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  • I have a similar issue where people think my name is jinguy, when it really is jjnguy. It is really annoying to miss comments directed at you. Commented Aug 23, 2010 at 13:35
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    @jjnguy That issue is entirely why I switched to Grace Note. It was slightly entertaining to see the wrong name sometimes, but I eventually noticed just how many comments I had been missing because people wrote "rn" instead of "m". Commented Aug 23, 2010 at 13:43
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    @jinguy, @ccornet: I can imagine that must be very annoying :p Commented Aug 23, 2010 at 13:47
  • Regarding your edit: your display name is 8 characters long, not 2. So it would be let through. Commented Aug 23, 2010 at 14:25
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    @Rob I had the advantage that my original display name wasn't my real name, though. For people who do have short given names or surnames (depending on your name order), though, I think it's more power to them to be able to keep their names if they use them. Commented Aug 23, 2010 at 14:27
  • @Grace But given what that "feature" was suppose to prevent, clearly my username had slipped through a crack Commented Aug 23, 2010 at 14:29
  • Actually, that feature was supposed to prevent people who are entirely impossible to contact. You can be contacted, it's just that many people unfamiliar with the system will probably fail. People who actually had display names of 1 or 2 characters could never be responded to, no matter how well you understood the system. For the reasons given in my last comment, I don't think it would be wise to restrain users from having the first part of a display name be 1-2 characters. Commented Aug 23, 2010 at 14:34
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    Maybe if I give this question a sharp enough jab the power that be might at least respond. Feels like talking to a wall here... Commented Aug 26, 2010 at 15:22
  • Note that the suggestion of passing more than one white-space seperated word can't work: users don't always put : or similar delimiters after the user name (e.g. "@foo is right"). Commented Aug 26, 2010 at 15:28
  • Wasn't the solution to this to just leave the white space out? IIRC, @YiJiang should work. Admittedly far from optimal - this should really be fixed the right way. Commented Aug 31, 2010 at 9:07
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    @Pekka Yes it does, but if you look at the question, I've noted that literally nobody does this. I mean, nobody. Not even Jeff Atwood. meta.stackexchange.com/questions/61780/… Commented Aug 31, 2010 at 10:19
  • “I've basically been reduced to opening up questions with my six last comment and refreshing them one by one to watch for replies.” I have to say I ‘need’ to do that, too. The majority of users on SO don't know about comment replies at all. I even see people with high rep who don't use them. But I have to admit that it's great I can edit my own comments, because I forget the @user-name part occasionally, too. And I agree about the space issue, I hardly see anyone write @MarcelKorpel, though of course the system works with solely my first name. Commented Aug 31, 2010 at 11:33
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    @Georg: Agreed. Another reason why auto-completion (à la chat) or a reply button would be useful. Commented Aug 31, 2010 at 11:42
  • Why is it three characters in the first place? Probably because of this gentleman. Commented Oct 3, 2010 at 9:58