Sorry for the offtopicness, but unless you're Reality Winner, can you please pick a different username? Using a well-known person's name falls into the category of trollish usernames, which we don't allow here: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
If you reply with a different username you want, or email hn@ycombinator.com, we'll be happy to rename your account.
Hi there Dang, I've been using the name 'RealityWinner' since before the person Reality Winner came to light. I can verify that with my long standing github account with the same username.
The problem is that some people are going to react as if the name is trolling, whether it is or not (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). Since the account is only a couple weeks old, I feel like we should just rename it to avoid woe. It's not the worst case, of course.
Yes I understand I only made this recently. I've read for a while and wanted the ability to vote and comment so I made it. I updated my github[1] to prove ownership as well and put it in my about. If there are any issues brought up to me by other users about my name I would be open to renaming but at this time I would much prefer to use the username i've been using.
Ok, we can leave it like this for now, but if people end up reacting in the way I described, we're going to end up enforcing the policy. I've learned that it's much better to deal with these things earlier than later, but this is a borderline case so we can kick the can down the road.
If you reply with a different username you want, or email hn@ycombinator.com, we'll be happy to rename your account.