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    • Marylander
      Marylander last edited by

      Do you think that when someone changes their username, old mentions of them should update to refer to them by their new username? Right now I notice that old mentions still link to the same user, but refer to them by their old username. I do not have a strong preference about this, but I am asking in case people have an opinion.

      Score Sorted Margins[100]; STAR[90]; Score[81]; Approval[59]; IRV[18]; FPTP[0]

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        rob Banned @Marylander last edited by

        @marylander It might be preferable but that sounds like the sort of change that would happen across the board for all NodeBB instances, rather than something this forum should try to hack in.

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          Jack Waugh @Marylander last edited by

          @marylander My opinion is that if someone changes her username, the mentions of her should use the new name. But I am too lazy or distracted to modify the code to make this a reality, or to go to the support forum and beg others to do so.

          Approval-ordered Llull (letter grades) [10], Score // Llull [9], Score, STAR, Approval, other rated Condorcet [8]; equal-ranked Condorcet [4]; strictly-ranked Condorcet [3]; everything else [0].

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            Jack Waugh last edited by

            Incidentally, the old forum had the same misdesign, and it is reflected in the data we have therefrom. But a positive of this is it gives clues to relate names to numbers.

            Approval-ordered Llull (letter grades) [10], Score // Llull [9], Score, STAR, Approval, other rated Condorcet [8]; equal-ranked Condorcet [4]; strictly-ranked Condorcet [3]; everything else [0].

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              SaraWolk @Jack Waugh last edited by

              Thanks for posting here. We can at least add it to the list!

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