# Newbie username question
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie-username-question/150199
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [January 22, 2003, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie-username-question/150199 "2003-01-22T13:14:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Loneraven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loneraven)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2003, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie-username-question/150199/1 "2003-01-22T13:14:18Z")
Well…
When I was registering here, I accidentally didn’t capitalise the “L” on **loneraven**.
I then decided it wasn’t worth obsessing over. Unfortunately, the Grammar Whore™ in me thought otherwise.
In other words, this bugs me. A lot. I was going to simply stop using this username, register again and then announce in MPSIMS what I’d done. However, as a newbie, I was just reading the general rules for the SDMB stickied at the top of this forum, and it seems what I was planning (ie, having two usernames) is against the rules.
Any advice?
[Incidentally, I won’t be offended if the advice is “Shut up and stop being so incredibly anal” because that’s what my subconscious is telling me, too]
~Raven
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### Author:  [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2003, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie-username-question/150199/2 "2003-01-22T13:25:17Z")
Just e-mail an Administrator and ask to have your name changed. It’s not that hard.
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2003, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie-username-question/150199/3 "2003-01-22T14:06:55Z")
This thread happened to catch my eye as I was doing something else.
Today’s your lucky day.
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
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### Author:  [@Loneraven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loneraven)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie-username-question/150199/4 "2003-01-22T18:04:38Z")
Thanks so much, **Tuba**!
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### Author:  [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie-username-question/150199/5 "2003-01-23T06:38:32Z")
Miracles do happen. 🙂
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### Author:  [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie-username-question/150199/6 "2003-01-24T16:41:30Z")
I see the original post is now labeled as “Loneraven.” So when a poster changes the username, all his/her past posts will appear under the new name? It’s no big deal for a minor change like this, but wouldn’t it be terribly confusing if someone picks a completely different name? I guess I’d better stick to my boring and meaningless name…
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### Author:  [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie-username-question/150199/7 "2003-01-24T17:38:30Z")
Yes. It is terrlibly confusing. Which is why we try to discourage it.
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### Author:  [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newbie-username-question/150199/8 "2003-01-24T19:43:46Z")
Has anyone ever been refused a name change request? Other than annoying people who ask a lot, of course.