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  • How to change forum name?
  • holmes81
    Free Member

    As the title suggests, is there anyway I can do this?

    Ta

    Drac
    Full Member

    Nope.

    bruneep
    Full Member

    Just use your other login. That’s what everyone else does.

    holmes81
    Free Member

    Looks like I’ll just have this one then.

    bongohoohaa
    Free Member

    Some have had limited success with writing a new name on a bit of masking tape and then just sticking it on the screen.

    I think even the most committed gave up after a day or two.

    mefty
    Free Member

    If someone called Holmes can’t work it out, none of us have a chance.

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    Just use your other login. That’s what everyone else does.

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    Oops. Duplicate post. Sorry. Forgot which log in it was on.

    bongohoohaa
    Free Member

    Oops. Duplicate post. Sorry. Forgot which log in it was on.

    redstripe
    Free Member

    it is possible, I did it…ask the powers that be nicely

    thegreatape
    Free Member

    You can change it, I used to be thegreatape, for example.

    scotroutes
    Full Member

    You need to get yourself a creepy stalker that sets up a username very, very similar to yours (say holmse81) and who posts on threads in such a way as to confuse folk as to who is posting. Then the mods might take pity on you.

    This is, of course, all hypothetical…..

    thestabiliser
    Free Member

    You would literally have to kill someone, assume their identity, wear their skin as hat, live on their house, sleep with their wife, eat their children and worst of all steal their email address. Literally.

    DezB
    Free Member

    it is possible, I did it…ask the powers that be nicely

    He said “Ta”. What more do they bleedin want?

    deepreddave
    Free Member

    Surely the interesting question is why do you want to?

    shermer75
    Free Member

    I have no idea what this means

    MoreCashThanDash
    Full Member

    Mine was changed for me. I asked nicely, explained why I wanted it changed, and it was done.

    Hardest part was choosing a new name!

    CountZero
    Full Member

    I’ve wanted to for years, did for a while back before the Big Hack™ © ®, but it kept causing login issues.
    More than a little bored with this one, it wasn’t that great an idea back in 2003, but I wasn’t expecting to still be bloody using it thirteen years later!

    Cougar
    Full Member

    The short answer is “no” as Drac said.

    We can and do change names in exceptional circumstances (and by “we” I mean Tech, not the Moderators) but there has to be a valid reason.

    Duplicate logins will get one or both deleted.

    bruneep
    Full Member

    Ha! 🙄 many been getting away with it for ages

    Rockape63
    Free Member

    Count, saying how long you’ve been on hear made me look for my reg date with I notice is Jan 09. Yours is 08, ( not 03) so what happened there?

    garage-dweller
    Full Member

    ^^^^ that might be the great hack that resulted in effectively a new website and all accounts getting redone.

    I’ll check mine because I was pre hack…

    Yep that’s it. I re-registered in Jan 2009.

    I originally registered around about 2004/5 as my user name was linked to my proximity to the then local country park. I had moved by 2009 so no way that’s my original reg date.

    Frankenstein
    Free Member

    I’m Sparticus!

    njee20
    Free Member

    Once the new forum comes in 2008 we’ll be able to.

    scaredypants
    Full Member

    Ha! my second account will never be deleted. I post from different toilets control centres in the house depending which I’m using

    scaredypants
    Full Member

    Wow scaredypants, that’s really clever

    as usual 😳

    akira
    Full Member

    I sit on my hand and then pretend someone else is typing.

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    there was a few glorious minutes a few months back where we could all change our names as often as we liked.

    Oh the japes that were had.

    And then the wind changed and our forum names on the ‘about me’ tab of our profiles kept the last fake one we’d used and our original identities were reinstated elsewhere.

    thestabiliser
    Free Member

    The short answer is “no” as Drac said.

    We can and do change names in exceptional circumstances (and by “we” I mean Tech, not the Moderators) but there has to be a valid reason.

    Duplicate logins will get one or both deleted.

    uphillcursing
    Free Member

    Only two logins? Amateurs.

    How do you expect to keep your favorite post at the top of the page without multiple logins:
    Two as the main argument
    One for pedantry
    At least two extra to side with both sides of the main argument.

    Drac
    Full Member

    there was a few glorious minutes a few months back where we could all change our names as often as we liked.

    A few months back? You do reliase it’s 2016.

    Cougar
    Full Member

    many been getting away with it for ages

    Name and shame boys, name and shame.

    boriselbrus
    Free Member

    So what are you going to change it to?

    How about Bunglesthumb?

    :mrgreen:

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    Name and shame boys, name and shame.

    Drac and Cougar have never been photographed together.

    Just sayin’

    Cougar
    Full Member

    I’m not entirely sure that’s true.

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    You do reliase it’s 2016.

    yeah, right and Donald Trump’s going to be President too I expect.

    stevied
    Free Member

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