Let’s talk about usernames

Re:Let’s talk about usernames by esturk on Monday February 12, 2018 @01:26AM (#16356945)

I'll give an example of a permanent username that you can't change: Steam. For obvious reasons, Valve is way too underhanded to do anything about this. Nothing malicious, just inept to try because there's just no competition to.

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Re:Let’s talk about usernames by throwaway2048 on Monday February 12, 2018 @01:43AM (#16356982)

Thats true, but your username is not visible to other users, even for stuff like profile pages.

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Re:Let’s talk about usernames by Tomte on Monday February 12, 2018 @02:48AM (#16357184)

My Steam user name is a nickname given to by and proudly worn in a small, tight-knit online and real life community.

Having had a major fall-out with them fifteen years ago, it always stings when I have to manually enter this user name.

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Re:Let’s talk about usernames by ValentineC on Monday February 12, 2018 @01:51PM (#16360901)

It is in rare cases like Library Sharing.

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Re:Let’s talk about usernames by mehrdadn on Monday February 12, 2018 @02:46AM (#16357179)

> I'll give an example of a permanent username that you can't change: Steam.

No need to go that far... just look at the URL bar right here. :-)

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