Topic: Please Change Your Display Name

[Grizz]

Changed it all.... .

[VANGUARD]

I'm afraid I'd lose my avatar forever if I changed it, or removed it.

[D2Disciple]

So I come back after a four month hiatus to find that everyone's name is changed. If that's not confusing, I dunno what is. 

Changed, and just dropping in to see if anything new is going on here. Filtering through four months of posts, here I come... 

[Kaiaatzl]

Welcome back.  Hopefully we'll get this sorted and be able to change our names back soon.  Though I'm kind of enjoying going into a full blown disguise.

[VANGUARD]

Yeah it is fun. Remember, you don't know me

[Planet Orange [phx13]]

Changed it a little. I'm suprised no one guessed my password since it was a bunch of numbers.

[Kaiaatzl]

I'm afraid I'd lose my avatar forever if I changed it, or removed it.

Can't you right-click - download it from here?  Or does linux not allow that?

[Skyalmian]

Please change either your display name or username.  Spammers are attempting logins using a display name which they found on the forum, and an algorithm to guess the password.

No. No point in kowtowing to fear.
My "password" is now a randomly generated sha1sum, however, with extra characters tacked on. (44 characters).

[VANGUARD]

I'm afraid I'd lose my avatar forever if I changed it, or removed it.

Can't you right-click - download it from here?  Or does linux not allow that?

Its not a linux thing, its a me thing. Im sure I can get it back.

[Matthew]

Please change either your display name or username.  Spammers are attempting logins using a display name which they found on the forum, and an algorithm to guess the password.

No. No point in kowtowing to fear.
My "password" is now a randomly generated sha1sum, however, with extra characters tacked on. (44 characters).

This wisdom means much from an unknown with 5 posts.

[Skyalmian]

This wisdom means much from an unknown with 5 posts.

I know it doesn't... -_- I'm just tired of being told or manipulated directly or indirectly for something (in life)... I know this problem is not the fault of anyone in this forum at all; I'm just being defiant of having to do or change something I have / had no intention of doing so.

[SaladBadger]

Perhaps we should set up a CAPTCHA (like many other forums I know). If a password is wrong, say, three times, it requests that the user also fills out a CAPTCHA of some sort. Wrongs would be global, not per session, allowing this to work no matter how many IP addresses the attacks are coming from.

EDIT: wait one second...

If you change your display name, you will still login with your old name.

So... this entire thing is actually pointless? Provided that person x involved didn't use a different display name from the get-go, changing the display name now would have no effect, since they still have the all important original username.

[Scyphi]

I thought the same thing today myself. If this is true, I'm going back to my old name.

@ wazzazzle: I swear I've seen a picture of that creature somewhere before...it's going to irk me until I figure it out...

[SaladBadger]

Well, on second thought, it does have one benefit: in case they come back and get more names. But we don't know for sure how the thing works.

Really though, I'd say the captcha would be a much better solution than inducing what basically feels like a mass panic.

[Scyphi]

I wasn't ever panicked, I just did what they told me to do.

I don't particularly like captcha, but I know it works, so I suppose I could live with it.