted it and replaced it with a space.
Did you hear about the parents of an Asian kid who were very upset about their child’s comprehensive report card. All “A” expect for one “B”.
on blood type.
(my blood is A+, like all my kids…)
Space seems to work, and edit still works. Some gravatar or other system took my picture from somewhere… (not very helpful here, sorry)