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Constant changing of names
Hello Purvis:
Boom roasted
trancehime:
Recently, I've decided that it's not helping since I am so transient with my names all the time, so I always put my normal nick somewhere to the side:
<----- over there?
You know, so you know it's me! Maybe, people should do that? I don't know~
Bias Bus:
I make it obvious that it's me being I hardly change my sig or personal text and my name has "Erebus" somewhere in it.
Garlyle:
--- Quote from: Vita on June 26, 2010, 06:42:38 PM ---It's just like real life. How many time have you run into people with the same name, sometimes even in the same group of friends?
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I am actually getting sick of having to specify people by last name around friends.
Mostly because I have a roommate and a crush sharing a first name. It's mildly irritating.
Also the namechanging slightly bugs me, but in many cases it still feels somehow possible to follow who they are (A lot of them are nice enough to leave half of their name merged in somewhere), and admittedly it's become something I enjoy seeing on this forum because this is one corner of the internet where this kind of crazy shit actually -does- fly.
E-Nazrin:
To be fair, it's better than the alternative of making a new account entirely whenever you want to play around with your displayed name, which I HAVE seen and only manages to be even more confusing and difficult to follow.
Having the original-nick identifier available in the profile is enough for general use, and having the feature is validly amusing, but it CAN be confusing when people change very often... you could forcibly fix the problem by adding restrictions to how often you can change your displayed name, but I don't think it's a big enough issue for that.
Or maybe go with Trance's solution and have "original nick" as a displayed field in the side profile? Then again, I know there are some people that have started going by different names than what they were originally registered as (like Moerin and Suikama), so forcing that isn't perfect, either.
Or maybe "previous used name?" That's easier to mask intentionally, granted, and gets accidentally wiped if you typo and have to re-rename yourself, but... that'd probably work best if you want to push it into the main post profile, without being an enormous hassle. Probably.