more helpful "bad username" error message
Title
more helpful "bad username" error message
Short, concise description of the idea
Change error message to "[bad username "foo" in tag]", as suggested by ruakh here: http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/664149.html?thread=8727125#t8727125
Full description of the idea
When someone spectacularly mis-types a username in a comment or entry, the result is an error message within the comment or entry, "[bad username in tag]", which gives the reader no ability to even guess what the author intended.
The error message should report what the author typed.
An ordered list of benefits
- Readers can guess which username the author intended if they have the example of what the author typed.
An ordered list of problems/issues involved
- May increase time to post entires and comments.
- Will look even uglier than the current error message.
An organized list, or a few short paragraphs detailing suggestions for implementation
- The code that processes entries and comments should printing the incorrect username typed by the author.