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Originally Posted by WildCard65 Again, the forums need a way to track user name changes to prevent anyone abusing them to get away with stuff

Then just have our profiles display name changes as well (for admins)

Learn to read. And a quick Google search can yield results on this. It's incredibly possible to show name changes on a forum profile page. Just need to log all name changes in a SQL table that way they can be retrieved from the database and displayed on a page.

Especially simple if you create your own name change form like I suggested in my post above. That way you have full control over how the form works and how it logs the information (old username, new username) and that then allows you to use that information for name change logs.

Originally Posted by Potato Uno You CAN change your name even to this day. They only will do it if "something doesn't work right", as stated on the rules. Now I don't know what classifies as "doesn't work" but it's there.

I think that has to do with like, forum-based issues. Like if you can't access your profile and the page gives you an error page no matter what, and the admins figure out that it's something to do with your username, then they'll change it to something else.

And again, your username can always be modified in the SQL tables for the forums and given a quick forum cache purge, the name change will show forum-wide.