# Did you change your Username here...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-your-username-here/692794
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 10, 2014, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-your-username-here/692794 "2014-07-10T21:14:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2014, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-your-username-here/692794/1 "2014-07-10T21:14:06Z")
… and don’t mind mentioning who you used to be?
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### Author:  [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2014, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-your-username-here/692794/2 "2014-07-11T01:01:27Z")
seal\_clubber. Tubadiva hated it and asked me to change it, so I did.
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### Author:  [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2014, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-your-username-here/692794/3 "2014-07-11T01:02:33Z")
I changed it, a few years back. I changed it because I had a cyberstalker, and my username was obvious, if one knew my real name. And the stalker did, because she was also a real-world stalker.
Don’t want to say what the former name was, because she’s still around. Hopefully not stalking me anymore, but I bet she googles me once in a while.
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### Author:  [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2014, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-your-username-here/692794/4 "2014-07-11T02:05:50Z")
I started out as DavmiLaSav back in the early 2000’s. I was even a paying member for a while. Then various things happened, I moved a lot, didn’t have internet access, and when I finally got back online I couldn’t remember my SD password so I changed my username.
I’d like to change this one as I’ve never really liked it.
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2014, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-your-username-here/692794/5 "2014-07-11T02:19:33Z")
I started out as Tiramisu because it’s my favorite dessert and it at least sounds feminine but I kept forgetting my name here because I am used to being Wile E or some variation of that so I changed it and just got used to being mistaken for a dude.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2014, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-your-username-here/692794/6 "2014-07-11T02:26:07Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#):
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> I started out as Tiramisu because it’s my favorite dessert and it at least sounds feminine but I kept forgetting my name here because I am used to being Wile E or some variation of that so I changed it and just got used to being mistaken for a dude.
So you’re actually a cougar not a coyote? 😃
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2014, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-your-username-here/692794/7 "2014-07-11T02:48:34Z")
I’ve entertained changing mine. I never even liked it in the first place. I had a poll a couple of years back asking if I should change it, and the consensus was no.
I’d like to change it. In marketing terms, I have a brand recognition.
Not that anyone gives a shit about me, but still.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2014, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-your-username-here/692794/8 "2014-07-11T06:45:47Z")
I used to be **gatopescado**.
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### Author:  [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2014, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-your-username-here/692794/9 "2014-07-11T14:27:16Z")
Back in the old days I was known here as **ChiefWahoo**. I picked it semi-randomly but everyone thought I was a Cleveland Indians fan, so I changed it.
**Satan** was against it, but in the end I think it was the right choice.
Yer pal,
**August West** f/k/a **ChiefWahoo**
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### Author:  [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2014, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-your-username-here/692794/10 "2014-07-11T15:33:43Z")
I originally joined the SDMB using my real name as my user name. I asked the admins to change it to Crotalus within a week or so of joining. My real name can be found in several ways within SDMB, but I will refrain from posting it here.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2014, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-your-username-here/692794/11 "2014-07-11T15:39:52Z")
> [@Crotalus](#):
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> I originally joined the SDMB using my real name as my user name. I asked the admins to change it to Crotalus within a week or so of joining. My real name can be found in several ways within SDMB, but I will refrain from posting it here.
Naive me, I similarly used my real name as my User Name at first. After a while, I realized that probably wasn’t a good thing to do and at some point reregistered as **Siam Sam**. All well and good, until one day I got an e-mail from an admin stating that I couldn’t have two User Names and so was locked out. No idea how they figured that out, but I sent an e-mail to them explaining the situation, and they changed all my early posts to **Siam Sam**.
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### Author:  [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2014, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-your-username-here/692794/12 "2014-07-11T16:32:38Z")
I changed the spelling of my username from \*\*rachelellogram \*\*to \*\*rachellelogram \*\*awhile ago, so it would be more technically correct–see: _parallelogram_.
