# User Identification settings

Usernames can have multiple different ways of appearance across Discord. Nicknames, Usernames, and Tags are the most prominent and you can choose to select those as an Identification setting. 

## Chat Identification

To change your user Identification setting, you can use the `/manage settings Identification` command.

### Tag setting

{% hint style="success" %}
This setting is the only setting that doesn't prevent users from seeing user tags. These tags allow mostly for pinging across servers by using TagPings

`MessageLogs` allows another way for moderators to access User IDs for moderation
{% endhint %}

Setting Identification as `tag` will make your users' chat display names look like this

![Example of Tag Identification](/files/577Hx7NKJNfO2xbtd9yg)

### Username setting

Setting Identification as `username` will make your users' chat display names look like this

![Example of Username Identification](/files/NDOqNBHqkBgNTJFk0O95)

### Nickname setting

Setting Identification as `username` will make your users' chat display names the originating guild's set nickname for that user. 

![Example of Nickname Identification](/files/FIozqKjWZmwh41AyENrx)

### Anonymous setting

This setting will hide the message sender's identity without preventing differentiation. Message display names will look like this

![Example of Anonymous Identification](/files/Und8STsJ0WHDbE4SONQF)

The profile picture will be replaced with the webhook's profile picture. This could be a legacy image of Connections Bot.

## Getting information about a message

{% content-ref url="/pages/7Dm9sNWv54LWe11YAnvi" %}
[Getting Message Data](/guides/customizing-settings/chat-appearance/getting-message-data.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}


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