Can I exclude usernames from search

As a concrete example I am guessing

  1. a user called themselves msft_2000
  2. Now every time someone says “What @msft_2000 says” or “what msft_2000 says” this shows up in search

I am honestly not sure what the right thing is to do, I would probably approach this in the reverse direction.

  • Some special plugin that turns MSFT → “magical msft onebox with extra data”
  • Parse search queries for known stock tickers and do a transform on the search query.

It is certainly going to be very complicated and costly. Only simple workaround I can think of is renaming users.

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