Commented by KSMarksPsych on 6 Oct 37436370 08:53 UTC
I agree that this is a good idea. My question is how do you deal with all the current duplicate names? Or is that even needed?

Duplicate names do crop up. Just for fun, I did a user name search over at Seti for '''Administrator''' (as that seems to pop up in the forums occasionally. There are over 10000 members with that user name. This is an extreme example. But it does demonstrate how many duplicates can really pop up.

Commented by Ageless on 19 Jun 37882287 20:26 UTC
Reassigning to David.

Commented by davea on 21 Apr 37883729 05:20 UTC
I don't think this should be done.

Commented by MikeMarsUK on 10 Oct 37884934 13:46 UTC

Perhaps rather than making it mandatory, it could be a hint to the user?

"The username 'Administrator' is already in use by 12,345 other accounts, you may prefer to pick a different name to avoid confusion"

Commented by Eric Myers on 26 Mar 38178164 16:26 UTC
How about making it an option for the projects to enable or disable? In keeping with keeping things the same it would be off by default.

For backward compatibility, you could allow existing dupes, but just not let new accounts use an existing name, or a change to an already existing name.

Commented by Nicolas on 22 Aug 40457912 15:06 UTC
Or what about requiring a unique username only to participate in forums? First time you try posting, if your name is also in use by other users, you're asked to change it.