I never look/ed at screen names on reddit. When I came to Hubski I had to learn that it was important here. I think I lurked a lot so it wasn't a blatant issue that I publicly overcome, but I remember realizing that users had histories here. I think users having avatars and personalization would actually help the old guard too. When a big wave of users comes in it is easy for me to confuse new users because there are so many and I have no history with any of them. This happened with the recent wave. If I can recognize you beyond your name (and some users, not that I begrudge you, have names that are more confusing than specifically memorable) it will help me remember that maybe we've actually had a positive interaction, and that dickbag I'm thinking of is someone else.