u/ManWithDominantClaw

Pain comes from a place of love; the harm we cause to others is driven by a desire for people to protect those closer to them. It follows swiftly behind a comfortable elite, the unconditional love and nurturing they were raised in allows them greater capacity to provide that environment to their kin, and to inflict pain on others to do so. Occasionally there is an interruption of the cycle, labourers finding the strength to inflict a far greater pain, but again they do so under the impetus of love for those around them.

During this temporal incursion, the people who have gotten their head around the basics of the situation will begin to resist working, and those who continue working will be doing so under the directive of those who would end our golden age, in much the same way the reign of Commodus was the end of Pax Romana.

These two conflicting pains are fuelled by blame, and the notion that the other side acts for their own pleasure. They both claim to be distanced from the society that was supposed to nurture them as a parent, and both seek a path forward for those they love.

There is an exception though, those with an inability to envision a future or a way of enacting it, those who do not have the driver of pain, soft souls with office jobs.

This indicates what we must do.

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I think I understand why they did it?

In terms of practicality, with this many users, coming up with a unique account name must be tricky, and it helps new user retention to make it easy to just go with a default account name then change your display name.

From a cynical standpoint, it's just become slightly more effort to check whether a given user, when creating their account, considered it representative of their personality and intention to contribute, or just anonymous and disposable. As a mod, I've never made a judgement based solely on 'Adjective-noun-numbers', but it did prove a reliable indicator that it's worth a quick look to see if they might be arguing in bad faith. Any action that makes it harder for users to tell when a bot or a troll is baiting them is going to raise engagement.

The way they've done it though is really rough, and I have no explanation for that. I quickly changed mine around a few times for screenshots, and there was no restriction or cooldown on doing so. Even in the minute that I was taking them I kept my display pic, but it looks like it would have been very easy to change the name and the pic to start impersonating anyone, even reddit itself.

Pictures show:

1. they didn't exclude u/reddit

2. a beautiful real screenshot of a mod comment I'd recently made in a community I was once 3-day banned from, displaying as u/reddit

3. they didn't exclude u/admin

4. they didn't exclude u/RedditCareResources

5. they changed the field from 30 to 90 characters, which starts to break the UI on the first comment

So I'm keen to hear thoughts on the rationale for the change in the first place, but also on the way it's been implemented. I'm wondering whether it was rushed for some reason, or run like an open beta for users to playtest out the bugs, or just given very little forethought.