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Impersonating username of a user who isn't notable - Egregious Jr. - Jul 20, 2016
Basically, there's someone with the username 'zachary', who's closed and has almost no posts. Is it against the rules for me to use invisible characters to copy this username?
* - Acceptable - Jul 20, 2016
No it's not against the rules as long as you're not impersonating him. Which I can tell that you don't plan on doing. Keep in mind though that special characters can make it harder for other members to find you on the members list.
* - ♥♥♥ - Jul 20, 2016
I'd say you'll be fine unless there's a rule regarding invisible characters in your user. Also make sure that whoever was closed with that name didn't have a bad rep here.