Yes, my former name was panchitaville.
I was a chat freak and went by lel in chats, so this made it consistent.
It doesn’t really matter to me one way or the other – my online persona isn’t me anyway.
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I wouldn’t worry about it. It’s nowhere near the level of “do I want to change jobs?” or “do I want to buy this house?” You may want to do a name with more than three letters, however, as vanity searches are right out with a three letter name.
Offhand, I think Ludovic is a terrific name.
How about Grahzny Rookers?
Aww AwSnappity has always been one of my favorites, in fact it was of the 2 I chose when we had to pick 2 favorites for a thread poll…IIRC I picked AwSnappity and Nightwatch Trailer …and no, I am not baiting you NT:) .
My first username here was my real name, which is still available in my e-mail address. I like the current one, because I think Bambi is just a funny (and originally male, dammit) name and the juxtaposition of the two names has a nice meter.
Although, sometimes I think I’m known more by my name than by my content, which is just as well, given the usual quality of my content.
I’m considering changing mine. I have the feeling that the misspelling, though intentional, is annoying to some people, and I’m worried people might not get that it’s done on purpose, and if someone thinks I’m stupid enough to misspell a simple word like “error” they might not take the rest of my post seriously. I’d also like to change it before I rack up too many posts.
What do y’all think? Is my username really annoying?
Heh, I never noticed the missing R in your name, continuity eror. I guess it makes sense in conjunction with your sig, though. I say keep it.
smartini: Thanks! I simply adore your name, I really do. I think it’s funny/cute.
Same here. I also changed it after maybe making a hundred posts, so I was a tiny insignificant speck back then. That bit hasn’t changed.
*Have you ever changed your doper name? What was it before, if you care to share? * Yes – I was once jr8.
Why did you change your doper name? In part because the three-character non-word seemed not to register on people’s consciousnesses, and in part because it just didn’t feel right anymore.
Oddly, once I changed it to the current evolved form (“Gyrate” being derived from sounding out “jr8”) I tended to make much more of an impression here. I think having an actual word makes a difference.
Are you glad you changed it? Yup. It’s changed the way I write, I think.
Is this really a hard decision to make? Or do I need to get a life? Hard? No. But not something to do frivolously either. Think about the new name for a few days before you ask for the change. Is this a name that feels right? Then go for it.
Mind you, smartini is a rather clever name. Maybe you should just consider capitalizing it.
I changed from Who Stole My Name? Because when I first tried to register and put in my current name it said it was already taken? So I just put it as Who Stole My Name? It turns out, that perhaps no-one had it at all, and the mods were nice enough to change it to what it is. I have this because it’s a good aussie saying, and I use it on other message boards.
I thought about changing my username, because my username is really just my first name and last initial; not very clever or creative. But, by now, everyone around here knows me as norinew. Furthermore, not too long into this gig, I figured out that almost everyone reads it as “nori-new” and then wonders what I mean by that? Seems cryptic. That makes me smile. So I’ve decided not to change. However, when I recently registered on Skip Magic’s new board, I played on that, and registered as “nori the new”.
Yes; I originally used my real name (as I had on the AOL board before). I was one of the first posters here to change my username.
I decided to maintain a little more anonymity. Obviously many posters have met me in real life and know my real name. And I have mentioned it. But it’s not out there every day.
Yes. But I should have put more thought into a new name. I essentially just picked Little Nemo on a whim (I had been reading some Winsor McCay that day).
What? There is a misspelling?
Noooo…don’t change it! I loved the intentional eror from the beginning and figured you did it on purpose. Keep it around!
I don’t know from a technical standpoint what would be necessary to do this “housecleaning”, but it wouldn’t need to be done every day–done even just once every three months would blow away a lot of unused accounts, and free up a lot of names.
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I would love to change my name. “Avarie” is a name I’ve used since I was 16, and it’s not like it’s bad, I just feel like I’ve kind of grown out of it. The 537 is because I had to add some numbers, and 537 “spells” my initials on a phone pad (or it used to before I got married). Avarie537 is also what I use for an email address, and I would love to change it too.
I just don’t know what to use instead!
I hate name changes unless absolutely necessary. There are no faces to associate personalities with, so I depend upon the names to identify people I normally find entertaining or informative; or conversely, people who should be avoided or ignored. I’m not around often enough to catch all the announcements or references to a name change.
I’m still a little bit irked that one disturbed poster (since banned) was allowed to come back under a new name. I’d quitely vowed to avoid this person, yet after the fact, realized I’d engaged in conversation with their ‘new’ persona. Pissed me off.
Nope, I’ve never changed user names - and I probably wouldn’t. I’m Missy2U too many other places - I couldn’t keep a bunch of different names straight. I prefer just to be plain old M2U. Besides, it’s not like I’m a creative genius and could come up with something “cool” anyway…
Have you ever changed your doper name? What was it before, if you care to share?
I was rastahomie from the time I registered until a couple of years or so ago. I changed to HeyHomie for a rather convoluted reason. See below.
Why did you change your doper name?
Short story: I had outgrown it.
Long story: When I was in college, the guys on my floor nicknamed me “Homie” because it’s a variation on my IRL last name. Then one day I went to New Orleans and bought a brightly-colored, woolen cap at the French Market. One of those caps like what Bob Marley wore back in The Day. Anyway, my floormates took to calling me “Rastahomie.” (Like Rastafari, get it?) About two years later, Al Gore invented the Internet, and I needed a username, so I put two and two together.
Over time, a more than a couple of people on the SDMB made assumptions about me based on my username. Not bad assumptions, just incorrect ones. That I was black (because most Rastas are, though I’m quite white); that I was Rastafarian (nope; Evangelical Protestant); or that I was into counter-culture (nope; conservative Republican). So I decided a change was in order. I chose HeyHomie because it still retains the “Homie,” and because it honors my brother. Every time my brother sees me he imitates Barney from The Simpsons and says “Hey Homie!”
Are you glad you changed it? Or do you wish you had left it as it was?
I think some of the people on the SDMB who had gotten to “know” me were disappointed, because Rastahomie had a certain ring to it. But I stand by my decision and I have no regrets.
Is this really a hard decision to make? Or do I need to get a life?
Since you only get one chance to change your SDMB username, it’s obviously a very tough call to make. So no, I don’t think you need to get a life.
I’ve been AskNott from day one, back in the AOL days. A droll pun, and I still like it.
When president Clinton ordered his “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in the military, I considered changing because I thought some folks might think I was a gay soldier.
In real life (if you can call that real) I use a pseudonym of Oliver Faltz. If I ever change, I might use that.
A good example of this is our own Really Not All That Bright. I generally find his posts interesting and he expresses himself well. And there’s certainly nothing there to suggest that his handle is in any way accurate.
I traded javaman for my current handle after being banned, along with several others, by *Manhattan. After apologizing I was allowed to come back under the new name. Not only did I not want to continue using the name I’d been banned under, but I’d become dissatisfied with javaman anyhow. I felt it was too archaic, reminiscent of long-ago days when computer logins didn’t recognize upper and lower case and couldn’t include spaces.