I thought most bitcoiners were all about anonymity, security, and privacy? Seems to me that outing these users when they changed their usernames, would be an invasion of privacy. I'm sure each and every one of them had a reason to change their name correct?

Now with this thread, the name change was mostly worthless for most of the users who requested it. I see some arguing that the only way to get away from it completely would be to start all over. Well, that is of course an option, but then they lose their rank. That may or may not be important to everyone, but I know some of these guys earn money in signature campaigns so starting over may not have been an option unless they didn't mind losing the income.

Why grant the name change for these users if this was going to be the result?