It would be good for people who does not want to be associated with a certain name anymore for some reason and don't spam random names (because that's kind of obvious that they have changed their name).Īnd yes: I know pages like vacbanned will still show my old aliases, but people wouldn't just open my steam and see it right away. Or then when you press the button it would send you to a report/refund-like page, where you type in your request and reasoning for deleting the name history. This button would be optional, so people who doesn't want to be associated with their old name(s) can press it when those who want to keep their name history doesn't press the button. So my suggestion is, could Steam add a 'Delete name history' button if your name has been same over X amount of years, for example 2 years.

I know it's possible to spam 10 'blank' names (aka uni codes that have nothing in them yet) and then put your name in it, but it will look stupid when the 'blank' names becomes something else (like this, this or this, or then the name jumps to somewhere in the middle like this, this or this ) and it will still visible that you changed your name in /id/(your username)/namehistory.īut yeah, I'd rather not spam 10 random uni codes that will one day become visible (or is visible only on Win10 and not Win7 or some other OS) and then look rather confusing. At least it's not easy to find logs about it.Īnyway, long story short I wish to not be associated with the name anymore on any level for many reasons, those are the main reasons. In the other sites I changed the name or made an new account with a different name and thankfully there are no logs of the name on the other accounts anymore. To this day, some people still say things about me because of the name (it wasn't really that bad, it just happened to contain my gender) and I usually block them by then, but it would still be nice if they couldn't see the name. However, I didn't know the names got stuck in a name history thing and noticed it later after I had changed it. I also had a lot of bad experiences and memories relating to that name from before I registered to Steam, so I guess it was just a question before I changed it to something else.

This was a huge mistake since people started harassing me over it, so I changed it to a more neutral one and I've kept the neutral one since that. I originally posted this on reddit so it's a x-post from there, but hear me out:Īround 3 years ago I created my Steam Account, and since I basically had no idea of what Steam was, I put in a name which had a gender in it and that was my username in some other games.

How to hide previous names on steam