# Question about user names **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 7, 2017, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-user-names/800983 "2017-11-07T17:59:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2017, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-user-names/800983/1 "2017-11-07T17:59:51Z")
Can I change my user name to “You’re an idiot”? That way, when I am replying to an idiot in, say, GD or GQ or even IMHO, I can sign off with my user name and theoretically not get modded about it. I can’t be the first one to have thought of something like this, but I don’t recall seeing anything like it come up before. This is a semi-serious question. I probably won’t change my user name, but it would be nice to have this option in my back pocket, so to speak. Just having the option would ease my frustration when dealing with said idiots, enough so that I wouldn’t actually have to do it. ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2017, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-user-names/800983/2 "2017-11-07T18:04:09Z")
All user names are subject to review. Name changes require administrative action and are up to the discretion of the board staff. Now that you’ve revealed your master plan I’d say its chances of coming to fruition are low. Point of information, we do have 41 non-banned posters with some form of “idiot” in their user name. One of which is “ **YoureAnIdiot** ”. \*\*yourafuckinidiot \*\*was banned. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2017, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-user-names/800983/3 "2017-11-07T20:43:38Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > Point of information, we do have 41 non-banned posters with some form of “idiot” in their user name. One of which is “ **YoureAnIdiot** ”. \*\*yourafuckinidiot \*\*was banned. A bit too “over the top” that one, eh? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-user-names/800983/4 "2017-11-08T05:06:12Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > All user names are subject to review. Name changes require administrative action and are up to the discretion of the board staff. Now that you’ve revealed your master plan I’d say its chances of coming to fruition are low. > > Point of information, we do have 41 non-banned posters with some form of “idiot” in their user name. One of which is “ **YoureAnIdiot** ”. \*\*yourafuckinidiot \*\*was banned. My master plan. I guess I failed the first rule of underhandedness, don’t reveal your master plan. So all those times when I’m dying to tell people that they’re idiots, I’ll just have to suck it up and think about the pit. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-user-names/800983/5 "2017-11-08T05:10:48Z")
Well, that is, y’know, the rule. ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-user-names/800983/6 "2017-11-08T05:47:48Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > A bit too “over the top” that one, eh? 😛 The ban message was “\*you’re”. It wasn’t, but it should have been. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-user-names/800983/7 "2017-11-08T13:49:51Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > [snip] … Now that you’ve revealed your master plan I’d say its chances of coming to fruition are low … [snap] But not zero, that’s good news … let me think about this, **Kill Whitie 49** immediately comes to mind … ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-user-names/800983/8 "2017-11-08T15:42:35Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > All user names are subject to review. Name changes require administrative action and are up to the discretion of the board staff. Now that you’ve revealed your master plan I’d say its chances of coming to fruition are low. > > Point of information, we do have 41 non-banned posters with some form of “idiot” in their user name. One of which is “ **YoureAnIdiot** ”. \*\*yourafuckinidiot \*\*was banned. Is **Urine Idiot** taken? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-user-names/800983/9 "2017-11-08T18:31:58Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Is **Urine Idiot** taken? Clever! Regards, Heywood Jablowme ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-user-names/800983/10 "2017-11-08T18:47:40Z")
My favorite will always be the user who registered as “Fuck the Mods.” Curiously, they didn’t last long. Sad. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-user-names/800983/11 "2017-11-09T03:23:44Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > My favorite will always be the user who registered as “Fuck the Mods.” > > Curiously, they didn’t last long. Sad. Maybe he was a \*Quadrophenia \*fan? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-user-names/800983/12 "2017-11-09T04:05:03Z")
Did those banned users with the uncool user names get banned because of those user names? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-user-names/800983/13 "2017-11-09T05:13:00Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Did those banned users with the uncool user names get banned because of those user names? Trolls who register with troll names are banned for trolling. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-user-names/800983/14 "2017-11-10T01:20:55Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Trolls who register with troll names are banned for trolling. So no Bill Huggins? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-user-names/800983/15 "2017-11-10T02:00:57Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > So no Bill Huggins? Kind of difficult to register when you’re turned to stone. (Actually, I’ve checked, and I’m kind of surprised no one has ever tried to register under that name.) ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-user-names/800983/16 "2017-11-10T03:25:38Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Kind of difficult to register when you’re turned to stone. > > (Actually, I’ve checked, and I’m kind of surprised no one has ever tried to register under that name.) On Google, a mortgage guy actually comes up before the Tolkien character. This slightly amused me, so I thought I’d share. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Shine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr_shine/32/464_2.png) [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-user-names/800983/17 "2017-11-10T11:53:51Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Trolls who register with troll names are banned for trolling. Well, damn. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-user-names/800983/18 "2017-11-10T15:00:50Z")
> [@Mr\_Shine](#): > > Well, damn. Harsh, I know. ---
**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-user-names/800983/19 "2017-11-10T19:16:59Z")
Mr. Shine, him diamond!