Well, it falls to me to be a killjoy in an official capacity. While I celebrate the spirit of scientific inquiry, it’s damaging the function of the forum for other users in a way that’s easily avoided through mere politeness rather than taking time out to modify the backend.
@shane
@exodus
At the very least, per 穴 , I think the option for users to freely change their own handle should be disabled, as a malicious actor could conceivably do something like registering multiple accounts, spread posts around and then change their handles to 1,000-character-long garbage strings.
Though I’m sure no one here would do that, I urge reverting your handles to reasonable length and character sets.