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Just another Perl shrine  (Guildenstern) Re: New Power Proposal
by Guildenstern (Deacon) on Jul 26, 2001 at 22:18 UTC
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New Power Proposal  Personally I think we can just leave well
enough alone. It seems like every time something happens that
someone objects to here on PM, there's a meditation saying "we
need to limit X", or "why does Y keep happening?". We need to
remember that this is an online community and not an online
utopia. Things will happen here that bother some people and
affect the "purity" of the site. Tough. It happens in real life
every day, but we deal with it.  I will agree that being able to
remove stale nicks and "retiring" oneself are good ideas, but
cancelling someone's account is too much. Why can't there just
be some functionality that allows a user to change his/her nick?
That's much simpler than cancelling accounts and creating new
ones until the powers that