I have a list of the most common offensive and garbage terms folks use, from my last startup project (I bet you can't guess the most common words used by American teenagers...c'mon...guess!).
Here's another way around blocking people with freebie email addresses: Put such users in an "untrusted" status, requiring them to verify their access with an email confirmation note or some other means. We had the same problem with college coaches on my last project. We couldn't give them access to athlete details until we, or they, verified they worked for said institution. If they created their account using the correct .edu address, we "let them in", but if they used their personal account, we called them to verify their details. For phone number, esp with business addresses, you might want to provide separate Phone and Extension boxes, or allow the letter "x" in your phone number field (as in "800-555-1212 x1270"). Bryan Minihan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of jennifer Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 10:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Forms: Validating the basics - can and should it be done? Regarding the phone field: I think we will just validate that no alpha-characters are input, as we do want to include international codes and prefix. It'll be basic validation is all, nothing restrictive. And with email, I agree that it's probably ok to check format; the idea proposed to me was to not allow users to input anything from a freebie/generic domain, e.g., @hotmail.com, so as to *only* receive "real company addresses". I said that we shouldn't do that for a couple reasons: 1- Some people may not be ready to share their company address, regardless that their inquiry may be company related. 2 - The additional labeling and error messaging may produce worse results in the end. -Jennifer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=45860 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
