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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Real names

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I'm getting the feeling that if you have an uncommon first/surname, you have a much higher chance of working at RED :)
 
Peter Majtan said:
The question is Jarred - how can we really verify the real names? If there is someone from SONY, they can just put anyone else's name or just a plain fake name. This is my first online community and I am one of the "loosers" who use they real name even in their e-mail address... :waaa:
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Exactly.
In any case, if you work for Sony, you could conceivably post under the name SonyRoolz, but if you have to use your real name how is anybody going to know that Fredrick Armbruster Schinkelmeyer III works for Sony?

I can't see how you can really prove a person is who they say they are, at least not online. It takes two minutes to set up an e-mail address which can be in any name you like.

If you're talking about driver's licenses or something like that, unless you are prepared to actually view the original document, again, two minutes work with Photoshop will make you anybody you like.

By the way, I work for one of the "usual suspects" that people insist are so afraid of the RED (not saying which, but generally they aren't).
I'm not here to trash the RED or generally spy on the company, I'm just genuinely interested in the way the industry wind is blowing.

However, I don't know whether my employers would approve of me participating on this forum or not, and I'm not about to blow my cover by asking them.

One way around this is that if somebody has a genuine reason for not wanting their name appearing on the forum, you could use the "find all posts by [this user] to see whether they have beem a disruptive poster, and if not then allow them to post under a pseudonym.

If you want my advice, one way to improve this forum a lot would be for the message editor to refuse to accept any message that's less than so many characters long, so the few nuggets of real information don't get buried in endless streams of single phrase posts like:

Right On!
Fantastic!
Film is definitely choking in its own vomit about now!
etc etc etc etc etc etc.....
 
Plasmatic said:
One way around this is that if somebody has a genuine reason for not wanting their name appearing on the forum, you could use the "find all posts by [this user] to see whether they have beem a disruptive poster, and if not then allow them to post under a pseudonym.
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I think Jannard's the most disruptive poster ;) But in a good way.

Plasmatic said:
If you want my advice, one way to improve this forum a lot would be for the message editor to refuse to accept any message that's less than so many characters long, so the few nuggets of real information don't get buried in endless streams of single phrase posts like:

Right On!
Fantastic!
Film is definitely choking in its own vomit about now!
etc etc etc etc etc etc.....
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Right O.... oh wait.

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com
 
Funny thing, the VFX and 3D animation community knows me as nutman for over a decade and I had that nickname attached to me since 3rd grade because it is the litteral translation of my surname in English.

BTW, PM sent along with a suggestion.

BTW, over at a VFX forum I am a super moderator and I am thoroughly disruptive :) I think it comes with having all that power... I always fix people's grammar to make it readable.
 
Nutman, I expect the gamma police, not the grammar police!

Graeme
 
Graeme the sole purpose of my doing so is because most artists in that forum come from countries where english is not the first language so it helps quite a bit.
 
Nutman, I understand. I just couldn't resist a joke based upon gamma / grammar.

Graeme
 
Joke's on me, I suppose I should loosen up a bit.
btw, I hope Jarred doesn't opt for the "official" first names like in my case it's Grigorios but nobody in their right mind would call me that. Greg or Gregory is easier.
 
nutman said:
Joke's on me, I suppose I should loosen up a bit.
btw, I hope Jarred doesn't opt for the "official" first names like in my case it's Grigorios but nobody in their right mind would call me that. Greg or Gregory is easier.
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At least Grigorios is different and somewhat cool.

Hollywood has started a recent trend to call anything inanimate or stupid "Steve".:) I like my name but wtf.:detective2:
 
I think it's a good idea, I just signed up with "limeyx" as I use that moniker on a bunch of other boards...
 
Actually a Steve happens to be a very good friend of mine.
Steve it's the "somewhat" before the cool that makes me stick with "nutman". Over the years those who know me have come to understand it has a double meaning that's more to do with insanity than my actual surname.
And while we are at it "The Rod" is a good porn name.
 
limeyx said:
Maybe it's his "porn" Name :)
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why this insistence towards his name?.. KETCH is one of the most decent guys i ever met here.. why this replay?.. seems quite offensive.. offending him you're offending many others..
 
FMG...who ever you are!!...we respect/love Ketch well here. I'd be surprised if he was offended.

chill dude.....
 
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