Old nickname display missing

[1D]

I do not see my previous nickname used in Steam. It only shows me my current nickname. Is it a suspicious behavior ?

[Silicon Vampire]

Oprindeligt skrevet af T.Hawk:

First, thank you again for the answers you provide guys.

Silicon >> I only have one account, an old account , 10 years old.

Teutep >> in the link you provide, I see the name of my account and not the pseudo. And the name of my account was different from my first nickname (which I can not see anywhere now).

with a private profile, you are not allowing us to see the bits of info that may help figure this out...

BUT

if you go to your Steam folder, look for a "userdata" folder and post the names of the folders in "userdata", it may shed a little more light on the subject. They will be numbers for the names and will show if you have ever logged in on this machine on another account... we'll see what we can find from there...

[1D]

I don't know if it is safe to do this but okay : in "userdata" there is only one folder "15834105". Inside this folder there are 6 folders : "7" "760" "359870" "config" "ugc" and "ugcmsgcache".

[Silicon Vampire]

the first number is all I needed. I suspect Tuetep is correct here...

Oprindeligt skrevet af Teutep:

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Because unless I remember wrong, the first nickname is the same as your account name; and does not display upon change due to security reasons.

[Snapjak]

Oprindeligt skrevet af T.Hawk:

I don't know if it is safe to do this but okay : in "userdata" there is only one folder "15834105". Inside this folder there are 6 folders : "7" "760" "359870" "config" "ugc" and "ugcmsgcache".

In case you were wondering, that first number is your unique and publically available Steam3id number.

The others are just various app folders.

[1D]

Snapjak >> thank you for the info.

Silicon >> but in my case, I remember very well that the name of my account and my first pseudo were different (it has always been). Logically, I should see my first nickname appear in the list of nicknames used.

[Tev]

Having checked the cache on one of the forum posts you've made. Apparently your older nickname was Wilson?

#6 response here:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/271590/discussions/0/487876568235491098/#c487876568235649528

Versus #6 response here:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Qa_KhrUSfs4J:steamcommunity.com/app/271590/discussions/0/487876568235491098/

The profile URL on that profile is: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197976099833

Other than that, since it shows up on cache taken on March 5th, 2016. It can't have been too long ago since you used it either. My alt. account's previous name history goes far beyond that date. As I said before, my alt. account is also a private -profile, so that's not the issue.

I can still see the display name isn't specified at the registry form: https://store.steampowered.com/join/ That being said, if that really isn't your account name as you say, then I honestly have no idea why it doesn't display. I feel the best way to troubleshoot this would be for me to make yet another account, but perhaps it isn't worth the hassle.

It seems your future nicknames do display alright though.
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197976099833/namehistory

EDIT:

Also, unless this counts you going from T.Hawk to USIdent to T.Hawk as 3, which might very well be the case, this displays 3 Name changes on record for this account
https://steamid.eu/profile/76561197976099833

EDIT #2:

Avatar on the above page is cached though. (Signed in through its OpenID)
http://i.imgur.com/VODbXfb.png

If both OP and I are right, that would imply OP has had to have changed his display name not once; but twice - and neither time counted. Former being understandable; latter not so.

EDIT #3:

To sum this all up,

	Private profile	Private profile for long	Name cached	Name changed last time	Avatar cached	Limited user
TeutepTest				Up to 19 Jul 2015	N/A	(Click)
T Hawk		?	except later ones	At earliest 5 Mar 2016 (Refer to cache above)		(Click)
Sir Theta				24 Oct 2013		(Click)

[1D]

Thank you again Teutep for taking the time to answer, truly.

For nickchanges, I created my first (Wilson) then T.Hawk, recently USIdent and return to T.Hawk. That's all.

Also the avatar history from the picture you provide doesn't display all my avatar, especially the one I had the time of my first pseudo.

I don't clearly understand what is the reason of the non-display of my first avatar, english isn't my native language, my bad. If you could summarize in a basic sentence. ;)

[Tev]

Bear with me, since you've had to answer this so many times by now.

Confirm that your account name isn't wilson, Wilson or any version of it capitalized or uncapitalized.

EDIT

I remembered wrong. I just made a new Steam -account, and it seems to take the name from before the @ -sign from my e-mail address.

As you can see, the original display name doesn't show up here:
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198306735432/namehistory

Wilson might've been part of your original e-mail address in that case.

The reason I brought up the avatar history is to point out that while your nickname isn't displaying in the history; your avatar is cached somewhere deep down.

Meaning the whole history isn't gone; but it's interesting how your display name isn't there despite having been used a lesser time ago than many other aliases of mine and my friend's.

That being said, no intruder should be able to remove that information, so I wouldn't call it suspicious behavior. Just interesting that it doesn't display.

