# Discourse dislikes my full name

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-dislikes-my-full-name/129173>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [September 21, 2019, 3:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-dislikes-my-full-name/129173 "2019-09-21T03:36:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![louquillio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/louquillio/32/117675_2.png) [@louquillio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/louquillio)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2019, 5:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-dislikes-my-full-name/129173/3 "2019-09-21T05:04:54Z")

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I’m not sure anybody knows how to visually parse `louquillio`, or other unexpected names — yet it’s a convention among some (hi!) to choose UNIX usernames this way.

I get the thinking, but the restriction seems a bit arbitrary, and it fails silently. It breaks legitimate use cases, imo.

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