I feel like the post just didn’t specify it, as they mentioned preventing visibility of violating usernames, would be stupid to mention that as the reason to then re-enable that bit, and at least they are doing something.
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With this update, now we can’t see past usernames being used but what about peoples who did bad things in their past (like Aloha_Vix on meep city, got exposed a lot on Youtube)? Her past username was Princess_Vix17 and if someone were to do another exposed video, they won’t have any proof anymore bc the past usernames been hidden.
I understand others points though.
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again, this isn’t really a valid point like i stated before
for moderation, we can just use userIDs which are completely unique…
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believe it or not dude, the api is still returning the old usernames of a person so they just literally did a visual change; i don’t see how this is a solution
This is a terrible idea. Quite a few groups, and myself, use past usernames to keep users who have been known to cause trouble out, as you do not have a solution to keep repeat offenders out of groups, leaving us to manually keep track ourselves. There has to be a better solution than this.
Groups are adding permanent exiles soon. It’s in the Roadmap. Second, respectfully, it’s bad practice to use usernames, and better to use UserIds. This applies in scripting, and it should also apply on the site.
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Hopefully alt detection is also added to permanent exiles on group level, alike added to experience’s BanAPI.
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We hope its really temporarily. This change basically helps scamming.