I could change it to anything at all, but Discourse is the only case where I have to — in order to both keep my traditional username and fulfill my policy of always using my real name.
It really shouldn’t do the suppression silently. If this behavior is documented somewhere, my considerable Google Fu didn’t find it.
But I’d settle for the behavior seen here: If the stripped, case-insensitive Full Name matches the username, display only the Full Name. That’s preferable because a user can start typing @lou and autocomplete takes over.
Which combination of name settings does Meta use to achieve
Full Name [maybe username] Title
The closest I’ve gotten is
username [maybe Full Name] Title
Thanks.