## page was renamed from LEP/ManagingDisclosure/Research/Tilde
= Tilde survey =

Between 17.00 2011-05-25 and 17.00 2011-05-26 UTC, we ran a survey asking:

~+'''Which do you prefer?'''+~

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''Option A''

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''Option B''

'''Result:''' Option A 23.6%, Option B 76.4%

And:

~+'''Which do you prefer?'''+~

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''Option 1''

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''Option 2''

'''Result:''' Option 1 81.6%, Option 2 18.4%

~+'''Conclusion:''' The majority of respondents preferred the options that did not show a tilde.+~

= Selected comments from respondents =

== Person picker ==

"sqiggles are an implementation detail not typically in m mental map of people"

"~ is useless there. Or drop the parenthesis and do it that way: Jonathan Lange ~jml"

"~ denotes home folder and dd.net/~kms/ means web page in kms home folder. For those, who know this, ~jml is confusing. For those, who don't – I guess it's still confusing."

"I do not see an additional value in the ~, I think it is reasonably clear that the latter name is a username."

"Why would you put a ~ in there?"

"The tilde does not convey extra information clearly, unless you are very familiar with a shell prompt."

"~ clearly shows that this is a username"

"People might not understand the ~ in the first one. Isn't the assumption that it's always a team/person and not a project/distro?"

"Show me the email address anyway! It's the most useful UUID of the lot."

"Using the ~ before a name is really only useful when taken out of context. For instance, if I want someone on IRC or a mailing list to go to Jonathan Lange's Launchpad profile, I might refer them to ~jml. On Launchpad itself, there is no need to include the ~, as it is assumed that it is referring to a Launchpad page. Since these are also clearly people, there is no possibility of confusing the names for project names."

== Profile page header ==

"tilde unnecessary"

"I don't much like either. The second is uglier. I'd much rather see nothing or an IRC nick here."

"~ is useless there. Or drop the parenthesis and do it that way: Mark Shuttleworth ~mark"

"Why the ~? Unnecesary and cluttering"

"WTF is the tilde? Nobody outside of nerddom knows that's shorthand for a user account."

"Same reason as before. The username does not contain a "~". I can't even see why this is being considered (I don't mean that as a snarky comment, I'm just confused and it seems like someone is coming at this from a technical stand point)."