HAY GUYS

Little Brenty Brent Brent · Local time: May 30, 2007, 02:29 PM

Having it default to off would leave things exactly the way they are for everyone who doesn't want to participate. What is the problem with it, again?

It seems like you're trying to dictate to people how they should have fun, and I don't really agree with that, presuming their way of having fun doesn't cause anyone else undue distress (like trolling, for example). Seeing as how people don't have to have display names on, the only way it causes people stress is if they willingly subject themselves to it.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Little Brenty Brent Brent · Local time: May 31, 2007, 06:34 AM

First the argument against it was that nobody would know who anyone was and it was unnecessarily confusing. Now the argument is that if not everyone participates it lessens the effect and isn't as funny. Let's make up our minds here, okay guys?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Little Brenty Brent Brent · Local time: May 31, 2007, 09:05 AM

Originally Posted by Blue_Kirby2

It's funny to change your username (for whatever reason, be it to confuse others or if it's part of a theme week) probably once or twice a year or something, but it gets old really fast if the feature is abused.

Well if it's getting old for you, you can turn it off. Problem solved.

Originally Posted by Blue_Kirby2

Why do we need the custom username feature to be on all of the time when people can simply PM Blah or Miles for a temporary name change? It may be a little less work on their end, but it's not so much work that it takes their time away from other priorities.

I think Blah coded it in the first place for that reason alone: with some of the huge events, the admins were manually changing upwards of 50 names. It was a hassle.

Originally Posted by Blue_Kirby2

I'm probably the only one to say this, but if we were to have this feature brought back, it should be turned on only during theme weeks and have it defaulted to being On, because, like Shin said, if the feature is defaulted to Off most of the board won't know anything's changed (aside from avatars).

Having it defaulted to off means you can leave the feature enabled all the time.

I really don't get your argument, Shin. First you say you think it's a dumb feature and then you say that it's lame if it's defaulted to off because nobody will notice the difference. If it's so dumb, isn't it being defaulted to off a good thing?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.