The naughty username checking system used by Twitch

Re:The naughty username checking system used by Twitch by raxxorrax on Thursday October 07, 2021 @05:41AM (#28784159)

Seems like a rude name might give you some privacy advantages in the 21st century. To the price of being excluded by random services maybe.

Old math prof of mine was named Dr. Cock, and he wasn't the only one, the name was common. Students called him Dr. Octocock.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The naughty username checking system used by Twitch by st_goliath on Thursday October 07, 2021 @06:26AM (#28784460)

I have a friend who studied at the University in Linz, way back when. According to him, on the Universities System/370 they used to have an account name scheme where they simply concatenated the first 2 letters of the first name and the first 3 letters of the last name. Aledgedly, the scheme got changed after Professor Arno Schulz (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Schulz) was understandably upset about his account name (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Arsch).

[ Parent | on HN ]