Oops! There was a bug in Adopting a new pet that allowed you to use names that already existed, if you put a space before or after the name you'd like.
We have fixed this bug, and are asking that those of you who've used it to send a sMail to one of the User Administrators as soon as you can with three (3) names you wouldn't mind your pets name changed to. (Please do not contact multiple members of staff about this as it can cause complications and mix-ups.)
In a week, we will be running a script that will automatically rename all of these pets into really ugly combinations of letters and numbers, so please sMail the user admins ASAP!
(This fish gives me nightmares by the way.)
Posted by Keith
Ginger
on live journal a year or more ago they had a similar problem with usernames that ended with a hyphen at the end, the url of that sort of name was unsecure so they let people change the username free
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-gasp- Random letters and numbers...-shudders- there's nothing scarier XD I would hate to have any of my pets names in that form (they'd go straight to the adoption center if that happened). Luckily it doesn't concern me. But I would kill to have a chance to change some of my pets names without having to pay.
<b>Quote:</b><blockquote style="padding:5px; line-height:15px; background-color: #FAFFFF; border: 1px solid #000000; font-family: georgia; font-size: 10;">Right now, we are only doing this for pets with spaces before or after the name. If your pet uses other characters or has spaces elsewhere in the name, there's nothing to be concerned about at this juncture.</blockquote><br />
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Thank you so much Mbif. That's all I wanted to know. ^^
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Thank you so much Mbif. That's all I wanted to know. ^^
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Guys. This ONLY affects pets with a space /before/ and/or /after/ their name. No other characters. No spaces in the middle.
Dill
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Yes, you will still have to choose out new names even if the owner of the original name is frozen. It's still unfair to users who have been legitimately waiting for those names to clear, and if the user successfully contests their freezing and gets unfrozen, then there are all sorts of problems. Besides which, the pets with fore and aft spaces don't show up properly in search. <br />
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Right now, we are only doing this for pets with spaces before or after the name. If your pet uses other characters or has spaces elsewhere in the name, there's nothing to be concerned about at this juncture. <img src="http://images.subeta.org/smilies/6398_emoticon_happy.gif" border="0" />
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Right now, we are only doing this for pets with spaces before or after the name. If your pet uses other characters or has spaces elsewhere in the name, there's nothing to be concerned about at this juncture. <img src="http://images.subeta.org/smilies/6398_emoticon_happy.gif" border="0" />
Is this just for pets with spaces in their names? Or will you eventually be changing those with special characters too? (For example Kisarag¡ and K¡tty).<br />
The last 'I' in Kisar's name is ALT code 0161. (Ditto for the 'I' in Kitty's name.)<br />
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They both show up if you search for them. I'm just curious if I need to start thinking up some new names or not though. ^^; <br />
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And thanks for the forewarning. Its awesome you guys decided to give everyone a chance to fix their pet names, rather than just changing them. =3
The last 'I' in Kisar's name is ALT code 0161. (Ditto for the 'I' in Kitty's name.)<br />
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They both show up if you search for them. I'm just curious if I need to start thinking up some new names or not though. ^^; <br />
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And thanks for the forewarning. Its awesome you guys decided to give everyone a chance to fix their pet names, rather than just changing them. =3
And I was so excited over owning Popcorn. You know what you lot should do? Fix up those damned dead accounts from the whol cat fiasco. e.e
I would so kill to be able to change one of my pets names, but sadly I can not. ;_; I am neither rich nor poor and nor am I affected by said glitch.
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does this effect characters like "!" ?
You can search the name, with the space or not, to see if your pet comes up in the search. If it does not, it has a space before it.
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What if I adopted most my pets from Veta Lake and it doesn't show if they have a space or not? <img src="http://images.subeta.org/smilies/smiley_sadface.gif" border="0" /> Then what? What if I don't know about the space and I get an ugly name?
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<b>Quote:</b><blockquote style="padding:5px; line-height:15px; background-color: #FAFFFF; border: 1px solid #000000; font-family: georgia; font-size: 10;">So even if the user is frozen we still have to change it? :/</blockquote><br />
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That's what I wanna know. <img src="http://images.subeta.org/smilies/6398_emoticon_sad.gif" border="0" /> Most of the owners of the pets I have are frozen, I don't wanna get rid of them.
