Staff /+ forum usernames

[Richie]

Hey,
A while back you guys had a massive thread on forum usernames in relation to staff. I'm just curious would a habbo username on/off feature not be a useful plugin to implement / develop. I'm not sure if it'd be far too difficult to implement / develop for a forum that already has thousands of users but I thought I'd suggest it anyway just to see responses from users who are familiar with the production of plugins for vb to see if this would work or not.

Something like this during registration:

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Then you could have a feature within the user cp that allows members to toggle usernames on and off. So for example I would be registered under two IDs (sort of) Yet and Richie. Currently it's set to toggle off but if toggle username was turned on people would see my username as yet.

[scottish]

I can't see how it would work practically.

Would make searching more difficult and various other stuff too.

[Richie]

I can't see how it would work practically.

Would make searching more difficult and various other stuff too.

Ah sure the search function doesn't work anyway

I'd imagine it'd be hard to implement but would give the staff the option of having a different username / solve the problem.

Again it's just a suggestion to see if this could actually logically work.

[scottish]

It will once it's rebuilt

[Chippiewill]

I'm not sure what this achieves. Users can already set their habbo username and we can already set up vbulletin to display it anywhere.

[Kyle]

would take up more available usernames than is necessary. glad this has been brought back up though considering the vote showed overwhelming support for community staff to be allowed to have any forum name and nothing has been done yet an idea polled (REP) with a majority of two people against it was immediately dismissed.

what's going on about community staff and forum names @Wispur; @Shonly;

[sexpot]

would take up more available usernames than is necessary. glad this has been brought back up though considering the vote showed overwhelming support for community staff to be allowed to have any forum name and nothing has been done yet an idea polled (REP) with a majority of two people against it was immediately dismissed.

what's going on about community staff and forum names @Wispur; @Shonly;

I asked Chris about it and he said that because the "I don't care" option won out they're not going to "waste time changing it"

[scottish]

Maybe if we're polling obvious stuff before doing it, we should poll to fire Wispur and replace him with someone who actually wants to do their job instead of sitting back and doing nothing at any suggestion that's given?

just a suggestion (obv gna get ignored, because it's a suggestion)

[e5]

Could link he search so whichever name you put in brings up searches for both names in that ID. Either way, there has to be a proof you are that Habbo before you're allowed the name so it would be difficult. On phone btw so not read other replies, soz if already said

[Phil]

Yeah I don't really see the point in this for reasons stated by other people. It wouldn't really solve the problem of staff not wanting their Habbo names?