As a long time reddit moderator, people creating similar usernames to impersonate another user is definitely a problem. That was instantly bannable in all the subs I’ve moderated.
Having color coded usernames calculated based on their full user/ host could help. Something like https://gustu.github.io/string-to-color/. That would make it more obvious that two users aren’t the same user.
In the subreddits dedicated to the Cosmere multiverse created by Brandon Sanderson, who is an active redditors, we had a meme of pinging something close to but not actually his username. Especially when it wasn’t something worth wasting his time.
But yeah, completely agree. I am sure it was frustrating.
As a long time reddit moderator, people creating similar usernames to impersonate another user is definitely a problem. That was instantly bannable in all the subs I’ve moderated.
Having color coded usernames calculated based on their full user/ host could help. Something like https://gustu.github.io/string-to-color/. That would make it more obvious that two users aren’t the same user.
In the subreddits dedicated to the Cosmere multiverse created by Brandon Sanderson, who is an active redditors, we had a meme of pinging something close to but not actually his username. Especially when it wasn’t something worth wasting his time.
But yeah, completely agree. I am sure it was frustrating.