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Now that i'm grown up and own a company the username 'anus' doesn't seem an appropriate representation of the high quality services I shall be providing.

How can I change my username to be more fitting with the business...i.e. the company name?


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 5:52 pm
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I didn't find any obvious way of contacting forum help but if there's a better way than this please let me know and delete the post.


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 5:53 pm
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To be fair, many of the managing directors of companies that I have met  have been arseholes, so you might be ok.


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 5:55 pm
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You could report this thread to bring it to the attention of the moderators. I suggest adding a j to make Janus, seems appropriate being a beast with two personalities (heads).


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 5:58 pm
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The user name "Anus" was never appropriate . . . .

😉


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 6:00 pm
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Close your account and make a new one.


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 6:02 pm
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No one else can change theirs so you would be flat out of luck. You could probably offer to pay and be one some kind of premier partner.


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 6:04 pm
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you would be flat out of luck.

Bummer


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 6:08 pm
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Can only create new account and ask for this one to be clenched very tightly.


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 6:15 pm
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You can't...unless it is for police protection or something. Close account (or ignore it) and create a new one.


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 6:17 pm
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you could try email "tech at singletrackworld dot com" (FFS the formating is shite nowadays) but going by past history, stop using this one and start a new one. Don't use both or they may think your upto no good.


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 6:18 pm
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The child in me is amused by this thread.

Bravo maccruiskeen btw.


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 6:20 pm
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Are you mark zuckerberg

To be fair loads of the arseholes on here just come back under a new name , but you don't seem like one .

What does your new co do...dildo won't be appropriate


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 6:21 pm
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As far as I'm aware Scotroutes is the only forumite who's managed to change the handle on their account


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 6:26 pm
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So you need an arsewipe?


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 6:36 pm
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i.e. the company name?

are you sure you want to do that?  It might seem good from an SEO point of view but you also have no control over what people will post.  I could also understand the STW towers might not be too happy about that


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 6:43 pm
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Officially, you can't as it's open to abuse, though it's allowed in exceptional circumstances. Email mark@ with your request and reasons, it's his call.


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 6:47 pm
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Martin, I do indeed need my arse wiped.

Well I was hoping I wouldn't have to close the account what with the forum history associated with this account, i've used it for about 10yrs (and more before the hack under another name). Not that there's anything special about my history, more just that I have been an active user for years and you can see that from my profile therefore you all trust me! But maybe no one cares about that...?

Our company is unfortunately offering nothing sex related or rectum related but only boring old MTB holidays in Norway.

(Janus is actually a Norwegian wool clothing company just down the road from us)


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 6:48 pm
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“it’s open to abuse”

s****...

The facility was available back in the day, but I recall the mods couldn’t keep track of the trolls as they kept changing their usernames. Or something like that.


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 6:50 pm
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you can see that from my profile therefore you all trust me! But maybe no one cares about that…?

I'll take the word of someone called anus over someone called the Rt Hon .....


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 6:51 pm
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leffeboy - not sure why I would be worried about what others post whether my username is a random one or my company one? There are a few others on here i've seen using their company name as their username so I don't see why not.

Cougar - I will do!


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 6:51 pm
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not sure why I would be worried about what others post whether my username is a random one or my company one?

Depends a bit on you really.  STW can appear high in searches (even anon ones) so if you get into a spat with someone you can't resolve it and it might appear before anything that you want to appear.  It's not a bad thing, it's just outside your control.  Some folks do it well (Brant, Shand), others not so well.


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 6:57 pm
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Go for Annus Horribilis, folk would still spot the connection. A**e, ****, Girls would probably work too.


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 6:58 pm
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Our company is unfortunately offering nothing sex related or rectum related but only boring old MTB holidays in Norway.

I thought you sold tea towel holders


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 7:06 pm
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What?


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 7:06 pm
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has someone got a google search running then 🙂


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 7:08 pm
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Cheeky Trails


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 7:10 pm
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Cheeky Trails

That has a certain ring to it.


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 7:17 pm
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What colour is Uranus?

If it’s blue, go and see your GP.


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 7:22 pm
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If you are offering biking holidays then you do need a decent name. You also need to generate trust. So I would suggest using your real name.

That would be something people can relate to, see as real and contact you by email / phone. Its open and personal and will come across as friendly.


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 7:27 pm
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The facility was available back in the day, but I recall the mods couldn’t keep track of the trolls as they kept changing their usernames. Or something like that.

Before my time if so. But yeah, that's the point, trolls can troll and then go "hey, anonymous" when their history catches up with them.


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 7:33 pm
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I had a friend at school whose real name was Anus, he was Danish IIRC, where it is a proper name.....


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 7:41 pm
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I did a double take when a (really excellent) doctor introduced himself as Lanusse which sounds the same as l'anus.


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 7:51 pm
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What lube for . . ?


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 7:53 pm
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If we're suggesting names - oxo Towers .


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 7:53 pm
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Skid Marks


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 8:00 pm
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I asked nicely, says the poster formerly known as djaustin. I had a good reason having just been done over for seven bikes. Security is improved now at Fortress TiRed.


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 8:10 pm
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Our company is unfortunately offering nothing sex related or rectum related but only boring old MTB holidays in Norway

Ah, "bottom-out holidays"?


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 8:18 pm
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I have asked and been refused, I also asked when signing up to life membership still refused, all sorts of spurious reasons given, just rarely bother posting out these days


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 8:24 pm
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Maybe actually easier to just change your real name to Anus. You can just pretend it is from one of them foreign countries.


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 8:31 pm
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You could change it to Horribly Charred Infant which would be related but still puerile.


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 9:11 pm
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Holidays and anuseses?

Centre Parcs, Shirley?


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 9:32 pm
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https://www.amazon.com/Edible-Anus-White-Belgian-Chocolate/dp/B00PR33Y3U

Tell everyone you are also a chocolaterie


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 11:04 pm
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Just tell people it stands for...
Activities? Norwegian Utopia in Scandinavia!


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 11:13 pm
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The facility was available back in the day, but I recall the mods couldn’t keep track of the trolls as they kept changing their usernames. Or something like that.

It was before the Great Hack, I used to swap usernames, partly for fun, just because I could, but also because I was trying out several different names, to see which one I preferred.
Then came the day Things Changed, and I kind of got stuck with the one I’m still using now. Pity, I’ve been bored with it for years, and I’d love to change it for one I’ve used in other places, but I guess that isn’t likely to happen. 😕


 
Posted : 27/12/2018 11:20 pm
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