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That's what I wanna know. <img src="http://images.subeta.org/smilies/6398_emoticon_sad.gif" border="0" /> Most of the owners of the pets I have are frozen, I don't wanna get rid of them.
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Glad I adopted Radical instead of the (space)Barcode I almost adopted. =x
Good. x_x<br />
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That had been bothering me for a while..<br />
And for those of you who are complaining that they should have told you earlier, if you've been playing Subeta for any amount of time at all, it should've been obvious. That's why you see lists like <br />
Sasuke<br />
.Sasuke.<br />
..Sasuke..<br />
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In any case, be happy they're giving you an option. I understand it got your hopes up, but if the glitch hadn't occurred, you wouldn't have been able to have those names in the first place.
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That had been bothering me for a while..<br />
And for those of you who are complaining that they should have told you earlier, if you've been playing Subeta for any amount of time at all, it should've been obvious. That's why you see lists like <br />
Sasuke<br />
.Sasuke.<br />
..Sasuke..<br />
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In any case, be happy they're giving you an option. I understand it got your hopes up, but if the glitch hadn't occurred, you wouldn't have been able to have those names in the first place.
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I'd still like to know how to check to see if names of pets adopted from the pound have spaces in their names.
Keith
STAFF
You aren't causing trouble <img src="http://images.subeta.org/smilies/6398_emoticon_smile.gif" border="0" /> I can understand how they are important to you - pets are one of the central parts of the site. <br />
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However, we are trying to respect the people who had those names first.
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However, we are trying to respect the people who had those names first.
Okay, I'm sorry, I'm not trying to cause trouble. The names of my pets are just HUGELY important to me, so this is just making me upset. shuts up now
Keith
STAFF
We are doing everything we can to make sure that the staff members are all on the same page with all issues. However, sometimes, things like this slip by. However, we have corrected the issue [You expect us to have everything perfect, all the time? And if we do mess up, to not correct it?] <img src="http://images.subeta.org/smilies/6398_emoticon_smile.gif" border="0" />
Well, I just got my Mallarchy renamed, and I'm grateful I got to change for no cost rather than having to pay for it myself or end up with a terribly-named pet.<img src="http://images.subeta.org/smilies/6398_emoticon_grin.gif" border="0" />
"we will be running a script that will automatically rename all of these pets into really ugly combinations of letters and numbers"<br />
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Am I the only one that likes this quote alot? XD
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Am I the only one that likes this quote alot? XD
This isn't the first time you guys haven't gotten rules straight before telling us what is and isn't allowed. Why does this keep happening?
I'm not freaking out, I'm just saying that if we didnt know it was a glitch, and some people were even told it was allowed, then we shouldnt have to change our pets names; it should just be fixed so no more can be made like this... That's all.
Keith
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Alewiina - that's just so that if another chooses that name, a pet gets adopted, etc, by the time that the UA gets to your request - we have a backup name that you'd like.
So...if i just pound my "Nightmare", will the poor person who adopts him get screwed in a week when it changes??<br />
Not that I plan on doing that, but was just thinking about what would happen.
Not that I plan on doing that, but was just thinking about what would happen.
Okkies, my pets are fine.<br />
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I just feared I would have to change Communism's name
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I just feared I would have to change Communism's name
Staff can never win. O.o; If they'd just changed the names people would have freaked out. They give you fair warning and people still freak out. Ah well, glad I don't have to worry about it. <img src="http://images.subeta.org/smilies/6398_emoticon_smile.gif" border="0" />
Ok, that's good that they're allowed in the middle. I'm safe. But I really feel for the rest of you guys. <img src="http://images.subeta.org/smilies/smiley_angryface.gif" border="0" />
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Alewiina: It's a lot more fair that you have to choose 3 names than it would be if you woke up tomorrow to find your pet's new name was hr3uuw8p1bybl or something like that.
