I'm excited that you're starting up this site, Ahmed, and I hope we'll be able to add some tools for you to list soon!
As for the question of how to verify identity, by design it should currently be impossible. We're definitely willing to think about ways of making identity verifiable with the explicit permission of the user. We're a bit busy right now, so nothing's going to happen right away, but here's an idea for your comment: At the bottom of the "Update Profile" (AKA registration) page, add a radio button that lets you choose one of the following options: o A. Do not publish my email address in any way (default). o B. Allow people to confirm that my email address and nickname belong to the same person. o C. Allow people to look up my nickname using my email address, and B. o D. Allow registered contestants to look up my email address using my nickname, and C. B would be accessible from a url like /codejam/[email protected] &n=Ruberik. C would be accessible from the "Add friend" button and a similar URL. D would be accessible from a similar URL. Thoughts? Bartholomew On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Ahmed Aly <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, I thought about this. But you can't get the nickname given the email, > or the email given the nickname. > I think for privacy reasons we can't get the email given the nickname. > But what about getting the nickname given email (the email which he used to > register in code jam)? > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Mohamed Bilal <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 4/27/11, Ahmed Aly <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi everyone, >> > >> > This is a question to the admins, but I thought maybe someone else can >> > answer it. >> > >> > I'm going to make a tools website for Google code jam, but some features >> > need a registration first. >> > And in the registration you need to enter your Google code jam nickname. >> > Is there any way to verify that he is the real owner for this nickname? >> I could think of a way, let's try if it works. If we can get the >> email-id associated with the google code jam nick name, then you could >> send a verification mail to the email-id of the user and ask him to >> verify himself. >> >> For this idea, we should be able to retrieve the email id associated >> with the nick name. Is there any ways to retrieve it? >> > >> > -- >> > Best Regards, >> > Ahmed Aly >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > "google-codejam" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > [email protected]. >> > For more options, visit this group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. >> > >> > >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> A.Mohamed Bilal >> http://bilalpc.blogspot.com >> http://allplacement-papers.blogspot.com >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "google-codejam" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. >> >> > > > -- > Best Regards, > Ahmed Aly > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "google-codejam" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en.
