Reduce the join date requirement for major name changes

No I think people should stay on the forums longer and participate more and then donate to get a change, jus how I see it.

 

I share the same sentiments with Sonia

 

I respect your opinion as you believe in the safety of our community, but can you define longer? To many people, a year is a long time to be part of an internet community. I believe we should start moving forward, remove the date, and have our superior upper staff members make the calls on who deserves name changes. What I find right now is that scammers get to change their names all the time when registering vader accounts, shouldn't people who are working hard and honestly be allowed some help by this forum to? I'm sure our staff will have reasonable and sound judgement for anyone who wants to change their name.

I agree with you, donation should be kept a requirement! A large donation at that, and at the same time, $500 donor needs a new perk that's for sure, a third username Image isn't too attractive to me when I already have the custom user ranks.

$500 donor perk for early name change anyone?

$500 donor perk allow for user to apply for username change at 6 months or 12 months.

 

I support it being lowered to 1 year, nothing less than that though.

 

If you want a new name, make a new account no restrictions needed.

If you created an account with a daft name or for whatever reason simply want a change, you are able to change it immediately by creating a new account. Look at wonderland for example. If 2 years is too long as apart of a internet community then change your name right now.

"oh no but we have a reputation, we have x and y reasons" then wait it out, participate more within the community.

What if some staff are biased in deciding whether someone should get a name? Why are we assuming that we should place trust in upper staff to agree or disagree that names will be appropriate for/when asking for changes. >.>

I don't see the issue with 2 years and within that time majority of people wanting a name change will have enough to donate for it. Considering people previously have had to wait till it hits 2 years etc, it would be unfair to change it now.

It doesn't necessarily concern me 'cos I don't need a name change. I'm just indifferent to the suggestion.

How much is donation for name change atm?

 

I appreciate your well thought out response. You are right, I could make a new account, and that's exactly what I did when I started, yet I still have a daft name.

It seems you want people to participate more in the community which I acknowledge because it's a social website. For a lot of people, Sythe is mainly a business platform and a name provides them an image to theme off of. They may not have the time to socialize, but they're still actively participating on sythe through the various markets.

Staff may be biased, but at the end of the day, they're allowed to be, they're human. If many staff seem to dislike someone, maybe that a good example of when someone is not a good candidate for a name change at the moment.

Don't give me the it would be unfair to change it now spiel, life isn't always "fair". 36 to 5 people support this rule, and the idea of fair has been known to change. I really doubt someone is going to stay permanently salty because some of their potential community members got to change their names.

$200 for the name change, which over two years is not very much IMO.

 

I'm just indifferent to the idea of reducing it just because multiple newcomers of a year or less want to change the rule, or want their friends to get a nice new name.

Hmm $200....Then the idea of higher donation amount and a lesser spent time on forums would be a better option in my mind, rather than just reducing the time spent on forums. Whether the site wants donations or if in a years time it would be easy for mainly market users to change their names after donating a bit of a higher amount etc Your idea at $500 sounds nice, but depends if people want to weigh up the option of needing to wait an extra year or donating $300 more.

Maybe people should have a difference in say in what could be a better alternative rather than just reduce the years of being on forum.

Wait 2 years at $200.
1 year at $500.

 

Participate in the community for 2 years to earn yourself the right to request a name change? I think that is too long. The suggestion is about reducing the time required to request not to completely remove it. How would a reduced waiting time cause any harm?

"What if some staff are biased in deciding whether someone should get a name? Why are we assuming that we should place trust in upper staff to agree or disagree that names will be appropriate for/when asking for changes. >.>" What does that even mean? Why is that relevant to this suggestion? Name changes are voted by all staff members not only USL. Majority of name change requests are honoured unless there is a good enough reason not to. There really isn't any bias.

"Considering people previously have had to wait till it hits 2 years etc, it would be unfair to change it now." isn't the whole point of suggestions on Sythe to try and change the way something is done/add something new?

 

I don't think it is too long tbh. I'm not saying to completely remove it either, not that I'm assuming that. I just don't see nothing wrong with the idea of waiting 2 years.

Everyone keeps saying, they agree to 1 year and then comment saying we just have to hope staff know what their doing etc. Idk I thought I comment on the possibility of bias, cos it can happen!

Video wanted opinions, so I'm giving it >.>


Btw what happens when if someone changes their name, can they change again ever, and if so how long after.

 

At the moment you can only ever have 1 major name change on Sythe.

The only scenario where 2 username changes are allowed is where a user requests a minor name change and it gets requested. After 6 months they can request a major name change.

 

I personally would rather see an even lower required name-change date based on the idea that the longer your in the community with a specific name, the more that name is tied to you. Rather than building a reputation and then having your name changed, just build the reputation on that specific name.

As it has already been mentioned, name changes go through staff so any possible situations where this may not be appropriate could be weeded out.

Either way I support, but that's my two cents.

 

100% support, I also agree with what Tmoe said about even shortening it a bit more

 

There's no participation requirement at all. The current rules are just punishing people who picked bad names and discouraging them from donating/using the site because they have to wait 2 years before they're eligible to change their name. The proposed change would actually encourage participation on the site as opposed to driving people away who might not want to be posting as frequently if they don't like their name.

Anyway given how voting has been going we'll probably amend the rule shortly

 

YASSSSS. We should also reduce the time to be refunded for scams..

 

shorten it just by a tad, an evader should pick a good name before beginning to evade though

 

Voted yes because 1 year is long enough

Wouldn't support this, the 6 month wait is fine imo and does a good job at repaying legitimate, active users rather than people that end up scamming.

 

You can't stereotype all the noobies & say that because someone is new that they will end up scamming and you can't say that they aren't less deserving of a refund because they are newer. There are people who are getting refunded scams that have just happened over people that have waiting months just because their join date doesn't exceed the 6 month period.

 

Has this been changed yet/given any thought? One of the more supported suggestion recently. @video

 

I'm all for it, if you increase the other requirements or add something, you would be giving extra job to the Mods if you reduce the time by half. There has to be balance in my opinion.