# User name **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 24, 2001, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name/77832 "2001-08-24T02:23:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hampster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/53a042/32.png) [@hampster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hampster)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name/77832/1 "2001-08-24T02:23:49Z")
What would be the best way for me to change my user name? I suppose I could just re-register, but then I’d be counting as 2 people, and there’s nothing in the faq about closing your own account. Would I be able to get a mod to either close this one so I can start a new one, or just change my name. I haven’t been reading the SDMB for months but all my friends are here, and in the interim I started posting on keenspace under a different name, and I’d like them to match up. _shrug_ ---
**Author:** ![hampster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/53a042/32.png) [@hampster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hampster)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name/77832/2 "2001-08-24T02:28:37Z")
Why didn’t I see that other thread the first time I looked at this page??? I’m off to email tubaDiva. Ignore this thread I guess sorry ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name/77832/3 "2001-08-25T04:47:58Z")
On the ATMB page with the list of all of the threads, it says this thread was started by **Scralden**. However, on the actual thread, I see that it is posted by **hampster**. Weird. Does anyone else see this? ---
**Author:** ![Sultan\_Kinkari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Sultan\_Kinkari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sultan_Kinkari)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name/77832/4 "2001-08-25T04:54:39Z")
I see it too. Spooooky ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name/77832/5 "2001-08-25T04:54:39Z")
_Do not adjust your set. We will control the vertical, we will control the horizontal…_ Yes, when you get a name change, it doesn’t change your name on any Forum main page threads you may have started. Just one of those neato vBulletin quirks. 😃 _you shouldn’t be drinking so much Pepsi this late at night, you know the caffeine does weird things to your eyesight_ ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name/77832/6 "2001-08-25T05:01:35Z")
Aww, **Duckie** , you so smart! Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name/77832/7 "2001-08-25T06:16:19Z")
Why do so many people want to change their names? I guess maybe they didn’t think they’d be staying around long and it didn’t matter, huh? ---
**Author:** ![annalamerino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@annalamerino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/annalamerino)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2001, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name/77832/8 "2001-08-26T04:19:24Z")
I changed my name because there were too many lamerinos, and I thought I should be more specific. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2001, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name/77832/9 "2001-08-26T05:03:22Z")
I think I should add some sort of accent marks to my name. You know, so that I could insist that it be pronounced wat-air-jay-two or something. ---
**Author:** ![hampster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/53a042/32.png) [@hampster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hampster)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2001, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-name/77832/10 "2001-08-26T05:50:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kniz \* > \*\* > Why do so many people want to change their names? I guess maybe they didn’t think they’d be staying around long and it didn’t matter, huh? \*\* Actually, when I joined the SDMB I’d been lurking for a while and really wanted to contribute. All my life I’ve been nicknamed Hamster (or Hampster) depending on where you’re from and pronunciation… And at that time in my life it was driving me up the wall. There are just too many Chris’ around here So I wracked my brain for months trying to think of a username of my own. I finally came up with Scralden. As in Scralden Haste- Scrawled in Haste Get it? witty, no? Explains many of my posts. Then the boards got slow, it was taking me 5 minutes to open a thread… stopped reading the SDMB altogether. I joined the Keenspace message boards as hampster, I’ve been much happier, it feels more like my real name, and I’ve got more posts there too. I never really liked Scralden anyway. I have found the secret of creating popular threads!