Hello,
My current username is mittens_ mittens_ and it would be a dream to lose the underscore. Unfortunately, I see that user mittens Mittens already exists, but they don’t appear to have any recent public activity.
What is the policy for requesting an “abandoned” username?
How about Myttens?
Why did you create account with the same name as other user?
I think it is your personal problem. You are imposter here. Why should anybody need to solve this problem?
The OP has a reasonable question. mittens played one single game back in 2007, and has never played a game since. If there’s any situation where revoking username rights would be justified, it’s here. Now I’m not sure even here it should be, but at the very least it’s a reasonable question
The OP simply asked for the policy, there’s no need to get combative
Because it leads to complicated issue about
They’re just asking what the policy is. At least let someone reply with what the policy is first
Reassigning long-abandoned user names is an OGS practice that goes back at least to 2019/2020.
I know. I just stated my opinion. Nothing personal to OP.
I strongly believe that usernames should be persistent and unique. It is not how it is implemented now.
This gives me a bit of trouble when the user changes the login and image too often. To be honest, only one specific user is causing me a problem with this (Tournament Game: 13x13 Open League #44 (129247) R:1 (NAHUE chan oh vs mikhail.trusfus)). Because he constantly joins tournaments and always disconnects from them. And every time with different avatar. Sometimes with different usernames. So the ability to change username is very annoying for me.
I think the user id remains the same
I think username should be used as primary user id. It is very difficult to remember numerical identifiers. It is just my opinion.
I do not suggest this to implement. Other people may have different opinions. Mine is no more correct than others. I don’t think there can be a correct one here.
Therefore, on the issue of the topic of releasing an abandoned name, I am strongly against it.
Moderators can help with this (and have been amenable to it in the past)
Plot twist: maybe it’s actually different users
If you look in the “Name” column for the game you can see their original username appear there.
Personally, I’m not sure how much of an issue I think this is. It may have been hard to identify that they were the same user, but now that that’s happened, can’t they be reported for repeatedly disconnecting in a tournament?
Name column displays current username. It doesn’t log previous name.
I even posted about them here BUG: zombies after timeout tournament didn't lose games - #3 by mikhail.trusfus
It was a glitch caused never ending tournament. Since then this particular user annoy me by participation in any tournaments. I do not understand a reason to start games you never want to play. This is disrespectful.
So because of this I’m strongly against any renaming without good reason. Definitely registering account by adding underscore at the end of existing username is not a good reason to claim any rights on the original username.
I definitely understand your position, but this particular case would not have this negative effect, right?
I think this case may be cause for different negative consequences. I do not approve of moderator intervention unless absolutely necessary. This is exactly what OP wants. They are asking to forcefully rename another user due to lack of activity.
No, “opponent” column displays their current name. “Name” is for the name of the game. Some of the game names are:
But you can see from the opponent column, all of these games were played by someone now called Nahue chan oh
I 100% agree, but can’t you report them?
But how often does this come up? You said before there’s only one specific user annoying you. There are lots of features on this site that people will use in ways that annoy me. When using automatch, some people tend to cancel most of their games. Sometimes I match with the same person a few times in a row and they keep cancelling, so I block them. Sometimes people abuse the chat by saying rude things, or they try to throw me off my game. I just report and block them. I don’t think we should get rid of the ability to cancel a game, or do away with the ability to chat, just because there are some people who abuse these features.
There is no feature to rename other user.
If the request for OP is approved, how should similar requests be handled in the future?
You said you were against renaming period, including users changing their own login name, that “the ability to change username is very annoying”, and that you believe “usernames should be persistent and unique”. You also brought up the example of a specific user you have an issue with who has changed their own name.
You were not only against changing other users’ names, but said you were against changing names at all. Changing one’s own name is currently a feature, it’s something you brought up, and I was responding to this point.
Yes. I’m strongly against any renaming. But this is only my opinion. Users may have reasons to rename themselves.
Should we extend this ability to impersonating other users?
I do not believe OP has malice intent. I think they just want cool name. But this does not change anything.
