Why can people change their names without a name change here?

Question

So I’m just curious Bcs good nightmares has been changing names a lot lately cause he has no activity in RMT is this a feature or a glitch cause I feel like if this is possible what is the point of name changes

Comments

i did no such thing

Answer 1

The ability to change your username if you have no posts is a feature baked into Q2A (the software this site uses). You can only turn off username changes for people with posts.

Obviously it's within Pokemaster's power to change this, but he hasn't done work on the software for years.

I imagine the feature is baked in because no one expected it'd be a problem for people with no posts to change their username. But it's a bit different on our site with the chat room and triple-section setup.

Comments

Yeah ok was just wondering cause you could have 10s of 1000s of points on the main section and no posts on RMT or meta and you would be able to change your name freely