On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Michael MacFadden <
michael.macfad...@gmail.com> wrote:

> These are all great ideas, for this thread, I am mainly just looking for
> what fields we think we should have in the User Profile.  I think we will
> have separate threads on privacy controls, permissions and security, etc.
>
> For privacy for the initial pass, I will assume that everything is private
> and nothing is shared with other users other than your user id and avatar.
>
> Still wondering if Nickname / Display name is different than your User Id?


The nick/display name should be separate from the user id. This is very
common functionality and I think users will miss it if we force the display
name to be the user id. Consider the case where the user id is "borked42"
but the user wants there name to appear as "Bob".

-Tad

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