# I'd like to change my user name.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-change-my-user-name/288707>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [February 6, 2005, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-change-my-user-name/288707 "2005-02-06T22:29:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![kimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f0a364/32.png) [@kimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kimera)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-change-my-user-name/288707/1 "2005-02-06T22:29:35Z")

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Hi, I’d like to change my user name from **ava** to **kimera**. I reserved **kimera** so I know it is not taken.

Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, but another member suggested that I post it here.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-change-my-user-name/288707/2 "2005-02-06T22:34:06Z")

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What do you mean you “reserved” it?

The quickest way to get a name change, as far as I know, is by sending an email to an admin.

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**Author:** ![kimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f0a364/32.png) [@kimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kimera)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-change-my-user-name/288707/3 "2005-02-06T23:15:23Z")

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I sent an email 5 days ago. Perhaps it got lost in cyberspace. \>\< I don’t know what the turn around time on such things are, but I was told it would be better to post here.

And I ‘reserved’ it by signing up for it, but not actually completing all the steps required to active the membership.

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-change-my-user-name/288707/4 "2005-02-06T23:27:44Z")

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**ava** did you include ‘SDMB’ in the subject?  
Include ‘SDMB’ in the subject.

They get a lot of e-mail.

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-change-my-user-name/288707/5 "2005-02-06T23:30:27Z")

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In fact I think it would be a good idea if an admin posted a sticky with the title “Include ‘SDMB’ in the subject when e-mailing Moderators and Administrators”  
But that would assume the policy is across the board. Is it? or is it just one Admin’s way?

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-change-my-user-name/288707/6 "2005-02-06T23:43:16Z")

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> [@ava](#):
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> I sent an email 5 days ago. Perhaps it got lost in cyberspace. \>\< I don’t know what the turn around time on such things are, but I was told it would be better to post here.

Always better to email an Administrator. Not all administrators are equal. By that I mean they have different schedules, outside lives, problems with life, etc.

Who did you email? I would suggest Dex or Tuba. They live on the boards. But, even they have real lives, and sometimes things fall between the cracks.

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**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-change-my-user-name/288707/7 "2005-02-06T23:57:25Z")

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She emailed \*\*Tuba \*\*and she did put SDMB in the title. This thread was my idea and she posted it after I suggested doing so since it seemed a better idea than inadvertently spamming her in-box.

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-change-my-user-name/288707/8 "2005-02-07T00:16:23Z")

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> [@Aesiron](#):
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> She emailed \*\*Tuba \*\*and she did put SDMB in the title.

Ok.

I phrased it as a question on the basis that she might well have done so.

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-change-my-user-name/288707/9 "2005-02-07T00:21:29Z")

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> [@Aesiron](#):
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> She emailed \*\*Tuba \*\*and she did put SDMB in the title. This thread was my idea and she posted it after I suggested doing so since it seemed a better idea than inadvertently spamming her in-box.

The minute I see Jenny on line, I’ll IM her. Sorry about that.

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**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-change-my-user-name/288707/10 "2005-02-07T00:33:09Z")

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Well, see, here’s the problem. You “reserved” the name **kimera** by registering under that name.

That is a violation of our rules.

You need to send an email to TubaDiva at [TubaDiva@aol.com](mailto:TubaDiva@aol.com) to try to get this straightened out. You may NOT have two usernames.

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-change-my-user-name/288707/11 "2005-02-07T06:53:32Z")

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Sorry, got a bit behind on email.

All should be fixed now.

your humble TubaDiva  
Administrator