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I have to admit, I have been wondering just who the various *GONKS were this week. For some reason, though, I've had no trouble remembering which one was Skills. Go fig.

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Originally Posted by Eleo

Isn't skills PICARDGONK? That's the only one I know. Assuming that I'm not mistaken.

Yeah, that's the only one I know too. I think it's because he was actually using a similar (the same) avatar for a while before the name change.

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Originally Posted by galen

One of the message board packages (or perhaps several) have the ability to have a "display name" and a "username." The username is permanent and always displayed in the profile but the display name can be changed by the user at will. This is along the same lines as what Acer was talking about and would make theme weeks even easier and slightly less confusing! I am all for it.

It's easy enough to add another field to the profile, and then that field can be edited by the user. It should also be easy enough to edit the postbit template so that it displays the "custom name" rather than the username. I don't think technical barriers are what pose a problem here... it could be done.

I believe it would be quite easy, but then I'm not the one who would have to do it, so that's an easy thing for me to say. I've not had chance to play around with the guts of vBulletin in a few months, but theoretically it should be a piece of cake to have the postbit display a custom field in place of the username. Then, when you click the profile, it would show you the username. I'm pretty sure the drop-down menu would show the real username too.

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Originally Posted by Ultima

The obvious solution is to have an admin-controllable option to turn theses custom usernames on and off for theme weeks. When there isn't a theme going on, then the custom usernames are off to prevent mass stupidity.

I'm not saying that I entirely disagree, but why? When you can see the real name at the click of a mouse, what exactly would be the problem?

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