"Update Account" TearDown & Changes
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hey this reminded me, remember a long time back I noticed my email address was shown on my profile info pop-up window and I was like hey I don't want my email address showing to everyone (who does?) and then someone replied and said only admin can see my email address ... so I'm just saying to make sure you don't show people's email addresses to the public because people don't want that
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@LaFayette Well, up to the supermods, I guess. I would at very least suggest to disable name changing for users with moderators privileges.
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@Cernel Are we on the same page? The 'account' menu is available to all non-anonymous logged in players and impacts only their own account. This is not a moderator tool.
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@Cernel if we are indeed both talking about the standard account management tools, why do you suggest moderators be unable to change their own username?
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@LaFayette I actually understand @Cernel 's point. I don't think we want mods changing their names like their "underwear." It would cause confusion and questions. Perhaps mods can have 2 names? One without moderator privledges that they can use on days that they don't want the headache?
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@prastle I think the "mod status" would be tied to their account not the username. So even if they changed their username, it would still show them as a mod.
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generally speaking, changing of account names is limited whenever there are stakes involved, whether it's money or rank. Changing your username gives you an advantage over others, who choose not to do that. i think if we are planning to incorporate leaderboards at some point we'd probably want to restrict name changes anyway.
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@redrum Yes I realized that. I was just saying that having new mods every few months might be confusing even if strictly speaking they are the same person
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Just letting you know I'm personally in favour of the account's username being costant (as it has always been so far).
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- Mod status would be tied to account and not username.
- If someone wants to change their account name, they can create a new account. I'm not sure why we should make it so difficult and say "no, you have to re-register with that same email but a new account name". Is that just not convoluted?
- We can certainly discourage mods from changing their names, or changing often. I'm not sure if it's worth the complexity of special casing it into the code when we can keep the same name by convention.
- Given the game allows multiple logins, no limit on how many accounts, no validation of email, no password requirement even, it doesn't seem like relieving the requirement of creating a new account if/when a person wants to change their username is a huge deal necessarily. I really view it as a convenience so you don't have to register multiple accounts. Arguably we want that particularly when stats could become tied to a user.
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