Quick Name Change Suggestion

[Jianaran]

As quite a lot of people have been having name changes, it is quite hard to keep up with who's who. Would it be possible to put in a hack that changes all non senior-members title from "Member" to "Formerly known as xxx" which would revert back to "member" after, say, a month? It would make it a lot easier to keep track of people, which as i said earlier is actually quite a big issue.
Thanks

[JAL-18]

It's a general policy that name-change candidates advertise the fact in their sig.

IE, if I changed my name to Pants, in my sig I would put "Formerly Known As JAL-18." I don't think it requires the work of implementing a hack.

[Jianaran]

I'm just saying, that with the "one sig per page" hack it is often easy to overlook the small "formerly known as xxx" in the sig. A while ago a senior member changed his name (can't remember who) and i knew it instantly as it he said so in his title. normal members don't have this option, e.g. I though that Tucker and Hazchem were totally different accounts until a while ago even though he had his change in his sig. Anyway, it was just an idea.

[Homdax]

Who is that Mogolov guy anyway...

On one side I agree with member nick changes being announced somehow and that those members become hard to track if no such announcement is made and perhaps followed up byt a statement in signature, or, if senior or above, in title.

On the other, it adds to forum clutter having all these "ex-name xyz" wherever its relevant.

Nick change requests in Forum Issues is good. I wish more did that.

[Worf]

I'm all for the signature thingy since my skin here doesn't show custom titles ;)

I can understand where you are coming from though, and believe me, it's even more annoying for mods :)

[cfoley]

A lot of people don't bother with putting their old name in their signature. Perhaps that could be made compulsory.

[ionfish]

It would certainly be nice if people were considerate enough to put a note in their sig if their name changes... however, that being said, the staff already have quite enough work to do without enforcing it as a rule. Let's just leave it as a strong but friendly suggestion.