Topic awaiting preservation: Change my User Name

Hi there, how do I change my user name?

I believe, the only way to do it without involving the Mad Scis, is to simply re-register under a new name...


Cell 617

:FAQ: Can you change my username?

And there's your answer, Karl. There's really only one person who can go and do it, and we haven't heard from him in a while. Add to that the fact that it's simply just alot of work to do it, means we'd prefer that if someone wants to change their username, they simply re-register

Justice 4 Pat Richard

...besides, nobody knows who you are now anyway..

*snicker*

I just re-reg(ed), but I only did it with the knowledge that it wasn't too confusing for everyone as I am using a similar name.

:::tao::: ::cell::

Another great and smart idea is to use a new name with a hint of the old one, for instance, you re-register as Wuthering_Heights_afka_Karl, for instance, so we know that you were Karl, and after some months, you can re-re-register as Wuthering_Heights_no_need_for_afka_anymore, and finally, some more months past, you get finally to the Wuthering_Heights nickname, by re-re-re-registering. You can add some more intermediate steps if you think you need more for the transition.
Isn't it a wonderful idea?

afka = also formerly known as

but what if his name is "afka" ??? then where would he be when he registered.

hmm?


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Karl: (and anyone else interested in chanign their names): If you wait until we have the New Asylum this should be easier to do.

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Emps

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I want to change my name because, in French, 'viol' is a hell of a bad name.

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Karl: (and anyone else interested in chanign their names): If you wait until we have the New Asylum this should be easier to do

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Sorry, what? Come in again? Like hell it will be easier to change a username retroactivly.

Tyberius Prime

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Sorry, what? Come in again? Like hell it will be easier to change a username retroactivly.

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Ahhhhhhhh well thats me told then - I had assumed the wonders of relational databases would have made this fairly straightforward but clearly not.

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Skaarjj:

And there's your answer, Karl. There's really only one person who can go and do it, and we haven't heard from him in a while. Add to that the fact that it's simply just alot of work to do it, means we'd prefer that if someone wants to change their username, they simply re-register

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sorry. but if he do this then it would just take up space on the membership list, wouldn't it?

Karl:

There's no point of changing your username to another 'cos it will not just take up time but you will also just confuse people in here, just as the people above me said.

Deviations

Yannah: And? The average user account (and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here) on this board is less than 10 bytes in size...even with 5000 of them that's less than 5Kb of data for the entire user database. We count this as alot more desirable than putting in the work to change every record of Karl's name to whatever his new name is going to be.

Justice 4 Pat Richard

Even so, what's the use of the other username not being used?

Deviations

What's the problem in re-registering?
Your post count?
Are you here because of it?
Anyway, it doesn't mean much, specially when most of it were useless.

What? NO!
I actually think that postcount is useless aswell.
I'm just concious with the space getting used up by useless re-registering.

Deviations

So what I am gathering here is that I should jump in and reserve a bunch of names, just incase I want to use them in the future. I mean, what if I want to use Super Spud and find out that it was registered 3 years ago, even though it was never used....

Super spud could be lost to me forever!!!!!!!

Jason

On the other hand, if Karl changes his name to Doug, and Steve changes his name to Karl... Who would be the real Karl?

What we need are bar codes.... Forget the names...

I think that the MadSci's could assemble a Grand Ozone Jury for deciding on nicknames when there is a dispute. So, if you are known as "badass" amongst your clan, and some other guy comes first and takes this nick, than you file a formal complaint to the Grand Ozone Jury, bringing proofs that you're nick was cyberjacked, and the Grand Ozone Jury will decide.

... and the grand jury will decide. That you're an annoying little bugger, that is, probably.

Note: Please note that I didn't say it was easier to change a username in the grail. Nor did I say it's more difficult. But it set's bad precedent, and the guys where the importer can not make the link from their username to their cell, because, their username doesn't exist in the database anymore, quite frankly annoy me.

Ahhhhhhh but Mr Prime people are going to be doing this anyway by registering new names) whether we make it easier for them to do this. At least having a solution where we can change people's names means we don't get the confusing istuation of some inmates having various different accounts over time

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Emps

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I think it more confusing to click on a name, and get to a cell that apperantly belongs to some one else.
Reregister, if you want a new name. Write that in the contact details of your old account, if you want. But changing names of existing accounts is a can of worms which I don't want to open up.

I'm thinking of changing my username to: Karlos

I'm thinking of changing my username to Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern -schplenden -schlitter -crasscrenbon -fried -digger -dangle -dungle -burstein -von -knacker -thrasher -apple -banger -horowitz -ticolensic -grander -knotty -spelltinkle -grandlich -grumblemeyer -spelterwasser -kürstlich -himbleeisen -bahnwagen -gutenabend -bitte -eine -nürnburger -bratwustle -gerspurten -mit -zweimache -luber -hundsfut -gumberaber -shönendanker -kalbsfleisch -mittler -raucher von Hautkopft of Ulm.

RN3 - can you just give us the acronym for that one? We'd wear ourselves out typing it...

how about simply: Shmuck, The Fourth


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And what if we all changed our names to an un-pronouncable symbol? Or perhaps to a sound with no known visual interpretation.......

