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SOL-R
12-13-2007, 10:57 AM
Hi,

Do you allow users to change their names on your board?

If so......
.. what effect does changing names have on the board from a technical sense.
IE Does the board have to be re-indexed if the person has a lot of posts?

If you don't allow it ...................

..Why not?

I ask this because we get people that want to change their names all the time. I thought someone told me if they have a fair amount of posts you have to re-build the indexes for the search feature to operate correctly?

Thanks for you input~!

SOL-R

ChU v2
12-13-2007, 07:53 PM
Changing a username is a simple edit in there options through the ACP. And at this point I do not allow it. It becomes to much of a hassle for me as an admin. The only time I did when was I used vBPlaza, but that hack is no more.

pcoskat
12-13-2007, 10:52 PM
My visitors LOVED it when it was part of vBPlaza.

Changing names never resulted in problems.