horta-hell Horta uses ... with one-letter nicks

For example, participant m was called as m... by horta. It should be fixed, but I don't know what's the best way. Replace the whole nick?

Apr 14 '14 14:04 ForNeVeR

We can make those a special case and use ellipsis two times, like this: …m…

Jul 23 '15 01:07 Minoru

Why would it ever use the ellipsis here? What purpose it could perform?

Jul 23 '15 06:07 ForNeVeR

The whole point of shortening the nicks by putting ellipsis in the middle is to avoid highlighting people, right? So I'd argue that it should use ellipsis in this situation.

By the way, is there some kind of check to guard against situations when two nicknames are shortened the same way (like, both "m4n71k0r" and "mixer" turn into "m…")?

Jul 23 '15 10:07 Minoru

Why do we need to guard against such situations?

Jul 23 '15 10:07 rexim

I still don't understand why it should use ellipsis twice in the single-letter nicknames. That's just stupid.

By the way, is there some kind of check to guard against situations when two nicknames are shortened the same way (like, both "m4n71k0r" and "mixer" turn into "m…")?

No, there are no such checks. But the idea is brilliant, I'll file an issue about it.

Jul 23 '15 10:07 ForNeVeR

Why do we need to guard against such situations?

Isn't $pet ratings output supposed to be readable? If we clash multiple nicks into one shortening, it will hurt readability.

I still don't understand why it should use ellipsis twice in the single-letter nicknames. That's just stupid.

Using two ellipses will make it obvious that this nickname consisted of one letter, distinguishing it from "m…" that we could obtain from shortening "mixer" or "m4n71k0r".

Jul 23 '15 11:07 Minoru

If we clash multiple nicks into one shortening, it will hurt readability.

This "feature" helps Tsodingteam's Superiors to hide their PTC flows from unwanted eyes.

Jul 23 '15 11:07 rexim

Using two ellipses will make it obvious that this nickname consisted of one letter, distinguishing it from "m…"

Using two ellipses is simply ugly. Why not use the nickname without any ellipses to refer to that nickname? E.g.

<Hugo> $pet rating
<horta hell> H...: 1000
             H...: 100
             H: 1
<HugeDick> muhaha
<H> oh
<TinyMixer> I'm a tiny mixer

Jul 23 '15 11:07 ForNeVeR

Using two ellipses is simply ugly. Why not use the nickname without any ellipses to refer to that nickname?

If you don't add ellipses and leave the nickname as it is, the person will be highlighted. Isn't that a bad thing?

Jul 23 '15 12:07 Minoru

She will be highlighted even if I add any number of ellipses.

Jul 23 '15 15:07 ForNeVeR

Ah, silly me… Yes, you're totally right. I take my suggestion back.

Jul 23 '15 17:07 Minoru

Re-check that for the new nickname shortener and probably close the issue.

Nov 27 '16 10:11 ForNeVeR