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The Transferable Community

An observant blogger noticed today that allowing users to change their Url and Name at will could be damaging to the community's members.  In essence, communities could rack up thousands of members on one topic, and then the community owner could switch over to a completely different url and name and hood-wink their current members into effectively joining a new community they had no interest in joining.

We've discussed this in house, and we'd like your take on it.  My first thought is that allowing people to change their Url and Name is important, and we'd like to keep it for users who move from one blog platform to another.  However, we have to find a way to protect the members of that community from finding out later that the site they joined to learn about horticulture is now a joke site.

We considered sending a community message to members of your community automatically when you change your url or name.  What are your thoughts on this?  Don't you deserve to know when your favorite mommy blog becomes a political blog?  Should any user be able to go from a photo blog to a med shop and retain their users?

Our observant blogger suggested something less invasive, just warning a
community that any changes to name/url are monitored and that you will
not be allowed to reinvent your community, at the expense of your
community members. This one sounds good too, we just need your help deciding how best to respond to this.  Any suggestions are appreciated.