The official name change announcement thread

No, you all got bits of the story, but not quite.
Once upon a time we had unlimited name changes, but we had to request. Scorpian abused it to the point where they introduced a '2 changes per month limit.' At one point we could change our own names, then Zero kinda abused it so we got our 1 month limit.
 
What's the rule with changing your name to names other people have? Because I see a Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy here and both names were taken before.
 
I don't think there's a rule, but it's generally not a good idea to take a name that was used by one person for a very long time. (eg Garlic with Caboose, me with turntechGodhead) Rainbow and Fluttershy weren't used by their original owners long at all, so that wasn't really a problem.
 
Lily said:
No, you all got bits of the story, but not quite.
Once upon a time we had unlimited name changes, but we had to request. Scorpian abused it to the point where they introduced a '2 changes per month limit.' At one point we could change our own names, then Zero kinda abused it so we got our 1 month limit.
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Actually it's every 30 days, because if so, I could just change my name to something right now, then to something else on New Year, then to something at the end of February, then the beginning of March,etc.
 
Smasher said:
I don't think there's a rule, but it's generally not a good idea to take a name that was used by one person for a very long time. (eg Garlic with Caboose, me with turntechGodhead) Rainbow and Fluttershy weren't used by their original owners long at all, so that wasn't really a problem.
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Shame. How I would have loved to be Caboose.
 
Please may I be Skyward Yoshi, also this my new username.
 
Lily said:
then Zero kinda abused it so we got our 1 month limit.
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Actually I've been meaning to set this straight for a while. Zero's name changing was never a problem, at least for me, because he was always easily recognizable as that guy with all the Code Geass stuff. The problem was the people who would completely revamp their entire profile into something with no similarity to their previous profile every week or so.
 
True... but I remember Zero getting some grief for it, but I can easily tell it's him as it's anime guys with funny names.