How to use just Nickname instead of Full name on G+?

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I'm following these Desktop steps to add the nickname for my G+ profile, however I'm not able to use my nickname to display on comments.

For example going to some Chrome web store and posting the comment using my Google account, I would like to see my nickname instead of full name.

Is it possible?

ale · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-04 00:07:03Z

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Presumably by using the "Display name as..." option where you create the nickname.

Unfortunately, Google doesn't give you that option. If you give yourself a nickname, you can display your name as

There is no option to just display "Johnny Five".

The other option is to change your actual display name, but that may be impractical for a couple of reasons.

answered Nov 4, 2015 at 0:07

ale

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That's what I thought. Thanks. I've tried to use nickname instead of Full name, but I've ended up with: The nickname that you've chosen appears to violate the Google+ Names Policy.
– kenorb
Commented Nov 4, 2015 at 0:10
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I think Google's general recommendation is that Pages are the solution to this. Create a page with the nickname and post/comment/etc as the page.
– abraham
Commented Nov 4, 2015 at 22:33

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