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Don't see the problem really. I've had the username 'itsrobert' since 2001, when I was 14. Hasn't done me any harm.
There are others who have haven't made such sensible decisions. Look at the guy who was called 'mefornina' or something like that in honour of the newsreader Nina Hussain, you'd hope he'd be really embarrassed about that now.
Well, if I'm honest, I don't really like 'itsrobert' these days, it does sound like (and in fact was) something that took a 14 year old 2 minutes to come up with. But I've had it for so many years that it would be just wrong to change it, if for no other reason than I'd suddenly become unknown.
I'm not advocating that usernames can't be changed. Just that it would be handy to have the option to see a user's username history somewhere on their profile. I really don't think people would be judged on old usernames when most people probably wouldn't even bother looking. It would just be handy for regulars to be able to check who someone is/was after a username change to enable continuity.
It means you know that a member who is now called, for example, Ident I Dad was your mortal enemy VDCocker41.
I'm not sure people should be judged on usernames they though of when they were 14 though.
Don't see the problem really. I've had the username 'itsrobert' since 2001, when I was 14. Hasn't done me any harm.
There are others who have haven't made such sensible decisions. Look at the guy who was called 'mefornina' or something like that in honour of the newsreader Nina Hussain, you'd hope he'd be really embarrassed about that now.
Well, if I'm honest, I don't really like 'itsrobert' these days, it does sound like (and in fact was) something that took a 14 year old 2 minutes to come up with. But I've had it for so many years that it would be just wrong to change it, if for no other reason than I'd suddenly become unknown.
I'm not advocating that usernames can't be changed. Just that it would be handy to have the option to see a user's username history somewhere on their profile. I really don't think people would be judged on old usernames when most people probably wouldn't even bother looking. It would just be handy for regulars to be able to check who someone is/was after a username change to enable continuity.
It means you know that a member who is now called, for example, Ident I Dad was your mortal enemy VDCocker41.
. Not sure if a record of previous usernames is good or bad, there have been some users in the past who have changed them and changed from being annoying little twerps to intellegent-ish posters in the process. Then again it would be useful to have a little note when a username is changed in the same way new members are flagged up.
