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Difficult to do as the username is created once they authenticate.
Originally (a long time ago) I tried to have a smarter default, i.e. the first part of the email address used to authenticate. But that's obviously a privacy nightmare and would fall foul of GDPR now.
I did experiment with a forced flow to prompt to set a username when replying, but that typically lost someone's reply... i.e. the more hurdles you introduce the fewer people bother jumping them and some very notable members stayed as user76845 style names for a long time.
I do think there's something that can be done though... perhaps to change the reply box itself to show the current avatar and username on the left as a kind of "you are posting as" reminder that their identity is currently crappy.
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@Velocio - Can users be forced to choose a user name on sign up, rather than default user12345 etc? There seem to be loads more unnamed folk on here recently and it's hard to recognise which are troll types easily and to recognise who you are responding to.