# Show real names on about page and enable hiding of users

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-real-names-on-about-page-and-enable-hiding-of-users/25135>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2015 年2 月 11 日 17:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-real-names-on-about-page-and-enable-hiding-of-users/25135 "2015-02-11T17:32:30Z")\
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作者： ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\
发布日期： [2015 年2 月 11 日 19:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-real-names-on-about-page-and-enable-hiding-of-users/25135/3 "2015-02-11T19:49:48Z")

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Sorry for combining what ended up as two separate requests into one topic. For me they are both related to the presentation of staff on the about page.

> [@cpradio](#):
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> That seems really weird. How do you hold anyone accountable then? How do you know who was logged in last as the only admin? What do you do if someone were to change the admin password and not share it? Or if someone gets hacked and they take over the admin account?
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> That’s a lot of risk with little reward.

I don’t disagree - it’s weird and I wish we didn’t have to do it. But we have no choice because we have private categories that admins shouldn’t see on a regular basis and there is no way to full-on hide those discussions from ourselves. So even we admins (there are two of us) only have moderator privileges which we use most of the time and then log in as the admin user to do site upgrades, manage settings and otherwise do stuff that we can’t do as moderators.

As I write these words, the idea comes to me that perhaps some sort of “sudo” would be nice - e.g. unlock the admin options by typing in your password again?

> [@cpradio](#):
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> I could support this feature if it used the “use real names” setting in the Admin area. If that setting isn’t set, then the username should remain present.

Ah yes this makes sense and I would like that. If Real Names is set on the admin area, then show real names instead of usernames everywhere including the about page. 🙂

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