Stop giving default user names. Make new posters think of one.

Afternoon, all. Thanks for bringing this up @PullTheBricksDown.

Suggested usernames are common across many forums and exist to help new members who might struggle to think of a name, making it easier to join the threads, so it's not something we want to stop people doing really. It also feels a bit less robotic than the user993283930 names that we had previously so while we understand that they aren't favorite, we don't think that outweighs the benefits of them for many people. Hopefully once they're posting and start to feel more at home here they might choose to namechange to something a bit more meaningful or original.

And that we don't think these are bots either. Apart from anything, there simply wouldn't be much in it for them. We are aware of one quite prolific poster who has a tone that might be construed that way and starts a lot of threads that might sound a bit unusual, but is not a bot as far as we can see. As always, do just hit the report button if you see anything that triggers your bot-dar and we'll always happily have a look. It's usually fairly obvious at our end when something is amiss. Hope that reassures you.

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Stop giving default user names. Make new posters think of one.