Should DU Users Be Allowed To Change Their Names...

[arwalden]

as easily as they change their underwear?

Or should there be some sort of name-change approval committee to examine the impact that the name change will have on the flow of DU and the continuity of the camaraderie in the Lounge (and throughout DU as a whole)?

Should there be a rule that once you've reached 1000 posts, you are stuck with your name forever? (After all... 1000 posts is PLENTY time enough to decide if the name "works" or if it suits your personality and online persona.)

Here today, gone tomorrow... who do you trust? The carefully cultivated friendships are just TOSSED AWAY by the name-changer... only to have them magically re-appear as someone else (and expect to be treated the same as before).

Let this message serve as a warning to other newbie DU'ers.... CHOOSE YOUR NAME WISELY. --- Once chosen, it becomes like a tattoo that you just can't wash off. It's like herpes... you're stuck with it. It's like a reputation... good or bad, you own it!

-- Allen

[Screaming Lord Bob]

1. Piss off Allen!! ;-)

It took much wrangling to figure out what I wanted to be....

Welcome me, your NEW Screaming Lord!!!

[ThomCat]

5. Welcome, ScreaminglordBob!

We're part of a trend.

Everyone should change their names! There should be quotas. No fewer than 2 name change polls per week.

:bounce:

[Screaming Lord Bob]

15. Thank you, Sir ThomCat!

We are the trailblazers! Watch everyone follow!

:bounce:

[ThomCat]

22. I've been knighted!

Thank you, my lord. I will strive to be worthy!

AS you say, others will follow. It's kind of nice to be near the front of the line. :)

[Screaming Lord Bob]

33. Yes!

I need some good knights to handle the peasants - especially that one named

MATCOM!

[arwalden]

6. Who The Hell Are You? Do I Know You?

The name kinda sounds familiar... but for all I know you could be an impersonator. LOL

-- Allen

[matcom]

8. oh fuck!

do i have to kill you TOO?

DIE ASSHOLE DIE!!!

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. I agree Allen

Screaming Illiterate Roberta can go to hell.

[Screaming Lord Bob]

4. You are just angry because I didn't choose the one

that you voted for!! :P

[VOX]

3. I wish we could all be allowed **one** name change at any time...

But only one. We would be allowed to keep our post count, too.

Just wishing.

[ThomCat]

9. Keeping post counts would be nice.

Transferring stars would be cool too.

[Screaming Lord Bob]

13. email the admins to transfer it

the old SLB told me this works...

[ThomCat]

19. I did.

No response.

:shrug:

[flaminbats]

18. I support unlimited name changing

the only justification for taking that away from DUers is to allow them to login under more than one name at any time.

[meegbear]

7. Herpes? Reputation?

You trying to tell us something?

[arwalden]

12. Oh Stop It, You!

:eyes:

[Dookus]

10. nope

but then again, when you've got such a swell name as "Dookus", the issue doesn't come up often.

[underpants]

11. And I, for one, welcome our new asscom overlords.

[matcom]

17. BOW BEFORE MY CRACK!!!!!

i DEMAND it! :P

[underpants]

20. I don't think this one is bowing ....or plans to

[terrya]

14. I agree, also. An identity is not something to be changed willy-nilly.

Full DU approval for name changes!

Or else...chaos. Pure and simple.

[Screaming Lord Bob]

16. I did a poll!

That is substantial approval!

[terrya]

21. Yes, you did.

But how many others wouldn't be so diligent as you??? :-)

[pagerbear]

24. But you didn't take MY suggestion

For that reason you are in the wrong!

[Screaming Lord Bob]

25. I am sorry!

There were so many suggestions - it was nearly impossible to choose!

This one was just too funny, though....

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

23. Let em change

Internet rules shouldn't be more stringent than in real life, where people change their names all the time. And it's more honest than multiple IDs.

I think people feel pressured to get their first 1000 posts to establish some street creds. Has anyone here never eyeballed someone's lower post count with some suspicion?

I'm thinking of changing mine because too many people take it the wrong way. They think it's some general directive to all, when in fact it refers to just one in particular.

[Wat_Tyler]

26. What chaos have I wrought?

My sincerest appleojeez Allen, Terry et al.

Wat who was Mumbling Peasant Steve, who was Screaming Lord Byron, who was (briefly) number six who accidentally once signed up under his real name but who promises to remain Wat Tyler for a good lenghthy period of time.

[terrya]

29. It's just frightening to some of us, Wat_Tyler...

Or MPS...or SLB....

Sometimes, change is difficult to deal with.

[Wat_Tyler]

32. I'm sorry Terry.

But I was tired of the Screaming. Besides, I did google Screaming Lord Byron, and there are a fair few out there, particularly among the geek community.

[terrya]

35. Wow...I didn't know there were so many out there.

What a bunch of unoriginal copy cats out there.

If that was the case, I see now why you changed it.

[Wat_Tyler]

36. Wat Tyler isn't much more original, but I sometimes like to be serious

and I have found, through experience, that people don't take serious posts by Screaming Lord Byron particularly, uh, seriously.

[DS1]

27. Immediate bannination

:nuke: Cya.

[flaming bondage mask]

30. what he said!

:nuke:

[Dr_Greenthumb]

31. hear! hear! old chap

:nuke:

[Awsi Dooger]

28. I claim status, perhaps the only DUer who managed to misspell his own name

It was supposed to be Awsi, no "e", named after my poodle Awsi. He's 15 years old on Thursday, debate day, so you would think I would know his name as of fall 2002, when I registered on DU.

Every time I look at the user name I feel like a world class moron. Some vague memory of writing Awse, then punching in the "i" but obviously forgetting to evict the "e".

[asthmaticeog]

40. I misspell mine rather a lot.

Now if anyone needs a username change, it's me. Not only do I not know how to pronounce this abomination I'm sportin', I'm not really even asthmatic.

[Wat_Tyler]

41. What's with the eog?

[asthmaticeog]

42. Such a long, stupid story...

I'll PM you - it's not just that it's dumb and pointless, it could potentially give up my IRL identity.

[Skittles]

34. OK Allen

give your honest opinion of my name :D

[arwalden]

43. I Think It's Colorful And Sweet

and sometimes a litle tart.
:-) :hi:

[flaminbats]

37. time for multiple random names?

everytime you login you are assigned someone's last login name. If you make a donation to DU, you can be assigned two random names. Whenever any single user is banned, DU keeps that person's last login names. This means logging in by using the last assigned password each time. Whenever you logout, you're assigned a new password.

[Wat_Tyler]

38. Maybe it'll become a Lounge tradition to always have at least one

Screaming Lord.

[terrya]

39. I think it's a fine tradition.

Thanks for starting it, Wat.