Also, re the private message: http://webdiplomacy.net/profile.php?userID=3075

Ahh, ok, Thanks. Should I send a private message to Kestas?

Well you can do, although I don't know how long you'd have before getting a response.

Your name doesn't seem that odd to me. There are some crazy names out there. One guy's user name is "..." and there are plenty of other odd ones.

But I certainly understand wanting a more usable/pronounceable name. Just saying it is by far not the oddest around.

cool thread idea though: top names we WISH we had thought of. If I had a do-over i'd choose "Object Lesson" :)

Figlesquidge. The only thing I would consider doing differently would have been putting a 2nd g in, to be figglesquidge. It doesn't look anywhere near as neat, but then the pronunciation would be as I currently use (fig- gle -squ - idge ). I tend to prefer the more delicate latin sounding names, and so if I can't use figlesquidge (eg if you have more than one character in your group) I go for Alacavre.

I like my username. Its mysterious and godly.

I like Gnome de Guerre's ID. It makes me think of that travel website Gnome. ;-)

Do you mean expedia.com which has the lawn gnome for a spokesperson?

Hmm Im not really sure, no-one wants to have to relearn names or wonder whether they know someone under a different name. In the past I've always said usernames are permeanent, but then again it's quite a new account... Not sure, are people unanimously in favor of this?

Hmm, If I had that option I would probably change it to Steve-kun or Steevo-kun (since it's a pet name some of my female friends use to reference me) but then again Steevo-kun is already taken and I like my current username. StevenC. , that username is just me. Thirdly, I don't really like to come up with pizzazzy usernames....

Kestas, I think we should keep it how it is now. As you said, no one wants to relearn usernames, certainly I don't. : )

I agree with StevenC. I chose a boring username (it being just the first six letters of my last name) yet I know that if we had the option to change our name I would just want to change it every week. It would just be confusing and frustrating trying to keep track of who is who. I think that the system works fine now. After all, it's just a username.

Okay then, that's fair enough

If I had an option I'd change my name to simply Zaza instead of the fancy shmancy UpPeRcAsE LoWeRcAsE.

wydend, I always thought your name was quite humerous.

spyman,

So you see it too, eh? : )

I mean humorous.

StevenC, well yeah, I thought it was intentionally funny.

I actually didn't see it at first. Shame on me.... : )

@spyman: I've never thought about it until you brought it up, but I can see how it could be viewed as humorous. I'm glad that the first part of my last name can make an unintentionally strange but kind of funny username.

Yeh, I'd let him. As you say, he's not been here long.

Well, I'd appreciate the name change, but would understand if not allowed. If not allowed, I'll just pretend it's one of those vowelless Finnish or eastern European names that nobody can pronounce.

So what does mdrltc stand for?

Mini donuts rarely lead to coronaries?
Many dangerous rodents like tailgating cars?
Have you PMd Kestas?

I did PM Kestas, no response as of yet. I'm patient.

Great, well he's (understandably) been spending most of his webDip time on the code structure rather than site management, but hopefully he'll get back to you when he's free.

I'm sure you have, but make sure he knows what name you want to have instead.
If you're unsure if its taken or not there's a search feature linked from the help page you can use to check.

I like my username. It's fun.

On second thought, I like the username 'The Ąµtµmn Ɯiƞȡ" (my myspace display name). Kinda fits me....

You have wind in autumn?

You have squidges in figles?

Tuche - Sorry Steven, couldn't resist :)

Well, have you every seen a squidged Figle?

Not really, no. : )

I think everyone should be allowed one name change in their WebDip life and the old name shown on their profile. I would also like to change my name.

That doesn't sound fair to me martinck - some people have been here a long time and it is foreseeable that the site will still be running in several years time. By then people who change their name now may feel it should be changed again. However maybe that would be fair enough: you may change your name within your first month of membership (before anyone knows it anyway) or after a year since last change.

Nb: this is just a suggestion, I'm quite happy with it as it is.

Or changes that won't confuse previous identities. If you don't have an identity yet, then any change would be justified, in my opinion. mdrltc could add vowels so no is confused, figle could add another g, and I could simplify my name. The new players could choose what they want.

As long as the last name used is in the profile and we don't allow rapid changing (once every X months or something) then I think any new name would be fine.

I guess so, but is it really worth the time required to add the feature?
Oh, and Zaza: I wouldn't add a g - it doesn't look as neat and there are so many places that would need changing anyway

@figlesquidge

Yes, I think your idea of a change max once a year is a good one. I have no idea how easy or difficult that is to do and happy to concede that most people do not seem to want to change - I was just expressing my own view having been on the site for a couple of months. Ironically I thought up a great name which I now forgetton - all I can remember is that I liked it

BTW - thanks Kestas for a great site

It wouldn't be hard to do, but it would require more detail to be saved on the server (not much though).