I did consider asking for a brand-new name after I stopped being a generally embarrassing poster within the past year or so. But I’ve been here for long enough under this name that I’d rather deal with a slightly-checkered past. Especially when the alternative is people thinking the better poster I’ve become is someone else entirely. I don’t know why I’ve tied my identity up in a false name so much, but there it is.
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### Author:  [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2014, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-your-username-here/692794/13 "2014-07-11T16:42:45Z")
I was first known as **spooje**.
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### Author:  [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2014, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-your-username-here/692794/14 "2014-07-11T16:47:17Z")
I used to be Tengu.
I changed from that elsewhere AGES ago, and decided to finally make the change here not too long ago.
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### Author:  [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2014, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-your-username-here/692794/15 "2014-07-11T16:50:29Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#):
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> Naive me, I similarly used my real name as my User Name at first. After a while, I realized that probably wasn’t a good thing to do and at some point reregistered as **Siam Sam**. All well and good, until one day I got an e-mail from an admin stating that I couldn’t have two User Names and so was locked out. No idea how they figured that out, but I sent an e-mail to them explaining the situation, and they changed all my early posts to **Siam Sam**.
Yeah, they much prefer asking for a name change instead of registering twice. 😃
> [@Rachellelogram](#):
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> I did consider asking for a brand-new name after I stopped being a generally embarrassing poster within the past year or so. But I’ve been here for long enough under this name that I’d rather deal with a slightly-checkered past. Especially when the alternative is people thinking the better poster I’ve become is someone else entirely. I don’t know why I’ve tied my identity up in a false name so much, but there it is.
By keeping your familiar name, you allow me to have a little bit of pleasure when I read one of your posts. I often think “she’s a lot more pleasant to read than she used to be.”
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### Author:  [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-your-username-here/692794/16 "2014-07-11T17:18:11Z")
> [@Crotalus](#):
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> I originally joined the SDMB using my real name as my user name. I asked the admins to change it to Crotalus within a week or so of joining.
What - you didn’t want Dopers to know you as Ted Kaczynski? You could’ve just changed your username to Unabomber.
😉
(I do hope it is clearly understand that I am totally joking - besides, I don’t think the real TK has internet access from prison!)
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2014, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-your-username-here/692794/17 "2014-07-11T17:39:47Z")
> [@WordMan](#):
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> \<\< clipped \>\>
> (I do hope it is clearly understand that I am totally joking - besides, I don’t think the real TK has internet access from prison!)
In spite of the jest, how often do you (anyone) get the impression that you’re dealing with a _celebrity_ here? Especially the ones who have yet to self-identify as such.
Who, more than anyone else, would you be blown away by if you found out who really was behind the Username?
For me, it would probably be Stephen Hawking or Amelia Earhart.
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### Author:  [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2014, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-your-username-here/692794/18 "2014-07-11T18:13:51Z")
I originally joined in 1999 and have no clue what my user name was, as I didn’t log in for a few years.
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### Author:  [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2014, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-your-username-here/692794/19 "2014-07-11T20:06:19Z")
I started a thread about changing it, back when I was still in undergrad (2002-ish?) and was posting a hell of a lot more than I do now. I felt like the username gave an incorrect impression of who I was, and that it was more than a little pretentious.
Of course, then I graduated college and stopped posting nearly so much. Now I realize that pretty much no one remembers me anymore, and that therefore the verisimilitude of my digital identity here doesn’t matter nearly so much. And the name’s mine, so, fuck it, I’m not changing it.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2014, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-your-username-here/692794/20 "2014-07-12T01:33:05Z")
> [@Crotalus](#):
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> Yeah, they much prefer asking for a name change instead of registering twice. 😃
At the time, I didn’t know about the No Multiple User Names rule. Once I registered as **Siam Sam** , I never used the first one again. I was a sock, but unintentionally so. Not sure how they figured that out, because usually these things come to light when a user does use multiple accounts at once.
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