Ok, I understand it about the name changes, but on every thread there is a high chance to find every kind os poster coming to do his "contribution", including signature spammers, hard to stop it, if we be worried everytime about them, we can't talk about anything here.
Correct. In meta it can spiral out of control since you can't have self moderated threads. Besides, this thread can be easily answered by random one-two liners so that has to be paid attention to.
As extra money is always welcome, the forum could have a tab where we could find a "shop" with some "accessories" to our account. If you want to have your name in blue, green, yellow, red... You could buy it on the shop.
If you want to add an effect on your name, like metalized, shiny, texturized... You could buy for different prices, and the money would go to the forum. Customization options. Possibility to add a gif to the avatar spot (don't know if it's too hard). If someone think there are more things to add, fell free to say.
I wouldn't be necessarily against something like that (gif. avatars are implemented in new forum), but as I previously said, I just don't see it happening without concrete planned out proposals (unless theymos surprises us with such changes).
I believe you can change your name if you donate 10btc to the forum.
That's the Donator rank, I believe OP suggested paying solely for name change.
basically what you are suggesting here is to lower the 10 btc ( to become vip) donation to be able to change name.
Theymos has already stated that this will not happen. They made introduce some lower donation tiers (that post was written a long time ago though).
Changing name is not given just to anyone mainly because of what shorena said , scammers will abuse it. It'll get confusing as well.
Either you have proof that shorena == Lauda or you're on some fine drugs.
