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I like my username, and if anyone doesnt like theres, why the hell would you put it to that. Thats there problem.

At 11/7/06 09:55 PM, liljim wrote:

Let's not forget what a user page is supposed to be. It's supposed to be a user's page.

Questions: Does this pending user's page replace the personal profile page that currently
exists? If it's something that is in addition to the personal profile page, will users have the
option of *not* having a personalized user's page here on NG, or is it going to be some
sort of auto-generated boiler-plate page which users can later modify?

If folks have the option of holding off on creating a user page until they're comfortable
with locking themselves into a particular nym/URL that might be a good thing. Also, folks
with a net presence elsewhere might not particularly want yet-another-page-to-maintain
here at NG.

You're right that names have a stickiness to them and that people are slow to learn to
associate new names with people, and certainly it's in the interests of the popular artist to
keep the name he/she is best known by, but for folks who have a fan base that can be
counted on one hand with some digits left over (like me), i would think it better to have the
option of re-making one's own image. People also tend to expect certain things from artists
based on their names, so sometimes being able to change the name helps the potentially
interested audience find the flash it would be interested in watching/playing with.

WRONG !!!!

This website is already one of the most advanced thing I've ever seen. I'm sure you can find a way to the links "remember" the page it's linked to so it canautomatically adjust itself, should the page URL change.

we should be able to choose them, but they stay permanant.

To be honest I was never sure why we were allowed to change names in the first place. It just confuses me.

I dunno... I don't like it...

Being a member since 2001, I've never changed my user name and only considered it for the first time last week. Figures that his feature is being revoked at roughly the same time as I'm thinking about using it.

i strongly am against this

I'm not about to read all of the posts here, so this might of already been suggested...
It seems quite simple to me. There are many sollutions to this that I see. Here they are:

1. Let them change their name, but worn them to change all of their links to fit their user name.
2. Have the members choose a specific ID for the first part of their URL, not having it as their user name.
3. Make it where all NewGrounds users have an ID handle, then a display handle (Like a nickname...)

Well, those are my 3 suggestions. Hope I was of some help.

Seriously though, I think you're lessening the freedom every user has with hopes of making up for it with something that doesn't look too appealing.

First the underscores and dashes, and now this. What next?

The only fair answer is to set a deadline for people to change their names, after that, the names will be Permanent, with no ability to change, but the ability to make several accounts on one email address, therefore allowing someone to use a different allias while abandoning the old one. The other choice is to keep a list of all the aliases for each profile, but then you would likely have to hire a whole new staff just for record keeping.

It doesnt really bother me i have had this name for a while and i plan on keeping it

Hey,

At 11/8/06 01:16 PM, EvilAnimator wrote: I like my username, and if anyone doesnt like theres, why the hell would you put it to that. Thats there problem.

Yeah, well when i first joined, i was Knux (short for knuckles), and i thought that was pretty neat, but soon after my internet name became The Grim Reaper®™©, so i changed my name to Grim-The-Unholy, and Grim and The-Grim-Reaper were not available. i'm sure that most people want to change their usernames sometimes... you that don't and feel you never will, you might just discover a better name , and then if it's locked down, you will be stuck with the one that you don't really want anymore. there's a good point to that, but i do like the idea of the login-name being different to the user-name, with mods having the ability to change people's login-names.
-Grim- \,,/

I've got an idea:

We setup 2 usernames - the username (unchangable, used for urls, login and all that), and our changable Display Name (actually used for branding your account, could be perfect for Clocks and all that)

At 11/8/06 04:22 PM, ArabFreak wrote: Seriously though, I think you're lessening the freedom every user has

thats what americans are good at!

I think the user pages are an awesome idea.

Keep the names permanent, I declare!

Goodbye Newgrounds.

HEY!!!!! CHECK IT OUT!!! If you type in tomfulp.newgrounds.com in the little bar thingy up top, it takes you straight to the main site! I even tried it with my username and it works too!!! Try it out.

KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLER!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

couldnt we just move all of our information to a new account say if we get a lockdown but that would totally suck if that happened to any of the fellow newgrounders

Hmm... Makes sense, as I was thinking of Changing my name to "Moper" or something, and how hard it would be to change crap I've done.

Im with it. Just put it in red font when you sign up. :]

Yea! An example of that could be newgrounds.com/deedeedee4 or whatever username someone else has.

Go for it and make them lockable. :)

all right so the majority says yes so blah blah blah do it YAY! everythings solved!

I dont care, I like my name. Good luck with the name pages!

My Solution:
1) Let users to change their Usernames.
2) URLs would be : username.newgrounds.com and #id.newgrounds,com

So if they change their username - the first url would be screwed, but the second one wouldn't be, since you can't change your ID.

For security reasons, I will swap my username to NinoGrounds, though.

My name is my name.

I like it, so I have no problemo if you do have the lockdown or not.

It's all in the majority rule...

I say go ahead. I mean, why not?

YEA!!! The more I think about it, the cooler it sounds. It could be like a myspace account except better!

At 11/10/06 01:29 PM, palindration wrote: My name is my name.

I like it, so I have no problemo if you do have the lockdown or not.

I'd agree. I mean, who'd come up with a user name they don't like and register it? If somebody did, it makes no sense to me.