Why do people actually change their name?

NSY

Celestial Guide
I know a lot of people are going to disagree with me on this but here is an rant

This is the one thing on this forum I despise: name changing, there is not point at all and it causes two big problems things, Confusion and Complaining. Also it's unnecessary it is and yet 95% of active users do it.

Confusion happens every single time someone changes their name, they post comments like "who the hell are you" or "your new", turst me, it gives both guests and users confusion of who they are and some may think it's actually the character who's speacking, confusion also happens when name changing fads happen, everyone got confused during the Homestuck fad a couple of years ago because everyone had similar profiles and similar names, same went for the MLP fad and the Dangon Ronpa fad. It's would be easier at least if the users name was on the top not the characters when these fads happen, I hate this most when they don't say their name on their profile.

Not changing their profile is also a bad thing because of the name they got they can't change their profile off topic because that's just weird. While it's minor I would like to have this brought up as well.

The second of the two problems is Complaining, I hate it every time when someone heads into the name change thread and complain about someone changing their name or most of all complaining that they don't want to be that any more but they have to stick with that until their month is up. Well Rin complained all the *bleep*ing time about that and a lot of users still do that today. If you don't feel your going to want that theme for that long, don't change your name simple as that, it comes to complain and then they cry Becuase the mods won't let them change their name.

What I hate most is how unnecessary it is, no other forum does this, who first came up with the idea of "let's change my name to a something different" has lead this forum into this nme changing palace. If you want that character's theme or whatever just change your custom title to who the character is not your name that would save you from confusion and complaining. Why do it? I have not changed my name since May 2012 where then I only just wanted to change my because I didn't like the name New Super Yoshi anymore. And yet most name changes are just for fun and yet it's not that fun.

The reason why I made this is because I saw much more bad things with name changing than good things. I know most of you will disagree but I would rather if name changing goes for good, Confusion and Complaining will be gone for good as well.
 
I'm just not going to comment on any of your logic here because quite frankly there's no logic at all. The only one confused and complaining about this is you, so what does that say about what the actual problem is?

Just click the person's name and it takes you to their account. The Username never changes. Quite simple.
 
Politoed said:
I'm just not going to comment on any of your logic here because quite frankly there's no logic at all. The only one confused and complaining about this is you, so what does that say about what the actual problem is?

Just click the person's name and it takes you to their account. The Username never changes. Quite simple.
Yes I know but to be honest it saves a he'll of a lot of time if people just had the names.

And yes I am confused about name changing and I am complaining but so much others are as well.
 
NSY said:
Politoed said:
I'm just not going to comment on any of your logic here because quite frankly there's no logic at all. The only one confused and complaining about this is you, so what does that say about what the actual problem is?

Just click the person's name and it takes you to their account. The Username never changes. Quite simple.
Yes I know but to be honest it saves a he'll of a lot of time if people just had the names.

And yes I am confused about name changing and I am complaining but so much others are as well.

What are you doing that's so incredibly important that you can't spare the 2 seconds it takes to click their profile. Even then, if you're active enough on the forum, you will recognize who is who. I barely even look here anymore and I can still manage to figure things out. The 'solution' you are suggesting is far more work and much more of a problem than the initial 'problem' at all.
 
I could similarly complain, NSY, that you don't have an avatar or signature, which makes it harder for me to identify you when reading through threads.
 
GalacticPetey said:
The only time there was a problem for me were the fads, and after a day or two, I could tell who everybody was.
Yeah it did take some time but then I still oppose name changing as a whole, I am not making you change it back I am encrouging you, I won't complain if you think name changing as I repect your views but I am saying that doing this will benefit which is why I made this. Yes I am aginast it but I'm not going to leave if it stays because I love this community and it's users just like RandomYoshi.

I brought this up to see my views on why I don't like name changing because I kinda was a bit sick of it. It's the only thing I dislike here nowadays anyway.
Politoed said:
NSY said:
Politoed said:
I'm just not going to comment on any of your logic here because quite frankly there's no logic at all. The only one confused and complaining about this is you, so what does that say about what the actual problem is?

Just click the person's name and it takes you to their account. The Username never changes. Quite simple.
Yes I know but to be honest it saves a he'll of a lot of time if people just had the names.

And yes I am confused about name changing and I am complaining but so much others are as well.

What are you doing that's so incredibly important that you can't spare the 2 seconds it takes to click their profile. Even then, if you're active enough on the forum, you will recognize who is who. I barely even look here anymore and I can still manage to figure things out. The 'solution' you are suggesting is far more work and much more of a problem than the initial 'problem' at all.
I understand this.
Gundam Tanaka said:
I could similarly complain, NSY, that you don't have an avatar or signature, which makes it harder for me to identify you when reading through threads.
The reason why I don't have a avatar is because I can't think of an avatar, I was think of going Dangon Ronpa 2 but then everything else has been used a least once by other users.
 
I don't like changing my name anymore, it generates so much unnecessary confusion.
 
NSY said:
I know a lot of people are going to disagree with me on this but here is an rant

This is the one thing on this forum I despise: name changing, there is not point at all and it causes two big problems things, Confusion and Complaining. Also it's unnecessary it is and yet 95% of active users do it.
Of course there's no necessary point in name changing, but it's here for user's sake. For instance, avatars and sigs are unnecessary. But the option to change them is there for users to be unique in the themes and pictures that are shown in their posts.

NSY said:
Confusion happens every single time someone changes their name, they post comments like "who the hell are you" or "your new", turst me, it gives both guests and users confusion of who they are and some may think it's actually the character who's speacking, confusion also happens when name changing fads happen, everyone got confused during the Homestuck fad a couple of years ago because everyone had similar profiles and similar names, same went for the MLP fad and the Dangon Ronpa fad. It's would be easier at least if the users name was on the top not the characters when these fads happen, I hate this most when they don't say their name on their profile.
Most of the time we can just look and one's profile, and their original username there would tell us which user they are.