[1D]

I think I can't bring more info to resolve this mystery but I remain available if you need. Maybe it's a Valve's stuff or not. Who knows but I'm not eased so far. Thanks guys.

Edit : Wilson isn't part of my email.

[Tev]

I just made a new account.
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198306735432/namehistory

As you can see, the name history doesn't display there either upon the first name change.

I remembered wrong, and it's not based on your account name, but based on the e-mail address before the @ -sign.

If you recognize Wilson as part of any original e-mail, that's a story for another day, but as far as I'm concerned, that's the closest I can get I think.

Oprindeligt skrevet af T.Hawk:

Edit : Wilson isn't part of my email.

Never mind, if you include the original e-mail address.

Edit 2: I'm sorry for not trying a new account first. It was rather inappropriate of me to ask you to confirm whether it was or not your account name.

A few questions I can still think of are as follow,

1. When did you register? There's a chance the initial name was defined some other way in the past.
   
2. Do you remember putting your original nickname (Wilson) in through this?: http://steamcommunity.com/my/edit/

[The Giving One]

I can confirm that it could be for security reasons that the alias does not show up. I do actually have one alias that you will not see in my list either.

However, it WAS part of my email address and that is surely why you cannot see it. When I made my account 8 years ago, I made that foolish mistake of doing just that and have changed it since then.

As many know, where there are no known aliases, the drop window will say just that..."no known aliases".

But as you can see, my drop window actually shows my current alias, which is an exact match. So instead of it showing "no known aliases" as it should because they match, you actually can see my current alias.

Because I DO have another alias...but you just cannot see it for the very reason I previously mentioned here....because it was part of my email address and Steam very intelligently has protected me from my foolish self in that case.

Surely you, the OP, had an older email or something that the missing alias was a part of, and that is the reason.

[Tev]

Oprindeligt skrevet af The Giving One:

I can confirm that it could be for security reasons that the alias does not show up. I do actually have one alias that you will not see in my list either.

However, it WAS part of my email address and that is surely why you cannot see it. When I made my account 8 years ago, I made that foolish mistake of doing just that and have changed it since then.

As many know, where there are no known aliases, the drop window will say just that..."no known aliases".

But as you can see, my drop window actually shows my current alias, which is an exact match. So instead of it showing "no known aliases" as it should because they match, you actually can see my current alias.

Because I DO have another alias...but you just cannot see it for the very reason I previously mentioned here....because it was part of my email address and Steam very intelligently has protected me from my foolish self in that case.

Surely you, the OP, had an older email or something that the missing alias was a part of, and that is the reason.

By the way, remember the question I had to ask myself regarding the e-mail prefix being lowercased in my case, and OP's being capitalized like Wilson?

I tried making another alt (I should never make any more accounts again) this time with capitalized e-mail, and it definitely did get capitalized in the same fashion.

While OP says it's not part of his e-mail -address, I can't help but feel it might've been part of some original e-mail address, like you say as well. That would also explain why it disappears after the initial name change.

Since we're not allowed to toss in account names, and I think pictures have too much the risk to be called falsified, let's use another way to showcase this:

I stored my alt. account's first alias in Wayback History's cache.
http://web.archive.org/web/20160525085842/https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198306732104/

After setting up my profile,
http://web.archive.org/web/20160525090213/http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198306732104/
EDIT: Interesting how the nickname I set up AFTER the cache shows up in the cache. but let's ignore that. If in doubt, store your own profile page to cache, change your alias once and look on the cached page's name history.

See the ID is the same, display name includes capitalization.

Now I'll change my display name to something else,
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198306732104/namehistory

IDs are still the same; previous name is not displayed.

EDIT: And for those parties concerned, that's not my primary e-mail address. So no worries.

EDIT 2: And like I said, if it's not part of any e-mail OP has ever had on his account, I'd like to ask when he made his account. The Giving One for example registered on April 14th, 2008, so I'm thinking since it applies even today, that part hasn't changed.

Check here: http://steamcommunity.com/my/badges/1

[1D]

Teutep >> I have created my account 24 May 2005 (for Half-Life 2 I remember) and "Wilson" was written like this and was not part of my email.

I have a little trouble following you guys, my english is not so good, sorry. I put the badge that took another year. I'm an old gamer. :)

[Tev]

Maybe there was some other criteria for the initial name between 2005 and 20078. I can't really prove that wrong since I don't have cache that old. *shrugs*

I think that's a checkmate against me in that sense.

[1D]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Teutep:

Maybe there was some other criteria for the initial name between 2005 and 20078.

That's what I'm thinking but I'm not sureat all. Did you think I can send an email to ask Valve an answer ?
Also can I change my account name, just in case ?

By the way, thank you for the clarification and all.