[judge2020]

It's not about the username being taken, it's all about what people appear as in the client; bots and scammers might impersonate Clyde to steal credentials, social engineer, etc, so you cannot be "Clyde_help" nor "Clyde_Official" nor any variation that would make people think the bot/user is speaking on behalf of Discord.

[saghm]

Why not just put a special logo or symbol or something on that profile to mark it as special/official, or have some sort of "user type" displayed that says "human" or "official bot" or "third party bot"? I feel like making it look like a regular username makes it _more_ likely people will be scammed by "other" regular users rather than less likely.

[Martinussen]

Discord already does this - they just don't trust average users to be aware enough to check. (Based on my experience moderating some discords, they aren't wrong.)

[kuschku]

For example, like a blue checkmark after the nick for users who are genuinely who they say they are?

[JauntyHatAngle]

Which is funny when you take into account that people are still using special characters to get a Clyde name that mostly resembles it. I question the effectiveness.

[evouga]

I’m skeptical, since I’ve been using Discord for years and have never seen (or noticed) any “Clyde” bot.