Timeline for Why are usernames not unique?
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| Jul 18, 2020 at 10:05 | comment | added | polfosol | A few months ago, there was a flood of "Reinstate Monica" usernames. No one was against this, but the irony was when several Reinstate Monica s where commenting on the same post. Because if you wanted to answer one of them by mentioning, it would have ended in a headache. | |
| Jul 15, 2020 at 4:55 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | Maybe difference depends on whether we count unregistered users? (I.e., the users who participated here without registering, just relying on their login being remembered in cookies.) | |
| Jul 15, 2020 at 4:54 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | @Andrew It is interesting that we each get somewhat different counts. I get 66 Andrews and 70 if I count case insensitive. (There are four lowercase answers.) | |
| Jul 14, 2020 at 7:22 | comment | added | Andrew | Usernames are unique. The names that users choose to display, however, are not. (As one of the horde of Andrews, I feel the need to reply! Btw, I count 53 members of this distinguished horde.) | |
| Jul 12, 2020 at 5:56 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak |
created the (user-names) tag; as discussed in MO editors' lounge: https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/10243/conversation/a-tag-for-usernames-on-meta
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| Jul 11, 2020 at 8:32 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | Here is a query which can be used to list all users name Andrew, Adam or any other username you want to try. | |
| Jul 11, 2020 at 8:30 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | Indeed, it seems that there are usernames more frequent than Andrew, here is a SEDE query listing the most frequent ones. The duplication goes down if you look at users with non-negligible reputation, here are the results if you take reputation at least 102 or at least 1000. | |
| Jul 11, 2020 at 8:21 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added direct link to the search for users with a username containing "andrew"
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| Jul 10, 2020 at 19:38 | answer | added | Gerhard Paseman | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 10, 2020 at 11:46 | history | edited | Glorfindel |
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| Jul 10, 2020 at 11:46 | answer | added | Glorfindel | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jul 10, 2020 at 11:15 | history | asked | John Bentin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |