Deftones

now i can see why the mods never wanted to change people's names.

Gizmo

Can I just be 'Gizmo'?

I see someone has that name but they havn't logged in in over a decade (And I pay $20 a year for a avatar! That has to mean something to my good friends here at DVDTalk). Plus DVD is obsolete.

Woah. I've been here for like 13 years. Holy crap.

davidh777

Maybe the permanence can't be enforced, but I'd love to see some people keeping it up for a while. I bet Trevor is thinking of all the archived names in Challenge and Sheep results and going OCD-insane.

VinVega

The sheep threads...

Seriously though, out of respect for your fellow posters, please keep the "formerly known as" in there for a while. Thanks.

HistoryProf

Even though i've gone from teaching to consulting, i'd like to normalize my name across other film boards. So I officially request a change to "HistoryProf"

kthxbye

vaporware

Change mine back to vaporware. Randyc changed it as a joke to waporvare years ago.

Preacher

Nooooooooooooooooo!

You are brizz.

davidh777

This is my chance to separate myself from the record of my last-place finishes!

The Antipodean

Thanks Benedict

Eagerly awaiting Groucho's change to Zeppo or Gummo

HistoryProf

i'll always be your brizz schmoopy. just easier for me to remember which site is which.

Josh-da-man

Great. Now I don't know who the fuck anyone is anymore.

BDB

BDB if it pleases you - thanks!

Preacher

benedict

<small>Takes deep breath and counts to ten...</small>

The latest tranche of member-requested changes is now in place.

By way of a friendly reminder, if we could keep this focussed on those seeking changes while remembering the (minimum) requirement in my initial post:<blockquote>"for <strike>a couple of</strike> six months you will need to include in the Location field (a message) along the lines of "formerly known as ..."</blockquote>Anyone minded to keep the "formerly known as" message in for longer is welcome so to do.

Merci!

Preacher

Tranche? You made that up.

Gizmo

OMG!

I claimed the name I should have 13 years ago (damn lurking for 6 months before joining).

Trevor

I'd like to request that all the users with improper capitalization in their username be banned. My distant second choice would be that the capitalization be corrected.

Dan

Damn you! Now that I can change my name, I can't actually decide what I want.

#1 choice - Dan (yes, this is owned by a totally inactive user. I've only been here for 8 years, so I'm not as awesome as [everyone else]. I did pay for premium for 3 years, so there's that. Either way, that's my first choice, if the admins want to work their magic and rename the original Dan for being a slacker)

If that's not cool, then I'll have to think it over some more...

Thanks!

VinVega

If someone already has the name, it's not fair to them to say they can't have it anymore because someone else wants it.

Dan

It's not fair to someone who had 45 posts in 2001 and has been inactive since?
Got it. I just figured since you did it for Gizmo, the same "rule" would apply.

davidh777

To be fair, the Gizmo one seemed sketchy to me.

Trevor

Exactly. Is the mod forum broken from overloading? Do you all not talk to each other anymore because of Groucho?

This whole forum would be hilarious lately, if I didn't care about it so much.

Trevor

David, this could be your one chance to fix that capitalization......

davidh777

Maybe this thread should also record all the name changes, especially when people say "Please change my name to X" without including their original name.

Ha, I knew you'd mention that, but unlike <s>c</s>Cardsfan111, it doesn't really bother me. It's a much bigger concern that you didn't acknowledge my OCD joke.

On the other hand, you want to ban me over the capitalization....

Trevor

I was going to your joke, but you reminded me of my OCD on capitalization.

And banning was a joke, but if I was a mod I'd put a permanent 'failed English' (or something funnier) in all of you offender's left side boxes.