Deletion of previous steam names on your profile!

[The Juan And Only JOHN CENA]

Hello Steam Community.
I am wondering if we can get a vote of hands to see if we can get a option on our steam profiles to delete our previous names as it does look untidey when viewing your own or others steam names, as well as there could possibley be some embarrassing steam names prior to the one you have now. Personally im a neat freak and i have to keep my profile on private because thats as neat as it will ever look at the moment with my pervious names showing,i dont know what ever the matter may be. So if we could! In the next update or so, would steam users be able to have a option that allows you to delete your previous steam names?

[Tev]

If they could come down to some compromise, maybe.

For now I think it's good that people don't have too many ways to become transparent, i.e. in the context of someone scamming another person.

(Their information would still be in the Inventory History, but regardless...)

[Hi-Torque]

I dislike the lack of transparency. I am against this idea.

[Faolchu]

Also a nay, also op has an interesting previous nickname, might be why he wants this change.

[Smokey]

-1 we need less transparency or what ever it's called

[FOZ]

1 daset

[Hanomaly]

i think if you haven't used a particular Steam name in over a /year/ (heck make it 2),then that name should come off of your list of "known aliases" or whatever.

i understand there is a certain security to be able to go back and see someone's previous names, but after a /year/ or /2 years/ one can assume any issue that old would be resolved by now.

Anyway, i want this too. When i first created my Steam account i did not understand that my "login name" and "displayed name for all to see" /could/ be different. So i entered the same name for both. Now i actually *do* have the security risk of people being able to see my "private login" name attached to my account forever. All because when i signed up for Steam it was unclear to me that i was allowed to make those two names "different".

[Teksura]

Originally posted by Hanomaly:

When i first created my Steam account i did not understand that my "login name" and "displayed name for all to see" /could/ be different. So i entered the same name for both. Now i actually *do* have the security risk of people being able to see my "private login" name attached to my account forever. All because when i signed up for Steam it was unclear to me that i was allowed to make those two names "different".

Emphasis on the word "now". As in, you only have this problem now that you have told people this.

[Hi-Torque]

Originally posted by Teksura:

Originally posted by Hanomaly:

When i first created my Steam account i did not understand that my "login name" and "displayed name for all to see" /could/ be different. So i entered the same name for both. Now i actually *do* have the security risk of people being able to see my "private login" name attached to my account forever. All because when i signed up for Steam it was unclear to me that i was allowed to make those two names "different".

Emphasis on the word "now". As in, you only have this problem now that you have told people this.

I thought the same.

I marginally agree with a two to three year cut off.

[Andrius227]

I also disagree with this idea. Ppl should not be able to basically change their identity. I personally think they should even remove the ability to make your profile private. Because i think some ppl may be hiding some things that should be always visible to everyone, like for example the fact that a person is vac banned or is an addict of a specific game or genre.

[Kauldwin]

Originally posted by Andrius227:

I also disagree with this idea. Ppl should not be able to basically change their identity. I personally think they should even remove the ability to make your profile private. Because i think some ppl may be hiding some things that should be always visible to everyone, like for example the fact that a person is vac banned or is an addict of a specific game or genre.

Uh, why should the type of game you like to play be visible to everyone? That's precisely the type of info some people like to keep to themselves, which is just fine. However, VAC bans still show up even if the Steam profile is private, so no worries there.

As far as the OP, I'm with the people who say let it drop after a couple years. I think it's good they keep the nicknames for a while, but I don't necessarily see a reason it needs to be permanent.

[[AU] Tabris:DarkPeace]

Known aliases should last forever to avoid cheaters, scammers and fraud, etc.

[💢𝓐ℓ ¢нємιѕт💢]

I think you shouldn't be able to change your name at all.

[Hanomaly]

Originally posted by TabrisDarkPeace:

Known aliases should last forever to avoid cheaters, scammers and fraud, etc.

Sure but it someone commits fraud.. by 2 years later you don't need to know their "old name". If they were proven to have commited fraud then surely Valve would have locked their account by now or whatever.

i agree allowing people to swap names (without recording the old name they used) every day or week.. is no good. But if you stop using a name for a year or 2.. it should drop off your list then. Any "fraud" or "scammer" issues will have been dealt with looooong before then.

Originally posted by Al Chemist:

I think you shouldn't be able to change your name at all.

Why? If i start my Steam account when i am 13 and think one name is "super cool and great" at 13... ten years later when i am 23 (and have hundreds of dollars spent on games in my account) i should be stuck with the name i gave myself at 13? That's lame. And some people are in that exact position. They've had a Steam account for ten years.

Although i'd personally like it if name changes were limited to only 1 time a month. Or 1 time every week. Or something.

Originally posted by Teksura:

Emphasis on the word "now". As in, you only have this problem now that you have told people this.

you make a good point >.>

[SavageBeastZero]

Steam user names can infact be removed by requesting such an action via Steam Support. File a support ticket and cleary state which user names you wish to be removed from your account. A response may take up to or exceed a two to four week period but, pending you thoroughly explain what actions you wish them to take upon your account (specific user names removal) and provide proper account ownership information the process will be faily simple.

[Aesthetic]

Even if you put your profile on private, people can still see your past names.