Change group names

I just gave my friend the group that has his UserId and it would be nice if he didn’t have to keep the original irrelevant name.

Separately from usernames, I don’t think it would be necessary to make the previous name unavailable to name a new group like how players can’t signup with a name someone else has had previously.

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We’ve already seen why this is a “no-no”.

I missed that meeting, but I can come up with a few abuse cases on that point. (change religious group name to radical atheist group, change war group to lgbt etc)

Still, I would like it.

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The reason this is a no-no was demonstrated with the NBC shirt makers group. The group owner appealed to allow him to change the name and it was granted to him, and he changed the name so that it competed against a number of country groups. The country groups were all up in arms because there was this new country group and it was the largest there ever was.

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There’s a search feature though

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20 posts were merged into an existing topic: Ability to change group name

http://devforum.roblox.com/t/really/14940/1

Maybe something that allows only devForum members to change their group names? Like maybe just once or something? Because I don’t really seeing anybody in devForum community exploiting it like what NBC shirt creators did.

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We have had users removed from the developer forums in the past, so it means our approval process isn’t perfect and there are those who would abuse the feature. More importantly, it would be bad to exclusivise features to only devforum members, especially since most group owners aren’t developers. You can read more about this here: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/developer-vanity-urls/47657/19