I'd like a feature that would let me annotate user names:

Every time a link to a user name appears it could be marked with a user-definable comment: mirod (that's me), or TheDamian (yes, the Real One), or podmaster (don't forget to comment on his last post), or Matts (XML Freak).

Yes, it sounds stoopid, but for those of us (me!) cursed with a real bad memory I thought it might be useful, or at least cute, and probably not that difficult (easy to say without looking at the code ;--) using a table similar to the one that lists /ignore'd users.

It would be really handy for people I already know under an other name and who don't post regularly, or for people with similar looking nicknames.

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Re: Useless feature request of the day
by moodster (Hermit) on Apr 11, 2002 at 11:56 UTC
    I like it.

    I agree that'd be a nice feature to have, as there are several users I'm having a hard time telling apart. Let's face it: when I encounter a fellow monk online, the name space is what has the greatest impact on my mental image of that monk. Of course, I may later on visit the home node but the handle is what I see first and that's what matters most. It'd be nice to have the ability to attach a small comment or reminder to a handle and have that comment displayed in the Other Users nodelet (I assume that's what you meant, and I also assume that the comment is only viewable by me).

    Dunno if it's feasible, though. Or even desirable. The dev team might have more important stuff to deal with right now.

    Cheers,
    --Moodster

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      Actually the comment could be displayed anywhere the nick is linked, a-la slashdot links. It would just require an extra lookup in a table when building the link from the bracketed name.

      And yes the comment would only be displayed to the user that created it.

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Re: Useless feature request of the day
by ehdonhon (Curate) on Apr 11, 2002 at 12:14 UTC

    I think it's a good idea. Maybe it could be extended to other node types in addition to users? I think it would be kind of cool, for example when people make references in their posts like this if I could force the actual subject line to be available like this (Useless feature request of the day, mirod).

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      Uh? I can't quite make sense of your answer...</p.

      Are you asking for the possibility to specify the text of a link to a post? You can do this by using [<id> or <title>|<link text>] like this: [id://158289| your reply] renders as your reply. site how to has more on this.

      My idea is just to allow annotation of the name of users so I remember that graham is not Graham Barr, but that gbarr is (I believe!)

      Update: after re-reading your post I managed to make sense of it (it wasn't that hard, actually, just my natural dumbness kicking in). And this answer is all wrong... So yes, it might be useful to get this feature available for other types of nodes, sorry.

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