Sounds like a good solution. To make the colors less invasive it could only activate once two different users with the same name comment in a single thread.
the problem is you’d need to check for visual similarity, not just the same. spammers and scammers of any kind often take advantage of the full power of unicode to create names that look like the same, but aren’t, and even without unicode you have the issues of I vs l, O vs 0, rn vs m, and so on. if we can figure out a check that the impersonators could actually have a hard time evading that would be nice, but otherwise i don’t really see it.
imo we should make the colors non-invasive by just minimizing their visual impact. painting the entire comment with the assigned color would be intrusive, but i see no issue with just coloring the usernames, in a very discord-like fashion.
Sounds like a good solution. To make the colors less invasive it could only activate once two different users with the same name comment in a single thread.
the problem is you’d need to check for visual similarity, not just the same. spammers and scammers of any kind often take advantage of the full power of unicode to create names that look like the same, but aren’t, and even without unicode you have the issues of I vs l, O vs 0, rn vs m, and so on. if we can figure out a check that the impersonators could actually have a hard time evading that would be nice, but otherwise i don’t really see it.
imo we should make the colors non-invasive by just minimizing their visual impact. painting the entire comment with the assigned color would be intrusive, but i see no issue with just coloring the usernames, in a very discord-like fashion.