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Not generally. This needs to be done by Jeremy, our valiant leader, personally, and he generally has much better things to do with his time. I would expect a small donation might help your cuase though ;-)
newbiesforever (as of this posting -- it may change ),
He did for me, I think just after my 1st post. You have enough posts that the Q of identity confusion is raised. I also don't know if all your old posts would get "renamed" automatically.
What do you want to change to?
What is your good reason for it?
You will have to e-mail Jeremy, w/ the reason, to have it happen.
The first posts here, aside from the bribery jokes, suggest that I'm wasting Jeremy's time; and others say I shouldn't change without a good reason. Which I don't have. I'm just someone who never keeps the same name forever on a message-posting site. (In the several Doctor Who forums I've been in since 2000, I've gone through more names than I can count.) I withdraw my request (which technically wasn't a request).
If that is a Q for me, & the answer matters; then an LQ search of this forum, my user name, & "name change" will, IIRC, get you more info. than you wanted to know.
The first posts here, aside from the bribery jokes, suggest that I'm wasting Jeremy's time; and others say I shouldn't change without a good reason. Which I don't have. I'm just someone who never keeps the same name forever on a message-posting site. (In the several Doctor Who forums I've been in since 2000, I've gone through more names than I can count.) I withdraw my request (which technically wasn't a request).
It's not that you're wasting Jeremy's time, it's just that it is somewhat disruptive. For example, in this thread, anyone that has addressed you by name will seem to be addressing a completely different person - one who hasn't even posted here.
Really, it's just one id on the net and changing does involve some work by Jeremy. Just leave it as it is, as many will say here we're all newbies, no matter how long we've been using Linux.
ROFL > mc'lovin'it > "and now that my postcount is over 3 I may never change" >
...but seriously I'd really love to rename myself now too... I myt go do that now via rejoining
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