# Nother name change thread **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 24, 2004, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nother-name-change-thread/236174 "2004-03-24T19:35:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nother-name-change-thread/236174/1 "2004-03-24T19:35:26Z")
This thread is intended as a registry for those who decided, like me, that while subscribing to SDMB to go ahead and change their username while they were at it. I hadn’t liked my username in a long time, and this was just the push I needed to finally change it. Anyway… **Nichol\_storm** is now **Mississippienne**. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nother-name-change-thread/236174/2 "2004-03-26T06:02:35Z")
Nice name, **Mississippienne!** It would seem you’re going for the “most double letters in a user name” title. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nother-name-change-thread/236174/3 "2004-03-26T06:42:40Z")
If you contact the mods, you can probably keep your old post count and just get the name changed. The new name is super-cool, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nother-name-change-thread/236174/4 "2004-03-26T06:49:29Z")
I’m thinking about it. Among the contenders: furtigan Dancing Pantless Workin’ for the Man ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nother-name-change-thread/236174/5 "2004-03-26T14:25:33Z")
As a former Mississippian, I love it, I love it, I love it! Of course now I’m from Alabama. Boy, talk about culture shock! Anyways - so if someone comes along with AlabamaMan as a name I have to leave you. ---
**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:** [March 26, 2004, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nother-name-change-thread/236174/6 "2004-03-26T17:38:38Z")
Folks, this ain’t the way to do it. It’s ONE screen name to a customer at a time. More than one screen name at the same time means you run the risk of being thrown off the board in ALL screen names. We don’t care if you paid or not, dammit. Secondly, we’re not making any name changes unless and until you sign up as a subscriber. As soon as you do become a “Charter Member,” you are entitled to one name change if you have not made one before. After that initial change, it takes a really good reason to ask for another one. Please send me an email AFTER you have subscribed asking for a name change and I’ll get it taken care of. That’s [TubaDiva@aol.com](mailto:TubaDiva@aol.com). Please send the email from the same address you signed up in, give your old name, the name you want and maybe one or two extra, it’s first come first served on names and we got a lot already taken. I’m happy to help you. You do your part and we’ll do ours. your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**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:** [March 26, 2004, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nother-name-change-thread/236174/7 "2004-03-26T17:46:02Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > As soon as you do become a “Charter Member,” you are entitled to one name change if you have not made one before. After that initial change, it takes a really good reason to ask for another one. What is a ‘really good reason’? I understand you don’t want people requesting a nick change everyday or whatever, but I can’t seem to think of a really good reason for wanting it changed. Not that care. I’ve had the same name for almost four years now. (Unless you count that underscore thing which, really, I don’t. I mean, it’s still the same name and everything…) 😃 ---
**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:** [March 26, 2004, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nother-name-change-thread/236174/8 "2004-03-26T17:54:02Z")
Names are serious things, not like today’s fashions; one name today, another name tomorrow. This has always been our policy here at the Straight Dope. We want you to have a screen name you like, but we’re not going to change 'em for you like fashion accessories. We encourage people to pick a name they find meaningful . . . and live with it. This is especially true if that name has already been changed; after the first time, there has to be really good reason. The most common reason we’ve let people change a second time is a change in marital or relationship status, something of that magnitude. We’re especially aggravated if you abandon a previous name and sign up with a new one. We usually throw both names off when we find them. your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**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:** [March 26, 2004, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nother-name-change-thread/236174/9 "2004-03-26T18:37:21Z")
God, I’m a nuisance… So does the removal of the underscore in my name (Silver\_Fire) technically count as my **one** name change without a good reason? ---
**Author:** ![Lobelia\_Overhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@Lobelia\_Overhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobelia_Overhill)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nother-name-change-thread/236174/10 "2004-03-26T23:08:25Z")
I post on another Forum, and much to my horror I discovered someone posting on there calling themself Lobelia … that’s not on … ☹ ---
**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:** [March 27, 2004, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nother-name-change-thread/236174/11 "2004-03-27T22:02:41Z")
> [@Silver Fire](#): > > God, I’m a nuisance… > > So does the removal of the underscore in my name (Silver\_Fire) technically count as my **one** name change without a good reason? No. Send me an email and I’ll do it. your humble TubaDiva Administrator. It’s an editorial correction.