• jayknight@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    As a long time reddit moderator, people creating similar usernames to impersonate another user is definitely a problem. That was instantly bannable in all the subs I’ve moderated.

    Having color coded usernames calculated based on their full user/ host could help. Something like https://gustu.github.io/string-to-color/. That would make it more obvious that two users aren’t the same user.

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      1 year ago

      In the subreddits dedicated to the Cosmere multiverse created by Brandon Sanderson, who is an active redditors, we had a meme of pinging something close to but not actually his username. Especially when it wasn’t something worth wasting his time.

      But yeah, completely agree. I am sure it was frustrating.