counterpoint: kaptain skurvy scarfed the peaks of kilimanjaro, merlin's crystal ball, the crown jewels, and a pharaoh's mummy
he could give her a run for her money
I locked it because at the time I locked it, it looked like the thread was already going down the same path that had led me to step in the first time. It seemed safer from a moderator perspective to lock it and prevent the arguments.
also "took longer to get locked" 90% of the time is because...
belated but it's what Uniju said. usernames are designed so that you can't take them if someone else did. this is to prevent, say, porple changing his name and then someone else changing to porplemontage to impersonate him, that sort of deal
It actually does already, as far as I can tell. Go to your profile, hit the clock next to your username, and then do See More. It brings up the old Previous Usernames menu.
We had a name that was juuust on the edge of good taste (the mod team's elected to allow that name to remain for now) and we didn't want anyone getting ideas.
Due to the fact that name changes no longer are automatically tracked by the thread, we've implemented mod approval functionality for regular users changing their names to prevent someone changing to something very inappropriate and flying under the radar. It works like before, except that now...