# oops - registering snafu **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 25, 2007, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-registering-snafu/405517 "2007-05-25T18:33:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![yams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/848f3c/32.png) [@yams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yams)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2007, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-registering-snafu/405517/1 "2007-05-25T18:33:49Z")
hi - this is for the mods, i think. i hope this is the right forum. this is a technical kind of question, anyway. i dont think i have access to emailing mods and asking them in private anyway. so years and years ago, i used to post under the name TheyCallMeSneeze. Then i dropped out of touch for awhile, and got a new email address and posted for maybe a day and a half under the name machete jess. and then i dropped out again (i was living in zambia, where internet is not really a widespread thing) and then i finally got back to the states into the internet thing and went to register for my free month. but my email address was already in use for machete jess, but i didnt want to be machete jess anymore, and so i registered under yams! under my other email account. but i never use this email account anymore, and so i typed it in wrong. so my activation email went to an account that doesnt exist. so finally i registered as yams!! (2 exclamation points) under my old email address. so can somebody please fix my mistake maybe? let me be yams! (one exclamation point) under my good email address, and not my old one or my other one? i dont want to put email address in this post, but i bet you mods can find my email addresses or ask for them or something - the email address i want to use is the one originally designated for machete jess, but the name i want is yams! and if email address dont really matter, than i really dont care which email address is used, i just want to be yams! and not yams!!, and i didnt want you to freak out when you saw that a yams! AND a yams!! were registering and maybe sock puppets or something. thank you. sorry. sincerely yams! ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-registering-snafu/405517/2 "2007-05-25T18:42:11Z")
I’ve reported your post so a mod can help you work things out. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2007, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-registering-snafu/405517/3 "2007-05-25T21:22:41Z")
It’s a holiday weekend. **TubaDiva** will take a look on Monday and get things fixed up. Meanwhile, please DON’T register again, OK? One name, one registration, per person. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2007, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-registering-snafu/405517/4 "2007-05-25T23:51:04Z")
[QUOTE=C K Dexter Haven] One name, one registration, per person. [/QUOTE] How many sweet potaters? ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-registering-snafu/405517/5 "2007-05-26T02:36:52Z")
Keep the two exclamation marks! It is so much more fun to read! ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-registering-snafu/405517/6 "2007-05-26T09:06:52Z")
Let’s have a vote, I pulled an example from the web of a sentence with the word “yams” in it. Which sounds more exciting? _Sweet potatoes are different than yams! Learn about the difference between sweet potatoes and yams!_ or… _Sweet potatoes are different than yams!! Learn about the difference between sweet potatoes and yams!!_ [[link](http://homecooking.about.com/od/howtocookvegetables/a/sweetpotatodiff.htm)] Why no, I don’t see what you’re talking about regarding font sizes. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-registering-snafu/405517/7 "2007-05-26T13:11:50Z")
[QUOTE=C K Dexter Haven] It’s a holiday weekend. [/QUOTE] What holiday is it? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-registering-snafu/405517/8 "2007-05-26T13:23:43Z")
It’s Memorial Day this Monday here in the US. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-registering-snafu/405517/9 "2007-05-26T13:45:55Z")
[QUOTE=mnemosyne] Keep the two exclamation marks! It is so much more fun to read! [/QUOTE] Actually, it would be much easier, too. You wouldn’t even need to involve a mod at all. Just log in as **machetejess** , go to the User Control Panel and edit the e-mail address to the “other” address that you don’t use, and then log back in as **yams!!** and change _that_ e-mail address to the one you want. Then, when **TubaDiva** gets back next week, you can arrange to get rid of your extraneous usernames. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2007, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-registering-snafu/405517/10 "2007-05-27T05:15:57Z")
I can’t handle this now – I’m out of town – but prepare to click on the “Subscribe” hyperlink under some name and subscribe, as you are in no way entitled to any more free time; it’s one free trial to a person and you’re already past that. When I get back to town and my working computer we’ll get you straightened out. Your payment of $14.95 will make all your problems here go away. Nothing else will fix that. ---
**Author:** ![essell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@essell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/essell)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-registering-snafu/405517/11 "2007-05-28T20:18:40Z")
[QUOTE=TubaDiva] Your payment of $14.95 will make all your problems here go away. Nothing else will fix that. [/QUOTE] hehe.. I’m gonna remember that line and use it during sales training. How’s your mind **Yams!!**? No signs of disease? ---
**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:** [May 29, 2007, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-registering-snafu/405517/12 "2007-05-29T12:25:01Z")
Okay, I have the email thing straightened out now. You should go ahead and subscribe in the next day or so and let’s get you where you need to be here. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-registering-snafu/405517/13 "2007-06-01T20:40:56Z")
Wait a minute. Sweet potatoes are different from yams?? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-registering-snafu/405517/14 "2007-06-02T00:59:10Z")
[the difference between yams and sweet potatos](http://www.suite101.com/external_link.cfm?elink=http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/hil-23-a.html) ---
**Author:** ![yams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/848f3c/32.png) [@yams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yams)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-registering-snafu/405517/15 "2007-06-22T00:50:50Z")
ok, several days later… this is the poster who would be known as yams!!, but because i am somewhat inept at the registering thing i am still, much to my chagrin, known as machete jess. i have paid my 14.95 and was thinking all my problems would dissappear. alas, such is not the case. promises, promises!! when registering, i registered under my best email address, which was already attached to the name machete jess. i thought i would then be able to go in and change my user name to the desired yams!! unfortunately, it seems i went about it backwards, as i am able to change my email all i want but not my username. tubadiva, i am sorry to have gotten this wrong, again, and to have taken so much time between bouts of mistaken and multiple identities, but now that i have paid my dues (literally), could you find it in your big, tuba-y heart to change my user name from machete jess to yams!! hopefully and deliciously yours, yams!! (please?) ---
**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:** [June 22, 2007, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-registering-snafu/405517/16 "2007-06-22T04:56:54Z")
I wondered what happened to you – thought perhaps you went out back and the hogs ate you, all southerners know hogs love yams. 🙂 Jokes aside, I have merged all your stuff into this one screen name and you should finally be good to go. Welcome back. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-registering-snafu/405517/17 "2007-06-22T19:18:39Z")
[QUOTE=TubaDiva] I wondered what happened to you – thought perhaps you went out back and the hogs ate you, all southerners know hogs love yams. 🙂 Jokes aside, I have merged all your stuff into this one screen name and you should finally be good to go. Welcome back. [/QUOTE] Given what **Tuba** , says, you may wish to keep an eye on **Astro Hog** , **Hogulus** , **dot hog** , **hog36** , **hoghead** , and **Law Hog**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-registering-snafu/405517/18 "2007-06-22T19:49:20Z")
Cogito ergo potato - I think therefore I yam!! ---
**Author:** ![yams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/848f3c/32.png) [@yams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yams)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-registering-snafu/405517/19 "2007-06-23T02:50:34Z")
yay! thank you tuba! may the god of spuds bestow upon you many delicious yams and assorted tubers. and thank you indeed for your warnings concerning the various hogs. to be sure, a hog who has learned how to type and use a computer is a dangerous foe, but surely no match for a yam who has learned the same. thank you again! love yams!! ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-registering-snafu/405517/20 "2007-06-23T04:24:35Z")
Welcome **yams!!** and thank you for the sig line you inspired. Sgt Schwartz [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-registering-snafu/405517.md?page=2)