DEAR ASSHOLES WHO WHINE A LOT

"Man turn on display names" vs. "we really like trollin trollin"

COMPROMISE

Most of the time name changes are obvious. Fat jokes? Gotta be Mo0. Not rocket science really.

BUT. BUT. Sometimes poorly done name changes occur. These happen mostly when Shin wants them done. (all of mine are awesome)

When this happens, people inevitably whine about display names. Display names are no fun for anyone. ANYONE. I don't care who you are but you are a vacuum for all things nice and a source of extreme Nazism.

SO, HERE IS A MIDDLE GROUND.

I have created a new profile field. You can not edit it. HOWEVER, it will appear in someone's profile if admins put shit in it.

It is TRUE NAME

HERE IS DEVO

HERE IS A PICTURE OF DEVO



You can even SEARCH FOR IT using member advanced search

See?



We will put shit in there when it's not PAINFULLY OBVIOUS who this person is.

THERE. COMPROMISE REACHED. NOW SHUT THE HELL UP

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Imma keep up on it charlie.

I don't have codin' access, this is the best I can do.

it's not hard to fill out one profile field when changin names. Luckily one of the few people who can do it is the oldbag.jpg and another is so sick of the whining that he's willin to do, so it should work out

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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except this is worse since there's no easily-identifyable features that make us stand out, whereas at the meet, I simply need to look directly into the sun to find the spot where Sass blocks it out, or look down at Dope's legs to find his thigh-high socks.

Extra legwork = 1 extra click is also awesome. Is the profile not an easily identifiable feature? It's RIGHT THERE. I would say forcing yourself to look down at dope's socks and interpolating is the same as glancing at a profile page.

This sounds like "I appreciate the compromise, but this isn't the solution I wanted so fuck you".

Running with this metaphor!

So here's something. Someone wants to dress up in an e-costume. Maybe they are wearing a good rubber mask, but this profile funfun time is the same as taking two seconds out to think "HMM THIS PERSON IS SHAPED LIKE A CAPO. WALKS LIKE A CAPO. TALKS LIKE A CAPO. JEWS LIKE A CAPO. MAYBE IT'S A CAPO"

There is no inconvenience in clicking someone's avatar. All you folks want is the answer force fed to you. Nah nigga, that ain't how it works. This is an easy cheat sheet, though. If you care about what joe asshole says, pop BAM you got the answer. One doesn't require someone jumpin about saying "LOOK, BATMAN OVER THERE IS ACTUALLY BRUCE WAYNE".

How's this. I will put it into everybody's field on name change. Not just the "obvious" ones. (Obvious would have been Mo0, and pretty much any permutations on an obvious name like the ones you listed, by the way. Not the seven dwarves, or that god forsaken HIV awareness group. Any Eras or theme weeks would also be tagged, since the problem with checking master threads is also clearly that it is so inconvenient! )

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

2FORT 2FORUMS





POOFT



Look, the spy isn't going to tell you who he is. It's up to you to figure it out with SMART POWERS

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

Originally Posted by Double Down Chicken Sandwich

I think the solution here is to make me a moderator

Because then I will fix everything

Spoiler:

By eating it

don't see why not

Additional Spam:
KAPOW

I was speaking idiomatically.

Some admins have code access, some do not.

I do not, and don't because that would create delicious chaos.

Crash does not because handing someone vBulletin of all things and saying HERE LEARN SOME PHP is a recipe for complete and utter disaster on a scale not seen since Hiroshima.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Soluzar

Is that so? I would have thought you could learn by making small changes, assuming some minimal prior knowledge of programming. I've often wanted to test that theory (I know the minimum about PHP) but unfortunately the only way to get a chance to play with the code is by paying for it, and I've no desire to do that.

This was not what I meant.

vBulletin is a horrible thing to learn on.

One doesn't learn to ride a bike when trying to ride away from a bear that is trying to eat you, for example.

FELIPE NO