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New Username Rules
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RE: New Username Rules
January 20, 2014 at 6:27 pm
See? I didn't think Alice was Violet. Y'all are confusing me.
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RE: New Username Rules
January 20, 2014 at 6:27 pm (This post was last modified: January 20, 2014 at 6:28 pm by Violet.)
(January 20, 2014 at 6:25 pm)Luckie Wrote: HA Haas's

Violet's stuck with Alice for a yearrrr!

Oh the memes that will be made, oh yes

Yes, I suppose she is.

But then, she's having the time of her life... so I sincerely doubt that she feels she has been 'stuck with' anything.
(January 20, 2014 at 6:27 pm)c172 Wrote: See? I didn't think Alice was Violet. Y'all are confusing me.

She isn't, but they're welcome to believe whatever they like. Crumpet?
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RE: New Username Rules
January 20, 2014 at 6:29 pm
Nah. I just had a Twinkie. Mahalo, though.
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RE: New Username Rules
January 20, 2014 at 6:36 pm
(January 20, 2014 at 6:29 pm)c172 Wrote: Nah. I just had a Twinkie. Mahalo, though.

Wise move... these were laced quite thoroughly with arsenic. Something about killing rats with rat poison just makes me happy.

* Violet ties a bib round her neck, mocks the English tradition by cutting the crumpets in half, and downs the plate.
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RE: New Username Rules
January 20, 2014 at 7:01 pm
(January 20, 2014 at 6:10 pm)rasetsu Wrote: Just my two cents worth, while I can understand not wanting people chaging every month, only one change per year seems unusually restrictive and will discourage people from rectifying whatever name change situation they may be facing because of the lengthy commitment. (For example, Ivy originally signed up as jsrm10 due to a misunderstanding of the membership joining procedure. As a new user, all she would have seen upon having the possibility of changing to a more user friendly name is that if she was unhappy, she would be unhappy for a long time; and, if she did change and was unhappy, she likely wouldn't have stuck around. In other words, imho, 365 days is simply onerously long.)

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the new rule but it seems to me that signing up initially would be different than changing your username once established. For instance, in signing up for an account you're not technically changing a user name, you are assigning one to yourself, whereas an established member would already have a username from which they are changing, thus invoking the once-a-year rule. To me it seems that the new member would be able to sign up initially and then would have their once-a-year name change still available if they hate the name they signed up with.

Or does the name-change thing only come into effect once you've used it? For example, if I change my user name on August 12th, do I have to wait until August 12th, 2015 to change my name again, or only until January 1st 2015? Is one change per calendar year or one change per year-from-the-date-you-last-changed-your-username?

Why am I even bothering? I'm not changing my username.... Tongue
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RE: New Username Rules
January 20, 2014 at 7:22 pm
(January 20, 2014 at 6:27 pm)Alice Wrote:
(January 20, 2014 at 6:27 pm)c172 Wrote: See? I didn't think Alice was Violet. Y'all are confusing me.

She isn't, but they're welcome to believe whatever they like. Crumpet?


Apparently I'm not the only one that pegged you for an Englishman Confusedhock:
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Dead wrong.  The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.

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RE: New Username Rules
January 20, 2014 at 7:26 pm (This post was last modified: January 20, 2014 at 7:27 pm by rexbeccarox.)
(January 20, 2014 at 6:09 pm)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote:
(January 20, 2014 at 5:41 pm)pocaracas Wrote: O smell a wabbit and a ryan behind this...
Anyway, I like it.

Boo. I even changed my custom title so that people would still have an easy time referring to me.

NOBODY APPRECIATES A USERNAME ARTIST

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IT USED TO BE A TABLE BEING FLIPPED BUT I CHANGED IT TO A CROSS BEING TIPPED

THAT'S CUTTING EDGE

Damn. I thought it was supposed to be a pair of tits with arms and a square dong.
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#18
RE: New Username Rules
January 20, 2014 at 7:34 pm
At my age if I ever changed I'd forget who the fuck I was.
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RE: New Username Rules
January 20, 2014 at 7:39 pm
(January 20, 2014 at 7:26 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Damn. I thought it was supposed to be a pair of tits with arms and a square dong.

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RE: New Username Rules
January 20, 2014 at 7:42 pm
(January 20, 2014 at 7:26 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Damn. I thought it was supposed to be a pair of tits with arms and a square dong.

News to me. I thought it was Frosty The Snowman being mugged by a medieval knight.
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