Timeline for Should users be allowed to use "admin" as their username? What about offensive words?
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| Oct 30, 2022 at 16:56 | comment | added | Ray Butterworth | The problem here isn't that the name "admin" is offensive, or even that it might be deliberately abused. The problem is that relatively new users might interpret any comments from "admin" as authoritative. | |
| Aug 12, 2022 at 8:52 | comment | added | Nij | Users never need to call themselves anything nor use any username at all. It is entirely optional. You see no need to use "brainfuck" in a name; I see no need to use "Arcanis"; neither of these blindnesses is relevant. | |
| Aug 12, 2022 at 8:41 | answer | added | Journeyman GeekMod | timeline score: 13 | |
| Aug 12, 2022 at 8:32 | history | undeleted | Journeyman GeekMod | ||
| Aug 12, 2022 at 2:33 | history | deleted | user925996 | via Vote | |
| Aug 11, 2022 at 14:02 | comment | added | user925996 | @This_is_NOT_a_forum I see no need for a user to call themselves or use the username Brainfuck or any compound/derivative thereof... | |
| Aug 11, 2022 at 1:22 | comment | added | This_is_NOT_a_forum | Brainfuck is the name of a programming language. Context matters. | |
| Aug 10, 2022 at 21:00 | comment | added | user925996 | @rene and that day I will have to change my username... I don't see anything wrong with that... the ideal is to maintain respect in the community | |
| Aug 10, 2022 at 20:53 | comment | added | rene Mod | One day you wake up to find ArcanisGK507 is marked as an offensive word by users, moderators and/or SE staff ... | |
| Aug 10, 2022 at 19:52 | comment | added | user925996 | @Campbell the response is a suggestion or workaround; doesn't really explain how the SE/SO network works on the particular topic. | |
| Aug 10, 2022 at 19:48 | comment | added | Ian Campbell | Potential duplicate: How much leeway do we give possibly offensive usernames? | |
| Aug 10, 2022 at 19:45 | comment | added | user925996 | @Glorfindel definitely doing that by default is a problem. It can be a configuration option... or a personal configuration about the design of how we see the site. But personally, the names used with words that are usually offensive, used in an offensive context or that lend themselves to generating confusion, seem out of place and make me noise, I just want to know how the community sees this and how it applies the policies of user, if they handle this matter. | |
| Aug 10, 2022 at 19:39 | comment | added | Glorfindel Mod | I don't think I've ever been fooled by a user claiming with their username to be an administrator here, but thanks for pointing out another reason why hiding reputation and badges by default is a bad idea. | |
| Aug 10, 2022 at 19:31 | history | edited | Laurel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 10, 2022 at 19:20 | history | asked | user925996 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |