Change account Username/Name

[hugeblack]

Many members join the forum with random names, but after a while, they decide to continue using these accounts, especially after updating the merit system, wouldn't it be possible to change the (Username/Name) manually using the same system that made the rank-up difficult "Merit system."?

The easiest thing I can think of it is the possibility to change the username against 500 Merits from the points that you acquired.
in other words, whenever you gain 500 Merits you can change the name for once.


The reason for the proposal is that obtaining more than 500 Merits for many members is useless or without any advantages.


What do you think of this proposal? any Update?

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[SM23031997]

1. How this gonna work? If you choose to change the name right now you become Hero Member again?
2. Only legendary members will able to use the functionality if they have more than 1500 merit points?
3. How I'm able to identify that you are the hugeblack I was dealing with after a long inactivity period?
4. Will it help people impersonate other people for some time? like you change your username to Something and someone changes his to Hugeblack then how I'm supposed to identify you?

[hugeblack]

1. How this gonna work? If you choose to change the name right now you become Hero Member again?

No, every 500 Merits you get/earn enables you to change your name for one time, for example, I have gained about 924 Merits and thus I can change my name for one time.

2. Only legendary members will able to use the functionality if they have more than 1500 merit points?

No, it is not related to the activity.

3. How I'm able to identify that you are the hugeblack I was dealing with after a long inactivity period?

If you are not active, you will not be able to change your name.

4. Will it help people impersonate other people for some time? like you change your username to Something and someone changes his to Hugeblack then how I'm supposed to identify you?

You can change the display name. But to change the username we can ask theymos or set any other way.

If I change a name for reasons of appearance, then I only change the display name. The username remains reserved, the user can still login using the username, PMs can still be sent to that username, "search member" allows searching for the old username, etc.

[xolxol]

This feature will be the best thing to have if you're planning to scam people,or if you are high ranking old scammaz.The feature should be given to those who donated bitcoin to the forum.

[hosseinimr93]

Assume that your suggestion was implemented on 24 January, 2018 (the date of implementing the merit system)
Let's calculate how many times users of the forum should have been allowed to change their username till now.

According to DdmrDdmr's merit dashboard: (theymos and satoshi were excluded)

____________	_______________
merit	number of users
____________	_______________
4500-5000	1
4000-4499	0
3500-3999	0
3000-3499	4
2500-2999	0
2000-2499	4
1500-1999	9
1000-1499	48
500-999	122
____________	_______________

188 users should have been allowed to change their usernames at least one time. If only half of these users had changed their usernames, 1 user had changed his/her username per week on average. As all of these users are well-known users of the forum, their usernames changes will lead to confusion for other users. The solution can be showing the previous username under the current username for a while. But I think the best thing can be done is what theymos is now doing. theymos changes only usernames of those who have strong reason for username change.
A better suggestion can be requiring users to have 500 merit + paying a fee (which is much lower than 50 BTC) for username change. but again the previous username should be shown under the current one for a while, so it doesn't make other users confused.

[judypug1956]

This feature will be the best thing to have if you're planning to scam people,or if you are high ranking old scammaz.The feature should be given to those who donated bitcoin to the forum.

Yeah  one would think that, but  my main account  is now causing me issues.

I was wrongfully doxxed on badbuyer.org
It gets threating pm's
One of my cell phones gets hangup calls.

All pretty much due to my escrow and scam busting on the marketplace section .

This account was created back when there were a lot of hacks on this site.  I wanted to have a replacement account ready to use.

I would not mind  changing my main account name if just to draw less attention to myself.

[TMAN]

I think you should be buying a copper membership as well as 1k warm merits as the requirement, got to make it worth the guys time

[LoyceMobile]

Am I the only one who thinks it's fine the way it is?
Theymos said the forum doesn't need money, so paying a small fee doesn't help anyone. Theymos needs to spend time on this, and lately he's granted a few wishes for name changes. Great! Let's leave it at that.

[Timelord2067]

If you added a poll (lower right of page) I would vote no.

[taufik123]

if the username change is applied Will make other members confused and create new problems that will occur. For example, people who reach 500 merit can change their username with the same username with the name "Loycev" like "LoycevFox" "LoycevMobile1" "Loycevv".
Username changes allow users to abuse the feature to commit SCAM and fraud in forums with other people's names.

The username created when registering for the first time in this forum is your unique code or identity.

[Welsh]

Am I the only one who thinks it's fine the way it is?
Theymos said the forum doesn't need money, so paying a small fee doesn't help anyone. Theymos needs to spend time on this, and lately he's granted a few wishes for name changes. Great! Let's leave it at that.

Nah, I share the same opinion. It would also result in more work for theymos if he had to code the system to present users with a unique address, and then its the logistics of verifying that data. Ultimately, it would result in a lot more work for theymos which isn't necessarily a in demand request, and when the forum isn't in need of money it wouldn't be worth that additional time spent on this.

[Steamtyme]

I would not mind  changing my main account name if just to draw less attention to myself.

Many people have done this recently. You should send theymos a PM and explain your reasoning. I'm not sure if there is some sort of threshold for having this done but you would likely be able to adjust it. You would then likely want to go and change up your youtube/google name so that it doesn't tie in as much as I know you've got a bunch of videos in posts and reviews.

