[SOLUTION] Nicknames/display names

hydrofungus

astro-peach wrote:
@Hydrofungus (i cant quote anything when editing a post)
How could it cause deadnaming? It's a choice for the user if they want their original name to be there.

I SAW THIS A MONTH LATE I AM SO SO SORRY
well for example your dead name is “aster” and your username is @astercool, but after transitioning it has become a deadname with your old gender/identity so you switch to a new name, like “chrissy” for example. but then you might not want to make a new account since @astercool has a lot of awesome things on it, and it doesn’t necessarily fit into the “gender dysphoria” category i dont think st will change it for you

easy solution: make chrissy your nickname and ask people not to refer to you by your username :thumbsup:

mumu245

hydrofungus wrote:
(#141)
astro-peach wrote:
@Hydrofungus (i cant quote anything when editing a post)
How could it cause deadnaming? It's a choice for the user if they want their original name to be there.
I SAW THIS A MONTH LATE I AM SO SO SORRY
well for example your dead name is “aster” and your username is @astercool, but after transitioning it has become a deadname with your old gender/identity so you switch to a new name, like “chrissy” for example. but then you might not want to make a new account since @astercool has a lot of awesome things on it, and it doesn’t necessarily fit into the “gender dysphoria” category i dont think st will change it for you

easy solution: make chrissy your nickname and ask people not to refer to you by your username :thumbsup:

Please explain transitioning. I don't understand.

glitcX

hydrofungus wrote:
astro-peach wrote:
@Hydrofungus (i cant quote anything when editing a post)
How could it cause deadnaming? It's a choice for the user if they want their original name to be there.
I SAW THIS A MONTH LATE I AM SO SO SORRY
well for example your dead name is “aster” and your username is @astercool, but after transitioning it has become a deadname with your old gender/identity so you switch to a new name, like “chrissy” for example. but then you might not want to make a new account since @astercool has a lot of awesome things on it, and it doesn’t necessarily fit into the “gender dysphoria” category i dont think st will change it for you

easy solution: make chrissy your nickname and ask people not to refer to you by your username :thumbsup:

well, does the username lavender-snail give gender dysphoria, it doesn't even have “girl” or “name” on it.

medians

hydrofungus wrote:
(#141)
astro-peach wrote:
@Hydrofungus (i cant quote anything when editing a post)
How could it cause deadnaming? It's a choice for the user if they want their original name to be there.
I SAW THIS A MONTH LATE I AM SO SO SORRY
well for example your dead name is “aster” and your username is @astercool, but after transitioning it has become a deadname with your old gender/identity so you switch to a new name, like “chrissy” for example. but then you might not want to make a new account since @astercool has a lot of awesome things on it, and it doesn’t necessarily fit into the “gender dysphoria” category i dont think st will change it for you

easy solution: make chrissy your nickname and ask people not to refer to you by your username :thumbsup:

You could literally just explain in the request to change your username that “aster” was your old name, but you changed your name though

Last edited by medians (Dec. 9, 2024 17:31:54)

cleft_

username changing is a bit unnecessary but I understand gender dysphoria and plus if it (somehow) had personal information in it is a good idea but I think it it was added you should have to send a request, I don't really see much against the display names as long as you can still access their actual user name easily (ex: under the display name it shows the users username on their profile or on a comments section) it seems fine from my perspective

Nerdiesssss

What do you mean its a bit unessesary, users could express themselves as they get older!

Last edited by Nerdiesssss (Dec. 10, 2024 02:52:46)

hydrofungus

Nerdiesssss wrote:
What do you mean its a bit unessesary, users could express themselves as they get older!

it is a bit unnecessary because scratch lived for 10ish years without this and no one complained

oh my god this point was made so long ago i forgot my reasoning

mumu245 wrote:
Please explain transitioning. I don't understand.

transitioning is the process of changing from one gender to another iirc

glitcX wrote:
well, does the username lavender-snail give gender dysphoria, it doesn't even have “girl” or “name” on it.

it doesn’t but i’m referring to a specific example yeah

medians wrote:
You could literally just explain in the request to change your username that “aster” was your old name, but you changed your name though

wait
y you can?

cleft_ wrote:
username changing is a bit unnecessary but I understand gender dysphoria and plus if it (somehow) had personal information in it is a good idea but I think it it was added you should have to send a request, I don't really see much against the display names as long as you can still access their actual user name easily (ex: under the display name it shows the users username on their profile or on a comments section) it seems fine from my perspective

if it has gender dysphoria or personal info scratch team can change the username for you, display names are just like, for fun and self expression

Last edited by hydrofungus (Dec. 10, 2024 10:26:11)

medians

hydrofungus wrote:
medians wrote:
You could literally just explain in the request to change your username that “aster” was your old name, but you changed your name though
wait
y you can?

I think so, since you can actually request a username change if it causes gender dysphoria, has personal info, or was blocked for being inappropriate, so you could just explain that in the request.

hydrofungus

uh *scratches head* bump

oh btw if you're gonna reply to any points i made earlier keep in mind idk what i was thinking

Last edited by hydrofungus (March 14, 2025 13:35:32)

koalapet1

i came from my post lol.

Imtwentytenth

Support, but if a Scratcher wants to stay with his username (or display name same as username), then the display name won't show to take up less space.

-alternity

bump

hotcrystal

Support, because display names are a good alternative to changing usernames. Should spaces be allowed too?

hydrofungus

hotcrystal wrote:
Support, because display names are a good alternative to changing usernames. Should spaces be allowed too?

yeah, spaces count as special characters and i believe nicknames should support those

koalapet1

i think i rather changing my username but ok

--_Neon_--

koalapet1 wrote:
i think i rather changing my username but ok

It's rejected though

hydrofungus

koalapet1 wrote:
i think i rather changing my username but ok

that's rejected, this suggestion is somewhat of a workaround for that

koalapet1

hydrofungus wrote:
koalapet1 wrote:
i think i rather changing my username but ok
that's rejected, this suggestion is somewhat of a workaround for that

i hate how it's rejected but nicknames are good

RandomGuy658

koalapet1 wrote:
hydrofungus wrote:
koalapet1 wrote:
i think i rather changing my username but ok
that's rejected, this suggestion is somewhat of a workaround for that
i hate how it's rejected but nicknames are good

I also hate the whole rejection system. it sucks that if something was rejected at ANY point in time it will NEVER EVER be reconsidered

hotcrystal

RandomGuy658 wrote:
it sucks that if something was rejected at ANY point in time it will NEVER EVER be reconsidered

That is not true. A pi (mathematical constant) block used to be on the rejection list, but at some point it was removed from the rejection list, and I’m pretty sure there’s a topic for it.

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