EDIT: Until August 1, you can have your account name changed without meeting the usual requirements. On August 1, 2011, the rules in the first post of this thread will once again apply.
Over the past several weeks, my inbox has been positively flooded with requests for people's forum names to be changed. There have been a variety of reasons for the requests, ranging from a desire to display guild affiliation to security issues. As a result, I have decided that a set of rules governing name changes needs to be established.
Your forum name is your identity here. People see your name and instantly associate it with you, your personality, and your reputation here on SRF. Changing it removes that association, at least for a while until other members start to reassociate your new name with you. Your post count will stay, but no one will have any idea who you are. You will again be seen as a newcomer, even as an Elite Member.
It would be like getting drastic facial reconstructive surgery and then walking into a party surrounded by your old friends and having no one recognize you, or perhaps even believe you are who you say you are.
As a result, I highly recommend against changing your forum name, and from now on it will only be done under certain approved circumstances.
APPROVED REASONS FOR SRF NAME CHANGES:
Guild Identity: Many users have desired a guild prefix to be added to their names to show that they belong to a particular guild or clan. This is perfectly acceptable because the person's original forum name is still prominently displayed. (Removing a guild prefix is also an acceptable reason for a name change.) ex. SuicideGrl -> [BH]SuicideGrl
Account Security: If your forum name is the same as your IGN, login name, etc. and displaying it poses a security risk for your account, you may change it after verifying that information.
Misuse or Abuse: If your forum name is inappropriate, NSFW (not safe for work), or violates one of the Forum Rules or 5 WAYS, it will be changed at the admin's discretion (assuming the offense wasn't ban-worthy).
Mistakes or Misspellings: If you simply typed your forum name in wrong when you were signing up for SRF, this can be easily fixed. Simply provide the proper spelling of the name you desired and it will be altered for you.
**If your reason for desiring a name change isn't on the above list, then your name will not be changed unless some sort of extreme circumstance exists.**
Thanks for your understanding, and I hope this streamlines this process for the future.
Mistakes or Misspellings: If you simply typed your forum name in wrong when you were signing up for SRF, this can be easily fixed. Simply provide the proper spelling of the name you desired and it will be altered for you.
^Thanks 0l3n! Gone. Never really gone, but never really here. "If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music"
Umm, i strted thinking when you said that if our names contain our ign or id's cuz i got hacked and had to leave my server cuz ii lost hope and no frnds wer around . . . .
seems i had luck asking you for a name change some days ago.. im not sure if you would have changed it with these rules ... im the former GnA.. well, i swapped characters, and since everyone knows me as paddo..
and you should be seeing as this mostly your fault Fena aka Fenacorp aka Fenacious aka Fenalicious....
I know. I'm so sorry. Sui - sorry for all the trouble I may have caused. Didn't know that my wanting to change my name would have started all this. Should've known when I started to recieve PM's, though...
fena(corp) going to go and cry now. I need a hug.
and you should be seeing as this mostly your fault Fena aka Fenacorp aka Fenacious aka Fenalicious....
I know. I'm so sorry. Sui - sorry for all the trouble I may have caused. Didn't know that my wanting to change my name would have started all this. Should've known when I started to recieve PM's, though... fena(corp) going to go and cry now. I need a hug.
o.O is not your fault i give you a hug ...
BTW:hmm i want my old acc name, be changed to something else is it possible or not ? even if is ....you know admins hmm ..
