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Kathy wrote:

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This is to open up more names. In ezboard there are prime names that are taken globally and have barely been used. This opens up those names.

Now if someone at a yuku board wants to be Kathy, they can be Kathy.apevine or Kathy.bobsboard. Or if you've been stuck with the name you wanted with numbers added, you can have the name without the numbers.

The V is for those who create a profile at the www.yuku.com home page.

No disrepect to you Kathy, but if people want to be Kathy, they may not want to be Kathy.apevine or Kathy.bobsboard. I want to be Flukey and have absolutely nothing after that, even when I am typing a post and it is not going to be seen after it is posted. If they want to open up names then simply allow longer usernames or let people literally type ".bobsboard" or whatever after their name themselves if they want to, without us all suddenly have an "@ez" or whatever after our name, not knowing where it came from. Allow the option by all means, and let us know it is there, but don't change anything for us. We can then add the extra part if we want it. You can get the option you want, without it having any affect on anyone that doesn't want that. What's happening is that in order to facilitate an additional option, we all have to be changed in some way or another.

It is ok being given more things, but they should not be foisted upon us, so that even those who didn't want them are stuck with them. Let us decide, instead of us being thrown into categories of "V" or "EZ" or "Y" or whatever, after a push. Before this push, I had "Post as: Flukey", as I typed a post, and a yellow dot beside my name after the post went up. That was fine. I liked it that way. Now all of a sudden I have "Post as: Flukey@ez", as I type a post, and EZ in a box beside my name after my post goes up, none of which I asked for or was told about so I could give an opinion, before it happened. It just suddenly arrived. It seems I am stuck with it now.

Sometimes a "push" seems to push away something that was fine and replace it with something like this, and hence we get all these threads asking what it is all about. As I said in the other thread I posted, why not ask us about these things first or tell us the ideas, before putting any work into actually developing them? Then we can say yay or nay and save everyone time and energy, and we'll also know exactly what to expect in the next push, instead of suddenly seeing something and wondering what is it and why is it there? Additional features and options can be added, without changing anything that exists, and allow us to make the decision to use them. So then you can be "Kathy.bobsboard" if you want, and I can still be "Flukey" instead of seeing "Flukey@ez" all of a sudden. Giving you or anyone an extra option, doesn't have to affect those that don't want it. If someone wants to show "V" or "EZ" or "Y" etc. beside their username, or put in their ".bobsboard" with it, then fine, let them have that. Leave the rest of us with the setting that was already there, instead of replacing it though.

Simply put: Give us new options in addition to, not instead of, what was already there, and tell us about them and ask opinions so we can say what we think and know exactly what to expect after a push.