The Official Name Change Poll

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Please vote on whether or not you believe users should be allowed to REQUEST a name change on sythe. This is a simple yes/no poll, and should this suggestion be implemented, specific details like "Which users will be allowed to change their name" or "How many name changes will be permitted per user" will be decided by staff. You are welcome to comment saying your reasoning behind your vote in this thread as well.

To reiterate, any name change request would still have to go through staff approval. Voting yes in this poll does not mean you want people to change their name willy-nilly, it just means you want people to be able to REQUEST a name change

 

I'm abstaining from this poll as there are a lot of reasons for me to vote either way and would like to know exactly what I'm voting for.

 

Definitely. Voted yes. It will take a lot of tinkering and debate to get it just right no doubt however.

 

[Dave]

Whatever, so long as it's done safely and there's an official system to it I have no problems

 

[FirecapeNet]

I have voted yes on this poll because i would like to change my name to the alias i'm known as on other forums because i sold my project firecape.net and am not affiliated with it anymore.

 

[n4n0]

Yes, but only with the following restrictions:

Only 1 change. Ever. Yes changes in capitalization count.
We implement a field in the users profile which has the old name
We somehow implement a redirect from the users old profile url to the new
Users UT will be changed to "previously known as ****" for no less than 1 month
I also propose a list of name changes be maintained somewhere public.

 

[Laptop65]

Voting yes, I assume the staff will put in restrictions like how to often you can change your name, the requirements to change it and how a "name change history" viewable area would be implemented.

Users UT will be changed to "previously known as ****" for no less than 1

I think longer than 1 month would be better, just to play it safe. If someone wants a name change that bad, they would be happy to wait it out.

 

Voted no. I want to hear what will be done for those who started new accounts based on the assertion that account name changes will never be a thing for regular members.

 

I voted yes. I don't see any reason why not as long as their are a few much needed requirements for name changes such as:

• 1 name change per person ever
• Previously known as in user title for 1 month +
• Field in user profile to show old username forever if you change your username
• Only able to change your username if you are Sythe verified and 2FA so your name isn't changed when you are hacked, and this avoids everyone changing their name.

 

[Hamouze]

I'll just repost what I had on the other thread. I voted yes under the following reasoning:

I don't really understand what the point of limiting it to such a high donor perk is, if someone could enlighten me I would appreciate it. I for one don't want to change my name, but I can understand the frustration of say a long time member who immaturely made a funky username 3-5 years ago and want it changed, but aren't really in the financial position to donate $300-$500 to the forum.

I completely understand that it should have strict limitations so not everyone can just change names and the community becomes a clusterfuck of "Who were you?", but I feel like it should be more of a veteran perk, meaning age wise. I would say the following must be met and the reasons are given:

-1 name change only (this is pretty self-explanatory, confusion, etc.)

-Name cannot be a major change from the original (for example if I was hamouze123 changing my name to Hamouze would be fine but if I were hamouze123 and wanted to change my name to RunescapeGod it would not)

-The decision of the above rule (major change from original) will be reviewed by a global or admin to be deemed fit

-SVU (to address Jack it's purpose is to ensure that the person is or at one point was a donor, this could be flexible and mended to say a $25 donor at least)

-2FA (don't want people being hacked and having their names changed indefinitely)

-Now this is the point of contention: EITHER 3,000 posts OR 4 year join date with at least 1,000 posts. The reasoning behind this is simple, if you made your account say a year ago and I have even seen people request name changes after they made their account a few months ago, there is no reason to have your name changed. You fucked up and you have to deal with it. The join date ensures that the person has been a member of the community for a long time and plans on staying so, and the 3,000 post count is for members who have not been along for so long but have shown commitment to the community.

These ideas are not set in stone, it's only what I came up with after reading through some of the posts. It's very flexible and I personally think that such a large donation should not be necessary.

Here is my argument AGAINST the need for a large donation perk: Basically favoring those with money and potential scam quitters. How many people do you see on the site that are $200+ donors and have only been here for a few months if not weeks? Obviously they're planning on scamming and they almost always do. Are we really going to allow somebody who joined a few months ago or even a year ago be given the opportunity to manipulate this name change into some sort of scamming opportunity?

Then there are people who want the large donation AND a join date req. This basically comes down to whether or not you are going to favor someone who joined a year ago with lots of cash over a committed community member who just isn't as financially fortunate? I'm sure someone could come up with a few names off the top of their head of some people that have been long time members who are respected who haven't donated $300 or more.

Anyways, that's my 2 cents. I'm an open minded person and I'm sure a middle ground can be found.

 

Yes, but only with the following restrictions:

Only 1 change. Ever. Yes changes in capitalization count.
We implement a field in the users profile which has the old name
We somehow implement a redirect from the users old profile url to the new
Users UT will be changed to "previously known as ****" for no less than 1 month
I also propose a list of name changes be maintained somewhere public.

Exactly these. Must be SVU and 2FA as well, imo.

 

[Aesiir]

Voting yes, only if the requirements are something that can't be rushed (bought). Excited for the possibility and excited to debate about it, if and when it comes into play :]

EDIT: My main account TeamJatt was reg'd 2007. I had forgot about it when I made this account. Am wondering on peoples' opinions on a name swap type of thing where this one would become TeamJatt and the other becomes Aesiir. Probably not, because then people would assume an old account was bought but what's your guys' opinions on this?

 

Voted no. I want to hear what will be done for those who started new accounts based on the assertion that account name changes will never be a thing for regular members.

I voted yes, but would be interested in hearing a response to this.

 

There is no reason for this. It will only cause extra confusion to an already confusing website.

If you want a different name, its simple, create a new account.

 

There is no reason for this. It will only cause extra confusion to an already confusing website.

If you want a different name, its simple, create a new account.

Agreed, this is going to be a huge shit show if it passes and it's pretty frivolous.

Do you really want half of the active user base changing their names? Because that's what will likely happen with this update.

 

There is no reason for this. It will only cause extra confusion to an already confusing website.

If you want a different name, its simple, create a new account.

Yes because starting over with brand new post count, vouches, join date, etc, is something people really want to do and is VERY simple. Yeah.... No. However, doing a name change would be simple as long as proper requirements were put on it and it would not be confusing at all.

 

[Aesiir]

Agreed, this is going to be a huge shit show if it passes and it's pretty frivolous.

Do you really want half of the active user base changing their names? Because that's what will likely happen with this update.

I would say there's an insanely small number of active users that will actually be considered to allow to name their change. Like, I don't expect to be able to change my name and I'm sure there would at least be a cap of how many can change or something. But this poll, I believe, is to vote on whether or not it should be seriously discussed, which I think it should be. Whether it passes or not does not directly affect me since I don't do trades any more anyways.

 

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Just to reiterate, no name change would be automatic. The poll is just to permit people to REQUEST name changes. Staff would reserve final judgment in deciding whether a name change request would be approved

 

[SuF]

There is no reason for this. It will only cause extra confusion to an already confusing website.

If you want a different name, its simple, create a new account.

Agreed.

 

[Jiwi]

Requests for legitimate reasons sure.
xXcoolgamer69Xx -> Pauly after 5 years seems reasonable

But yeah nothing automatic or userbase-wide; too much