What happened to the custom display names?

I voted yes. applebees must return!!!!!

I guess GFF is just too much serious business for fun! We are all very professional people with very dry senses of humor and well thought out and poignant opinions of a variety of topics, after all!

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Originally Posted by Luxo

bobo probably removed it because he has no friends.

Low blow to bobo, Luxo. Low blow.

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

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

No, I think it's useful, this is alternative if we are bored with username, and want to revert it to original anytime. I think it's more efficient than requesting admin to change your name when you want one.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Not useless. Unnecessary, yes, but not useless.

How ya doing, buddy?

Poll's winning by a landslide.

Originally Posted by Lord Styphon

Thanks, bobo, for removing a feature I never had to see (because I turned them off at the first opportunity) but still didn't like.

Birds of a feather.

FELIPE NO

Gooks up in here.

I don't mind the feature. I'd probably enable it from time to time just to see what silly shit people set their names as. I don't plan on using it myself since I like having people not be able to track what my actual username is, plus it makes me feel special that the admins <3 me enough to do so. >_>

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I don't really see a reason to remove it, especially when the reason for it's implimentation to begin with was to make name-change themes less of an annoyance for admins and removing the problem of people not being able to tell who is who during that time. I'm not sure why it's any different than custom titles or signatures, since those are features that don't serve much purpose and can be disabled as well (although they're enabled by default).

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Why lie; bobo removed it because bobo didn't add it.

Also, I think blah implemented the sticky seprator.

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I completely loved this feature.

Aside from the worn arguments that everyone else has given tenfold, I'd just like to say a few things from a newbie's perspective.

I find that this is a very attractive option to just about ANY forum. I have wandered around the internet, and this is the first forum I have seen which has offered such features (At least for little effort. Some have used "post point" systems, where you can essentially spam your way into a name change. This, of course, is not the way to do things).

I think that, as a forum which continually has these sorts of small fun things appended to it here and there, it stands above the rest. Many administrators I have seen are wary of doing any fancy edits with their forum code, and utilize their super-powers for only installing standard software updates.

Boring.

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

Originally Posted by a lurker

Also, I think blah implemented the sticky seprator.

Actually, believe it or not, that was Miles.

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

I, myself, rarely ever used it. However, the logic for getting rid of it is beyond me....

I was speaking idiomatically.

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."

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Merv Burger

Actually, believe it or not, that was Miles.

Shenanigans. All Miles can do is kick me in chat.

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Chaotic Lullaby

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."

You have two options if you dont like this feature: 1. Turning it off on your control panel option, 2. Clicking the user name to view its real name.

And also, to avoid confusion I usually use same sig so people could identify me easily.

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Can I ask a silly question? A really stupid one? Since there seems to be drama around this, and for my own curiosity, what the hell did this feature do?

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?

Could someone explain what it did? I get the impression this was a chat thing, so if thats the case, I am sorry. ;_;

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Sassafrass

Can I ask a silly question? A really stupid one? Since there seems to be drama around this, and for my own curiosity, what the hell did this feature do?

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?

Could someone explain what it did? I get the impression this was a chat thing, so if thats the case, I am sorry. ;_;

I'm pretty amazed you completely missed this. Alright, it was a mod Blah installed that made it possible to change your display name, the one that'd appear next to posts, at will. He also made an option to turn them off and on, as well as which way you would see the changed names. It was also possible to click the usernames and see their original one in the postbit.

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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.

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

Originally Posted by Sassafrass

Can I ask a silly question? A really stupid one? Since there seems to be drama around this, and for my own curiosity, what the hell did this feature do?

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?

Could someone explain what it did? I get the impression this was a chat thing, so if thats the case, I am sorry. ;_;

Originally Posted by Sassafrass

Can I ask a silly question? A really stupid one? Since there seems to be drama around this, and for my own curiosity, what the hell did this feature do?

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?

Could someone explain what it did? I get the impression this was a chat thing, so if thats the case, I am sorry. ;_;

heres the thread made back when it was still a feature:

Custom name changes thread
includes pics

Originally Posted by Chaotic Lullaby

EVERYONE WAS HAPPY.

except bobo

How ya doing, buddy?

bobo's happiness is irrelevant. If we are happy, bobo should be happy. This is how Gamingforce should work.

But obviously, this is not how Gamingforce is working. Gamingforce seems to be broken.

Gamingforce needs to be fixed. Fix Gamingforce.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Now, why bobo actually removed this feature?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

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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Originally Posted by eriol33

Now, why bobo actually removed this feature?

Here is a quote directly from Bobsy himself:

Quote:

I love the work Bigblah is putting into the site but some features just don't make any sense from a usability perspective. Display names is one of the few. I want to bring consistency to the entire place, not have every possbile aspect modifiable. The username is one of the few constants about a user and having graphics or blank usernames to display adds no functional aspect to the site and makes things downright confusing.

So, okay. Inconsistency. He wants things to be consistent.

And hey, I can't blame him. I'm a big fan of consistency! I like things predictable too. In fact, I think we should go ahead and set the current avatars and signatures in stone. In the name of consistency, of course.

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Yes, I enjoyed the OPTIONAL, NOT OBLIGATORY, ACTIVATED BY PERSONAL CHOICE & SELF-ACTION, 100% REMOVEABLE Custom titles, so I voted Yes.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Everyone voted yes so kiss this sweet feature goodbye forever and advertisements.

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