Wayne, what counters need to be updated? Is it some special Mods that you guys have installed here, or what? I have an "item" that can be "bought" with a shop mod I created that changes a user's name, and I've never had any problem with counters. I'd thought that was all done using UserIDs.
Is there something I'm missing? I'd like to know in case I have to consider it for my modification.
--Sarteck
Forum, Thread and Post information counters should be updated when you change a user's name. It is not all done by userid because of denormalization for performance purposes. Having a join to the user table on every query is not needed.
The reason we do not allow name changes in general are not of technical nature, nor are tehy because it would consume too much time from staff. We have other reasons for this that i can not fully disclose, nor will i further discuss them here, but they are part of of our efforts not to give potential scammers to much possibilities to have a long carreer of scamming people on our site.
maybe there should be a set date for this IE once ever like 3 months u can make a thread and anyone that wants a name change should reply then at a set time of that day ya run the updates...at least this way people will be happy? and people will know whats going on?
05-21-2009, 02:48 PM
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