What happened to the custom display names?

Originally Posted by Kamui

Useless feature really. Don't see why there should be drama about it.

because this is gff, and drama is what gff does best.

anyway, i call bullshit on removing display names. they're CONFUSING? how stupid do you think people ARE.

"enable display names what the fuck is this? WHOA SHIT, WHAT JUST HAPPENED. O JESUS ALL THE NAMES HAVE CHANGED, NEVER COMING TO GAMINGFORCE AGAIN, TOO CONFUSING."

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Sassafrass

Are you telling me that during gonk week, I could have displayed all of those name changes to their original names for my personal viewing experience?

this was the basic idea, though it wasn't implemented for gonk week.

here's how it worked: in your profile, there was a field for a display name. you could put a name up to 15 characters here, and this is the name that would display on your postbit.

however, this name would only appear to other users who had the option for display names left on. and to those who could see it, there was a notification of their choice (the name could either blink, marquee, or be followed by an asterisk) that this was, indeed, a display name. a simple click on the name would reveal the dropdown menu, at the top of which the users original name was displayed. it would also only appear in postbits; the original name would be shown everywhere else (ie, journals/comments, and in the 'last post by')

or you could just turn them off and not have to see them.

admins didn't have to deal with namechange requests anymore, but the people who wanted namechanges could have them. it was easy to keep track of who was who with a simple mouseclick. people who found namechanges annoying didn't have to see them. EVERYONE WAS HAPPY.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by scotty

except bobo

well yes the implication was that everyone was happy UNTIL BOBO TOOK IT AWAY.

NOW THERE IS ONLY MANLY RAGE.

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