Display Name History

On our profile page we have a button Display Name History. Clicking on mine reports No history to display.

Can someone explain this function? I didn't know we could change our name.

Changing your username is something the admin won't do unless it's for a very very good reason.

They don't want start a situation where anyone could change their username at anytime, and I think we can appreciate that. It's also something only the admin can physically do. It's beyond the scope of us lowly mods.

:)

Changing your username is something the admin won't do unless it's for a very very good reason.

That's what I presumed, which is why I was baffled by the button.

A member would lose all his/her reputation with a name change. Everyone would ask, "Who's that?"

I can't even change my avatar never mind my username. I wouldn't feel like me anymore.

In fact I've had it so long I half expect to see old Woody when I look in the mirror. :lol:

Dennis, I won't be surprised if you wrote this article!

http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/100187 (Monday 24 January 2011 by Dennis Poole)

EDIT: How do you guys like the third line of my signature? :D

I believe the section of the user profile is a side effect of the software's name changing facilities. But that turning off everyone's access to the facility doesn't disable the profile area.

(just a semi-educated guess based on my use of PHP)

You could be right Ishan.

It's sad that Bob Dylan met Woody Guthrie in his final "home", a supposed hell hole called "Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital".

A sad end for the original protest singer.

(There's a thing, the link has embedded the video!)