[hacker1001101001]

I would say NO to changing username feature on the forum, as it makes the forum world more harder to be friendly and identifiable to everyone. Even makes the overall experience on the forum confusing to many.

[Lafu]

A clearly NO from e also , because as already said and written it would be abused maybe from others !
I am fine and good with the current system how the Usernames are.

[sheenshane]

In my own opinion, it will depend on the username and that is a case to case basis. For example, a member changing the name from killyou72 and now the user's username is FFrankie. That now sounds good and better compared to the previous username, killyou for me is not good to the reader's eye, just like threaten or will harm someone in retribution.

Just like @hacker1001101001, but it doesn't mean that the user is a hacker. (sorry mate just an example of mine)

Edit: Yes, this proposal might be abuse.

Sharing my two cents.

[hugeblack]

Think of it as a free, VIP/donator feature, they paid about 50BTC for the possibility to change the username and you can get it for 500 Merits, they paid money to develop the forum and you participated using your effort, time and high-quality posts.

This feature will be the best thing to have if you're planning to scam people,or if you are high ranking old scammaz.The feature should be given to those who donated bitcoin to the forum.

No, it is about Merits, not activity.

Am I the only one who thinks it's fine the way it is?

The current system is very time consuming, and there are no drawbacks to making it automatic. Remember we are talking about the Name.

The username created when registering for the first time in this forum is your unique code or identity.

Only the display name will be changed, you are still having the username.

Nah, I share the same opinion. It would also result in more work for theymos if he had to code the system to present users with a unique address, and then its the logistics of verifying that data.

Time will be much less than manual modification.

I would say NO to changing username feature on the forum, as it makes the forum world more harder to be friendly and identifiable to everyone. Even makes the overall experience on the forum confusing to many.

Users can still search for you using the username. The only thing that will change is the display.

Again, this forum focuses on the quality of posts and not on those who participate.

A clearly NO from e also , because as already said and written it would be abused maybe from others !

I don't think someone who spends a lot of time getting 500 Merits will be misused (Scammed/Spamming/..etc)

[tranthidung]

We should start off with theymos' statement on that.

Each user has a display name, which is the only name ordinary users see, and a username, which is what you use to log-in with. Almost always, they are the same.

If I change a name for reasons of appearance, then I only change the display name. The username remains reserved, the user can still login using the username, PMs can still be sent to that username, "search member" allows searching for the old username, etc.

If I change a name for reasons of privacy, then I change both the username and the display name. In this case, it is possibly hazardous to reserve the old username, since it allows someone to test for the existence of that username, possibly defeating the privacy benefit. If you're worried about being impersonated, then simply don't seek to have your username changed.

The correct terms are:

• Username: what the forum uses to manage your account.
• Display name: what you see

Changes:

• For appearance: Only display name will be changed.
• For privacy: both username and display name will be changed.

Search results (using formerly username as keyword):

• Only display name changed: you will find results presented with new display name
• Both display name & username changed: you will no longer find that user. *

*: In case you find any user with formerly username as keyword, it is a newly created account, a fake one with different userid). It might be a scammer, or troller, etc.

As I understood, the forum manages your account based on three indicators, at least:

• User name
• Display name
• User ID

For the OP' suggestions:
I don't think it should be applied because by now, username changes have been done manually by admin, it has not been an automatic process. I also doubt that the forum will never have an automatic process for it due to so many things around, such as: security, privacy, database, and more.

theymos wrote:

If you're worried about being impersonated, then simply don't seek to have your username changed.

Lastly, most or all (?) of recent username/display name changes come from normal users (neither donators nor VIP members). From that you can see the fact most or all of those cases done as a kind of genorosity or priviledge from theymos, it has not (and might never been) a right for forum users.

[ChuckBuck]

I appreciate your ideas  But in the case of this forum, the reputation of many people is very important, changing the name can make many others unrecognizable. Moreover, the name change also causes a few problems related to scams. Suppose a celebrity has just changed their name, then another guy replaces his name and cheats on people who don't know  Or create a similar, confusing name to cheat or take advantage of reputation to work, it really causes a lot of disturbance of the forum 

[Jawhead999]

A better suggestion can be requiring users to have 500 merit + paying a fee (which is much lower than 50 BTC) for username change. but again the previous username should be shown under the current one for a while, so it doesn't make other users confused.

Yeah, we must making many requisite for change name
In my opinion people usually want to change their name to avoid the crime they do. But, some of them want to change for the better name. Little suggestion, the users who have bad trust cannot change their name. If there is a account have good trust and bad trust, the good trust should have greater amount than the bad trust to allowed change the name.

So, my conclusion to change the name is :
1. Have 500 merit
2. Paying a fee
3. Shown previous username on under the current name
4. Good trust > Bad trust

[AakZaki]

hope such application is not done in the future.  because if it is done it will make it easier for Scammers to change their username and imitate the names of members who have high trust in this forum.  as the case below.


let the current policy be the final decision, so no one is impersonating else's username.  even if there is still it from the members who just registered.