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I have been a lurker here for a while but never very active. I am getting my first straight very soon and want to be much more active here. The only problem is that on all my other forums I go by a different username and I was hoping to make it more cohesive and change it here. Is there a way to do that? I would really appreciate it!
It is extremely rare to get the powers that be to change a username. In fact it can be a bit risky.
Since you are one post in it would be easier to just create a new user.
Just my $0.02
I would do that but I want to use the same email. I'm fine being deleted and starting over but how?
That's actually against the rules.Quote:
Originally Posted by KindestCutOfAll
Contact an admin & see what they say.
I actually would love to do the same thing. Not because I'm someone anywhere else but aa1192 is silly and impersonal. I guess just another major mistake at the start of my straight razor career... It's a long list let me tell you.
Since you only have two posts I can do it - let me know what you want your username to be. Once people have a lot of posts it is a different proposition because the change would create a lot of confusion as the screen name is the way people know you and the way you've established yourself in the community.
If there is a really good reason we could still do it but I think we've done that only three times in the whole history of SRP, and two of those were for site owners - back when we had a tenth of the current membership Lynn used to go by something completely different ;)
So, aa1192 seems to be out of luck on this one... sorry.
Lol like I said a long list.
You could always put your name at the bottom of the posts and it'll become more personal :)
Or modify your user title.
Just an idea.
More than likely will do something like that or sign the end if my posts. I'm so close to 100 posts I wanna try that new title for a bit. Thank you for the suggestions.
You know the big secret - you could change it to it even before you have 100 posts. Just watch out how far you push it, many years ago somebody decided to make a statement by changing his to Banned Member - we just made it official. Yeah, the good old days of big forum drama when some people thought the proper way of getting their latest whim is throwing a tantrum ;)
...Or make two more posts and watch the magic happen automatically :)
Already there. I wanna earn it; not that it is hard work( it's actually a lot of fun). I can't say I understand the whole forum drama thing. Go hit the buffers/hones/sanders/or whatever your project if you're that bored. I hit the forum when I'm not allowed to work in the shop. Gotta get my fix.
I like that - you do have to earn it.Quote:
Originally Posted by aa1192
Of course when you get to two thousand posts, you are going to definitely want to think about the change :). If you ever see a guy with senior member status and a little animation of a yapping head... you'll know why lol!!
As for the screen name aa1192, I have to admit that I am a visual guy. Hence your screen name means little to me (that said there was a thread asking why you picked it - that was fun). It takes me a long time to get to the point where I look/remember a screen name, your avatar though... It kills me when guys change theirs lol.
Put your new name in your sig or the line above the avatar. That will help, I think as long as its not a completely foreign name(anything other than your first and/or last name) otherwise, obviuos confusion would result.
@gugi,
And I do recollect a recent thread spawning one of the most prolific threads on SRP of all time. :ziplip:
regards,
Simon :)
Could you please change mine to : Hirlau The Magnificent,,
and if that's already taken,,
then : Hirlau the Handsome :shrug:
Name suggestions for will require a thread all on its own. :deal: There's my list. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Hirlau
So Trogdor the Burninator was already taken? What a shame. ;)
Hirlau The Avon Guy works for me:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Hirlau
This is turning out to be a great day!
@Speedster,
Owned by Birnando already ;)
Wasn't it "Oh Highly Exalted Grand Poobah" ? .......... :rofl2:Quote:
Originally Posted by gugi
Sorry Lynn ........ couldn't resist ........ :aargh:
Hey, I thought you already changed your name....isn't there a Hee-ler-row or something like that now?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hirlau
Heelerau! You can't fool us!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hirlau
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Originally Posted by pixelfixed
Hirlau the Mischievous !? ......:angel:
+1 - or just shorten it to Loki :).Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightblade
But then he better change his avatar too, if we'll have his real name, we better be seeing his real face:Quote:
Originally Posted by earcutter
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Too damn funny....that is exactly what I was thinking about when I made that comment......ha ha tooooo funny !:roflmaoQuote:
Originally Posted by earcutter
I thought about it myself but I went through so many different names the night I joined & i came up with this one & it was available so it will remain engine46. It's just an identification to me, it doesn't mean anything else like some usernames do.
yup, it is discombobulating when avatars change, i noticed a few months back a heap of people changed theirs all at once, or at least in very close succession, i changed mine a few times at the start, but i think pat mcgoohan will be around for a while now.Quote:
Originally Posted by earcutter
No he got me to, heelrau lives about 20 mins up the road from me, not that i have met either of themQuote:
Originally Posted by WW243
Hey john, what about one of these:
Dopey,
Grumpy,
Sleepy,
Sneezy,
Bashful,
Grumpy,
Doc?
:)
You wrote Grumpy twice,,,,, trying to tell me something ??? ;)
No, and that means I missed an option, in a fit of irony I wrote Grumpy instead of happy :) in actual fact I was just a bit dopey, due to feeling sleepy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hirlau
