IMPORTANT: Name Change Removal Page 6

Started by parallelzero February 3rd, 2010 4:07 PM
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Just a random question. Why did you change some names before February 10th?
Not trying to get in a big argument or anything. But it stumbled upon my mind.
They are probably trying to get atleast some peoples' names before the Tenth..

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Thunderwolf1989

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Just wondering though, aren't the names stored in just one place? why would there be multiple references to a name? It would cause a lot of overhead if everything is stored a lot of times. Or are the usernames linked to a post instead of the userid?

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This might seem a stupid question... Say all the names are changed, what would happen if you didn't know, and you logged in with your old Username? Would it still work? What I'm saying is, how will we know when to log in with our new Username?
Well,If you press remember me which personally I usually do because personally i hate signing in. T~T I just want to post but if you aren't signed in I'd either check a thread you created or one of your posts.And it's actually a good question.

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This might seem a stupid question... Say all the names are changed, what would happen if you didn't know, and you logged in with your old Username? Would it still work? What I'm saying is, how will we know when to log in with our new Username?
I'd say try with your old one. If it didn't work, try with your new one.

Worst case, check the thread since we'll probably announce how far we got as we do this.


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"You got a visitor message from someone you haven't seen in a while!"
"Um, who are they?"
*Checks back to statistics*
"Ah, now I remember, they were _____"
Is it just me or I just cannot see the name changes on the profile's statistics? o_O
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Audy mentioned earlier that he wanted to clean up and remove the name change histories. They are gone, for everyone...

I miss them. :(

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But then how do we know of rather recent name-changes? o.o

I'm currently updating this thread over here, and I'm coming across a handful of "new" names. In the past I'd just check the histories, but now that is no longer an option. >_<

But meh, once names become static, this'll cease to be a problem. ^^
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Out of curiosity, are you going to delete all the banned/post count < 0 accounts? Because the name change feature is being done away with, I imagine there might be an influx of alt. accounts created. Freeing up some of the inactive accounts will give the indecisive a better selection of names to choose from if they get tired of the one they have now, or if they didn't post their final name change request in time. (Haha... I hope that actually made sense.)

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Any set idea on what date you're going to be changing them? It doesn't seem like you've changed any yet x:

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Recently I Was Gonna Change My Name But, I'm Happy To Kep It To Graceful. Since Most People know me under the name.
Anyway, Maybe Another Idea? When PC Hurrys Up And Stops The Crashing Maybe You Can Bring Back It Back With Limited Numbers? Like Once A Year, 10 WORTHY people get the name changed?
Oh Well, But Everything Has It's Pro's and It's Con's.

And apparently Graceful is still alive after a very long hiatus ♥

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Out of curiosity, are you going to delete all the banned/post count < 0 accounts? Because the name change feature is being done away with, I imagine there might be an influx of alt. accounts created. Freeing up some of the inactive accounts will give the indecisive a better selection of names to choose from if they get tired of the one they have now, or if they didn't post their final name change request in time. (Haha... I hope that actually made sense.)
They won't delete the banned accounts. And for 0 post count? They still won't do that because people could come back to their accounts. And still, how would you define which ones to delete though? If they joined in 08 and have 0 posts, does that mean the accounts with 0 posts created in 10 should also be deleted since you're implying that all users with 0 post counts of zero should be deleted. Pretty sure that isn't a good idea.

Any set idea on what date you're going to be changing them? It doesn't seem like you've changed any yet x:
A week from now, on February 10th, we'll start changing the ones that have been posted thus far, but on February 17th, the two week point, we will be completely shutting down PC to deal with the bulk of the name changes, considering the stress it puts on the server.
If they aren't done by now, then either the staff are waiting to do it all at once from the 17th onwards or will do the ones that have been posted so far now - although this is pretty unlikely, as a lot of changes have been requested, and if it were to be done now, then surely the database would have issues handling it. I guess when that was originally posted it was assumed that there would be less name change requests on the 10th than there actually was. So I'm going along with the 17th.

Recently I Was Gonna Change My Name But, I'm Happy To Kep It To Graceful. Since Most People know me under the name.
Anyway, Maybe Another Idea? When PC Hurrys Up And Stops The Crashing Maybe You Can Bring Back It Back With Limited Numbers? Like Once A Year, 10 WORTHY people get the name changed?
Oh Well, But Everything Has It's Pro's and It's Con's.
How would they define who is worthy though? Favouritism could come into it and... yeah, it wouldn't work it, too many arguments would occur as to why someone didn't get picked, etc.
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I'm a little confused... if changing the user name EVERYWHERE is too server intensive, why not have some kind of client sided script that loads user names from a list of member IDs and their Names? Changing user #a's name from Steve to Gregory would only require one edit.... Would that not be lighter on the server?
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Um.. Doesnt it say you guys were gonna start doing the name changes on the 10th of February? Because it is the 17th now, and my name is still Paranoid.
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Um.. Doesnt it say you guys were gonna start doing the name changes on the 10th of February? Because it is the 17th now, and my name is still Paranoid.
They said they would only do some. But today, they were supposed to shut down all of PC for it.

Glad that happened.

Maybe they're waiting until it gets later in the day.