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It's 2017. Stop letting users pick their own identifiers.

lol wut...

As opposed to?

Wait, let me guess, UUIDs right?

Actually, yes, UUID's would be ideal. Then we'd just a public registrar of some sort to index them with a more human-readable name.

I hope this is sarcasm. The human readable IDs would than be squatted upon.

Yes it was sarcasm :D. I wouldn't insult anyone's intelligence here by adding a /s

Don't feed the troll

Did you pick your HN id?

No. I do not know how this name was chosen.