I think we should be able to change our screen names

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Posted: 7/5/2012 12:42:09 PM EDT

Hear me out, only one name change allowed per account and the previous name would still show up in a locked portion of the users info as AKA and would also show up next to all feedback in the EE along with the new name. The previous name would also be displayed in each users post similar to the "title" box.

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Posted: 7/5/2012 12:42:59 PM EDT

[#1]

Now this is a thread that's going places!

Posted: 7/5/2012 12:43:00 PM EDT

[#2]

I second the motion .

Better yet , how about we're allowed to do it with a donation of 'X' to the Wounded Warriors ?

Posted: 7/5/2012 12:43:52 PM EDT

[#3]

I think we should be able to ignore mods and advertisers outside of their forums.

Posted: 7/5/2012 12:44:34 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:

Hear me out, only one name change allowed per account and the previous name would still show up in a locked portion of the users info as AKA and would also show up next to all feedback in the EE along with the new name. The previous name would also be displayed in each users post similar to the "title" box.

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Why not one name change per every 10k posts? Or even better when a person gets approved for a new account, GD gets to vote on the new guy's user name.

Posted: 7/5/2012 12:45:02 PM EDT

[#5]

No. We should focus our resources on getting poop threads allowed. I have documented and documented for this glorious day to come some day.

Posted: 7/5/2012 12:45:35 PM EDT

[#6]

Could be worse. You could have signed up as tooly.

Posted: 7/5/2012 12:45:54 PM EDT

[#7]

I would like to change mine to Arock

Posted: 7/5/2012 12:46:29 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:

Could be worse. You could have signed up as tooly.

Posted: 7/5/2012 12:47:00 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
I second the motion .

Better yet , how about we're allowed to do it with a donation of 'X' to the Wounded Warriors ?

That's probably the best idea I've read here in at least a month.

Posted: 7/5/2012 12:47:05 PM EDT

[#10]

What's with the name changed threads?

Posted: 7/5/2012 12:48:18 PM EDT

[#11]

Id love to change my name, to one I use with all the other forums I use. Not sure why I didnt use it for this one.

Posted: 7/5/2012 12:48:31 PM EDT

[#12]

Offer the Avila's a billion for the site. I'm sure they'll take it. Then you can do whatever you please.

Posted: 7/5/2012 12:48:34 PM EDT

[#13]

Site suggestions go here

IBTL

Posted: 7/5/2012 12:49:13 PM EDT

[#14]

Terrible idea, and any member that does it is deceitful.

Posted: 7/5/2012 12:49:22 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
Could be worse. You could have signed up as tooly.

Posted: 7/5/2012 12:49:33 PM EDT

[#16]

Everyone should be required to use their full legal names.

Posted: 7/5/2012 12:49:43 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:

Or even better when a person gets approved for a new account, GD gets to vote on the new guy's user name.

Now that's a stroke of genius. Can you imagine what an outsider randomly browsing the site would think when reading all the ridiculous user names?

Posted: 7/5/2012 12:49:46 PM EDT

[#18]

They are all afraid "the man" knows who they are now. Their OPSEC was blown. I have said too much...

Posted: 7/5/2012 12:52:37 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
Terrible idea, and any member that does it is deceitful.

How long since you took your mask off ?

Posted: 7/5/2012 12:53:19 PM EDT

[#20]

One situation where I believe a member should have been allowed to change his name, was when a guy signed up and started posting under the name "guanoholic" or something close. Someone asked him about his name and he said (paraphrased, because it was quite awhile ago): "It was supposed to be Gunaholic, but my typing sucks. So now people think I'm addicted to bat shit. This should have taught me to use Spell Check, but I still don't."

I laughed pretty hard and had it for a sig for awhile.

Posted: 7/5/2012 12:56:05 PM EDT

[#21]

I'm all for letting GD pick the new name by mass vote but what will we do when everyones name is purple pony fart and a number

Posted: 7/5/2012 12:57:53 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
One situation where I believe a member should have been allowed to change his name, was when a guy signed up and started posting under the name "guanoholic" or something close. Someone asked him about his name and he said (paraphrased, because it was quite awhile ago): "It was supposed to be Gunaholic, but my typing sucks. So now people think I'm addicted to bat shit. This should have taught me to use Spell Check, but I still don't."

I laughed pretty hard and had it for a sig for awhile.

Dude's still around with that same horrible name. He should be able to change it but I'd keep it, that shit is funny epic fail

Posted: 7/5/2012 12:57:55 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
Id love to change my name, to one I use with all the other forums I use. Not sure why I didnt use it for this one.

That's what I managed to do.

Posted: 7/5/2012 12:59:27 PM EDT

[#24]

Maybe we could have different names for different seasons.

In the winter time I would like to be called "snowman".

Posted: 7/5/2012 1:01:58 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
Id love to change my name, to one I use with all the other forums I use. Not sure why I didnt use it for this one.

Posted: 7/5/2012 1:06:24 PM EDT

[#26]

Unless I'm totally mistaken, the board software here used to allow you to change your nickname. I know I didn't start using this nickname until a couple years after I registered.

What I'd enjoy is having to pay to set your avatar, and be able to pay to set other people's avatars, anonymously. I'm a member on another board that does this and it's great for trolling purposes.

Posted: 7/5/2012 1:18:40 PM EDT

[#27]

I vote for random 28 character usernames generated upon registration. Such as: 885wt8g2v8653991w4966i5rpwd4

Free will and imagination are horribly overrated. :)

Posted: 7/5/2012 1:20:38 PM EDT

[#28]

Can I just get the post count and join date from my old screen name added to this one?