NSY said:
Not changing their profile is also a bad thing because of the name they got they can't change their profile off topic because that's just weird. While it's minor I would like to have this brought up as well.

The second of the two problems is Complaining, I hate it every time when someone heads into the name change thread and complain about someone changing their name or most of all complaining that they don't want to be that any more but they have to stick with that until their month is up. Well Rin complained all the *bleep*ing time about that and a lot of users still do that today. If you don't feel your going to want that theme for that long, don't change your name simple as that, it comes to complain and then they cry Becuase the mods won't let them change their name.
Complaining is a problem with users, not necessarily the name change system. And what's so bad about having a name they you don't like when we all know that a month isn't a hell of a lot of time to wait.

NSY said:
What I hate most is how unnecessary it is, no other forum does this, who first came up with the idea of "let's change my name to a something different" has lead this forum into this nme changing palace. If you want that character's theme or whatever just change your custom title to who the character is not your name that would save you from confusion and complaining. Why do it? I have not changed my name since May 2012 where then I only just wanted to change my because I didn't like the name New Super Yoshi anymore. And yet most name changes are just for fun and yet it's not that fun.


The reason why I made this is because I saw much more bad things with name changing than good things. I know most of you will disagree but I would rather if name changing goes for good, Confusion and Complaining will be gone for good as well.
Again, a lot of things on this forum are unnecessary, and they are here to give users more freedom in modifying their profile.
Confusion and complaining is the fault of users, not the name change system.
 
NSY said:
Confusion happens every single time someone changes their name, they post comments like "who the hell are you" or "your new", turst me, it gives both guests and users confusion of who they are and some may think it's actually the character who's speacking, confusion also happens when name changing fads happen, everyone got confused during the Homestuck fad a couple of years ago because everyone had similar profiles and similar names, same went for the MLP fad and the Dangon Ronpa fad. It's would be easier at least if the users name was on the top not the characters when these fads happen, I hate this most when they don't say their name on their profile.

Alot of members have their names somewhere on their posts, whether in their sig or under their name or under their avatar. Also the homestuck fad was because multiple people were using the same exact names. That was the problem, others fads haven't had that problem that much.

The second of the two problems is Complaining, I hate it every time when someone heads into the name change thread and complain about someone changing their name or most of all complaining that they don't want to be that any more but they have to stick with that until their month is up. Well Rin complained all the *bleep*ing time about that and a lot of users still do that today. If you don't feel your going to want that theme for that long, don't change your name simple as that, it comes to complain and then they cry Becuase the mods won't let them change their name.

I can agree with this, people shouldn't complain, they choose to change it, and they know the rules.

What I hate most is how unnecessary it is, no other forum does this

FALSE. Most of the forums i go to allow you to change your name.

And yet most name changes are just for fun and yet it's not that fun.

This is your opinion, other people may find it fun.

I see your point, but the confusion isn't actually all that common or at least it isn't vocalized all that much, mostly only with new forum goers.
 
Bulbasaur said:
NSY said:
some may think it's actually the character who's sppeacking

bulba bulba

seriously, am i the only one who noticed this line or something? it's the most surreal thing i've read in a while
 
Same reason people change their avatar/signature

What I hate most is how unnecessary it is, no other forum does this, who first came up with the idea of "let's change my name to a something different" has lead this forum into this nme changing palace

Not true. GameFAQs lets you have alts, BrawlVault allows it, and I'm sure there are plenty of other forums that do this. Please don't be ignorant
 
dude.

it's easy to identify me.

you just have to worry about fads and that's it.
 
Actually, it took me a while to guess you're FireEevee.
 
Bulbasaur said:
Bulbasaur said:
NSY said:
some may think it's actually the character who's sppeacking

bulba bulba

seriously, am i the only one who noticed this line or something? it's the most surreal thing i've read in a while

nowi nowi
 
I can easily identify anybody. I've only got confused once or twice nowadays about Rin and Smg2daisy.

This logic is really flawed, by the way. I identify users by their avatars and ranks and usually get used to it very fast if it changes. In fact, if I'm looking for you, I look for the normal-ranked user with no avatar.

I never really confuse anybody. I can identify everyone in fads, and the only reason I got confused ONCE is because the names were different by a mere three letters.
 
tl;dr

I'll admit it's kind of annoying, but also slightly interesting for people to change to a character they like.

That said I only change to be part of a theme lots of people are doing. If this latest round of FE8 characters hadn't included a name change (the last one didn't if i remember correctly) then I would have changed only my avatar and profile, not the name too.
 
I'm not used to you having no Eevee or Homestuck as your Avatar.
 
Lakituthequick said:
It confuses me too sometimes, I sometimes have the same problem as Souda-kun has.

At least you had the common sense to check the profiles, and learn that one user is male and one user is female and keep it that way.

Souda couldn't bear the fact that I had a male and a female avatar, and just decided to call me an "it"

MY GENDER IS ON MY PROFILE!!
 
Garlic has his Profile set on "female", and he's confirmed to be male.
Meanwhile, you're in fact not 2007 years old.
 
garlic man is a woman, I'm 2000 years old, do you have a problem with that

aside from the comedians, we did tell her countless times that she made a mistake, and yet she still decided that the genders were fixed on what she wanted.

it would be understandable that she would call garlic man a woman for a couple more times, but the fact that we told her who was male and who was female, where she made the mistakes, and yet she STILL made the mistakes just pissed me off
 
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