Usernames always change to reflect the current color of a user, why?

Wouldn't it be cool if the color at the time that a user makes a post would stay permanent instead of always changing to reflect what their current username color is?

Here's an example:

Let's say that I choose to make my username orange in color. I then post a comment (or comments) while my username's color is orange. The next day I decide to change my username to blue. No matter what comments I decide to make in my current (blue) state, the comments that I made before would still reflect that I was orange at the time that I posted the comment(s).

Why or why would you not like it to be this way?

I have unopened mail you guys O_O 4
Like, real mail, not the digital crap. 0
I am wondering why my electric bill hasn't come in yet. 0
Audioslave can be very winey and depressing sometimes... 2
Totally had pizza for lunch. 0
Totally deserved to have pizza for lunch. 5
No, fuck you, I did too dammit! 2
Work is tomorrow. 1
I was recommended a movie today. I forgot the name already. 0
I should really fold those clothes over there... 2
Nah, they can be put off a little longer. 0
Hmm, I wonder what my old phone will sell for on Ebay. 3
Consumer reports is a good magazine. 0
Backpacks. Yes, backpacks. 5
Why are all the cool ladies taken or have kids already? 2
Seriously, I met this lady at a laundrymat today 0
She was cool as fuck, but of course she had kids and stuff and was abo 0
ut 11 years older than I am. 1
I'm not ready to take on kids. 2
I'm still just a kid myself sometimes. 2
Why are you still reading these? 0
As you can clearly see, they have nothing to do with the poll... 0
Just innocent ramblings of a wandering mind... 1
Really. You should stop now. It's getting embarrasing. 1
Seriously??? 3
Ok, so now you think it's entertaining? 2
I am just here for your entertainment, is that it? 3
How can you live with yourself, knowing that you just use me like that 2
-break- 5
Okay, let's see what else I can come up with. 0
I wonder if this will get approved. 2
It was a legit poll, I don't even know why I'd try and sabotage it. 4
Sabatoge. That's a good word. Desolate is a good word too. 5
Destitute. That one's also a good word. Strong, meaningful, powerful. 0
Yes, I am aware that "destitute" was in the title of a post today. 0
I wonder how many poll choices can actually be put on here. 1
I mean, surely there is a limit, right? 0
How many choices is too many? 2
What is the current record for poll choices? 1
Just so you know, I'm probably not going to break it. 0
That would take too much time. 1
All this has already taken too much time. 2
I better stop typing now... 1
I kept typing some. 11
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Comments ( 58 )
  • dirtybirdy

    I...I think i love you.

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  • charli.m

    I voted "I kept typing some" :D

    Oh and I think I like you :P that was fun.

    I've fogotten what the question was, so I'm gonna say lime.

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    • Thanks, I am glad you enjoyed it.

      To be honest, I wasn't quite sure how the community was going to take this poll...

      Oh, and lime will do. I heard it goes good with lemon too though ^_^

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      • 1000yrVampireKing

        That would be really cool.

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  • howaminotmyself

    I deserve to have pizza made for me. Homemade, from scratch, and leave out that damn cornmeal. Thank you.

    But to answer the question...

    I would like the colors to stay the same color I was when I posted the comment. This way I could color code my comments and define them in my profile. Then if people saw my comment was in pink, for example, you would know I was being sarcastic. Red might mean I was cranky that day and green may be standard mood. And black means I am clearly not myself.

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    • MissyLeyneous

      I agree, fuck cornmeal in pizza dough. Roll some string cheese sticks up in that bitchin' crust and DEEP DISH that suckah!! xD

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      • Hell yes!

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    • Pizza has cornmeal in it? I would have never known.

      Your color-coding comments idea is ingenious by the way; I hadn't even considered that!

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  • TheManagement
    STAFF

    Feedback on this one seems to be mixed. I think things are going to stay the way they are...

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    • Fuck the Police
      Fuck the Establishment
      Fuck the Management
      Jesus is cool I guess. Haven't found him yet hes really good at hiding. There he is. Oh wait no that's my penis.

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    • Avant-Garde

      Yay!

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    • Okay. Thank you for considering!

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  • kingofcarrotflowers

    desolate is a good word. so is juxtaposition. love that word

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    • Very nice, very nice indeed :)

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  • NeuroNeptunian

    I'm still just a kid myself sometimes =/ I don't know how girls my age do it, having kids, I mean. I mean, I pay bills, I have a job, a car, handle all of my business and the like. I do adult things. I just don't feel like an adult and definitely not adult enough to have kids.

    And dude, I have jury duty next month. Jury duty. That's pretty adult, yet I still feel like a kid. And I'll be in my work uniform when I go there because I'll have just gotten off work. That SCREAMS adult. Yet here I am... here I am...

    Oh wait, your question. Yeah. I don't pay any sort of attention to this kind of stuff.