Sneaks in and places the Worm Can Opener where TP will find it

:::tao::: ::cell::

I always wanted to be a MadSci...

^ Can't believe no one ever thought of that one before...


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I can't believe it either !

Yeah... not too many inmates from Brazil...

Or with the same IP address

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Emps

The Emperor dot org

I regret not thinking before registering here with my username.

Deviations

Re-register, make a nice sig telling "I'm Yannah", after a while, no need for sig anymore.
Take Tao as an example (although his change didn't need a sig - he just grew up a bit)

Damn you, Mad Scientist!

Hehe, you should've just taken Lunatic instead of Psychotic.

Deviations

I think Lunatic is already taken. I remember not long ago someone showed up here with a nick that was also a ranking name. That was the first time I saw the idea. And that was when I thought: "smart ass this guy".
BTW, Psychotics are above Lunatics in the ranking here.

"what if" there were a inmate named Finglongers? would the MadSci's long to be with him/her/it?

hehe - i'll not jump on this bandwagon

go fart

edit: how long before takes the bait?

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Hmm...about that long

That was mighty !!

Another cool name would be "The Boss".

Soon, people will start doing like the cyberpirates have always been done with domain names. Sign for a lot of "cool" usernames, wait for someone to want one of them, and then try to take money from the poor fellow.
BTW, it there anyone interested in the coolest username you can have here?

No, thanks, 'viol' is well... Quite a special word in French

I like my name. It's kind of dumb.

Shine and shine. :: [Cell=992] :: [See my team's 30 second animation]

I am also amazed that no one ever made themself Mad Scientist. Damn both of you! Psychotic and madsci.. graar.

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Quite a special word in French

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Yep, I'm aware. I personally don't care, but my wife, that "inherited" my family name by marrying me, and sometimes make trips to Canada and France, was not really happy when she found that out (luckily, it happened after she had married me )

But I was not talking about this username, that's not on sale, no way, I was talking about another one, "the" greatest, "the" bestest, "the" mightyest of all.

umm... you think you could enlighten the other 95% of us that DO NOT speak french as to what 'viol' means?

and on the name-changing note: wouldnt it be cool if we ALL picked new usernames and then tried to figure out who's who judging from what they post ? : )

ya... unfortunately the name 'God' was already taken. by viol I'm guessing : )

yeah, I was gonna do the 'Psychotic' thing when the madsci show'd up, but I decided against it...


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Deus = God in Portuguese.

It's used in Brazil to refer to God as God is used here, in the USA, to refer to, well, God, whatever God be.

And if you want to know what 'viol' means in French, look no further than here: http://21st-century-home.co.uk/dvd/dvd.pl/item-B00005OCV4/shop.htm

On the other hand, in English, it's a musical instrument, that the Italians call "Viola da Gamba".
You can find "Viol" as a family name mostly in Germany but also in Italy and I guess in Austria also. In Brazil it's very rare (I guess that it's also rare in those countries). There is also at least one guy, named "André Viol", exactly like me (well, I actually have one more middle name and one more family name), in France and in Germany.

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Soon, people will start doing like the cyberpirates have always been done with domain names. Sign for a lot of "cool" usernames, wait for someone to want one of them, and then try to take money from the poor fellow.

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That reminds me... Gmail's coming out soon... and I've never actually witnessed the rollout of such a huge email service... and when it does come out, there'll be a lot of usernames available... and, well...

Hmmmm..... this could become very silly now

And no one thought of that one either?

Le Viol Du Ozone Asylum......

Seems kinda fitting....

Jason

edit for slimies....

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No cheating and matching Ip addresses

**oh god i know i am going to get flamed here**

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I've never actually witnessed the rollout of such a huge email service

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In Brazil, we have iG, a now famous Internet portal, that gives free email service. I was lucky to sign up in the very beginning and I got the address av @ ig.com.br, that I like a lot.

Later, some of the features in the portal, that required an email, from the iG portal itself, to be accessed, started to refuse my email, saying that it was invalid, too short !! I had to send more than once email to the support telling them "hey, I've got an email from you with just two letters, and it's real, it's mine, you gave me !!"

Then, after a while, they fixed the problem.
The dark side is that because it has only two letters, spammers find it too easily and today I'm being targeted by spammers, in that address, with more than 20-30 spam messages a day. Sooner, I'll have to give it up.

According to this article, Gmail usernames are restricted to between 6-30 characters. Oh, well.

I've noticed that, with the Grail, the ability to change one's name is now available. I'm coughing up whether I should change my name to Rameses, or just RNIII. The only problem with this new function is, with the majority of newies making use of the novelty, we'll barely be able to keep track of who's who.

My two cents.

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Rameses Niblik the Third said:

I've noticed that, with the Grail, the ability to change one's name is now available. [...]

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What in bogs name are you talking about?

TP, there's the option in the Edit Profile bit to change the name.

(Edited by Rameses Niblik the Third on 04-12-2004 05:58)

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Rameses Niblik the Third said:

TP, there's the option in the Edit Profile bit to change the name.

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No, that's authentication.

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Shh, you're making me look bad.

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BTW, Psychotics are above Lunatics in the ranking here.

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oh. My bad...I didn't know...'cos all I can see are Neurotic, Lunatic and Mad Sci.

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maybe ->our ranking system would make a good read.