Ah. D : I bought an Enchanted Hypnosis Wand and changed my Angelic Malticorn's name to one with spaces. <br />
Guess I gotta think of some new names now.
Guess I gotta think of some new names now.
I just think its not fair that we have to choose three names. This is such a waste of sP for me, I bought that chibi potion because I thought it suited the name. I dont know what to name the two pets I had like that now. bangs head on desk
Keith
STAFF
Spaces are allowed in the middle. <img src="http://images.subeta.org/smilies/6398_emoticon_smile.gif" border="0" />
So.. are spaces in the middle allowed... (Example: Black Sand)? Or is it a glitch too? o.o;
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Well, darn. A friend told me of the site, and was very excited to see this being 'allowed'. Though, now thinking on it, I can see how it was a 'too good to be true' type of thing. Shall attempt to think of other names for my pets - or be fine with the random ones given. Thank you for letting us know. I would simply hate waking up to find the names changed.
I think you can just look up your pet's name with the search option, and if the result is your pet, then yours doesn't have a space, since spaces can't be looked up. <img src="http://images.subeta.org/smilies/6398_emoticon_smile.gif" border="0" /><br />
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Hope that wasn't too confusing. ^^;
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Hope that wasn't too confusing. ^^;
Dill
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Nobody will have to buy a wand; we can do the rename for you. Please check to make sure the three names you select are not currently in use.<br />
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Spaces elsewhere in the name are okay - it's just the ones at the beginning and end which will have to be changed.<br />
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We apologize for the inconvenience. <img src="http://images.subeta.org/smilies/6398_emoticon_sad.gif" border="0" />
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Spaces elsewhere in the name are okay - it's just the ones at the beginning and end which will have to be changed.<br />
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We apologize for the inconvenience. <img src="http://images.subeta.org/smilies/6398_emoticon_sad.gif" border="0" />
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<b>Quote:</b><blockquote style="padding:5px; line-height:15px; background-color: #FAFFFF; border: 1px solid #000000; font-family: georgia; font-size: 10;">How seriously lame, several admins said this was okay.</blockquote><br />
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I know.. -__-
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I know.. -__-
Keith
STAFF
David = Davis*<br />
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Basically, it's a glitch that I've fixed. If someone told you it was allowed, it's because this wasn't discussed globally by the staff until tonight, when I decided that it isn't allowed, and to put a stop to it.
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Basically, it's a glitch that I've fixed. If someone told you it was allowed, it's because this wasn't discussed globally by the staff until tonight, when I decided that it isn't allowed, and to put a stop to it.
Keith
STAFF
Because there are people who got the real name first.<br />
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We're giving you a chance to correct the problem, instead of taking the [easier] route of changing your pet names.<br />
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And - Yes. David, we could have told you in the first place, were we aware of a glitch, or had some users reported the glitch in the time when it could have been solved. <br />
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We have fixed the problem that allowed these pets to be adopted, and now we are fixing the problems they cause. (for example, searching, admin panel searching on pets, and multiple other area's of the site <img src="http://images.subeta.org/smilies/6398_emoticon_smile.gif" border="0" />)
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We're giving you a chance to correct the problem, instead of taking the [easier] route of changing your pet names.<br />
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And - Yes. David, we could have told you in the first place, were we aware of a glitch, or had some users reported the glitch in the time when it could have been solved. <br />
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We have fixed the problem that allowed these pets to be adopted, and now we are fixing the problems they cause. (for example, searching, admin panel searching on pets, and multiple other area's of the site <img src="http://images.subeta.org/smilies/6398_emoticon_smile.gif" border="0" />)
When did this glitch start happening? Because I don't want to have my pets name changed when I didn't even know...so yea...when?
Darnit. Now I need another name for Rainbow. I found Rainbow in the pound and despite having space in front of it I really liked it. I thought it was just allowed and not a glitch. What a waste of Spectrum Potion ;-;
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Do we have to buy the wands our shelves? Some of us never knew that it was a glitch. mbif said "Well, I'm not gonna stop you from naming your pet " Freak" but think of the real owner of Freak would feel".