# Name Change?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-change/128849>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [September 20, 2002, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-change/128849 "2002-09-20T18:01:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
**Page:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-change/128849/21 "2002-09-24T19:10:15Z")

</div>

That musta been weird, **brondi**.

\<creepy music\>Oooooweeeeeeoooooo!\</creepy music\>

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2002, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-change/128849/22 "2002-09-25T05:16:42Z")

</div>

It’s also weird that the “Thread Starter” field on the forum display still says **Canthearya** , but (at the time I’m writing this) the last post is listed as being by **Gazelle from Hell**.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2002, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-change/128849/23 "2002-09-25T13:00:41Z")

</div>

\<Twilight Zone theme\>Doodoodoo, Doodoodoo, Doodoodoo\</Twilight Zone theme\>

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2002, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-change/128849/24 "2002-09-25T13:45:54Z")

</div>

I’m confuseder now. You mean “Gazelle from Hell” is your real-life name?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-change/128849/25 "2002-09-26T13:22:26Z")

</div>

Well, when your name was **Canthearya** , we could call you Canny for short. Now that it’s not, we can call you Uncanny.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-change/128849/26 "2002-09-26T17:37:13Z")

</div>

> [@](#):
>
> It’s also weird that the “Thread Starter” field on the forum display still says **Canthearya** , but (at the time I’m writing this) the last post is listed as being by **Gazelle from Hell**.

Thus it is, and thus shall it always be. Name changes retroactively change the name in posts, but not in “thread starter” fields. Furthermore, if you log in using different capitalization than is your usual wont, your posts will reflect your normal capitalization (i.e., how you registered), but any threads started in that time will bear the capitalization you used on login.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-change/128849.md?page=1)