Re: Is it possible for a monk to rename himself?

I'm felt sure that BooK asked to have his nick changed from just plain "book", or maybe I was on drugs. But that's just a question of case sensitivity. Other than that, it's just not possible.

Some other threads on the question:

It is generally considered poor form to have more than one nick on the site. That said, there are a couple of exceptions. The above-mentioned BooK runs the Mongueurs account, blakem runs a bot on the thepen account, and Abigail registered a new account Abigail-II, for valid reasons not worth explaining here.

No-one really bothers with the fact that a person with two accounts will use them for mutual voting, simply because of the effort required. You have to log in each day from each account and spend the votes. In half the time you could craft a good response, or a good meditation, and gain twice the XP that voting would.

You could register the new nick (I see that it is still up for grabs), update your current bio to say that it is retired, and link to the new home node. People will see if you continue to use the old account, because the "last here" field will be updated.

But it would be a bit of a pity, you're already a monk, you have 32 writeups at this time. Why not stay with this nick?

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Re: Re: Is it possible for a monk to rename himself? by stefp (Vicar) on Jun 07, 2002 at 18:40 UTC
I'm felt sure that BooK asked to have his nick changed from just plain "book", or maybe I was on drugs. But that's just a question of case sensitivity. Other than that, it's just not possible. Case is not much a problem. typing "book" in the search box leads me right to BooK's home page. -- stefp -- check out TeXmacs wiki	[reply]
Re^2: Is it possible for a monk to rename himself? by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jun 08, 2002 at 14:52 UTC
You could register the new nick (I see that it is still up for grabs), update your current bio to say that it is retired, and link to the new home node. That's exactly what I'm planning to do - for my own reasons, I've been getting rid of all my "Screamer" accounts wherever feasible. I've given it some thought and decided to reach saint on the Screamer account (I'm vain like that `:-)`), then register a new, permanent name, leave a link to my new homenode on the Screamer homenode, put a link back to the Screamer homenode into my new one, and carry a remark to that effect in the new account's sig for a while. Using the two accounts to cross-upvote didn't even occur to me, and seems hardly worth the effort. The real problem I thought of was people referring to my posts. Being able to change nicks would break the "integrity" of other people's references to me by the nick "Screamer" or links to the Screamer homenode, f.ex in reply to a note of mine, or esp so when referring to a note of mine in a completely different place in that or even a different node. So long as you are not using the accounts concurrently, but instead, entirely abandon the old one and use only the new one, I don't see any kind of ethical implications. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]