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by Galorious 13 days ago
Common names are much easier for people to copy over and check. As opposed to a random jumble of numbers and letters.
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Common names also seem retypeable, which is usually a bad idea because it is error prone, especially in certain fonts. Random jumbles make retyping untenable, so copy-paste is used, which can't make the same mistakes, but is still vulnerable to operator error with incomplete copies.