(January 20, 2014 at 6:10 pm)rasetsu Wrote: Just my two cents worth, while I can understand not wanting people chaging every month, only one change per year seems unusually restrictive and will discourage people from rectifying whatever name change situation they may be facing because of the lengthy commitment. (For example, Ivy originally signed up as jsrm10 due to a misunderstanding of the membership joining procedure. As a new user, all she would have seen upon having the possibility of changing to a more user friendly name is that if she was unhappy, she would be unhappy for a long time; and, if she did change and was unhappy, she likely wouldn't have stuck around. In other words, imho, 365 days is simply onerously long.)
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the new rule but it seems to me that signing up initially would be different than changing your username once established. For instance, in signing up for an account you're not technically changing a user name, you are assigning one to yourself, whereas an established member would already have a username from which they are changing, thus invoking the once-a-year rule. To me it seems that the new member would be able to sign up initially and then would have their once-a-year name change still available if they hate the name they signed up with.
Or does the name-change thing only come into effect once you've used it? For example, if I change my user name on August 12th, do I have to wait until August 12th, 2015 to change my name again, or only until January 1st 2015? Is one change per calendar year or one change per year-from-the-date-you-last-changed-your-username?
Why am I even bothering? I'm not changing my username....
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
