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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
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13th Sep 03 at 13:16   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Please email me first if you plan to register a new account from an AOL email address or dial up connection. Failure to email will result in the registration being denied. Ta.

ian@corsasport.co.uk

Please also note that although we are able to rename people, this is not an easy thing to do, even more so if you are a premium member. There are all sorts of geeky technical reasons which I'm not going to bore you with.

As a result, requests for a rename will be treated as low priority if you have been registered less than 6 months. Can I also urge you to think very carefully about your name if you are signing up for premium membership, and sort that out before you sign up.

As a workaround, edit your profile to change the email address and simply register another profile.

I don't like having to make posts like this but I'd prefer 5 minutes thought by you to 20 minutes work by us.

[Edited on 13-09-2003 by Ian]
Adam
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13th Sep 03 at 14:20   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Don't push it punk
Dan B
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13th Sep 03 at 15:16   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Alternatively, use a decent ISP!
bluecorsaSXi
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13th Sep 03 at 17:21   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Dan B
Alternatively, use a decent ISP!

2 right
m-dot
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13th Sep 03 at 18:38   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
2 points if I may...

1) You said you have to go through the database and change EVERY post the user has done... if this is the case, would'nt it be easier to change the likes of my name because ive only been here a month, i.e less data to edit

2) I am surprised at how technical such a process of a name change is, as I myself design vBulletin boards, and with them you can just go into the users account and edit it, but I see its not so simple with this board.

No worries.

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Wolf In Welsh Clothing
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13th Sep 03 at 18:40   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Cancel my name change then, looks like im getting rid of the corsa.
Ian
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13th Sep 03 at 18:47   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
1) No, although every post needs changing, its only one SQL statement.

2) This board isn't really comparable to vBulletin. It was originally free and terrible and we've hacked it about a bit, hence the garage etc. The side we didn't spend much time with was administrative features as there wasn't much of a demand for them.
m-dot
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13th Sep 03 at 18:49   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
So just one simple SQL statement? If I write the statement, can I have a name change?
Ian
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13th Sep 03 at 18:58   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
One for the posts. Perhaps two in total when you include the one in the member table.

Plus you've the time SSH'ing in to the server and the risk in rushing it if you get an ALTER statement wrong.
Icy
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13th Sep 03 at 23:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
can i get my name changed to Ian
Tim
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13th Sep 03 at 23:43   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I wrote my renaming script for standard users.... it doesn't deal with premium members hence the problem... I will expand it at some point but I'm too busy for such a small thing...

We can rename a std user in less than a second...

The feature was never added to the user's own control panel as we felt it may be abused...

[Edited on 13-09-2003 by Tim]
Drew
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14th Sep 03 at 00:25   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Icy
can i get my name changed to Ian


deed poll
m-dot
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14th Sep 03 at 11:36   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
nice one tim
Joff
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16th Sep 03 at 09:01   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Ian

Please also note that although we are able to rename people, this is not an easy thing to do, even more so if you are a premium member. There are all sorts of geeky technical reasons which I'm not going to bore you with.



Please, bore me.
Ian
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16th Sep 03 at 19:00   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Joff
Please, bore me.

quote:
Originally posted by Ian
One for the posts. Perhaps two in total when you include the one in the member table.

Plus you've the time SSH'ing in to the server and the risk in rushing it if you get an ALTER statement wrong.
Joff
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16th Sep 03 at 22:01   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Not really technical, bit geeky...

Always thought it was a bad idea to have such a distributed Prem. control panel...


quote:
Originally posted by Tim
The feature was never added to the user's own control panel as we felt it may be abused...


Yes, I feel Kerry would have been a key troublemaker for this
Kerry
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17th Sep 03 at 19:18   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
wtf
vibrio
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18th Sep 03 at 09:30   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Tim
I wrote my renaming script for standard users.... it doesn't deal with premium members hence the problem... I will expand it at some point but I'm too busy for such a small thing...

We can rename a std user in less than a second...

The feature was never added to the user's own control panel as we felt it may be abused...

[Edited on 13-09-2003 by Tim]



not by me. would not change my name for any money
vibrio
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18th Sep 03 at 09:31   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Joff
Not really technical, bit geeky...

Always thought it was a bad idea to have such a distributed Prem. control panel...


quote:
Originally posted by Tim
The feature was never added to the user's own control panel as we felt it may be abused...


Yes, I feel I would have been a key troublemaker for this



this does not suprise me
Joff
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18th Sep 03 at 14:35   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Does anything surprise you?
vibrio
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18th Sep 03 at 16:13   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Drew
quote:
Originally posted by Icy
can i get my name changed to Ian


deed poll


or live in Scotland where you can change your name when ever you want without deed poll
vibrio
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18th Sep 03 at 16:14   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Joff
Does anything surprise you?




only the crapness of T3
Drew
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19th Sep 03 at 19:48   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by vibrio
quote:
Originally posted by Drew
quote:
Originally posted by Icy
can i get my name changed to Ian


deed poll


or live in Scotland where you can change your name when ever you want without deed poll


is that true is it?

 
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