This is just bad user interface. If someone is searching, the site should be programmed to do the best possible job helping them search.

Pretty much every athlete on the field puts on shoes. That's an accept form of "enhancement" added to the end of ones legs. They give cushioning and traction.

my driver's license is only accurate within plus-or-minus half an inch.

so for the topic at hand of athletics, how would you regulate the choice of height? Non-amputee athletes can't add stilts to increase their stride, so how would you regulate choosing a slightly longer stride for a competitive advantage?

just being there is successful. Consider the sponsorship deals many athletes get just for being Olympians before they've actually competed.

How do they know how tall to make cybernetic legs? I mean in the case where the limbs are completely missing already.

It's simple logic, IMHO. There exist some set of attachments that are indeed too powerful - eg, it wouldn't take much debate if he was asking to wear rocket-propelled roller skates. So where can you draw the line? An attachment powerful enough to win half the races? 3/4? As soon as there's a line, someone's on…

now why is this not an option?

I feel like this is almost a brilliant idea, and I think it's the "teeny bit more material" that causes the trouble for me.

I'm referring to the blockyness of the font. It's looks like they blew up a low-res screenshot of 10-point font instead of using 48-point.

Hey, who wants to read an internet full of people agreeing? Where's the fun in that? :)

I'm going to fall back on a quote from Neil Gaiman for what I feel is really problematic about this plan.

whoa! Did she crowd-source that book cover to kids, too? I mean, really, a non-scaling font?? This is the type of thing that makes self-publishing look so bad. People do indeed judge books by covers (which is why people spend money designing covers and don't just put the book title on plain white background). If…

From the book description,

I see the brilliance! They can charge more for window seats, and now even more for window seats that don't look right across to the other half of the plane!

it'd be very possible to put something or other into the developer's license agreement about how they can use that text field.

"allow developers to set a "purpose" string "

and how much time does the casino serve for taking the money from both of them? :)

as much as I adore Snow Crash, I have to wonder if it's past its sell-by date. The internet moved quicker than people expected over the past two decades.

"by the end of the first season"?!?