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hi,

we are creating contribution forms that include an honoree section. in testing the behavior of honoree donations, we have found that when a donation is made where the honoree email matches an existing contact, that contact's name is reset to the name used by the donor. our constituents tend to use pseudonyms, and we are committed to not asking for or revealing links between legal identities and pseudonyms.


to summarize:

* person one becomes a member, contact is created under legal name
* person two makes a donation naming person one as honoree, using the same email but a different name
* contact record is automatically edited to the name that person two stipulated, overriding person one's preferences and revealing private information to our organization

is there a way to privilege the information given by an individual over the information given by the third party in this case? or to lock the contact information once it is first created to allow editing only by the organization, and not by donors? we would imagine this is also a problem when donors introduce typos into the spelling of their honoree's names.

thank you!

thanks for the response! it looks like we will disable honoree until we upgrade, as we weren't able to make it work in 2.1.