Should we change the name change period from 3 months to a month and a half?

Question

The "#" in my username messes up my recent activity page and the other pages. I wanna change my username so my pages won't say "Page Not Found" anymore. Plus, I think that this might be a good idea to change the name change period to one month and a half. Thanks!

Comments

Pfft.
3 months has a good ring to it - every season

1 and a half just sounds dodgy. >.<

Anyway is there any particular reason? Apart from the fact 'the # is screwing up your name'

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I wanna change my name to something very funny, that thankfully has no symbols. However it's a secret of what it's going to be. Here's a hint: Giggity

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The three month thing is quite good - I guess you can ask Pokemaster for him to change your name since the name does have a technical issue. Pokemaster may decline though.

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Three months is already generous, since many users here take this duration as an invitation to flip-flop and be fickle with usernames. Almost any other website with a community wouldn't even give users an option to change their names, so we shouldn't take these opportunities at a name change for granted. :P

To avoid these technical issues in the future, perhaps we should expand with more guidelines - not rules like with the @, +, and / symbols, just suggestions - on how certain characters in a username will affect the profile's URL? That might help as well.

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I highly disagree with this. I think 3 months is just fine, because it's bad enough that every 3 months I suddenly don't recognize anyone on the site,  this would be too often that I'd probably just give up  and leave the site. XD

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Ain't that what the Username change thread is for?

Answer 1

Summer starts in June so it's only a couple weeks away :)

But the real issue is that usernames with a # in them break on the recent activity page, which shouldn't happen anyway. I will get to fixing that soon!