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| | | Author: | StormChaser  | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2020 12:00 | | Subject: | (Cancelled) | | Viewed: | 294 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Discarded | |
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| | | | | Author: | dcarmine | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2020 13:23 | | Subject: | Re: Attack of the Blusers | | Viewed: | 94 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, StormChaser writes:
I noticed this user name a few weeks ago. I wondered what is going on because
the users have some feedback but is no longer registered.
Can you share what you learned?
Thanks
Donna
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| | | | | | | Author: | mfav | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2020 13:27 | | Subject: | Re: Attack of the Blusers | | Viewed: | 80 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, dcarmine writes:
| | | | I figured it out finally, but it would be helpful to have a brief explanation
of Blusers in the Help Center somewhere.
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Blusers = BL Users
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2020 13:30 | | Subject: | Re: Attack of the Blusers | | Viewed: | 80 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, mfav writes:
| | In Suggestions, dcarmine writes:
| | | | I figured it out finally, but it would be helpful to have a brief explanation
of Blusers in the Help Center somewhere.
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Blusers = BL Users
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Yes, it’s just part of the anonymisation of unregistered users. (GDPR)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2020 13:43 | | Subject: | Re: Attack of the Blusers | | Viewed: | 90 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Suggestions, mfav writes:
| | In Suggestions, dcarmine writes:
| | | | I figured it out finally, but it would be helpful to have a brief explanation
of Blusers in the Help Center somewhere.
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Blusers = BL Users
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Yes, it’s just part of the anonymisation of unregistered users. (GDPR)
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It looks like the numbers are all in order of the date of registration too. So
it wouldn't surprise me if we all have our bluser numbers assigned already
but just happen to be known by our chosen usernames instead.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | randyf | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2020 13:51 | | Subject: | Re: Attack of the Blusers | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | It looks like the numbers are all in order of the date of registration too. So
it wouldn't surprise me if we all have our bluser numbers assigned already
but just happen to be known by our chosen usernames instead.
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Yes, that is how databases work.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2020 13:53 | | Subject: | Re: Attack of the Blusers | | Viewed: | 84 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | bluser numbers assigned already
but just happen to be known by our chosen usernames instead.
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Yes, your bluser number can be seen by going to your Account Info page. The
second bit of information there is titled User ID. That's your bluser number.
Someday in the distant future, when we're all dead, they'll eject us
from the system and make us blusers, too. Not too fond of the idea, as I'd
rather be remembered as StormChaser, not BLUSER_13161.
Doesn't matter what I want, though.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2020 13:58 | | Subject: | (Cancelled) | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2020 14:02 | | Subject: | Re: Attack of the Blusers | | Viewed: | 67 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, StormChaser writes:
| | I'd rather be remembered as StormChaser, not BLUSER_13161.
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Well, I thought I'd get a head start on them and exercise some choice in
the matter. Unfortunately, they were smarter than I thought and have prohibited
me from changing my username.
It will be changed someday, but only when I have no say-so in the matter. Ah,
they think of everything. Except some of the things that matter.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2020 14:05 | | Subject: | (Cancelled) | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2020 14:08 | | Subject: | Re: Attack of the Blusers | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | Can you remove the underscore instead?
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Yes.
Now I am who BrickLink sees me as. 
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Rick_S. | | Posted: | Jan 28, 2020 16:53 | | Subject: | Re: Attack of the Blusers | | Viewed: | 78 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, BLUSER13161 writes:
| | In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | bluser numbers assigned already
but just happen to be known by our chosen usernames instead.
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Yes, your bluser number can be seen by going to your Account Info page. The
second bit of information there is titled User ID. That's your bluser number.
Someday in the distant future, when we're all dead, they'll eject us
from the system and make us blusers, too. Not too fond of the idea, as I'd
rather be remembered as StormChaser, not BLUSER_13161.
Doesn't matter what I want, though.
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I'm BLUSER 9140 
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2020 14:22 | | Subject: | Re: Attack of the Blusers | | Viewed: | 76 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:
| | Yes, it’s just part of the anonymisation of unregistered users. (GDPR)
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I should have read this first. This is the likely explanation of what has occurred.
