Is it possible to change your username? -- **Answered**

biggreentom

Hey all,

I was wondering if anyone knows if it is possible to change your username on here?  I set this account up a while ago and have since setup accounts on YouTube and Instagram as BBQ Tom.  I'd love to change my username here to that but when I edit my profile it won't let me and I can't see contact info for who to ask.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

SoCalTim

No, but luckily you only have 14 posts here, so you don't really have anything vested. Make a new account with new name.

stemc33

You've only got 14 post. Just abandon it and start over. I wish it was an option though. I just picked part of my email when I signed up because it's frustrating coming up with usernames for everything. didn't think I'd be that active on the forum 

biggreentom

Thanks for the quick responses guys!  I had such a hard time getting my account active on here that I'm weary to try and get a new account activated.  I think I'll just keep the username.  I setup links in my signature pointing to my IG and YT accounts.  It's not like I am famous and need to maintain a "brand" 

stemc33

In all reality though, it should be something the forum allows. I mean think about it, in today's world people can change everything and anything about themselves. You can always call the civil rights people to help you out. 

theyolksonyou

Or Bruce, err Caitlyn 

stemc33

Nuthin worser than a snobby Ceramic Kookin' Club keeping an honest BBQing guy down. 

jtcBoynton

Go ahead and try another account. The first time I signed up here it was taking forever. I tried signing up again with a different username etc, and it only took a day to get approved and active.  The approval process seems to be quite variable. 

BBQ_Tom

Setting up a new account took a lot less time this go around.  Now, how do I delete my old one? 

Jeepster47

Why delete the old one?  Leave it there.  Or, use it to insult members and after a week or so the moderators will remove it for you.

biggreentom

Hey @Jeepster47, you're a big jerkface.  Like that? 

Jeepster47

No, not truthfully descriptive names ... geez.  There have been a couple recently that went way over the top into pornographic posts and name calling.   

Ozzie_Isaac

biggreentom said:

Hey @Jeepster47, you're a big jerkface.  Like that? 

No, thats true.  You need to lie too.

Jeepster47

Ozzie_Isaac said:

biggreentom said:

Hey @Jeepster47, you're a big jerkface.  Like that? 

No, thats true.  You need to lie too.

You ... get back to work! 

BBQ_Tom

What did I start?  LOL

Legume

I say we flag the sh*t out of the @BBQ_Tom account and get it deleted so he has to go back to the @biggreentom account.

BBQ_Tom

That wouldn't be very nice. Especially since all the other cool names, like @Legume, are already taken.

Legume

biggreenlegume is probably available

Legume

fwiw, I have/had a touch of screen name remorse as well, when I picked legume it was my third try at getting an account setup and I was tired of trying to be creative.  like saying a word over and over again, it's now lost all of it's original meaning for me.  my name is meaningless.

Ozzie_Isaac

@Legume when I read your posts I imagine a butter bean talking to me.

Legume

not sure if you mean this...

or this...

I guess that's a fail either way.

DieselkW

Hmmm. How many of us have more than one account? Sort of a Clark Kent / Superman bi-polar Stephen King / Richard Bachmann thing?

I admit it, this is my nom-de-plume, I'm actually someone else much more interesting on my other I.D.

blasting

DieselkW said:

Hmmm. How many of us have more than one account? Sort of a Clark Kent / Superman bi-polar Stephen King / Richard Bachmann thing?

I admit it, this is my nom-de-plume, I'm actually someone else much more interesting on my other I.D.

As long as you don't hold conversations with your two screen names, remember the mike troll and his alter egos.

Legume

I'm not actually sure.  Legume was the third account I tried to setup, I can't remember now what the other names were and I never got notification, so I assume they never got created but I guess I have no way of knowing.  I wonder how many accounts there are with zero posts - could be phantom accounts or really deep lurkers.

theyolksonyou

This was my third try as well, thus the stupid name...

if I can remember them, I'm going to check the other two. 

jls9595

I wish I were creative, I just used my initials and my favorite number, twice for some reason.