Last modified: 2005-09-06 13:30:57 UTC
When a user registers a new name, if the name is too similar to that of an existing user (e.g. only one or two letters changed, such as RickK -> RicKK), it should be disallowed. We get far too many impersonation attacks, and some of them are quite subtle, e.g. the infamous lowercase-l vs. uppercase-i trick, or tiny accents on letters. Possibly check each letter to a set of variants (which would be the same letter with different accents) and consider those the same for this purpose.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2290 ***