Now I'm wondering if there is a way I can prevent my account from being
made anonymous in the event that I am unable to temporarily or permanently log
into my account.
And I think it is unfortunate that a good thing (the fight for privacy) has resulted
in a bad thing (erasing people if they're absent long enough).
Have I mentioned that it would be nice if BrickLink communicated with us?
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | mhortar | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2020 15:07 | | Subject: | Re: Attack of the Blusers | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, BLUSER13161 writes:
| | In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:
| | Yes, it’s just part of the anonymisation of unregistered users. (GDPR)
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I should have read this first. This is the likely explanation of what has occurred.
Now I'm wondering if there is a way I can prevent my account from being
made anonymous in the event that I am unable to temporarily or permanently log
into my account.
And I think it is unfortunate that a good thing (the fight for privacy) has resulted
in a bad thing (erasing people if they're absent long enough).
Have I mentioned that it would be nice if BrickLink communicated with us?
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I think you are reading too much into it. Your username is a way to personally
identify you. Users in certain regions have the legal right to request that you
delete all personal information about them. Anonymizing the user id of people
that have requested to be unregistered from the site is a way to keep the contributions
made while removing the personally identifying information. I doubt there is
a mechanism to anonymize anyone that hasn't explicitly requested to be unregistered.
Josh
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2020 15:26 | | Subject: | (Cancelled) | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | cycbuild | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2020 15:40 | | Subject: | Re: Attack of the Blusers | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, mhortar writes:
| | In Suggestions, BLUSER13161 writes:
| | In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:
| | Yes, it’s just part of the anonymisation of unregistered users. (GDPR)
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I should have read this first. This is the likely explanation of what has occurred.
Now I'm wondering if there is a way I can prevent my account from being
made anonymous in the event that I am unable to temporarily or permanently log
into my account.
And I think it is unfortunate that a good thing (the fight for privacy) has resulted
in a bad thing (erasing people if they're absent long enough).
Have I mentioned that it would be nice if BrickLink communicated with us?
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I think you are reading too much into it. Your username is a way to personally
identify you. Users in certain regions have the legal right to request that you
delete all personal information about them. Anonymizing the user id of people
that have requested to be unregistered from the site is a way to keep the contributions
made while removing the personally identifying information. I doubt there is
a mechanism to anonymize anyone that hasn't explicitly requested to be unregistered.
Josh
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"As online privacy concerns continue to be taken more seriously, we are starting
to develop policies and procedures for handling private information in a responsible
and transparent manner. This has nothing to do with the sale of the site, as
these policies have been under development (slowly) since the early part of 2019."
"-the username on the terminated account may be replaced."
https://www.bricklink.com/messagePost.asp?ID=1168556
I do wonder about the official Q&A that never happened, but cleaning house takes
precedence.
Your (previous) username is in the Hall of Fame.
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| | | | | | | Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2020 13:50 | | Subject: | Re: Attack of the Blusers | | Viewed: | 81 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, dcarmine writes:
| | I noticed this user name a few weeks ago. I wondered what is going on because
the users have some feedback but is no longer registered.
Can you share what you learned?
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Recently there was a secret clearing-out of old BrickLink accounts, presumably
related to the site sale to TLG. No information was released, but members noticed
that the number of registered users suddenly dropped dramatically.
The criteria for removing accounts was not shared, but I assume it was based
on the last time a member logged into the site. So perhaps if a member had not
logged in for five years, for example, their account was deleted (or, if not
deleted, somehow removed from the list of registered users).
Around the same time I noticed these Bluser accounts as contributors. I didn't
connect the two events until today when I looked at the contributions page for
inventories and figured out what was going on. The site needed to maintain credit
for catalog work completed, but with accounts deleted/disabled there was no username
to credit.
Note that this page, last updated in 2010, claims that accounts cannot be deleted
if certain conditions have been met. Some of those conditions are contributing
to the catalog:
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=129
So certain accounts were renamed, although it doesn't look like they were
deleted. Not sure why they needed to be renamed, since this was all done (as
usual) in secret.
