Re: Username or user name (generalized)

[John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

> The rationale for this decision is that we are not obliged to
> follow the peculiarities, or parrot the mistakes, of the UI, 
> and that our users will have no trouble making the connection
> between what we call a thing and what the UI shows. 

Interesting position...and also wrong. User name and username is one
thing. However, where does it stop? Where do you draw the line? At
what point is it OK to loose the connection for only 1% of your
users? (and at the level you are proposing, you will loose someone)
How about 3%? 5%? Once you introduce the concept that sloppy is OK,
define "sloppy enough but not too sloppy"?  

Is it OK to call something by two forms of the same combination and
sequence of letters, but not OK to call it button in the docs and a
"pushything" in something else? Once you decide to break free, what's
to stop you from being totaly free? 

It seems you are trying to justify defeat and being ineffective.

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer

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