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    • shuggy-chan

      I've never had jury duty yet, haha

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  • MissyLeyneous

    Stop reminding me about my gog damn laundry!!! I KNOW I still have to do it, I mean it's right over THERE!! I just... I just haven't gotten around to it yet... Because I'm busy, yeah, real busy. So stop bugging me about it!!!

    Sheesh. Some people. :P

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    • I bet you really did have laundry to do too, didn't you?

      XD

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      • MissyLeyneous

        I STILL do... :P I just, I HATE folding laundry. :(

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        • Me too...

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  • bananaface

    Hahaha, I love your poll options. I agree with you, the colour thing would be cool.

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    • shuggy-chan

      Yeah, I've thought this too, but then again I've only had two colors

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      • What was your other color? I thought you were always blue.

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        • shuggy-chan

          grey and blue

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  • NothingxCrazy

    You are quite entertaining and I love this poll with all of my heart.

    I do think it would be awesome if the color of the username stayed after posting the comment. I have actually been thinking about this for some time now; I think since dappled started his rainbow across IIN.

    I might even consider changing my color for the first time since I joined IIN if this actually happens. Well, maybe not.. that takes a lot more effort than I'm willing to agree with.

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    • Aw, thank you for that compliment. You are sweet :)

      I think having it this way would add a sort of history aspect to peoples' usernames on here, and personally, I would like that.

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      • NothingxCrazy

        I would as well!

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  • Terence_the_viking

    You are awesomely starange i like it.

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    • Thank you LtDan :)

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  • 8before7

    If thats your biggest hangup in life.

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  • Avant-Garde

    Its an interesting idea, but I like things the way they are now.

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  • myweirdself16

    I think it would be cool if the colors didn't change.

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  • Elli

    I think I love you!

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    • Don't think too hard or you might change your mind :)

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      • Elli

        I like to joke around X D

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  • myownopinions

    I wonder what would've happened if you "accidentally" randomized your poll options.

    Knowing me, I probably would have tried to put them in order (you know, if it still got approved).

    Anywyas, back to the original question. *Ahem* It really doesn't concern me since I have always, and probably will always, be purple.

    Oh, and I'm betting that the highest number of poll options is probably a "where do you live (in the U.S.)" question (i.e. 50 choices). Though, there probably is some poll out there that beats that number. By the way, you only have 44 options.

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    • I'm not sure if it would've been as funny if the poll options had been randomized.

      Thank you for counting my poll options!

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  • dodongos

    This is the best post ever.

    On that note, I think I'm clinically depressed.

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    • Sorry about your depression...

      On a different note, your username reminds me of Zelda :)

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      • dodongos

        :D

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  • SkullsNBones

    WHy are all the cool ladies taken or have kids? Maybe they're not, they just say they are as they don't want to talk to someone who still says 'cool'.

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    • Oh, you are so NOT cool. I'm definitely not inviting you to the party...

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  • Littlebadgirl

    I just want to see what color I have.

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  • dappled

    I love your poll options and I love that we have creative minds on IIN. I love that the moderators had a sense of humour about it too.

    As for the colour stuff, when I change my colour, my old colour stays my older comments until I reply to something in the same story. Although it doesn't stay forever and eventually my new colour spreads through all my posts. I always meant to ask TheManagement about this because it seemed odd to me (I'd expect all posts of the current colour, or all posts to stay the colour at the time of posting, not a kind of halfway house). I don't have any preference, though, and don't mind it however it works.

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    • TheManagement
      STAFF

      For performance reasons, we keep recently accessed content in memory, where it's faster to access but might not be 100% up to date. This includes comments and the username colors.

      After some period of time, the in-memory cache expires and the most current color is fetched from the database the next time the comment is displayed.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_%28computing%29

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      • cigs

        So you don't clear the cache.

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        • dappled

          I think it was that the cache is only cleared periodically. A read from memory used to be about a thousand times faster than a read from disk (not sure about comparisons now solid state disks are becoming more common) so you'd only go back to the disk version periodically to refresh the cache, or a write to disk would also update the copy in the cache (if there is one).

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          • cigs

            Im not sure if there is one but i usually would just clear it.

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            • dappled

              But if it affects the server performance to the point of bringing the site down?

              It's kind of necessary these days. Database servers do it too and generally want loads of memory to keep commonly accessed data in, rather than go back to the disk each time. They even cache things like execution plans (which is where a server works out the most efficient way to query the data and then remembers the 'working out' for next time).

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      • iin2want2know

        Ahh I see said the blind man. Makes perfect sense :-)

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      • dappled

        Aha! It never even crossed my mind that it was being cached. Makes perfect sense now! Thank you!

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    • Thank you Dappled :)

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      • dappled

        Ahh, you're welcome! The poll options were funny. :)

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