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#1 2010-02-27 19:06:16
Changing your username
I would like it if you could change your username like you can your password it would be very useful. I made my account a while ago and the latest sprite splice I had made was a pikavee. Now I would like to change it to something else that is not related to a sprite splice. If it's possible with passwords why not usernames?
I am Dinoclor's old account =P
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#2 2010-02-27 19:19:03
Re: Changing your username
Because its disabled unless you are a forum admin for safety.
Because if the average user could do it, people would change their names willy-nilly.
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#3 2010-02-27 19:26:36
- Jonathanpb
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- Registered: 2008-07-25
- Posts: 1000+
Re: Changing your username
If people could change their usernames, we'd never know who's who. 
"Human beings... must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
-Charlotte Brontë
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#5 2010-02-27 19:50:29
Re: Changing your username
To elaborate:
-User_A would change my name, to, for example, User_C
-User_B would change his name to User_D
-Then, User_A would steal User_B's name, and chaos would ensue
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#7 2010-02-27 20:56:10
Re: Changing your username
gershmer wrote:
To elaborate:
-User_A would change my name, to, for example, User_C
-User_B would change his name to User_D
-Then, User_A would steal User_B's name, and chaos would ensue
That would be a big mess.
Dazachi, Retired Community Moderator
May also know me as OJACheung.
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#8 2010-02-27 21:03:00
Re: Changing your username
gershmer wrote:
To elaborate:
-User_A would change my name, to, for example, User_C
-User_B would change his name to User_D
-Then, User_A would steal User_B's name, and chaos would ensue
Anyone could turn into andresmh! Rhy could change his already hard to remember numbers, and I could change my name to Blagorg!
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#23 2010-02-28 04:12:05
- juststickman
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- Registered: 2009-05-31
- Posts: 1000+
Re: Changing your username
Why don't we just do this...
1. You can't change your name to an already existing name (including another user's original name)
2. You can only change your name once a month
3. On the profile page, your original name is shown under your changed name in brackets like this:
INSERT NAME HERE
(AKA juststickman)
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#24 2010-02-28 07:33:03
Re: Changing your username
juststickman wrote:
Why don't we just do this...
1. You can't change your name to an already existing name (including another user's original name)
2. You can only change your name once a month
3. On the profile page, your original name is shown under your changed name in brackets like this:
INSERT NAME HERE
(AKA juststickman)
How would you keep track of all the old names?
How about you could only change your name once a year? Why would you be changing it so much?
And what about the technical side? Linking 2 FluxBB forums and the ScratchR platform to recognize change. No, I believe you would have to:
1. Change the name on the main forums (as an admin* or mod)**
2. Change the name on the TBG forums (as an admin* or mod)**
3. Open up the database in phpMyAdmin for the ScratchR side and find the table defining usernames, then rename the person who wants to be renamed.
For the ScratchR, though, I belive you could write an SQL script in PHP to do the same thing though.
*Scratch Team
**Assuming only they could do it
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