Feature Request: Changeable usernames/displaynames, etc

now who the fuck wanna play with guns?

Quitney's got a great ring to it you must concede.

THIS TYPE OF SHIT CAN HAVE IRL CONSEQUENCES

yeah, freedom to blueski and his crap latin calques

waht

or "freedom! for blueski and his crap latin calques", if you will.

just a brother on fire

Your new screen name, if that were allowed

huh? what? i thought so.

BRING 'EM BACK

BUMP FOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT BY "POWERFUL" PEOPLE

THINGS THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN PART II

THINGS THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN PART I

Part III

NEVAR FORGET

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what's the reason we don't have this again?

because no one involved in the coding cares that people want it, or cares enough to tell us why it's "hard to do". which sucks.

HELLO HELOO HELLO HELLLLLLO?

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This is in the code now. Keith hasn't been around for some time (I haven't seen him, at least), and perhaps stet doesn't want to update code without his OK.

YES YES YES YES YES A++++++++++++++!!!!!!!

update code without his OK.

-- incredibly giant hyper-awesome legend and sexiest creature in history of everything (libcrypt), Tuesday, 22 January 2008 12:17 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

Really?? Awes

weeee!!!!!!!!

LET IT BEGIN

Ye-es, this *was* in the code -- it was being tested on the sandbox to see if we could have unreg posting for IRE. But it was kind of a kludge, and when Heave Ho got his hands on it, we found that it doesn't really work right -- you can't ban someone posting with a changed name, and there's a couple of other security holes.

Thing is, this code was never designed for changable names, and as sandbox showed it's not really easy to stitch in -- you'd need to redesign all over the place. So I wouldn't expect it any time soon, sorry.

thanks for the explanation, stet.

le sigh.

Ye-es, this *was* in the code -- it was being tested on the sandbox to see if we could have unreg posting for IRE. But it was kind of a kludge, and when Heave Ho got his hands on it, we found that it doesn't really work right -- you can't ban someone posting with a changed name, and there's a couple of other security holes.

banSomeoneWithChangedName = true
plugSecurityHole1 = true
plugSecurityHole2 = true
enableStitchIn = true
redesignAllOverPlace = true

fixed

HAI

CAN HAS STDIO?

I HAS A VAR

IM IN YR LOOP

   UP VAR!!1

   IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHX

   VISIBLE VAR

IM OUTTA YR LOOP

KTHXBYE

<user>

  <username>luna</username>

  <screenname>Trayce</screenname>

  <goth>Y</goth>

</user>

Perhaps this can be done in a way so the (bannable) original registered name always displays, along with the changed name?

Not sure if this is the right thread to ask this, but it's the closest I could find. If we want to change our names on a permanent basis, but keep the same e-mail address, is it possible for a moderator to do that? Or do we have to reregister with a new address?