Welcome back @ TheBeardedBaby! I love the new avatar.
As other have said, Reputation is the gossip/drama section of the forum. I feel Reputation is the humanity of the forum. Everyone is so serious on the other boards as we should, we try our best to give accurate information to others. The dramas and events in Reputation makes the place lively.
Till now I have not really gotten the reason why Ratimov is now to Symmetrick. When my boss man The Sceptical Chymist changed his name it was made publicly and it took some months but it looks like Ratimov changed his name overnight. And he has not come up to inform us the reason.
No one knows the reason behind his decision. We can only make assumptions from the information we have. It’s not necessary for one to make a thread about a name change especially if that name change was made because of privacy reasons. If he’s trying to cut ties with his former persona, it wouldn’t make sense to create a new thread connecting his new id to the former.