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Username Availablitity - Psilocybe - May 18, 2014
Problem: You cannot change your username to an old closed accounts name.
Today I tried changing my name to "Insanity" and it said it was taken.
I searched the name, and it was a closed account.
Suggestion: Once an account is closed, the username should become available again.
* - Fatboy Slim - May 18, 2014
Actually a good idea, popped up in my mind also.
* - -Lily- - May 18, 2014
(May 18, 2014 01:07 PM)Insanity™ Wrote: Problem: You cannot change your username to an old closed accounts name.
Today I tried changing my name to "Insanity" and it said it was taken.
I searched the name, and it was a closed account.
Suggestion: Once an account is closed, the username should become available again.
That would break the DB.
Why not suggest closed accounts actually just be deleted?
I mean, there's a counter-argument for that too: what if someone's banned but they didn't do anything? Everything is gone. No recovery.
2 usernames as 1 would break shit, and a lot of users would get pissed if something happened to an account that they harvested internet reputation on.
* - ASLR - May 18, 2014
Nice idea, but there have been cases where closed accounts have been reopened, so idk how that would play out..
* - Naveen - May 18, 2014
But what if that the Closed account was a scammar and that name will affect you. :P
* - Marky Marky - May 18, 2014
It's a good idea but there are multiple reasons it won't be out into effect.
* - Mohatu - May 18, 2014
Nope.
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* - justg - May 18, 2014
This has been denied again and again.