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It's been over 15 years since Old usernames stick to Community Wiki posts was brought up. At the time, Jeff Atwood marked it status-bydesign but mentioned that it wasn't really by design; he simply ...
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We've just seen a spammer in chat, the message was quickly removed and the user destroyed. However, the name of the spammer remains clearly visible. Obviously, if the name is related to the spammed ...
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Recently, a user commented on one of my answers under a username that seems to advocate for ethnic cleansing. Viewing their profile makes it clear that this is exactly what they intend. I flagged the ...
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In two postings today, I saw a few @sparaps in comments. But no poster or other commenter is found with this user name... So I suppose that the author of the previous comment is meant.
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When I reply to a comment, I try to follow the @username convention. It almost always works fine. But sometimes it doesn’t work: i.e., I have to type out the username because it fails to appear in an ...
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Full stops and underscores should be added to the list below when editing display names.
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I’ve looked through the answers to this question dating from 2009-2018 and don’t find any relevant answers as I already know how to change my username on a specific community. I am at my global ...
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I was editing an answer and wanted to say "we can also write this if [author name] agrees" but noticed that the author name was written nowhere on the post edit page interface. I had to open ...
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I used to go by "d4rk4ng31" (um, as you might have already guessed, silly teenage years) which then I changed (long back, but I just noticed this as I am not a very active member anymore). I ...
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It's very hard to correctly select user name while commenting on mobile devices. Even when tap is marked inside the tooltip with username, as the result system decided that I tapped on the link from ...
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I've been previously banned for stating, "I stand against Israeli apartheid" And for having the nickname "Israel is an apartheid state", I've reviewed the merits of this strike, ...
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This might be the smallest bug, however, it is irritating to see the username is connected to "bounty" with a period. There have been times when I think that could be a particular syntax on ...
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When a user has a long name, their name overflows the revision header, as can be seen e.g. here: Another example where this happens, but only on narrow-width screens like an iPhone, is here: This ...
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I was intending to test out how to ping someone with a non-ASCII username - as part of the response to this post. Since it specifically spoke about non-English languages, and frankly, it amused me, I ...
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I find this very unprofessional when people can choose any set of characters for their names. This makes no fun when you try to tag them (using the @ symbol), or search them in the site. It looks very ...
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