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account42yesterday at 12:57 PM2 repliesview on HN

You could probably get away with banning all common english words as usernames if you wanted to.


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nkriscyesterday at 1:21 PM

Or put all user pages under some top level path and then you never need to ban anything as this problem becomes completely moot.

teddyhyesterday at 2:57 PM

Even if you don’t ban all words, there are some you should filter:

• <https://ldpreload.com/blog/names-to-reserve>

• <https://xkcd.com/1963/>