Hi,
Art Tevs wrote:
Hi Robert,
robertosfield wrote:
In the real world almost all of us will have a family name and a
personal name and typically the personal name is used in
conversation. Different cultures or even different companies will
have different conventions on which names are put first. In the
context of local communications you can guess which is the personal
and family names quite easily, for instance if I got an post from
Robert Burns I'd guess that I could say Hi Robert in a response to
them, even if the post came through as Burns Robert. However, if
we starting looking at users from different countries then one
simply can't guess reliably which name is which.
So you think using only one name (first or last name, whatever) is
already enough for us? I just do want to have some concrete knowledge
of what do you want to have. We need some rules, however, in order to
implement filtering systems, I need concrete wishes.
The easist way to fix this is in communications follow the
convention:
Hi FirstName,
Text of message
Thanks/Cheers/Regards MyFirstNameThatIsAppropriateoAddressMeAs
This does require extra typing, and hence slightly more effort to
write in this form, but if you read the various threads it's far
easier to see who's saying what, and it's also far more personable.
Believe me or not, but this possibility is already there. There is
some kind of template message appearing whenever you want to write a
post through the forum. So users don't even need to type something
extra, it is already there. The template looks like: --- Hi,
...
Thank you! ---
Maybe you have seen the "..." in the posted messages in the last days
;)
So, what should I do more? If a user isn't able to even follow that
template, what should we then do??? I have no answer for this.
Maybe it can still help to automatically insert the user's name after
the "Thank you!". Then the user will see his forum name in the message
and leave it there, or if it looks silly like:
Thank you!
Real Name
maybe change it.
jp
cheers, art
P.S. Please jsut give me concrete wishes, what you would like to have
and I will try to implement them.
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