This is true, however, I do have a suggestion that is somewhat related... bear with me.
On LJ, if you make comments in various places on the site (friend's lists, communities, etc.) and you change your username (which I presume will be possible here as well) all those comments will show the new username. In the event that you have someone who is an unwelcomed visitor to your journal or are being harassed and you try to change your name to avoid further conflict, they can simply find you via comments.
It is true, of course, that you can just create a new journal, but many times people do not wish to do this, nor do they want to lock all their entries. It would be great if you could choose when changing your name whether you want all comments across the site to reflect the new name or not. Or - another possibility - would be a "delete all comments" feature which allows a user to delete all the comments they've made on the site, all at once. Doing so before changing their name would prevent people from being able to connect the two via those comments. Keeping in mind that I know absolutely nothing about code, so my suggestions may be a lot of work or not even possible.
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On LJ, if you make comments in various places on the site (friend's lists, communities, etc.) and you change your username (which I presume will be possible here as well) all those comments will show the new username. In the event that you have someone who is an unwelcomed visitor to your journal or are being harassed and you try to change your name to avoid further conflict, they can simply find you via comments.
It is true, of course, that you can just create a new journal, but many times people do not wish to do this, nor do they want to lock all their entries. It would be great if you could choose when changing your name whether you want all comments across the site to reflect the new name or not. Or - another possibility - would be a "delete all comments" feature which allows a user to delete all the comments they've made on the site, all at once. Doing so before changing their name would prevent people from being able to connect the two via those comments. Keeping in mind that I know absolutely nothing about code, so my suggestions may be a lot of work or not even possible.