Offer alternatives or challenge my point of view, I will be grateful for the answers and understanding.
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Offer alternatives or challenge my point of view, I will be grateful for the answers and understanding.
Old users may want to come back. They won't be able to login when their name got changed. It's quite unlikely but not impossible. So a proper implementation of that idea would require an email notification to warn users about an impending auto-rename, give them time to login to prevent it and then another email to notify them that their name has been changed (in case they didn't log in within like a month or something). That's not a super simple process and I don't really want to implement it.
It will destroy old contributions. Threads, posts, uploads, messages. Wherever users referred to other users via nick, not using the awesome user-tag, you won't be able to understand things properly anymore when everyone suddenly has random "EmptyX" nicks.
I understand why you want this to happen but no, sorry, I won't rename or delete old accounts. There are more than enough possible nicks and with a tiny bit of creativity everyone should manage to find a free one. Especially here as there aren't that many users (compared to many other platforms).
but I would agree that they can change the name of a prohibited account, since it will never be used again
My nick is only used by like 5-10 other people on the internet. And it's has remained unchanged for 10 years. My guess is that "Outcast" is occupied nearly everywhere.
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