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Old Oct 27, 2011 | 12:54 pm
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IBobi
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Originally Posted by lin821
IB, what's your solution, if any? Are you guys going to contact every FTer with hypens in their handles and request them a handle change?

Or are you going to set up a system to NOT allow any new handle with any hyphen in it?
I like both of those approaches

It's a technical issue having to do with the software that runs the site. Nothing that can be tweaked individually for FT, unfortunately. Maybe in some future version it won't be a problem any longer, or we will be able to turn off punctuation in user names. For now, we deal with it as best we can on a case-by-case basis.
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