Display Name Question

[Palmpilot]

Why is the "Display Name" displayed less prominently that the user name? Seems backwards.

 

[flyingron]

Yep, I always wondered about that myself.

 

[asicer]

I don't think it currently has any curation/moderator input. If that's the case, I can see how it could possibly be abused.

 

[flyingron]

The DisplayName isn't a built-in field of the XF software. Not sure what the intent was.
My site puts the user's real name under the username (we use a separate field for that because we are a non-profit membership organization and we need to track our voting members as real people).

A similar question is why the display Name is blank on the first line and repeated on the bottom. Probably an oversight on whoever modified that template.

 

[schmookeeg]

Yeah, that's bugged me for awhile. I'd personally flip username and displayname given my druthers. But imagine the chaos it would cause Nobody likes change.

(I never noticed the double Display Name at the bottom until you mentioned it @flyingron -- now it's gonna bug me everytime I surf the site I may sneakily patch that up and wait for the outcry)

 

[Bob Noel]

Just make everyone's display name match the user name... problem solved. ;-)

 

[Stan Cooper]

Just make everyone's display name match the user name... problem solved. ;-)

Completely agree.