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New member with same name says he sees correspondence of other member with same name

  • @fsdasdfasdff

    Member

    14 years, 3 months ago

    I got an email from one of our members that says when he registered there was a conversation in his Inbox between a person with his name and another person, but he never had that conversation himself. To clarify, let’s say my name is ‘Frank’ and I register an account. I log in and check my messages and see there is a conversation between another ‘Frank’ and someone named ‘Anne’. But this Frank is not me.

    Is this a known error? I’d really appreciate some feedback on this as this is a pretty serious problem because of privacy. Thanks.

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  • @mercime

    Participant

    14 years, 3 months ago

    This plugin at bottom of post would help you – Creating a Buddypress/Wordpress Username availability checker for your site

    @hnla

    Participant

    14 years, 3 months ago

    @mercime @fsdasdfasdff

    That Username Availibilty Checker has been incorporated into the bp-xtra-signup plugin by Travel-Junkie which also provides password strength feedback. This is a plugin I would recommend people make use of.

    However this issue is not ‘Username’ as there can’t be the same username twice

    @mercime

    Participant

    14 years, 3 months ago

    True @hnla, there shouldn’t be a duplicate username in the first place.
    It could be that a member named “Frank Furter” whose username may be something else like frankfurter messaged Anne who mistakenly replied to @frank instead of @frankfurter :-)

    @hnla

    Participant

    14 years, 3 months ago

    True! OP description does worry slightly though, but need more exacting detail.

    I think though that frankfurter would have been messaging Janet?

    @modemlooper

    Moderator

    14 years, 3 months ago

    Damn it Janet!

    @pcwriter

    Participant

    14 years, 3 months ago

    @hnla

    Well now, another Rocky Horror fan?

    @hnla

    Participant

    14 years, 3 months ago

    Oh Brad!

    @pcwriter

    Participant

    14 years, 3 months ago

    Well, this thread has gotten off-topic but, suddenly, I feel 17 again! :-)

    @hnla

    Participant

    14 years, 3 months ago

    :) Just thinking the same, it’s the Riff Raff that hijacks threads in this way :| :-)

    @mercime

    Participant

    14 years, 3 months ago

    Bless my soul :-) next thing you know some Hot Patootie ;-) will be closing this thread :-(

    @fsdasdfasdff no offense meant :-) let us know if the case of the duplicate Frank was caused by the error in @mentions. Cheers.

    @fsdasdfasdff

    Member

    14 years, 3 months ago

    How does this remedy this issue though? I don’t understand how that plugin can resolve this.

    @mercime

    Participant

    14 years, 3 months ago

    The plugin does not resolve the issue. It was my bad, as @hnla mentioned BP has checks to prevent duplicate usernames. The thing is, if the issue was brought about by what I mentioned above, then members should be taught to use @mentions with usernames instead of first names. Perhaps a plugin which shows a popup of “Franks” for member to choose from should be available to prevent breach of privacy.

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