Re:“Username cannot contain 'clyde'”
by judge2020 on Sunday November 20, 2022 @10:05PM
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It's not about the username being taken, it's all about what people appear as in the client; bots and scammers might impersonate Clyde to steal credentials, social engineer, etc, so you cannot be "Clyde_help" nor "Clyde_Official" nor any variation that would make people think the bot/user is speaking on behalf of Discord.
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Re:“Username cannot contain 'clyde'”
by JauntyHatAngle on Sunday November 20, 2022 @11:40PM
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Which is funny when you take into account that people are still using special characters to get a Clyde name that mostly resembles it. I question the effectiveness.
Why not just put a special logo or symbol or something on that profile to mark it as special/official, or have some sort of "user type" displayed that says "human" or "official bot" or "third party bot"? I feel like making it look like a regular username makes it _more_ likely people will be scammed by "other" regular users rather than less likely.
For example, like a blue checkmark after the nick for users who are genuinely who they say they are?
Re:“Username cannot contain 'clyde'”
by Martinussen on Monday November 21, 2022 @07:07AM
(#33691655)
Discord already does this - they just don't trust average users to be aware enough to check. (Based on my experience moderating some discords, they aren't wrong.)