What is the communitys' thoughts on deleting name history?

[Valerie]

I can see the appeal of it personally for other people who would put up really dumb meme names or what have you and would like to wipe it from their record, but I for one really dislike it.

It makes it hard to find out who they were and on games like CS:GO it's hard to keep track of a cheater sometimes when they change avatar/name then delete their previous history of names. Just makes the whole thing more anonymous.

[The End]

Originally posted by Serenity ♡:

What is the communitys' thoughts on deleting name history? ... I can see the appeal of it personally for other people who would put up really dumb meme names or what have you and would like to wipe it from their record, but I for one really dislike it.

It makes it hard to find out who they were and on games like CS:GO it's hard to keep track of a cheater sometimes when they change avatar/name then delete their previous history of names. Just makes the whole thing more anonymous.

But changing the complete namehistory to a singlehearts in different colours (like your) is better?

If a user is a cheater, they have a ban on their profile and can't play on protected servers for the game they were cheating in.

[Valerie]

Originally posted by Rockon:

Originally posted by Serenity ♡:

What is the communitys' thoughts on deleting name history? ... I can see the appeal of it personally for other people who would put up really dumb meme names or what have you and would like to wipe it from their record, but I for one really dislike it.

It makes it hard to find out who they were and on games like CS:GO it's hard to keep track of a cheater sometimes when they change avatar/name then delete their previous history of names. Just makes the whole thing more anonymous.

But changing the complete namehistory to a singlehearts in different colours (like your) is better?

If a user is a cheater, they have a ban on their profile and can't play on protected servers for the game they were cheating in.

I did that for aesthetics only and not really part of the point.

Lots of friends do it too on my list and I forget who they are as well. -And not every cheater gets caught. I know of a few who have multiple accounts so they're not scared of not playing on protected servers again on THAT account.

[The End]

Originally posted by Serenity ♡:

Originally posted by Rockon:

But changing the complete namehistory to a singlehearts in different colours (like your) is better?

If a user is a cheater, they have a ban on their profile and can't play on protected servers for the game they were cheating in.

What does that have to do with anything? I did that for aesthetics only and not really part of the point.

Maybe, people who choose to delete namehistory does it for the very same reason, I did.

You don't need to keep track on people, and if you really need, it's easy nomatter how often they delete namehistory.

[Valerie]

Originally posted by Rockon:

Originally posted by Serenity ♡:

What does that have to do with anything? I did that for aesthetics only and not really part of the point.

Maybe, people who choose to delete namehistory does it for the very same reason, I did.

You don't need to keep track on people, and if you really need, it's easy nomatter how often they delete namehistory.

Originally posted by Serenity ♡:

Lots of friends do it too on my list and I forget who they are as well.

Plus, it'd be nice to know who I'm bumping into (especially if it's a cheater) instead realizing it's the same guy under a different alias and wiped history in-game. :(

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Just block the user, and use Enhanced Steam extension on Chrome or Firefox; it will give you the option to add nicknames to blocked users, allowing you to keep track of them regardless of name changes.

I do that to people that I’ve blocked all the time so I remember why I blocked them.

[Valerie]

Originally posted by 🌸 Vixinity 🌸:

Just block the user, and use Enhanced Steam extension on Chrome or Firefox; it will give you the option to add nicknames to blocked users, allowing you to keep track of them regardless of name changes.

I do that to people that I’ve blocked all the time so I remember why I blocked them.

:sakura:

Thank you for the tip! I have an extensive block list though due to next level toxic users, but mostly because of scammers/bots.

[僕の名前 (仮)]

Are you gonna remember all names of all cheaters?

[Phantom]

Third-party sites still cache alias history through Steam's API.

It is updated daily in most third-party sites like Steamid.eu

5.4 | We make certain data related to your Steam User Account available to other players and our partners through the Steamworks API.

Regardless of this, you need to use a better identifier rather than a profile name.

Identifying a user's profile based on their Steam 64 ID is more reliable.

Profile names, have historically been interim and practically cosmetic.

Originally posted by Serenity ♡:

It makes it hard to find out who they were and on games like CS:GO it's hard to keep track of a cheater sometimes when they change avatar/name then delete their previous history of names. Just makes the whole thing more anonymous.

In the past, you can simply overwrite your alias history.

Creating multiple name changes in succession achieves this.

As it relates to scamming or impersonation, neither of these will be exacerbated.

The reason is because they could've overwritten the alias history quite quickly.

Thus, the change seems rather neutral.

Better still, you can query the profile on a third-party site if you're in doubt.