Can’t wait to change my name to ROBLOX and scam a bunch of kids. 
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ikr, watch SO many people do that.
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This update is a huge waste of time. All it’s doing is giving people who couldn’t make a creative enough name the chance to remove an underscore and creating problems the platform isn’t capable of solving. You’re just making it harder to deal with moderation if users are too confused about who to even report. The only appeal is towards roleplaying games, which already have their own systems that function the exact same and have been working for years. Meanwhile roblox is so far fundamentally behind every other platform that it makes us a joke. Our only hope of getting features that actually matter are locked behind weighted dice or keep getting deferred.
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What if somebody set their display name to their real life name? That could be trouble.
I’m pretty sure that could also be done with regular usernames also.
“We will be rolling this feature out slowly over the next few months”
So I’m pretty sure that within that time, they can work on a system to prevent abuse of this to scam,
steals others’ identities and do any other malicious activities.
Ah, I must’ve missed it. I will definitely do the same as it will cause great confusion for many players.
This definitely concerns me (and a lot of other Roblox developers) about impersonation. As well as the ability to bypass with unicode characters - which for some reason are allowed - I’m very skeptical about this update.
Nonetheless, if these issues can be addressed, I’d be somewhat okay with this update.
I see this as a rather exciting feature but,
the only down sides I can think off the top of my head is impersonation, of a big creator (Ex, KreekCraft, Flamingo, ect.) to get what they want from other players, like scamming
the second down side to it is the possible inappropriate use for this feature, cause they could replace a simple letter to by-pass the filtration system and, make an inappropriate name, and being abused, easily.
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This update could really work however:
- Star creators, Roblox administrators/staff members, influential developers, and other content creators with a ‘large’ audience (e.g content creators with over 5,000-10,000 subscribers) should have their names censored or not allowed to be inputted to prevent impersonation
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There is a character limit. Its the usual 3 - 20 char limit.
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This is really useless since devs could already have options to make display names in their own games, without having the whole Roblox website have a different separate feature.
Impersonation aside, it’s just an update that I think nobody asked for and we still got hit with. It’ll force a lot of devs to have to rewrite their code, and I’m sure it’ll break a few games.
Please just no, please Roblox don’t add this in.
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Barely any games use display name from the humanoid. I highly doubt this will break any games.
How will this affect independent moderation suites that are widely used such as Kohl’s and Adonis? Can multiple users have the same display name?
For example if you were to attempt to edit one of these administration suites to kick / ban users based on chat display name, but multiple people have the same display name, that would break it–would it not?
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You shouldn’t be banning users based on display name or username, always user ID. This wouldn’t mess with any existing code, given they all either use user IDs or names.
The aforementioned admin suites DO ban with user IDs, or at least Adonis does. It just automatically gets those user IDs from username. It’s a much simpler process for in-game moderation.
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I am unable to find the option to change my display name
It’s not live fully yet. It’ll be released over the next few months.
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In my opinion this update will be cool!
But I think that impersonation will be a problem with the display names because there will be people that will use the username of someone popular for scamming, try to ruin his reputation or just get attention.
I hope that with this update methods to prevent impersonation arrive too because that can be a serious problem.
I’m still waiting for cloth physics lol
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