I was thinking of something that might influence the user functions of W3T.
In current version of W3T, we have:
Login ID - in order to login to the system
Full Name - means user's Real Name
Therefore, if there were forums that susceptible to some topics like sex or homosexuality. Users might have to choose not to talk because of showing their personalities that might make the whole forum no longer make sense.
My idea is to add a field called USER_NO and it was a serial number. In the new system, you can then change the whole user section like this:
USER_NO: for query profile & system inner use only
LOGIN_ID: for login only or replaced if full name or nickname is not bing set.
FULL_NAME: or REAL_NAME: user can decide to show this field or not.
NICK_NAME: to be used in posts OR in hidden mode (the board would have to allow user in hidden mode). Bascially my idea is to have 3 set of selectable nicknames when posting.
Thus, the user's name should be shown in posts like this:
- privacy 0
Login Name (Full Name)
* with a link for querying profile
- privacy 1
Login Name
* Full Name did not shown but with a link for querying profile on Login Name
-privacy 2
Nickname
* Enabled and selectable when the board is allow user in hidden mode (a flag triggered).
* No link for querying profile, the others did not know this user's name through even the query parameter because it was only a number (USER_NO) that did not used in public.