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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In reply to Re: Is it possible for a monk to rename himself? by grinder
in thread Is it possible for a monk to rename himself? by vkonovalov

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