[Cloverfield]

The forums that use a login name / display name system are UBB forums. There is a hack for vBulletin that does allow for the user to change their own name ... but it does not allow the user to "keep" their name, which sucks if you decide you want it back later on and then you can't have it.

But I really don't like username changes. One forum I'm on allows it and it's a real annoyance. You get people that change their name every day, and you just don't know who is who before it occurs. One thing I like about here is that we all know who is who, so there is no wondering who the hell someone is because they've had their 1000th name change.

Although a more "controlled" username change would be okay ... but it would need to be something earned. Like you could do it every 100 posts or something like that.

On the other hand if there was a way to make username changing easy for legitimate reasons, I don't have a problem doing it manually. But if you get every second member saying "I'm bored of this name, change it for me" then they build up. Although I wouldn't say we are lazy ... I really don't have time to do lots of name changes and wait for the update process on the forums. I have just been 4 hours answering a backlog of emails that needed to be responded to from both Oddworld-Web and Advent Children.net. Every day I'm doing work on my sites ... so laziness is not a factor here, it's finding time in my day. I'm still trying to find time to complete the native and industrial layouts in there somewhere.

As for custom titles, I don't have a problem with it at all. I actually suggested it back on the old forums, but no one really wanted it. Everyone seemed to like the ranks system we were using at the moment ... so nothing further was doen with the suggestion.

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