Timeline for Why do so many websites have the restriction of user names starting with a letter?
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| Jan 20, 2012 at 16:55 | answer | added | Lèse majesté | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 19, 2012 at 18:42 | answer | added | eckenroed | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 19, 2012 at 12:34 | answer | added | KOVIKO | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jan 18, 2012 at 21:25 | comment | added | pritaeas | For Skype a possible reason can be that you can call a user by username or phone number. It can be a way to distinct between them. | |
| Jan 15, 2012 at 18:53 | answer | added | dbkk | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 15, 2012 at 17:47 | comment | added | Zelda | The only thing I can think of would be if you wanted to make an alphabetical name listing and didn't want to include a "numbers" category. Still not a good reason, I suspect a popular site once did this and lots of sites copied them for no reason. | |
| Jan 15, 2012 at 4:21 | answer | added | Matthew Read | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 14, 2012 at 19:34 | answer | added | Schroedingers Cat | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 14, 2012 at 14:37 | answer | added | Jimmy Breck-McKye | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jan 14, 2012 at 11:27 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackUX/status/158148181677457408 | ||
| Jan 14, 2012 at 11:24 | answer | added | Adam Lynch | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 14, 2012 at 11:14 | history | asked | Lazer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |