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

Ta


 
Posted : 03/05/2016 7:37 pm
 Drac
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Nope.


 
Posted : 03/05/2016 7:40 pm
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Just use your other login. That's what everyone else does.


 
Posted : 03/05/2016 7:46 pm
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Looks like I'll just have this one then.


 
Posted : 03/05/2016 7:47 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 03/05/2016 7:57 pm
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If someone called Holmes can't work it out, none of us have a chance.


 
Posted : 03/05/2016 8:00 pm
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Just use your other login. That's what everyone else does.


 
Posted : 03/05/2016 8:04 pm
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Oops. Duplicate post. Sorry. Forgot which log in it was on.


 
Posted : 03/05/2016 8:05 pm
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Oops. Duplicate post. Sorry. Forgot which log in it was on.


 
Posted : 03/05/2016 8:06 pm
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it is possible, I did it...ask the powers that be nicely


 
Posted : 03/05/2016 8:12 pm
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You can change it, I used to be thegreatape, for example.


 
Posted : 03/05/2016 8:12 pm
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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.....


 
Posted : 03/05/2016 8:13 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 03/05/2016 8:14 pm
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[i]it is possible, I did it...ask the powers that be nicely[/i]

He said "Ta". What more do they bleedin want?


 
Posted : 03/05/2016 8:32 pm
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Surely the interesting question is why do you want to?


 
Posted : 03/05/2016 9:12 pm
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I have no idea what this means

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Posted : 03/05/2016 9:26 pm
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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!


 
Posted : 03/05/2016 9:42 pm
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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!


 
Posted : 03/05/2016 10:59 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 03/05/2016 11:06 pm
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[quote=Cougar ]
Duplicate logins will get one or both deleted.

Ha! 🙄 many been getting away with it for ages


 
Posted : 03/05/2016 11:09 pm
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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?


 
Posted : 03/05/2016 11:25 pm
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^^^^ 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.


 
Posted : 03/05/2016 11:29 pm
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I'm Sparticus!


 
Posted : 03/05/2016 11:44 pm
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Once the new forum comes in 2008 we'll be able to.


 
Posted : 04/05/2016 7:11 am
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Ha! my second account will never be deleted. I post from different [s]toilets[/s] control centres in the house depending which I'm using


 
Posted : 04/05/2016 7:21 am
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Wow scaredypants, that's really clever

as usual 😳


 
Posted : 04/05/2016 7:24 am
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I sit on my hand and then pretend someone else is typing.


 
Posted : 04/05/2016 8:24 am
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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.


 
Posted : 04/05/2016 8:28 am
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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.


 
Posted : 04/05/2016 8:30 am
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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.


 
Posted : 04/05/2016 8:31 am
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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.


 
Posted : 04/05/2016 8:37 am
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many been getting away with it for ages

Name and shame boys, name and shame.


 
Posted : 04/05/2016 8:42 am
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So what are you going to change it to?

How about Bunglesthumb?

:mrgreen:


 
Posted : 04/05/2016 8:49 am
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Name and shame boys, name and shame.

Drac and Cougar have never been photographed together.

Just sayin'


 
Posted : 04/05/2016 8:50 am
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I'm not entirely sure that's true.


 
Posted : 04/05/2016 8:51 am
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[i]You do reliase it's 2016.[/i]

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


 
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Posted : 04/05/2016 8:59 am