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if allowing a change in username, do you think you should or shouldn't make visible a list of past usernames somewhere?
by logicallee 7y ago
if allowing a change in username, do you think you should or shouldn't make visible a list of past usernames somewhere?
- lilyball 7y agoPeople change usernames because they don't want to be associated with their old username anymore. We shouldn't force anyone to retain that association unless it's overwhelmingly in the public interest to do so. On sites with open user registration I can't think of any possible justification for that. It's only sites with closed userbases where you'd even be able to begin arguing for this, and even there I don't know what argument you could use that would justify it.