Why can't anyone change their Username on AB? Its the only Forum I'm on that does not give this facility. To avoid people changing their name every month (which I doubt would ever happen) you could have, for example, one change of name per year based on the email used by the user. What is the reasoning behing this please? ( holds breath....)
Why? Seriously -if you changed your username to Ohhhhhhh and said 'high its me (wave) I've changed my name...How would that be confusing? I'm not suggesting you can change it every other day - maybe just once or twice at the most. I seriously cant see a problem.
I'm suggesting a restriction on the frequency so that people won't argue that 'oh people would be confused if everyone changed their name on a weekly basis'
Why? Because sometimes one may get sick of the name and want to change it rather than have to open a new account.
You can go onto your profile and change your email address with a click -I can't see how it would be more difficult to replace 'Aunt Polly' with 'Aunt Bessie' for instance.
As a temporary compromise, the Editors have announced that we won't be able to change our user names but will be allowed to choose to have it displayed in a different font.
There is no 'effort' it's a simple process for an IT person to code it, and for the end user typing 'the looney corb' in place of the 'corby loon' is hardly time consuming.
I've put two requests in to change my name to Bakers Dozen as when I joined I did not realise that capital letters were classed as shouting. One was in the "amnesty" and a previous request was by email. Both requests were ignored, and I don't even want to change my name or my profile, so you'll all just have to put up with me a noisy old girl.