Thanks

Posted: 7/5/2012 1:32:13 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
Maybe we could have different names for different seasons.

In the winter time I would like to be called "snowman".

I'd appreciate it if at night my avatar donned a cap and my username changed to WTF_man.

Is this something Goatboy is working on?

Posted: 7/5/2012 1:32:20 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:

Quoted:
One situation where I believe a member should have been allowed to change his name, was when a guy signed up and started posting under the name "guanoholic" or something close. Someone asked him about his name and he said (paraphrased, because it was quite awhile ago): "It was supposed to be Gunaholic, but my typing sucks. So now people think I'm addicted to bat shit. This should have taught me to use Spell Check, but I still don't."

I laughed pretty hard and had it for a sig for awhile.

Dude's still around with that same horrible name. He should be able to change it but I'd keep it, that shit is funny epic fail

Thank God my coffee cup was empty. LMAO!

Posted: 7/5/2012 1:34:01 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
Could be worse. You could have signed up as tooly.

Posted: 7/5/2012 1:37:45 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:

I'm all for letting GD pick the new name by mass vote but what will we do when everyones name is purple pony fart and a number

Aw damn man, now I want to change my username to that.....

Posted: 7/5/2012 1:41:26 PM EDT

[#33]

I believe that

ANARCHY SHOULD BE THE NEW RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FREEEEDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!

Posted: 7/5/2012 1:44:27 PM EDT

[#34]

Not that anyone gives a shit about my opinion, but I think the only people who should be able to change their usernames and carry over their join date and post count are military personnel. If "So-and-So_E6" gets promoted, he or she should be able to change their name to "So-and-So_E7" if they ask site staff.

Aside from that, it's an Internet forum. Next time choose wisely, or get over it. If you're so wrapped around the axle about your username in a virtual world, then it's probably time to log out and go outside anyway.

If site staff wants to reset my post count to -87, make my join date yesterday, and change my name to CJan_Idiot_Savant they are welcome to. The content of my contribution is what's important here-not my name or my stats.

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Posted: 7/5/2012 1:51:42 PM EDT

[#35]

I think we should all have ranks assigned to the front of our screen names based on the number of posts we have. I figure that'd make me an NCO or something.

And we should be able to like or plus one users posts so everyone has a little meter bounces around in the red or green on a running thirty day average that shows how liked or unliked they are by the rest of us.

Posted: 7/5/2012 1:54:03 PM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
I think we should all have ranks assigned to the front of our screen names based on the number of posts we have. I figure that'd make me an NCO or something.

And we should be able to like or plus one users posts so everyone has a little meter bounces around in the red or green on a running thirty day average that shows how liked or unliked they are by the rest of us.

Iboats does that. From cadet (1-10 posts) to admiral (over 10K posts?) or something like that

Posted: 7/5/2012 1:59:07 PM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:

Quoted:

I think we should all have ranks assigned to the front of our screen names based on the number of posts we have. I figure that'd make me an NCO or something.

And we should be able to like or plus one users posts so everyone has a little meter bounces around in the red or green on a running thirty day average that shows how liked or unliked they are by the rest of us.

Iboats does that. From cadet (1-10 posts) to admiral (over 10K posts?) or something like that

It would be more true to nature if they all started as semen and grew from there....

Posted: 7/5/2012 2:02:21 PM EDT

[#38]

So, is Arock taken?

Posted: 7/5/2012 2:03:41 PM EDT

[#39]

Running from the law?

Posted: 7/5/2012 2:06:45 PM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:
I think we should be able to ignore mods and advertisers outside of their forums.

Aye

Posted: 7/5/2012 2:07:38 PM EDT

[#41]

Here we go again....

Posted: 7/5/2012 2:08:19 PM EDT

[#42]

I think we should be able to change our screen names

there ya go thinin again.....

Posted: 7/5/2012 2:08:24 PM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:

No. We should focus our resources on getting poop threads allowed. I have documented and documented for this glorious day to come some day.

I mentioned having a 24 hour poop thread hoedown once, bu t it didn't go too far. Probably got me on The List for even suggesting it. You're probably on it now too. Welcome aboard the poop list.

Posted: 7/5/2012 2:08:35 PM EDT

[#44]

I stopped reading at "Hear."

Posted: 7/5/2012 2:10:23 PM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:
Hear me out, only one name change allowed per account

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I agree. I would change your username to cant_follow_directions

Posted: 7/5/2012 2:13:15 PM EDT

[#46]

Can I take Tekka....... doesn't seem to be used anymore.

Posted: 7/5/2012 2:23:35 PM EDT

[#47]

Without being out of line, couldn't you put your new site name in your Changed Avatar and then go on with your life? However you put a name on an avatar is beyond me.

Posted: 7/5/2012 2:24:47 PM EDT

[#48]

I blame Zhukovs recent thread on "how to be famous on ARFCOM" for this swell of name regret.

Posted: 7/5/2012 2:25:52 PM EDT

[#49]

Quoted:

Can I take Tekka....... doesn't seem to be used anymore.

Tekka never came back?

Posted: 7/5/2012 2:34:29 PM EDT

[#50]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Or even better when a person gets approved for a new account, GD gets to vote on the new guy's user name.

Now that's a stroke of genius. Can you imagine what an outsider randomly browsing the site would think when reading all the ridiculous user names?

This guy gives out good names.

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