Regarding Name Changes (fao crystal & platinum members)

If we still want a new feature, I'd happily take any of what TF has suggested but we'll see what else higher staff have had planned. If no new perks can be found for Crystals then I guess no choice but to narrow the gap between us and Gold tier even further.
 
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So while on the topic of name changes, I looked around and apparently it's during September that we have a thread for name changes or something?
Was trying to find more official information on that, but wasn't too successful.
 
To be honest, I don't really care about the loss of extra name changes, if the admins get bothered by it, then I would understand, but the only thing that irks me in this issue is that Plats have like little to no difference with Crystals... Considering they donated 4x the size of a Crystal tier, they should have more? This does not apply to Gold to Crystal since the jump is like how many bucks? 10 bucks. For forking over 10 bucks, we get a new color, email, and usertitle customization, and tbh I'm fine with that. I'm bothered how the only thing Plats get is CSS usertitles, and the distance between them is like 75 dollars... I do hope they get an upgrade, and as for Crystals, it's enough.
 
Pingouin7 said:
So while on the topic of name changes, I looked around and apparently it's during September that we have a thread for name changes or something?
Was trying to find more official information on that, but wasn't too successful.
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flight said:
Basically, every four months or so, a name change thread is opened by upper staff only for a period of time (about a week, give or take). It is during that time that everyone can request name changes. To give you some further background, there used to be a name change thread in the supporter area as well which was basically an extra name change on top of the existing name changes that regular users got (but it was only available for Crystal/Platinum tiers). So there's that~
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And of course, the extra name changes started stressing the admins so much to the point that we are now locked into the same waiting period of the lower-tiered and non-supporters. They feel like equality is the way to go because it'll mean less stress.
 
Hikamaru said:
And of course, the extra name changes started stressing the admins so much to the point that we are now locked into the same waiting period of the lower-tiered and non-supporters. They feel like equality is the way to go because it'll mean less stress.
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It's actually mostly because it's a really excessive number of name changes in one year. Fwiw I'm the only admin who does name changes (we have agreed this between us) and if it was purely down to stress then I'd just ask someone else for help. I spend a lot of time doing non-supporter changes which outnumber the supporter ones massively; the little extra on top isn't that big a deal to me (although it's another reason why I'm not exactly inclined to do added supporter ones). As I said earlier, it's a pain, but it's not a huge deal. I'd prefer you didn't speak for me, much less the entire admin team, on why I / anyone else is taking certain actions.
 
If I may ask a question... Kinda related to the subject of name changes...
I know that creating a new account and dropping the old one is allowed, but if I did that, the new account wouldn't have the supporter stuff I got for this account.
But is there a possibility of having the donation transferred to a different account?

Otherwise I guess I could donate $5 on a new account, I was kinda considering doing that on this one to get to Gold anyway.
 
Pingouin7 said:
If I may ask a question... Kinda related to the subject of name changes...
I know that creating a new account and dropping the old one is allowed, but if I did that, the new account wouldn't have the supporter stuff I got for this account.
But is there a possibility of having the donation transferred to a different account?

Otherwise I guess I could donate $5 on a new account, I was kinda considering doing that on this one to get to Gold anyway.
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Mmmmmmaybe. Rukario is the person you'd contact about that. It's not done as a routine thing but it can't hurt to ask. As far as I know there's no set-in-stone policy on it; Rukario handles 95% of the supporter things in terms of the actual transactions and all that on his own.
 
I threw money at PC a while ago to get crystal tier and I'd be fine with no extra name change and nothing to substitute it. People change names so much that there needs to be a PC Historian to keep track of it all.

I wish there were only two tiers of supportership because all of these extra things don't appeal to me that much and I don't like unnecessary clutter... at least in places that I don't frequent often... ehhh crap now I need to clean my room. Also I want a cheeseburger.
 
shenanigans said:
Yeah so as Chase said we aren't doing the server rank thing, it turned out to be way too controversial and not enough people were interested for it to be worthwhile.

The name change perk is going to remain gone for now. Sorry to anyone this disappoints.
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I don't really give a fuck about the extra name change, but I do know that you're the only admin who does name changes and I know that name changes are a huge pain in the ass to do, so maybe in the future you can see if another admin can help you out in getting them done the next time you post a thread to get them done.
 
So with name changes iminant will anything here come about, such as the priority name changes?
 
On further thought I didn't really see why priority name changes would be considered a perk. You'd still have to wait the same amount of time as other users, it's just that your name change period would come slightly earlier. Unless I've misunderstood the idea it's just a sort of shift in the timeframe for supporters but not much else. Kinda like being different but not actually better, you know?
 
Yeh ok, I just thought I would bring this thread up again, in case anything was to happen
 
Team Fail said:
Please don't kill me for this, but I do really have to ask as I've been pondering over this for a while now. Why is it that only one person is actually able to do name changes? There's three admins on the site (Jake, Audy, and Harry) excluding Steve (Although he has priorities of his own) so surely doing name changes isn't that terrible of a task, or is it?
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And Janna and Geoff are what, sheep? ;)

It's a big mess and stresses the site a lot with all these name changes afaik and with all the special requests being PM'd... Perhaps it's just more fair if one person is the judge and the one to carry it all out under control.
 
Apotheosis said:
It's a big mess and stresses the site a lot with all these name changes afaik and with all the special requests being PM'd... Perhaps it's just more fair if one person is the judge and the one to carry it all out under control.
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Reminds me a little bit of the Monarchy vs. Democracy debate.

Is it good to give all the power to only one person, or should this power be distributed between multiple people, equally? Ultimately, there's no right answer, as both ways have their pros and cons. However, since we're only dealing with name changes, which don't really bear any importance to the existance of the forum, itself, it's probably alright, to just leave the changes to one person.
 
Team Fail said:
Please don't kill me for this, but I do really have to ask as I've been pondering over this for a while now. Why is it that only one person is actually able to do name changes? There's three five admins on the site (Jake, Audy, Janna, Geoff, and Harry) excluding Steve (Although he has priorities of his own) so surely doing name changes isn't that terrible of a task, or is it?
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All of them are capable of changing names, but Jake/Audy focus on coding and design. As well, Shenanigans likes doing them afaik and he can get them done quickly in usually one or two sittings depending on how many requests there are. He'd ask for help if he wanted it.
 
...soooo, if i may...


I do name changes myself for consistency reasons. In the past when name changes were a free-for-all, each admin had their own way of going about things and were lenient on the rules to varying degrees. This basically meant that how likely someone was to get their name change dependent almost entirely on which admin they PM'd, which was unfair on so many levels. While I could have been a hard-ass and had every admin follow the rules down to the letter, we still want to have some slight leniency on name changes (see: exceptions for some names that don't quite meet the rules) so if all of the admins still did name changes then this inconsistency'd still be an issue. Thus, I proposed that I be the only one to do name changes and unsurprisingly, everybody agreed, haha.

Also there's the fact that we aren't mind readers and can't tell which messages, discussions, etc. the others have had. A number of times with the old name change system I had people coming to me like "yo I sent this PM to Hiroshi Sotomura (or whatever) can u do my change now" and I had no idea what they were on about. So again here it's just easier organisationally if only one person gets messages about these things.

tl;dr consistency and organisation is much easier with one person than five. it's fairer on you and less confusing for us if I handle them all, which is something that I'm fine doing and don't need help with.
 
I can easily why it's done this way. Having just one person handle it helps solve the inconsistency problems that could arise if you have several people doing the name changes like it was in the old days. As he said, it's a win for both sides of the memberbase.
 
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