Yeah name change isn’t something that’s common here. It took The Sceptical Chymist a long time to get his name change despite his rank and contributions to the forum. If we are using that as the benchmark, I sincerely didn’t expect the newbie would get his request so fast or ever for that matter. It’s a shock especially when only a handful of persons have been able to get admin to change their username. The only thing that beats this is when Cryptovator changed his name twice in one year.
The privacy issue of this youngster using his real name to register is of great importance, hence there was a need to change his name. This user is just sixteen and seems to be showing commendable interest in Bitcoin, he needs to be encouraged. One of the features of a successful leader is the ability to groom successors, I think Theymos might be looking in this direction. His former nameee was wonderful, but this one, I am just speechless.
It's not really that much of an issue but someone probably scared him into a panic. There are lots of members names that are known here including theymos but a little known newbie is unlikely to be a target of someone, but I guess that can all change as time goes on and lead to potential doxing etc if he ruffles any feathers. Most of the younger generation tend to post everything online anyway. Anyone with a social media account will post more identifiable information than just a name. A name is usually the bare minimum they share along with a lot of other far more dangerous stuff.
Are you sure @theymos changed the username? If some members can help you to recover your account and others add you to them whitelist, maybe some accounts can change your username, especially since I remember that it is not a big problem as it was possible for all members at some point.
I wonder why there is no option to delete the account, especially for newbies.
Only admins can do it so it will have likely been either theymos or cyrus.
User profile link:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/mxfwzzwizqbz-3535914 So a newbie account with just 7 activity points just got successfull in convincing the admin(s) (probably theymos) to change his username.
The main reason to change the username was his legal name was visible to others. So it seems like it is now clear that theymos started giving importance to ppl's privacy and anonymity whether the person is a brand new account or not.
Im really impressed (and a bit shocked as well) by this activity. This was the first newbie (atleast in my eyes) who successfully got a name change in this forum. Have anyone seen such a username change scenario before ? I even know that reputed members have to DM theymos again and again to get a name change after a long waiting time
Yup this guy username was
......... I don't understand how a newbie can change his account name. Whereas I have long known that only highly reputable and famous person can change his name. I don't understand why Theymos did this. Maybe something happened for some special reason. Changing name is increasing nowadays
It's obviously a little bit different when there's privacy concerns with their name literally being their username.
It's like I'm advertising the brand name for free. 
