Holy shit, you're all fighting over names now.

You're always fighting over something about Newgrounds! Whether it's the Angry Face, or the layout, or something so minor that it's not even worth mentioning.

It's not even worth it.

Thank so much Tom for changing my User name! Couldn't thank you enough, yay.

oh well

so i have to change my name from Tay_Tay to TayTay or Tay-Tay? but i love my name tom!!!!:(

At 9/9/06 02:19 PM, charIotte wrote: as well as rae for my other account (rae-).

hey i remember that avatar

I would like to be Cancer please. :D

Can I have snare since the other snare hasent got any posts or flash

Whew, luckily this will not be affecting me.

Life is gewd.

At 9/9/06 01:47 PM, TomFulp wrote: Small steps... All these changes are groundwork for bigger things!

Come on Tom. You can tell us more than that.

At 9/9/06 02:20 PM, SlipperyMooseCakes wrote: What happens to the Inactive people that you take the name from? Do you change it to something else, delete it? And if so what do you change it too. I know you're busy and all but just curious.

I'm glad you did this though, I hated the - and the __ names.

I have been changing their names, adding numbers to the end... But I should really just delete them and clean things up. :)

Any accounts that are inactive for over a year (the really crappy accounts) should be auto-deleted.

lol that really sucks for me.....

Hey Tom, did you miss my PM? If so, then it was about if my alias Bahamut- (an alt is holding it right now) could be changed to Bahamut. If so, then I'd be very happy :)

At 9/9/06 02:48 PM, Momo_the_Monkey wrote: lol that really sucks for me.....

Momo-the-Monkey would look better if you ask me, why don't you just request that? :P

At 9/9/06 02:49 PM, Paradox wrote:

At 9/9/06 02:48 PM, Momo_the_Monkey wrote: lol that really sucks for me.....

Momo-the-Monkey would look better if you ask me, why don't you just request that? :P

what, i can't change it myself? I'll keep it here for now....but it will change later....

So please no changy just yet k? :)

I want to lick salt of you're dick tom

At 9/9/06 02:51 PM, Momo_the_Monkey wrote: what, i can't change it myself?

Oh yeah, I forgot that you could change your own name with the confusion of Tom deleting other users to make room for users who need legitimate names. :P

thanks Tom :D

The underscore gets retired

You're really keeping on the ball with the username thing. It took not even 5 minutes for the alias switch.

Thanks!

Sounds good tom.

At 9/9/06 02:47 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 9/9/06 02:20 PM, SlipperyMooseCakes wrote: What happens to the Inactive people that you take the name from? Do you change it to something else, delete it? And if so what do you change it too. I know you're busy and all but just curious.

I'm glad you did this though, I hated the - and the __ names.

I have been changing their names, adding numbers to the end... But I should really just delete them and clean things up. :)

Hmm, then will ultimately will this lead to the cleaning up of NG members. Like after 3 months if the person doesn't sign in they're listed as inactive. Or, if they are inactive after a year, they lose the rights to their name and it's up for grab and their name is replaced with a number starting at 0000001 and then so on and so fourth. It would be alot of work but I think it would be awesome to see all the actual active members there are on NG and not just alts and inactives.

When I first joined ng, my solution was to put 1337 in my name :P. Then I got used to it, and a lot of people know me as 'ch33ks'. So I just kept it XD. I think this is a good idea, but It would be even better if the inactive members who stole our names were deleted. Or are the names just disabled?

At 9/9/06 02:56 PM, Afro-Ninja wrote: The underscore gets retired

_ is so much better than - though :(
wonder how long it'l take for people to over use the other characters at the start and end of their user names...

At 9/9/06 02:53 PM, Paradox wrote:

At 9/9/06 02:51 PM, Momo_the_Monkey wrote: what, i can't change it myself?

Oh yeah, I forgot that you could change your own name with the confusion of Tom deleting other users to make room for users who need legitimate names. :P

Lol but until the time that I don't want "-" comes Tom..... Momo-the-Monkey will do....

Oh no, I forgot. I have an order of stickers that are going to be credited to my account. If I change it then how will I be credited?

God has been requested a few times, I have decided not to release it. It's too powerful a name for any mere mortal.

Jesus-Christ did manage to get Jesus, though.

The requests are a constant stream... It will be interesting to query the DB tonight and see how many names are now valid. Before making the change, here is what we were up against:

74: users with --
156: users with __
1176: users that start with -
1251: users that end with -
528: users that start with _
738: users that end with _
187,142: users with _

The underscore is the real killer... If we only had to remove leading and trailing dashes, this would be much easier. :)

poorsniper....bleh....:((

At 9/9/06 03:02 PM, TomFulp wrote: God has been requested a few times, I have decided not to release it. It's too powerful a name for any mere mortal.

I see you just received my PM. :P

At 9/9/06 03:02 PM, TomFulp wrote: The underscore is the real killer... If we only had to remove leading and trailing dashes, this would be much easier. :)

So why can't you just remove the dashes? What did underscores ever do to you?