Nicks for Og users

DaWhadurMonz · November 21, 2022, 7:11pm

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I believe this covers most if not all the issues with this

For starters, you’re right in that it would absolutely be abused. Whether that’s by making bad names or by using the nick to commit chat offences. It would then be even harder than usual for us to track people to get their actual name.

Secondly, having it be something to apply for or be given is always going to be an issue. Firstly because that requires a lot of bias on our part in saying who can or can’t be trusted, but also because the people who don’t get it will wonder why. I also can’t imagine it would be easy from a dev point of view to give the command to certain people and not others, especially if you want to limit it to people on the leaderboards.

And finally, how are we supposed to track users if we need to when nicking shows them as offline? Offline is a universal thing, we can’t limit that just to people who are friends with users or something.

Nicking is something causes a hell of a lot of issues no matter how you look at it or what ways you try to fix it. It would also call for a lot more moderation on our part. I understand that being targeted is an issue for some but remember that it is a reportable offence. Furthermore, your level is more likely to get you targeted than your leaderboard status, which would still be on show when nicked. I believe someone already suggested level scrambling somewhere which would work a lot better than nicking in my opinion.