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22 Aug 2011, 5:52 pm

chrissyrun wrote:

How woooould you go about changing your username?

Short answer: you can't. Too many posts and quoted posts are linked to the username for them all to be updated with a new name.
Since multiple accounts aren't allowed, you'd have to get banned voluntarily and come back as someone else.

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22 Aug 2011, 5:52 pm

Titangeek wrote:

you can't

exactly.

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22 Aug 2011, 5:53 pm

Cornflake wrote:

chrissyrun wrote:

How woooould you go about changing your username?

Multiple accounts aren't allowed...couldn't you easily make-up different emails to make accounts.

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22 Aug 2011, 5:54 pm

Once you pick out your username, you're stuck with it.

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22 Aug 2011, 5:59 pm

chrissyrun wrote:

Multiple accounts aren't allowed...couldn't you easily make-up different emails to make accounts.

Possibly, with care, but it's naughty and would likely get spotted sooner or later.
Also I think WP checks a user's IP address where possible, and that would expose many attempts.

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22 Aug 2011, 5:59 pm

Indeed, I needed a different name.

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22 Aug 2011, 6:04 pm

Time for me to go! Bye! (Waves, disappears)

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22 Aug 2011, 6:08 pm

See you soon!

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22 Aug 2011, 6:14 pm

Cornflake wrote:

chrissyrun wrote:

Multiple accounts aren't allowed...couldn't you easily make-up different emails to make accounts.

Possibly, with care, but it's naughty and would likely get spotted sooner or later.
Also I think WP checks a user's IP address where possible, and that would expose many attempts.

I think I almost did that once...just because I really wanted to win the gender race....I made 2 posts with the thing and decided it was against my better judgement.

Hmmm, I guess that's true, I wonder if there is a way to change your ip :chin:

Just kidding, I won't look that up....naaaa.

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22 Aug 2011, 6:19 pm

chrissyrun wrote:

I wonder if there is a way to change your ip :chin:

Just kidding, I won't look that up....naaaa.

As an 'ordinary' user coming through some ISP - no, because it's their IP and not yours so no aspect of it is under your control.
But, technically there are "certain things" which can be done to hop around the issue.

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22 Aug 2011, 6:23 pm

Absolutely, I could change IP a lot on the other computer, but I'm not there anymore, I'm here, where it's pretty much a permanent IP.

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22 Aug 2011, 6:24 pm

Cornflake wrote:

chrissyrun wrote:

I wonder if there is a way to change your ip :chin:

Just kidding, I won't look that up....naaaa.

Hmm, makes sense.

Lol, certain things, I don't want to mess with trouble so I won't ask/google.

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22 Aug 2011, 6:27 pm

I was looking at the label of the honey roasted peanuts I was eating and noticed this:

Peanuts from: USA and/or Argentina and/or Mexico.

Then I looked at the ingredients and saw this:

Peanuts, roasted in Peanut and/or Cottonseed and/or Sunflower seed and/or Canola Oil.

They should just write. "We have no f*****g clue where these peanuts came from or how they were prepared or even what a peanut is. Please eat them at your own risk."