Thread: Account username change

There needs to be a procedure put in place to change the username on SRP member accounts.

I originally signed up on this forum in March 2007 with the username 'pete_bogg'.

In January 2008, I tired of using 'pete_bogg' as the username of my SRP account, and requested that it be changed to '60CycleHum'. The request was denied. I decided that since my account's username would not be changed, I would create a new SRP account. I assigned the password of the 'pete_bogg' account to a newly created e-mail account, and created a new SRP account with the username '60CycleHum'.

Friday, I decided I didn't want to use '60CycleHum' any more, and didn't want to get another username change request denied, so I created a new SRP account with the username 'Vardeman Sneed'.

Long story short --> I currently have three active SRP usernames: pete_bogg, 60CycleHum, and Vardeman Sneed.

It would have been easier to just change my original account's username.

The owners of other forums that I frequent prefer that the member change their account's username, rather than create a new account. It seems that here, this is not the case.

We need to have some procedure to be able to change the username of SRP member's account.

Bob

How about Fickel for the next one? Why all the changes? Any particular reason that you need to keep the troops loose?

Please understand that user names are not meant to be changed on a whim.
Members get to know each other by their usernames.
It would be pretty confusing, if not downright annoying if people kept changes their usernames.

Change your title or your sig line if you need to change something.

Btw, if I am not mistaken there is a rule against registering multiple times and having different active accounts.

Originally Posted by Vardeman Sneed

There needs to be a procedure put in place to change the username on SRP member accounts.

I have to agree with Bruce and Bruno; we don't need a procedure to change usernames, people changing their avatars is confusing enough.

Why not just think up a username you can live with for a while?

Originally Posted by Bruce

How about Fickel for the next one? Why all the changes? Any particular reason that you need to keep the troops loose?

Ha!

Originally Posted by Bruno

Please understand that user names are not meant to be changed on a whim.
Members get to know each other by their usernames.
It would be pretty confusing, if not downright annoying if people kept changes their usernames.

Change your title or your sig line if you need to change something.

Btw, if I am not mistaken there is a rule against registering multiple times and having different active accounts.

What he said, why on earth do you need 3 accounts?

Originally Posted by Padron

What he said, why on earth do you need 3 accounts?

I don't. That's the point.

I would have been happy just changing my username.

Let me ask the question another way. Why should we establish your "third" account. Why don't we just wait for the next change.

Originally Posted by AFDavis11

Let me ask the question another way. Why should we establish your "third" account. Why don't we just wait for the next change.

How about just 'killing' the two older accounts?

Most of my posts as 'pete_bogg' were lost in the great database crash anyway, and I only have 8 posts as '60CycleHum'.

Or, merge all my posts into one account with the username 'Vardeman Sneed'.

Deleting the accounts is impossible, as it would require deleting your posts, and this would unravel early discussions.

Disabling the accounts would leave us with a board full of banned user, not to mention an explosion in the number of accounts.

And changing names will unravel the board / community over the long term.

I want to send a PM to foo but I cannot find him anymore...
Ah but now he is bar, try sending a PM to him...
No that was yesterday. Now he is named 'furby'

This simply does not work, and while it may be fun for the individual, it has only negative consequences for the community. Being a member of the community also means that you have to care about the wellbeing of the community, and not just your own community experience.