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tommy
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Hmm. Is it not possible to change one's username once a username has been chosen? Also, what's the purpose of having a "Paging ID"?
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It is not possible to change your handle on Member - it's because Member has a reputation system, and allowing Members to change handles would undermine that.
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Why not tie the reputation to the address instead of the name?
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The address is not displayed much and is not easy to remember. Also addresses may change - Jason is working on a spec to allow users to have a primary offline address, and then be able
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The actual name could be still presented on the web frontend instead of the address(es).
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to delegate posting privileges to child addresses.
tommy
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Oh ok, that makes sense. What's the purpose of having a "Paging ID"? It can't be changed either so I suppose it's a part of the reputation system as well somehow? What's the difference
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The Paging ID is derived from the handle - it's just @ + the handle without special characters. it's to make it easy to loop other users in to a conversation, show him @telesfor
tommy
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between a handle and a "Paging ID"?
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So that people can page you.