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pmwww | | Merge Accounts (2nd Jan 08 at 1:24am UTC) | | An idea I was thinking of would be to allow users to merge accounts. I'll explain below.
Say I join http://blah.virtualforums.co.uk. I think it would be cool if I could go to my profile, and beside "Modify Profile", click on a "Merge Account" link.
On this page, there should be two input boxes. In the first one, I would enter "support". In the second one, I would enter "cr0w".
After submitting, I would return here, to find a div floating at the top right of my screen, saying "Merge Account Request".
Upon clicking the div, it should take me to a page showing which forum & username the request is coming from, then the option to accept or reject the request.
If I reject, a div appears on "blah", saying "Merge Request Declined", which takes me to a page showing details.
If I accept, however, an alert appears on "blah" saying "Merge Request Accepted". When I click on this, I get taken to a page with a bunch of checkboxes, asking me what I would like to transfer. Things like my signature, avatar, contact information, display name, timezone, etc.
I think it would be really sexy, and would save quite a bit of time.  | |
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pmvForum | | Re: Merge Accounts (2nd Jan 08 at 1:26am UTC) | | I was going to ask ross just to auto register me on every forum! 
Good idea though..
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pmwww | | Re: Merge Accounts (2nd Jan 08 at 1:27am UTC) | | I was going to ask ross just to auto register me on every forum!
Then you'd still have to enter your time zone info, gender, display name, signature, avatar, contact info, privacy settings, IM info, etc.  | |
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pmvForum | | Re: Merge Accounts (2nd Jan 08 at 1:28am UTC) | | Not necessarily! - I could ask him to set those to a default!
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pm | | Re: Merge Accounts (2nd Jan 08 at 1:29am UTC) | | | Sounds like a good idea but it should have a limit. It could get annoying getting asked all the time if you are a big forum. | |
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pmwww | | Re: Merge Accounts (2nd Jan 08 at 1:32am UTC) | | Sounds like a good idea but it should have a limit. It could get annoying getting asked all the time if you are a big forum.
Good point; make it a profile option to be able to either enable, disable, or enable once the merge feature.  That way, you could just set it to "Enable Once" when you're about to merge the account, then it auto-resets when you've merged. | |
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pmvForum | | Re: Merge Accounts (2nd Jan 08 at 1:33am UTC) | | I reckon 3 options: Permanently on.. merge once... permanently off.
I know I would use this feature,and would want it on permanently! | |
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pmwww | | Re: Merge Accounts (2nd Jan 08 at 1:35am UTC) | | I reckon 3 options: Permanently on.. merge once... permanently off.
Read up. | |
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pmvForum | | Re: Merge Accounts (2nd Jan 08 at 1:38am UTC) | | | Damn it... I should read better! >.> | |
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pm | | Re: Merge Accounts (2nd Jan 08 at 1:42am UTC) | | That would make life much easier. Add it Ross
Wait, wtf, some loser actually made a site called blah. Who would do such a childish thing? *runs away* | |
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pmmsnxfire | | Re: Merge Accounts (2nd Jan 08 at 1:44am UTC) | | this sounds like an amazing idea would take a hell of alot of coding though tbh.
and to transfer data from one website to another is pretty hard. | |
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pmvForum | | Re: Merge Accounts (2nd Jan 08 at 1:46am UTC) | | this sounds like an amazing idea would take a shit load of coding though tbh. and to transfer data from one website to another is pretty hard.
Doubt it is... just copying a row in a database to another table in the database... (or something like that! ) | |
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pmwww | | Re: Merge Accounts (2nd Jan 08 at 1:46am UTC) | | Seriously guys, why the need for swearing?
Also gray, I hope you know that's a waste of database space...plus it's kinda rude.  | |
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pm | | Re: Merge Accounts (2nd Jan 08 at 1:50am UTC) | | meh, you are right. Deleted it. Surprised I got the confirmation code right in order to delete it.
Swearing is cool I guess if you aren't insulting members, but on a support site like this, I agree with crow. Leave it at home xD. We need to be professional | |
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pmmsnxfire | | Re: Merge Accounts (2nd Jan 08 at 1:58am UTC) | | | Sorry about that cr0w your right | |
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