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A common complaint I see is “The name I wanted was taken by a level 1/2 who hasn’t played in months”, and I think there’s a blatantly obvious solution to this that nobody seems to have considered yet. Namely, let people prank others by changing their names.
Of course there are going to be problems with this. Mostly ones on the flamebate front, and from people getting confused from name switches. Naturally, I have a solution to this: Make all active players immune, and let players spend a BP to buy “Inactive name protection”.
Problems solved. |
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Posted On: 01/08/2009 6:19PM | View SimplyTHEBEST's Profile | # | ||||||
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SimplyTHEBEST Posted:
Horrible idea.
SimplyTHEBEST Posted:
Fukking saved.
Problem is if they come back they will be hella confused. Raepdog edited this message on 01/08/2009 6:25PM |
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Posted On: 01/08/2009 6:25PM | View Raepdog's Profile | # | ||||||
Escher, MySpace Tom, etc. Bad idea. |
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Posted On: 01/08/2009 6:30PM | View SG94's Profile | # | ||||||
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That’s just about as good an idea as being able to spend BPs to permaban people. |
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Posted On: 01/08/2009 7:19PM | View Big Brother's Profile | # | ||||||
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Your idea is bad, yet you might turn it into something cool: Instead of really changing a name, you could change somebody’s visible name temporarily for let’s say one week. The pranked player still keeps his old name though so nobody can steal it. Make it expensive, 5 BP or so.
@Big Brother: I never suggested to permaban people, but to temporarily ban people from posting on Flamebate public forums. It is lame, but money is money. |
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Posted On: 01/08/2009 10:14PM | View FalCoN's Profile | # | ||||||
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SimplyTHEBEST Posted:
You guys didn’t read the entire idea. Log in to see images!
Mostly, this is because we have a bunch of ****ty accounts that were never used just wasting name space on the server. Having a temporary/display-only prank would be a fine addition, but this was just to get rid of the dead-squatter problem. SimplyTHEBEST edited this message on 01/09/2009 12:47AM |
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Posted On: 01/09/2009 12:46AM | View SimplyTHEBEST's Profile | # | ||||||
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I actually like the idea of a prank that makes it look like you’re permabanned (You select the mod, perhaps the post, and the reason) but the ban goes away the next time you log in. |
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Posted On: 01/09/2009 1:01AM | View Big Brother's Profile | # | ||||||
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Define active, I mean If someone was off for a week would they be at risk of losing there name? also would they sign in as there old name and would the person who possibly decided to take the name log in as there new name? Just seems like alot of hastle and extra work just to let people change names, also it could make keeping track of people on flamebate harder if names are allways changing.
All in all a bad idea. |
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Posted On: 01/09/2009 5:14AM | View greggcarson's Profile | # | ||||||
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Big Brother Posted: What if the person gets annoyed and either doesn’t log on again or the more likely idea makes an alt to **** about being banned, its just gonna mean CZ will need to buy more storage.
Also after a week of the prank existing everyone will know about it and it will no longer be scary because they will just be like “oh I have been pranked, that’s a very minor inconvenience” they will sign out and then back in.
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Posted On: 01/09/2009 5:19AM | View greggcarson's Profile | # | ||||||
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greggcarson Posted:
FWZ already has active/inactive status. That’s why the old system had our peens grow when PDB went away again.
greggcarson Posted:
I sign in with my email address, not my name.
greggcarson Posted:
If somebody’s active on flamebate, then their name can’t be changed permanently.
Also, the temporary name change thing wasn’t my idea, remember? |
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Posted On: 01/09/2009 10:06AM | View SimplyTHEBEST's Profile | # | ||||||
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I’m sorry, I think this is a really bad idea. Custom titles are good enough. |
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Posted On: 01/09/2009 10:10AM | View Fingerz's Profile | # | ||||||
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Did you even read the idea? This is for INACTIVE players so ACTIVE players can get names they want. Good idea, make it so you can’t change players names if they are banned. |
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Posted On: 01/09/2009 10:25AM | View CrinkzPipe's Profile | # | ||||||
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Crinkz Posted:
The objection stands: several of the best remembered players around (Pickled male reproductive organbum, Escher and others) are currently inactive. Making their names stealable is a little like giving people permission to scratch out headstones in a cemetary. |
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Posted On: 01/09/2009 2:05PM | View Fortunato's Profile | # | ||||||
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Fingerz Posted:
I don’t think I stuttered. This is a bad idea. A really bad one.
Alternately, they could just delete old accounts after a year of inactivity. Log in to see images! Fingerz edited this message on 01/09/2009 2:09PM |
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Posted On: 01/09/2009 2:07PM | View Fingerz's Profile | # | ||||||
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True about the other inactive players. How about only make it for people who are below lets say level 5? |
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Posted On: 01/09/2009 2:09PM | View CrinkzPipe's Profile | # | ||||||
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I see absolutely no reason for allowing this kind of change. Your name’s taken? Too bad. Happens all the time on the internets. |
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Posted On: 01/09/2009 2:24PM | View MC Banhammer's Profile | # | ||||||
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MC Banhammer Posted:
That’s true- some fabulous person took my name on FLickr…grrrrrrrrrr… |
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Posted On: 01/09/2009 2:25PM | View Fingerz's Profile | # | ||||||
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SimplyTHEBEST Posted:
people like you are the reason people like me become emo.. no serious.. you know how hard this would suck? there should be like a delete function or someting… no one is going to ask mc banhammer for a permie ban…
just a bumon! and the problems are gone =D |
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Posted On: 01/09/2009 2:52PM | View SplodeyDopy's Profile | # | ||||||
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SimplytheWORST idea, ever.
If you really want a specific name here, then how about bribing the current name owner with BP? If it’s important enough to you, then you’ll be willing to cough up the BPs.
And if you’re so attached to a specific internet persona name that this isn’t good enough for you… then you really need to take some time off and visit Reality 1.0
Or, just add an extra letter or number to your coveted name. Seriously. |
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Posted On: 01/09/2009 2:54PM | Czarnian bumbumi... | # | ||||||
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Czarnian bumbumin Posted:
OH LAUD, IZZAT SOME TROLLAN IN GD?
Czarnian bumbumin Posted:
Ok, great. Now explain to me how you bribe a level 1 re-re who signed up a year ago and never actually pwned a forum.
Czarnian bumbumin Posted:
Yea, because “Longcats” and “Stacgnol” do a REALLY good job. Both players have been inactive for over 8 months, and I don’t think that anybody here would argue that they are either likely to come back. Why should they be denying those names to players who are most likely going to actually use them?
The way I see it, people are trying to nitpick at implementation specifics instead of looking at the general idea.
What if the activity cutoff was six months? What if inactivity protection was free to anybody who bought and/or used BP? There are a variety of ways to do it that wouldn’t be susceptible to abuse and would be HIGHLY unlikely to affect people who deserve their names.
So, can anybody voice objection to the general idea of making it so that people can take names from accounts that are unlikely to ever return to activity? |
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Posted On: 01/09/2009 9:28PM | View SimplyTHEBEST's Profile | # | ||||||