Possibility to return custom user name feature?

Worst feature ever. If you want to portray yourself as an interesting or funny person, you should do it through the quality of your posts, not by changing your username every week.

Although having it defaulting to "Off" would lessen the blow somewhat...

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Brent

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.

Because it lessens the effect of mass name changes for theme weeks as half the board won't know anything's changed.

I also, personally fail to see the humour in constant name changes but that's just me.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Elixir

Doing something that's fun != doing something that's funny.

Shin doesn't want others to have fun.

If that's your idea of fun, I imagine you don't get invited to many parties.

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

Originally Posted by a lurker

Name changes for theme weeks is a relatively new development. I'm not sure if Ace Combat ERA was the first, but it was one of the first and one of the biggest ones to do it that way. We've had theme weeks before that had nothing to do with changing names is my point.

Sephiroth week is the first mass name change I remember.

Brent, what I'm saying is that if people gain the ability to chop around their usernames all the time, a lot of folk are going to switch the feature off as it would be annoying as all hell. That would mean that should a big theme week come along involving name changes (Such as Sephiroth week where instead of a gay sign up thread, the staff and a few other notable members had their usernames changed for them, many not even realising for a few days) most of the board wouldn't notice.

If you desperately want to change your name, PM one of the boys. If changing your name constantly is that much of a hilarious fun time for you, log into gfchat and change it to your weird little heart's content.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I'll go and delete my thread where I suggest that over-administration and heavy scheduling sucks all the fun out of theme weeks then.

I was speaking idiomatically.