Name Change

[Kraco]

Just to make sure, making an alter-account is against the rules right?

They are banned and the original member warned when spotted.

[complich8]

incidentally, there's a minimum and maximum username length that's enforced on registration. New usernames have to be between 5 and 20 characters... so say the params..

usernames shorter than 5 characters are either old accounts from the fusetalk days or accounts that have been renamed.

[Archangel]

Hi

Could i please have my username changed from "The Archangel" to simply "Archangel" ?

[Munsu]

Hi

Could i please have my username changed from "The Archangel" to simply "Archangel" ?

It's Done.

[Archangel]

Dam that was fast

Thank you Munsu

[Munsu]

Please stop with the shitposts.

Thanks.

[Nadouku]

Can I get my name changed to Takchiki?

[Munsu]

Can I get my name changed to Takchiki?

And the reason?

[Nadouku]

Well, my reasoning didn't get accepted, so I will ask again in a few months.

[Paper]

Can I get my name change from paper mache to just- Paper

[Assassin]

whats with the recent members having thier names changed? you guys couldn't just pick something you like to begin with?

[Ryllharu]

Archie and Idealistic got their names changed, so now everyone is looking for one.

If you grant both of these, you may not have any reason to deny Animeniax a change much longer.

Do you really want that?

If it is a racial epithet, horrible l337-speak, associated with a former hugely popular series (so a flavor of the month sign-up), or simply excessively long, that I can understand. But if there isn't anything fundamentally wrong with their name, I wouldn't bother granting it.

If you do that, you have either:
a) them return in a few weeks to have it changed back, or
b) have even more flooding in to get their names changed as well.

I can't say I have any sympathy for wanting a name changed when you've been here less than a year.

[Paper]

When I first signup I pick that name because it was "different", but I'm mostly refered by Paper, and it has a nice ring to it so that is the reason why I wanted to change it. I know i'm a newbie and usually request goes into the Sh*t files.

[Animeniax]

Archie and Idealistic got their names changed, so now everyone is looking for one.

If you grant both of these, you may not have any reason to deny Animeniax a change much longer.

Do you really want that?

If I had ever seriously asked for a name change, what reason would there be to deny it? I guess we can't all be humdrum posters devoid of personality.

I said it before and I'll say it again: name changes undermine the social binds of online communities. Changing from "The Archangel" to "Archangel" isn't a big deal, and even Id3ali5tic to Idealistic isn't too drastic. But anything more and we might as well go with random name reassignments every month.

[complich8]

I could write a script for that. Say, pick 3 random people who were active in the last month and assign them new randomly generated names.

That'd spice things up ....

[Nadouku]

I could write a script for that. Say, pick 3 random people who were active in the last month and assign them new randomly generated names.

Interesting, what kind of names have you, or would you, come up within the Random Name Generator?

[Buffalobiian]

I could write a script for that. Say, pick 3 random people who were active in the last month and assign them new randomly generated names.

That'd spice things up ....

Only if they change back to who they were before after the month's over though. But yeah, it could be fun, though they won't be completely unrecognised with sigs and avatars though. Maybe the script also disables avatar, sig and rep, maybe even post count too?

Then we'll have fun guessing people's identity from their posting style

[David75]

For name changes, I remember DeadFire who wanted to be changed to SaberFire judging from his personal title.

His participation in the forums seems to have droped, I wonder if changing his name, after controlling he still wants that, could give him incentive to participate again, since I think I remember he was quite a good member.

[Buffalobiian]

For name changes, I remember DeadFire who wanted to be changed to SaberFire judging from his personal title.

His participation in the forums seems to have droped, I wonder if changing his name, after controlling he still wants that, could give him incentive to participate again, since I think I remember he was quite a good member.

I think he's still in the Canadian Army, which was why he left.

[David75]

I think he's still in the Canadian Army, which was why he left.

Ok, Speaking of the devil, he just posted new sigs in the related thread.

I guess he's the one most deserving to have his name changed, but again if it is still his will and a nice and caring soul listens to his query.