[Drixevel]

Originally Posted by ddhoward When name change tracking functionality is added.

I'm entirely in a hellbent state to change my name that this site could pump a fucking mortgage payment out of me to make it happen, I swear.

[Maxximou5]

Wouldn't it just take a competent VCoder to add something like this: https://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=236980

Or am I missing some bigger element and/or version history that doesn't allow this. It does what we want.

[asherkin]

Originally Posted by Maxximou5 Or am I missing some bigger element and/or version history that doesn't allow this. It does what we want.

Wrong vB version, and still requires an audit for security and compatibility with AM's custom vB modifications.

[404UNF]

Originally Posted by asherkin Wrong vB version, and still requires an audit for security and compatibility with AM's custom vB modifications.

Would it not be possible for whoever has access to this site's PHPMyAdmin to like, go into the user records, find my username and edit it in the database to "404UserNotFound"?

Actually, based on that idea, would it not be possible to do some kind of webform where you have to log into your AlliedMods account (I'll explain why in a second), then you choose a payment option and pay....let's say $10, and choose a new name. When payment is received by the system, it logs it under the donation banner on the forums and then sends an SQL command telling the database to find the old username and change it to the new username.

Logging into your account first is because if we just had an open form that said like..."enter your current username", "enter your new name choice", "payment", then people could go around renaming everyone to stupid shit.

Regardless, that method should result in a forum-wide username change. Then just have our profiles display name changes as well (for admins). This could help attain more donations for server costs.

Or I could be talking out of my ass and be completely wrong in my assumptions (though I specifically have renamed a PHPBB forum account username in PHPMyAdmin back when I was hosting the TF2Classic forums and it did indeed change the username site-wide, so I'd have to say I'm not wrong)

[WildCard65]

Originally Posted by abrandnewday Would it not be possible for whoever has access to this site's PHPMyAdmin to like, go into the user records, find my username and edit it in the database to "404UserNotFound"? Actually, based on that idea, would it not be possible to do some kind of webform where you have to log into your AlliedMods account (I'll explain why in a second), then you choose a payment option and pay....let's say $10, and choose a new name. When payment is received by the system, it logs it under the donation banner on the forums and then sends an SQL command telling the database to find the old username and change it to the new username. Logging into your account first is because if we just had an open form that said like..."enter your current username", "enter your new name choice", "payment", then people could go around renaming everyone to stupid shit. Regardless, that method should result in a forum-wide username change. Then just have our profiles display name changes as well (for admins). This could help attain more donations for server costs. Or I could be talking out of my ass and be completely wrong in my assumptions (though I specifically have renamed a PHPBB forum account username in PHPMyAdmin back when I was hosting the TF2Classic forums and it did indeed change the username site-wide, so I'd have to say I'm not wrong)

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

[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.

[404UNF]

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.

[psychonic]

Locking as this is going way offtopic. If you have further feedback regarding the changes noted in the news post, please make a thread in the SM General forum.