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changing my screenname at stars
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Re: changing my screenname at stars
no
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Re: changing my screenname at stars
Ditto
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Re: changing my screenname at stars
From PokerStars support when I requested a name change with very compelling reasoning:
[ QUOTE ] The reason we do not permit user ID changes is partially technological and partially psychological, and partially for security. From the database/programming perspective, it is not a trivial change. Your user ID isn't stored in the hands -- just an internal user number. When you request a hand history, it looks up your user ID and inserts it where it should go. It would be a bad thing to have previously requested histories say that "finesse914" was in seat 3 of a particular hand, while the same hand history requested after a user ID change says "angelfins" was in seat 3. That would cause users who noted the apparent discrepancy to question the accuracy of our database, which we cannot permit. Thus, same- account user ID changes are technologically impossible without extensive changes to the database software. Some have pointed out that it would be trivial to just avoid all the above and let players close one account to open another. We cannot allow this for security reasons. All of the things that make your account "yours" are lost if you jump to another account. All of your hand histories, your financial transactions, your chat.... everything is left behind and cannot be moved to your new account. For financial security, much of this data is mandatory and cannot be considered dispensable. Finally, from the psychological side, in face-to-face poker you can remember a person by their appearance, their mannerisms, or their name. Chris Moneymaker will always be recognized as himself when he enters a card room. Online, all those things are gone. The only thing a player has to identify you as an opponent at the table is your user ID, and your image (which we do permit to be changed more easily). It would be unfair to other players to "get to know" your playing style (taking notes, etc), and then permit you to close the account in favor of a different user ID. To keep all players on the same playing field, we limit players to one account per person, and no user ID changes. We wish you the best of luck playing here on PokerStars under your current user ID. [/ QUOTE ] |
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