If you can only change your username twice, add a nickname feature

[Neil McCauley]

Add a nickname/display name feature, which changes the name people see, but your real username stays the same. You could even keep a time limit between changing them, as with usernames. I would like to have different names every once in a while.

 

[Baguette Child]

People should have to stick with the shitty name they picked years ago or make a new account. It's funnier that way and less easy for assholes to try and duck any bad reputations they'd earned under the old name.

 

[peachlover669]

id assume the entire point of not being able to change your username more than twice is to stop people from changing their names

 

[Tar&FeatherFurrys]

At most I can see Null POSSIBLY considering a sort of (Bracketed Nickname) that is changeable above your profile name, but that's really no different than you having the optional quote below your permanent name like now and would probably look clunky and ugly.

Why don't you just put your nickname in there? I haven't been here long but I agree with the presumed reason why changing your name isn't allowed more than twice. Same reason you're not allowed to delete your posts willy nilly. This is as much of a drama site as it is an archival site. Why allow the users to alter and change important things on the fly constantly? Would make backtracking for recording purposes much harder.

 

[Cat tit bingo]

Changing names just makes it confusing and a pain in the ass for everyone else. If you couldn't be asked to read the giant warning when signing up and made your name to personal or couldn't think of a name you liked that's on you. If you want more personalization just use the "title" space, that way people still know who the hell there talking to.

 

[Yes I'm New]

True, my name sucks.

 

[HyperboreanRightsActivist]

Since when did null make it so that you could only change it twice?

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

It'd be kind of neat for seasonal stuff like Halloween or Christmas but otherwise could see it leading to shenanigans.

I want @Realistic Elephant back so bad.

 

[Overwritten Tapes]

Is there a way to delete an old account I can't log into and change my name to that name? It's similar, it just bothers me that my original account is idle since the site went down 2 or 3 years ago