I also think we need this hack - but to prevent the users from going bezerk (our audience is 12 - 16 years old - they play) I would also add the admin has to OK the change.

One more thing: When a user changed his/her name some of the threads become unreadable. When you read "I don't think Claude is right because bla bla" and there is no previous post by a Claude, you won't be able understand the thread.

I would reccomend this:
Let's say the User "Claude" changes his name to "Rob" I would like to see in ALL his posts a small line saying:
Then when he again changes his mind and now wants to be called "Peter" the lines add and he would have:
so one could always see all names that the author of a post had since that post was written.



I btw think we also need a "merge" user feature... but that's another thread