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Re: Thoughts about name changes? [Re: OJK]
    #5462886 - 03/31/06 06:41 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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It's pretty silly to try to stop someone from changing their username to something they prefer just because I find it inconvenient. It's their account.




As I see it it's always been policy to only do this in rare instances when there is a serious issue with the original name. (such as harassment by spouses or nosy law enforcement) If you suddenly change name to something unrecognisable you are basically taking on  another identity. People will lose track of you and alot of archived posts will become cryptic as its unclear who is quoted etc.

Most namechanges I've seen are equivalent to putting on a party hat :courtjester: or even people getting a namechange they didn't request.

I'd say it should remain a rare occasion for special purposes.

It's a pretty big thing to change your identity in the community you are part of. Every longtime poster with a message has some 100 people following their postings that they're unaware of. To take "an unlisted number" seriously screws with your presence in the community even if your first-line buddies are in on it.


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Re: Thoughts about name changes? [Re: Asante]
    #5462894 - 03/31/06 06:46 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

do you seriously think they are going to keep these names for years to come?


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Re: Thoughts about name changes? [Re: Asante]
    #5462925 - 03/31/06 07:04 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

:courtjester:

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Invisiblesucklesworth
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Re: Thoughts about name changes? [Re: Ythan]
    #5462934 - 03/31/06 07:09 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

its fun

where's spud, I need a frencher


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Re: Thoughts about name changes? [Re: Ythan]
    #5462945 - 03/31/06 07:17 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

One of our best mushroom identifiers just had his name changed to "my chin is a ball rest". Funny sure... but it ruins his credibility, and I am certainly not going to ad "my chin is a ball rest" to the list of trusted identifiers.

Please change his name back to eris. We need him in mush hunt.


I read that thread in OTD and almost died laughing. If those with name changes only posted in OTD there would be no problem, but the insanity is spreading to the rest of the community and it needs to be quarantined.

IMHO


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Re: Thoughts about name changes? [Re: shroomydan]
    #5463020 - 03/31/06 07:47 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

it's fun for a bit, then it just gets old.

Make it a yearly thing, the month of March, or something non-permanent.


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Re: Thoughts about name changes? [Re: blink]
    #5463024 - 03/31/06 07:52 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

this isn't permanent

march madness


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Re: Thoughts about name changes? [Re: Ythan]
    #5463038 - 03/31/06 08:04 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Simply pathetic. :peace:


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Re: Thoughts about name changes? [Re: faslimy]
    #5463128 - 03/31/06 08:47 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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do you seriously think they are going to keep these names for years to come?




Some may want to hold onto their changed name, which has happened before.

At the moment people are/were offered voluntary namechanges. It's reasonable that some take this serious and would be displeased if their new name was suddenly taken away from them.

If I were to click a page and to find out I'd be changed to Pecan_Seeker I'd probably LOL about it. It's still recognisable and nonoffensive. If I however found my username to say I'm somebodies ballrest or something similar I'd be pissed off. Like Shroomydan argued: some of those things diminish the response to their serious posting.

Below is what I argued among the staff just now, its a nuance on my earlier position and I don't want to retype it so a C&P will do :smile:

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In my view it would be best that if this namechanging is to go on, there in my view has to be a little coding done so that the changed names only are visible in OTD (but snap back when posting on other forums) and perhaps that a mouse-over the user name reveals the original name.

If any OTDer in the confines of OTD can change their names to whatever they want whenever they want then this may give rise to a lot of clean and not-so-clean fun in there for months on end.

So if it stays confined to OTD it would definitely be a good idea in my book because OTD is a bit lame lately and this might give the impulse it needs to get more interesting again.
But in OTD only. What's clowning and perhaps quality mayhem in OTD all too easily becomes confusion and a headache if it gets out on the rest of the site.

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I do say OTD a lot but I consider it an OTD thing that got out of hand.


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Re: Thoughts about name changes? [Re: Asante]
    #5463194 - 03/31/06 09:02 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

At another board I post at, everyone is allowed only one name change (and sometimes they're allowed to change back to their original, but then they can't change again) and you can see their previous username by checking their profile. This might work here.


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Re: Thoughts about name changes? [Re: Ythan]
    #5463280 - 03/31/06 09:34 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Ythan, please change my name permanently to WhiskeyClone.

As for these temporary name changes... whatever. I don't really care what happens in OTD; it's kinda meant to be a cesspool of confusion and spite anyway. I think it fits.


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Re: Thoughts about name changes? [Re: WhiskeyClone]
    #5463433 - 03/31/06 10:36 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Its funny. I would get one, but it seems to be an otd game, and i don't want to infringe on any of there hallowed traditions.
It is rather confusing tho, and it would probly be best to change it back after a month or so when everybody gets board with it. I don't like not being able to tell who people are. Its already hard enough to remember most shroomerites, without all the confusion.
Or mabey require that they put there original screen names under the new ones?


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Re: Thoughts about name changes? [Re: Ythan]
    #5463455 - 03/31/06 10:44 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

i think it would be a fairly safe assumption to make that the majority of the users of this site intentionally consume confusion-inducing substances; some even pay a good bit of money for them. so, it seems odd that some of those same people would throw a fit about something as minor as a few name changes.

the name changes are temporarily confusing. much less confusing than life and drugs though and it's a fun puzzle to solve. i see no reason to :bitch: about the changes.


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Re: Thoughts about name changes? [Re: Ythan]
    #5463465 - 03/31/06 10:47 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

One word to describe all these stupid ass name changes: LAME


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Re: Thoughts about name changes? [Re: DNKYD]
    #5463493 - 03/31/06 10:56 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

poopypants


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Re: Thoughts about name changes? [Re: goobler]
    #5463499 - 03/31/06 11:02 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

elgr, lol


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Re: Thoughts about name changes? [Re: eric_the_red]
    #5463500 - 03/31/06 11:02 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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eric_the_red said:

the name changes are temporarily confusing. much less confusing than life and drugs though and it's a fun puzzle to solve. i see no reason to :bitch: about the changes.




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Re: Thoughts about name changes? [Re: Ythan]
    #5463512 - 03/31/06 11:11 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

I think it's fucking hillarious. Remember everyone this is a psychedelic website, not the Wall Street Journal forums.

Get a clue. Laugh, it's funny.


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Re: Thoughts about name changes? [Re: Microcosmatrix]
    #5463590 - 03/31/06 11:42 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

I'm seriously considering keeping my name though, XENU is such a kick ass name.

Had Scientology pissed me off back in 98 it would be my name today :wink:


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Re: Thoughts about name changes? [Re: Jim]
    #5463648 - 03/31/06 11:54 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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Jim, LOL said:
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eric_the_red said:

the name changes are temporarily confusing. much less confusing than life and drugs though and it's a fun puzzle to solve. i see no reason to :bitch: about the changes.







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