# 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")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 9:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/features-to-encourage-nice-usernames/210124/7 "2022-03-02T21:59:58Z")

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I dunno, this just comes up _so_ rarely in practice. And I feel “give me a random username” would _encourage people to think of their identities as disposable_, like Reddit does. That’s.. not good. Not good at all.

I could support it as a plugin but I would never include it in core.

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