Really? We’re going to force a new member to change their name, because it’s close to another? What has happened to our community?
What do y’all do, in real life, when a second Joey comes into your life? Make them change their name? Or, y’know, get used to it?
I can’t believe this is the solution, instead of people having a little confidence in their own damn gray matter, and realizing that, though it may be initially confusing, it will settle out. Even Sven, even waded in and said she could care, so why the fuss? I’m not seeing why there’s a problem, to be honest.
This reminds me, meant to tell you that I’ve put in a request to change my handle to Scupmup. I’m getting ready to confess my lifelong obsession with kiddie porn and I felt it was a good time for a new name.
Huh? It was meant to be an argument, but a data point that this is not some one-off weird situation or response. It’s not a crazy new idea, but something that has been asked of new posters in an effort to help keep identities reasonably clear. precedent does have a place.
The argument, however, is such: This is a board that prioritizes keeping your posting history your own (no socks, no frequent name changes, not deleting posts or threads you regret). So it is not unreasonable to make it a board priority that names not be overly similar to minimize that type of confabulation.
I’ve asked Even seven to pick a new username because the name is very similar to even sven. That should resolve this issue. We do this once in a while with new users. It doesn’t come up very often, but we’ve had something like 137,000 accounts registered here over the years and every now and then someone will create a name that is similar to an active user and we have to ask the newer poster to make a change. If you have a personal problem with Even seven (or even sven or anyone else), please take it to the Pit.
Funnily enough, I was going to request a change to Vinyl Turdnip. I thought it might add spice to my description of how I intend to assassinate certain high ranking political figures. Small world, isn’t it?
Actually that was what I was implieing in my self deprecating joke…that I would look bad by comparision And I was leaving an opening for anybody else to say I didn’t need any “help” to do that in the first place