# Features to encourage "nice" usernames?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/features-to-encourage-nice-usernames/210124>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [November 25, 2021, 10:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/features-to-encourage-nice-usernames/210124 "2021-11-25T10:26:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![szhorvat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/szhorvat/32/154711_2.png) [@szhorvat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/szhorvat)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2021, 10:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/features-to-encourage-nice-usernames/210124/1 "2021-11-25T10:26:19Z")

</div>

This is more of a question than a support request.

Does Discourse have any features which can assist with encouraging people to choose friendly and recognizable usernames or display names? I am looking to avoid things like `user64768723`, which was made all too popular by StackOverflow, unfortunately, or things like `UhnSJuhfeiwfwAS`

I could imagine several things from showing a small guideline _before_ registration happens to automatic screening of names of undesired patterns. Are there any such features that we can already use?

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/features-to-encourage-nice-usernames/210124)._