User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Technical Update: November 8, 2011/@comment-3030984-20111108193647/@comment-1656630-20111108213740

I completely understand your points on this. Regarding how people prefer to be called, we've seen that some people appreciate being able to add a more conversational name into that field (as well as a mix of other treatments). Regarding the joke names... we've used it that way because it fits how the name is displayed. We're good at adapting to how things work.

Let's give this change a chance and see how it feels after we adjust. We'll be looking at data in addition to just feedback (but of course, feedback's useful, too).