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Q&A Codidact's policy regarding posts, user names and profiles with political content

User names are less personal space than your profile description, and more in-your-face to other users. User names should therefore be more restricted than your personal profile description. User...

posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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#2: Post edited by user avatar Olin Lathrop‭ · 2022-01-12T15:07:14Z (almost 3 years ago)
  • User names are less personal space than your profile description, and more in-your-face to other users. User names should therefore be more restricted than your personal profile description.
  • User names have a purpose, which is to be a short handle to identify you across Codidact. They are not there for you to make personal, political, religious, or other statements with. Using names of well known historical figures should not be allowed, because they come with inevitable political baggage.
  • A name that mocks another user's name should not be allowed.
  • User names that appear to be chosen only to make it difficult for others should also not be allowed. Examples might be all blanks, a bunch of blanks followed by a dot, special characters that cause the browser to display weird stuff, etc. Those are all you trying to be "special" somehow at the expense of everyone else here. That's not what user names are for.
  • User names are less personal space than your profile description, and more in-your-face to other users. User names should therefore be more restricted than your personal profile description.
  • User names have a purpose, which is to be a short handle to identify you across Codidact. They are not there for you to make personal, political, religious, or other statements with. Using the name of a well known historical figure should not be allowed (unless it's really your name too), because this comes with inevitable political baggage.
  • A name that mocks another user's name should not be allowed.
  • User names that appear to be chosen only to make it difficult for others should also not be allowed. Examples might be all blanks, a bunch of blanks followed by a dot, special characters that cause the browser to display weird stuff, etc. Those are all you trying to be "special" somehow at the expense of everyone else here. That's not what user names are for.
#1: Initial revision by user avatar Olin Lathrop‭ · 2022-01-11T14:30:09Z (almost 3 years ago)
User names are less personal space than your profile description, and more in-your-face to other users.  User names should therefore be more restricted than your personal profile description.

User names have a purpose, which is to be a short handle to identify you across Codidact.  They are not there for you to make personal, political, religious, or other statements with.  Using names of well known historical figures should not be allowed, because they come with inevitable political baggage.

A name that mocks another user's name should not be allowed.

User names that appear to be chosen only to make it difficult for others should also not be allowed.  Examples might be all blanks, a bunch of blanks followed by a dot, special characters that cause the browser to display weird stuff, etc.  Those are all you trying to be "special" somehow at the expense of everyone else here.  That's not what user names are for.