Blog entry pagination - are the dashes in my name the problem?

[lolady]

First of all, Thank You so much for my blog!

Looking for the the link to a previous blogrant today, I noticed that I can click my name and get to my blog entries, but down at the bottom, if I try to go to page 2 or page 3, it says "lol" doesn't have a blog."

Example: Here's the main index to my blogrants

Here's the link to page 2, down at the bottom of that page

Now "lol" (note the lack of dashes) is the name of a real character, but he or she hasn't been around in a while.

I'm "-lol-" (with dashes)

Could the dashes be confusing the forum software?

If so, would it be easier to for you to disconfuse it, or for me to request yet another (dash-free) name change, if I'm allowed to?

I don't mind making extra clicks to see the pages of my blogrants, but what if "lol" with no dashes returns, makes a blog, and the confused software explodes!

 

[rolygate]

Yes, the software doesn't handle names with symbols very well. Sorry about that...

We have tried to prevent all-symbol names from being registered but one occasionally creeps in, registered by the defiant and devious. All sorts of crashes and mishaps then result. Even a symbol or two can hurt.

If you would like to choose a slightly more conventional name, it would please our hard-working and much abused software tremendously. Currently it cannot say thank-you, but it will probably think it, somewhere deep in its electrons.

 

[lolady]

...a slightly more conventional name, it would please our hard-working and much abused software tremendously...

How about "lolady" if it please Your Illustriousness - (but without the quotes! Sooo without the quotes)!

That's not too hard to type, and I'm pretty sure I can remember it, both features I like in a name.

Please convey my apologies and comforting pats to the software's poor abused electrons. I am sorry for confusing them, and never would have done so were I not so confused in solidarity with their confusion.

 

[rolygate]

OK, try that please.

 

[lolady]

YAY! Works great! Now I can click page 2 et al just like the other boys and girls! Thank You!