The Name Change Thread

Started by Legobricks October 19th, 2008 9:12 AM
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Sylphiel

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We already have a few people (me included) who take care of the name change thread on a regular basis whenever we can find the time or desire to do so. I don't know how much better assigning someone else to the thread would work. :x Unless you can find someone who always has time and desire to change names, then things would probably just eventually end up back to like they are now anyways.

We're currently at only a few days' wait or so for name changes anyways (which is actually pretty good compared to how it was in the past at times), so it's not like we're really backed up or anything. I think we're fine for now.

Cherrim

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Plenty of the admins have free time, but doing name changes is a thankless job. Go take a look at most of the claiming threads, even, and you'll see how backed up they get--and those are just for fun. :[ When you get nagged through PM/IM by people who, half the time, aren't even eligible for a name change, it makes you wnat to do them less and less.

So tossing all the work on to one person might regulate things for... a week, but after that it'd slip into an even worse backlog, I'd predict.


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Nick

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Just expanding on what Nanako had suggested with a side suggestion:

Seeing how that the threads regarding requests and claims are backed up anyways for reasons already stated, perhaps it may be a good thing to is to set a date every week that whoever wants to work on the name changes could regulate. Like, every Saturday, all the name changes from the previous week would be done. That way people won't be going "Change my name! Change my name pleeease!" to those who work on those. They would know that name changes aren't done until Saturday for example. You know?

Buoysel

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Just expanding on what Nanako had suggested with a side suggestion:

Seeing how that the threads regarding requests and claims are backed up anyways for reasons already stated, perhaps it may be a good thing to is to set a date every week that whoever wants to work on the name changes could regulate. Like, every Saturday, all the name changes from the previous week would be done. That way people won't be going "Change my name! Change my name pleeease!" to those who work on those. They would know that name changes aren't done until Saturday for example. You know?
That's fine and dandy in all, but then you would have people who don't read the rules would still be bugging people. Just like the people who keep asking when they can get their name changed, even though it says how long they have to wait on the first post.
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