One thing to realize is that the site keeps all the old games in the database. At the very minimum they would need to keep the old accounts and maybe rename them.
That said, that seems like a lot of work. Just have to come up with another name you like or add your own code, which is very easy to do if you have a name you really like. Seems like the easiest way to do it in my opinion.
Or, here's an idea - use your own name.
Gasp!
I have never needed any thing other than my first initial, last name, and perhaps my birth year to join anywhere on the internet (except sites like financial sites or sites that can buy things at).
I hear ya. I wanted this one http://www.chess.com/members/view/drunk but it looks like Ramiro sobered up and never logged in again.
there are 15 pages of people who are using my first name ... That's the sad part of a popular name =)
I don't want to be forced in using numbers in my nickname .. and why should i use something other than the nickname that i want :( (every nickname that i use in other games/forums is being used by inactive people)
I know they have all the old games in a database, but those games can still be from those people just remove the link towards that account?
In a year or whatever everyone will have to have 50 numbers in their name just to make a nickname and being able to login :D
No problem with mine. I once saw it on twitter, but I'm not interested on that.
Or, here's an idea - use your own name.
Gasp!
I have never needed any thing other than my first initial, last name, and perhaps my birth year to join anywhere on the internet (except sites like financial sites or sites that can buy things at).
In general I would not recommend this. Using your real name everywhere on the internet without a good reason is a bad idea. If you are some sort of internet pseudo-celebrety like Danny Rensch then yeah, use your real name. But if you're just an average Joe you don't want some stupid thing you said on a chess site coming back to bite you in a few years.
Or, here's an idea - use your own name.
Gasp!
I have never needed any thing other than my first initial, last name, and perhaps my birth year to join anywhere on the internet (except sites like financial sites or sites that can buy things at).
In general I would not recommend this. Using your real name everywhere on the internet without a good reason is a bad idea. If you are some sort of internet pseudo-celebrety like Danny Rensch then yeah, use your real name. But if you're just an average Joe you don't want some stupid thing you said on a chess site coming back to bite you in a few years.
Or, you just get to a point in your life (i.e., old enough) where you just don't care. I don't use any of the social media stuff, no Facebook, Twitter, etc. I used to post on Usenet quite extensively.
I have been using my first intial/last name since the old BBS/Gopher/Veronica days, and then when the WWW was all text (no graphics, OMG, how did we survive?) and you had no mouse. You typed in the number in parentheses to jump to the next "link". Never had an issue yet.
If you had said because of the chance of someone hacking into your financial stuff, I can agree but then I do not do that for sites like that.
No problem with mine. I once saw it on twitter, but I'm not interested on that.
Not so strange if this is your username:
pulpo feira
Or, here's an idea - use your own name.
Gasp!
I have never needed any thing other than my first initial, last name, and perhaps my birth year to join anywhere on the internet (except sites like financial sites or sites that can buy things at).
In general I would not recommend this. Using your real name everywhere on the internet without a good reason is a bad idea. If you are some sort of internet pseudo-celebrety like Danny Rensch then yeah, use your real name. But if you're just an average Joe you don't want some stupid thing you said on a chess site coming back to bite you in a few years.
Or, especially if you use your real name, just don't say stupid stuff on a chess site that will come back to bite you 
(or any site where a real name is used or is trivial to track back to you)
FM nobody: best meal on the world!
just don't say stupid stuff on a chess site
That might not be a bad idea under an anonymous name too.
just don't say stupid stuff on a chess site
That might not be a bad idea under an anonymous name too.
Agree 100%
Pulpofeira wrote:
FM nobody: best meal on the world!
It looked good, then I looked it up on Wikipedia. Allergic to seafood. :/
Sorry about that.
You could go to a random paragraph generator and refresh it until you come up with a username your like.
http://watchout4snakes.com/wo4snakes/Random/RandomParagraph
So, for instance, from the random paragraph below, "dividing_opus" might be kinda cool. Or "closet_yawns" or "cheerful_stress" maybe too.
An accumulated consumer beams on top of the radar. The sized recipient quarters a cheerful stress. A dividing opus protests the conscience opposite the technical standpoint. On top of our closet yawns your terminology
over the many years on forums and in games, i know what usernames i like .. But all of those and small varriations of those are being used by people who are inactive for 5-8 years on this site :(
There has to be a way to keep those games on the "old" database but remove the link towards those accounts, so people can use them again ..
Maybe they could close nicknames/accounts after 5 years of inactivity without single game played here.
Maybe they could close nicknames/accounts after 5 years of inactivity without single game played here.
indeed, many of these inactive accounts also have 0 games played!
Or, here's an idea - use your own name.
Gasp!
I have never needed any thing other than my first initial, last name, and perhaps my birth year to join anywhere on the internet (except sites like financial sites or sites that can buy things at).
In general I would not recommend this. Using your real name everywhere on the internet without a good reason is a bad idea. If you are some sort of internet pseudo-celebrety like Danny Rensch then yeah, use your real name. But if you're just an average Joe you don't want some stupid thing you said on a chess site coming back to bite you in a few years.
Or, especially if you use your real name, just don't say stupid stuff on a chess site that will come back to bite you (or any site where a real name is used or is trivial to track back to you)
I see a lot of people post stupid stuff under their real names but they don't seem to realize how dumb they are being.
Or, here's an idea - use your own name.
Gasp!
I have never needed any thing other than my first initial, last name, and perhaps my birth year to join anywhere on the internet (except sites like financial sites or sites that can buy things at).
In general I would not recommend this. Using your real name everywhere on the internet without a good reason is a bad idea. If you are some sort of internet pseudo-celebrety like Danny Rensch then yeah, use your real name. But if you're just an average Joe you don't want some stupid thing you said on a chess site coming back to bite you in a few years.
Or, especially if you use your real name, just don't say stupid stuff on a chess site that will come back to bite you (or any site where a real name is used or is trivial to track back to you)
I see a lot of people post stupid stuff under their real names but they don't seem to realize how dumb they are being.
You say stupid, they say correct. Who are you to say what someone else says is stupid? Or maybe they believe one thing and you think that are being dumb. Who are you to say that?
The number one rule to follow is "Don't post anything you would not say in public."
This isn't the hardest choice anymore ..
But it's what online nickname you can use!
The more people who make an account here or just anywhere on the web make it impossible for any future generation to ever get that nickname. Unless you make it like blizzard did and have a special code behind the name for adding purposes and then many people can have the same nickname (with a different code behind it like Juice#1235 and Juice#6228, ...)
I got one would have loved another nickname, if that isn't obvious, but the person using my nickname hasn't logged on since 2007! 8 years ...
I'm sure others have the same issue .. Since there are so many inactive accounts!
Please chess.com find a way to remove inactive accounts (like, every person who hasn't logged in for a year at least or I don't know) so those nicknames become available again?