Here's what the Bluser accounts mean:
BLUSER_40105 = BrickLink USER ID 40105
All of the above is pure speculation, but it is based on reasonably solid logic.
Hope it helps.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | Admin_Russell | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2020 21:41 | | Subject: | Re: Attack of the Blusers | | Viewed: | 148 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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BrickLink
ID CardAdmin_Russell
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Location:  USA, California |
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Contact |
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Admin |
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| In Suggestions, BLUSER13161 writes:
| | In Suggestions, dcarmine writes:
| | I noticed this user name a few weeks ago. I wondered what is going on because
the users have some feedback but is no longer registered.
Can you share what you learned?
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Recently there was a secret clearing-out of old BrickLink accounts, presumably
related to the site sale to TLG. No information was released, but members noticed
that the number of registered users suddenly dropped dramatically.
The criteria for removing accounts was not shared, but I assume it was based
on the last time a member logged into the site. So perhaps if a member had not
logged in for five years, for example, their account was deleted (or, if not
deleted, somehow removed from the list of registered users).
Around the same time I noticed these Bluser accounts as contributors. I didn't
connect the two events until today when I looked at the contributions page for
inventories and figured out what was going on. The site needed to maintain credit
for catalog work completed, but with accounts deleted/disabled there was no username
to credit.
Note that this page, last updated in 2010, claims that accounts cannot be deleted
if certain conditions have been met. Some of those conditions are contributing
to the catalog:
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=129
So certain accounts were renamed, although it doesn't look like they were
deleted. Not sure why they needed to be renamed, since this was all done (as
usual) in secret.
Here's what the Bluser accounts mean:
BLUSER_40105 = BrickLink USER ID 40105
All of the above is pure speculation, but it is based on reasonably solid logic.
Hope it helps.
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Many accounts were recently deactivated if they had not logged in for a considerable
length of time (several years). In order to preserve the integrity of the catalog
and database in general, the accounts were not deleted, but were fully anonymized
instead.
If people choose to reactivate their account, their old username will reappear
on their account just as they were originally. All they need to do is follow
the instructions on the email they were sent. We may change the BLUSER_######
format in the near future to be less conspicuous on catalog credit pages. Probably
something lowercase, not so predictable, and shorter.
Many historic accounts, such as major contributors or Dan's own personal
account were intentionally untouched by the process.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Jan 23, 2020 00:12 | | Subject: | Re: Attack of the Blusers | | Viewed: | 90 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| | Many historic accounts, such as major contributors or Dan's own personal
account were intentionally untouched by the process.
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Thank you for sharing.
I was wondering why Swanberg's account retained the name. Since major contributors
will not be turned into blusers at some point, then I feel much better about
the whole thing.
I don't want to be a bluser.
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| | | | | Author: | Adjour | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2020 15:38 | | Subject: | Re: Attack of the Blusers | | Viewed: | 72 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, BLUSER13161 writes:
Ha! I noticed a huge uptick of these names in peoples feedback. Neat-o
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| | | | | Author: | wyldkat1976 | | Posted: | Jun 6, 2020 13:44 | | Subject: | Re: Attack of the Blusers | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Over half of my stoplist are now blusers, so no idea who they were before they
gained anonymity, just their member number.
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| | | | | | | Author: | manganschlamm | | Posted: | Jun 6, 2020 13:54 | | Subject: | Re: Attack of the Blusers | | Viewed: | 67 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, wyldkat1976 writes:
| | Over half of my stoplist are now blusers, so no idea who they were before they
gained anonymity, just their member number.
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Considering that they are stoplisted, it probably should not matter any more.
The purpose of the stoplist is to stop them from buying from your store. It could
well be robots, but then it should equally not matter.
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| | | | | | | Author: | razorflan | | Posted: | Jun 6, 2020 17:31 | | Subject: | Re: Attack of the Blusers | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, wyldkat1976 writes:
| | Over half of my stoplist are now blusers, so no idea who they were before they
gained anonymity, just their member number.
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Ahhh now I understand the attack of the blusers in my stoplist
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