# If I were to change my Username

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-were-to-change-my-username/143696>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 19, 2002, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-were-to-change-my-username/143696 "2002-12-19T00:32:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-were-to-change-my-username/143696/1 "2002-12-19T00:32:39Z")

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Would it be apropriate to change it to **Blackeyes’s Sock Puppet**?  
Inquiring minds must know.

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**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-were-to-change-my-username/143696/2 "2002-12-19T00:36:29Z")

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Inquiring minds want to know…why?

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**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-were-to-change-my-username/143696/3 "2002-12-19T00:56:50Z")

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Because they’re INQUIRING minds. Not ‘sometimes curious…maybe’ minds. They must know.

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**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-were-to-change-my-username/143696/4 "2002-12-19T01:09:14Z")

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It just seems that incorporating “sock puppet” into your username is just inviting abuse. Like if I were to change mine to “superbee Hitler”…y’know? Too flammable…

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**Author:** ![Caught\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-were-to-change-my-username/143696/5 "2002-12-19T03:05:01Z")

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The mods or admins probably won’t like the name and they reserve the right to refuse it’s admission to the boards.  
After all, sock puppetry is very much frowned upon, so have a name that shouts ‘look at me’ won’t be taken kindly.  
Of course, if you changed it to Blackeyes Troll … nah.

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**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-were-to-change-my-username/143696/6 "2002-12-19T03:19:01Z")

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Don’t change it, or at least not to the one you want to. It’d really start some not so great conversations.