# usernames and vBcode

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usernames-and-vbcode/94297>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [November 19, 2001, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usernames-and-vbcode/94297 "2001-11-19T22:18:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Anubis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Anubis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anubis)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2001, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usernames-and-vbcode/94297/1 "2001-11-19T22:18:22Z")

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Is it possible to have your username bold or underlined or have some other vB code to make it not so boring?  
Like from this: Anubis  
To this: **Anubis**  
or this _Anubis_  
or this Anubis  
or this _ **Anubis** _  
or this [sub]Anubis[/sub]  
or this [sup]Anubis[/sup]  
or this [sub][sup]Anubis[/sub][/sup]  
or this (I really like this one) [sym]Anubis[/sym]

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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2001, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usernames-and-vbcode/94297/2 "2001-11-19T22:23:33Z")

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Nope.

Sorry!

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**Author:** ![Anubis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Anubis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anubis)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2001, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usernames-and-vbcode/94297/3 "2001-11-19T22:28:04Z")

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Well, why not, **Tuba**?

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**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2001, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usernames-and-vbcode/94297/4 "2001-11-19T22:48:26Z")

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Umm, because the software doesn’t allow it? Take it up with the vB folks.

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**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:** [November 20, 2001, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usernames-and-vbcode/94297/5 "2001-11-20T00:39:04Z")

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Sorry, but no. The vB software doesn’t allow such creativity, or at least it doesn’t the way we have it set up right now. (Usually vB can be configured to work with html, which can be more fun, but we had to disable that due to junior hackerdom and abuse of the system.)

your humble TubaDiva  
Admnistrator