Am I the only one who thinks it's fine the way it is?
Theymos said the forum doesn't need money, so paying a small fee doesn't help anyone. Theymos needs to spend time on this, and lately he's granted a few wishes for name changes. Great! Let's leave it at that.
Topic: Change account Username/Name - page 2. (Read 513 times)
I think you should be buying a copper membership as well as 1k warm merits as the requirement, got to make it worth the guys time
This feature will be the best thing to have if you're planning to scam people,or if you are high ranking old scammaz.The feature should be given to those who donated bitcoin to the forum.
Yeah one would think that, but my main account is now causing me issues.
I was wrongfully doxxed on badbuyer.org
It gets threating pm's
One of my cell phones gets hangup calls.
All pretty much due to my escrow and scam busting on the marketplace section .
This account was created back when there were a lot of hacks on this site. I wanted to have a replacement account ready to use.
I would not mind changing my main account name if just to draw less attention to myself.
Assume that your suggestion was implemented on 24 January, 2018 (the date of implementing the merit system)
Let's calculate how many times users of the forum should have been allowed to change their username till now.
According to DdmrDdmr's merit dashboard: (theymos and satoshi were excluded)
188 users should have been allowed to change their usernames at least one time. If only half of these users had changed their usernames, 1 user had changed his/her username per week on average. As all of these users are well-known users of the forum, their usernames changes will lead to confusion for other users. The solution can be showing the previous username under the current username for a while. But I think the best thing can be done is what theymos is now doing. theymos changes only usernames of those who have strong reason for username change.
A better suggestion can be requiring users to have 500 merit + paying a fee (which is much lower than 50 BTC) for username change. but again the previous username should be shown under the current one for a while, so it doesn't make other users confused.
Let's calculate how many times users of the forum should have been allowed to change their username till now.
According to DdmrDdmr's merit dashboard: (theymos and satoshi were excluded)
| ____________ | _______________ |
| merit | number of users |
| ____________ | _______________ |
| 4500-5000 | 1 |
| 4000-4499 | 0 |
| 3500-3999 | 0 |
| 3000-3499 | 4 |
| 2500-2999 | 0 |
| 2000-2499 | 4 |
| 1500-1999 | 9 |
| 1000-1499 | 48 |
| 500-999 | 122 |
| ____________ | _______________ |
188 users should have been allowed to change their usernames at least one time. If only half of these users had changed their usernames, 1 user had changed his/her username per week on average. As all of these users are well-known users of the forum, their usernames changes will lead to confusion for other users. The solution can be showing the previous username under the current username for a while. But I think the best thing can be done is what theymos is now doing. theymos changes only usernames of those who have strong reason for username change.
A better suggestion can be requiring users to have 500 merit + paying a fee (which is much lower than 50 BTC) for username change. but again the previous username should be shown under the current one for a while, so it doesn't make other users confused.
This feature will be the best thing to have if you're planning to scam people,or if you are high ranking old scammaz.The feature should be given to those who donated bitcoin to the forum.
1. How this gonna work? If you choose to change the name right now you become Hero Member again?
No, every 500 Merits you get/earn enables you to change your name for one time, for example, I have gained about 924 Merits and thus I can change my name for one time.2. Only legendary members will able to use the functionality if they have more than 1500 merit points?
No, it is not related to the activity.3. How I'm able to identify that you are the hugeblack I was dealing with after a long inactivity period?
If you are not active, you will not be able to change your name.4. Will it help people impersonate other people for some time? like you change your username to Something and someone changes his to Hugeblack then how I'm supposed to identify you?
You can change the display name. But to change the username we can ask theymos or set any other way.Quote
If I change a name for reasons of appearance, then I only change the display name. The username remains reserved, the user can still login using the username, PMs can still be sent to that username, "search member" allows searching for the old username, etc.
1. How this gonna work? If you choose to change the name right now you become Hero Member again?
2. Only legendary members will able to use the functionality if they have more than 1500 merit points?
3. How I'm able to identify that you are the hugeblack I was dealing with after a long inactivity period?
4. Will it help people impersonate other people for some time? like you change your username to Something and someone changes his to Hugeblack then how I'm supposed to identify you?
2. Only legendary members will able to use the functionality if they have more than 1500 merit points?
3. How I'm able to identify that you are the hugeblack I was dealing with after a long inactivity period?
4. Will it help people impersonate other people for some time? like you change your username to Something and someone changes his to Hugeblack then how I'm supposed to identify you?
Many members join the forum with random names, but after a while, they decide to continue using these accounts, especially after updating the merit system, wouldn't it be possible to change the (Username/Name) manually using the same system that made the rank-up difficult "Merit system."?
The easiest thing I can think of it is the possibility to change the username against 500 Merits from the points that you acquired.
in other words, whenever you gain 500 Merits you can change the name for once.
The reason for the proposal is that obtaining more than 500 Merits for many members is useless or without any advantages.
What do you think of this proposal? any Update?
The easiest thing I can think of it is the possibility to change the username against 500 Merits from the points that you acquired.
in other words, whenever you gain 500 Merits you can change the name for once.
The reason for the proposal is that obtaining more than 500 Merits for many members is useless or without any advantages.
What do you think of this proposal? any Update?
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