please dont, its confusing.  If you absolutely must, could you at least say so in your signature or something?  Im going crazy trying to figure out who's who.

oh.  I think the new name is clever by the way, when i figured out who you were I started laughing.

I still think its a bit of a pain though, at first I thought you were a new member then I
saw ur post amount blah blah blah....

or when balt kept changing his, and wesley, and , I was going kind of crazy.

well, the holding over the name thing should help, thanks.

That would only raise confusion on my name, since I use a different login name than the one I am known by on here. I would change my name, you'd try the whole status bar trick and go, "Who the hell is tubkas?"

and it would take me like ten minutes to figure out that it is, in fact, george wilson.  

This is why I think its annoying when people change their name.

So I shouldn't change my name to Senior Lewis Montariego Dawn Bob Jumping Toast?

Or would you know it was me?

Well, I dont think anyone in the world other than you would change their name to that, so, I guess you have my permission.

I started a thread in General Chat asking the same thing. I don't mind an occasional name change, but is it necessary to do it every month (or more)?

I've always had my name in every name I've got. Always. I don't know about people who change them all in all, but I've changed my name 2 times now and all of them have had BALTIS in them.

BALTIS (after my beautiful cat whom I love more than life its self)
I MADBALT (after a favorite horror movie of mine/ and my cats name)
SITLAB (my cat's name spelt backwards)

I don't see what's wrong with this. Also, it's like you don't know who the person is who changed their name. It's not like we're all in our Batman costume or we're putting on glasses to conceal our identity.

its not like I can see you.

and because of that, the name is important.

I wanted to change my screename to something new beyond just Wesley but for the sake of confusion I always leave Wesley in it.

Since it's a name that nobody else uses it's easy to always see that it's me.

I had the same name at the beginning for almost 2 years...

Wesley_Faelyn
Wesley And The Curse

That's all I can remember ever having on this site before recently. Yes it is odd when people change their names and all but you get over it.

I honestly had no clue George was Tubkas, a few other people as well who came back after a long time away with a new name as it were.

you know waht would be really funny?  if I changed my board name to "hypocrite"

ha? ha? get it?

Quoted from Balt I've always had my name in every name I've got. Always. I don't know about people who change them all in all, but I've changed my name 2 times now and all of them have had BALTIS in them.

Not quite. I recall coming back to the board after a short absence and you were IMADMAN - no Balt there.

If everyone just put their real name in their sig, this wouldn't be an issue at all.

Yes, and that was for a day, maybe two... cause I realized that it might affect my new script I posted and the reads it would get.

So, yes, you are right... but please note I changed it very quickly.

even so, "sitlab" no one just automatically say's, hey, ill read this backwords! maybe then Ill figure out who it is!

It still confusing and I found out who you were by the cursor over name technique.

Right, I didn't think Sitlab = Baltis, I recognized the avatar and sig first.

I think everyone is making too much outta this whole name change thing... I think maybe we should all have 1 day out of the year where it's all agreed upon and do the name switch thing then. That wouldn't get outta hand now, would it?

It's just a name. It's no big deal. You can just look at the top posters thing and see who everyone "Really is" I mean, Wes has over a thousand post... if he changed his name would we all still know who he was? I think so.

Who's making a big deal of it? We're just discussing how it can be a bit confusing when some members change their screen names frequently. It's especially true for new members who don't know everyone yet.

Anyway, as I stated before, all this would be irrelevant if you all put your names in your signatures. And why not do that, you put your real name on the scripts you submit, right?

how do you changes name?

Just go to your members center. Hit name and contact information. You'll see "SCREEN NAME" just type in what you want to change it to and save settings.

I encourage it.

Most of my names have had the word "Curse" in them. Except for Ametsuchi No Hitokoe, named after my anime series ( shameless plug ).

Quoted from Old Time Wesley I honestly had no clue George was Tubkas, a few other people as well who came back after a long time away with a new name as it were.

I always sign up under Tubkas on every board I'm on. I posted a couple of times under that name, and then got distracted. I wasn't a regular by any stretch of the imagination then anyway. After deciding to just be myself on other boards I'm on, I decided to be myself on this one too, and out of my nearly 900 posts to date, I'd say 875 were made under George Willson as the screen name.

No one has to worry about my name changing. I've had it for years, and I'm kind of happy with it. Not only do I have the common, yet rare, name of George, but my ultra common last name has the ultra uncommon spelling of 2 L's. I don't think I could come up with a better name. Thanks Dad.

I know. I got got with Hairy Tic.
I was drinking my morning coffee, coasting through the threads nice and easy like a drive down a country road on a Sunday afternoon when Hairy Tic came out of nowhere, and I was like What? Hairy Tic, who are you?
It was kind of creepy scary. I thought I was getting Altzeimers.

I changed my screenname
<<<<see.
now i just change my avatar. im sick of garfield.

Yeah I'm kind of sick of that ugly avatar on mine... Wait that's me ha-ha

I think if I durastically changed my name to Steven people would be confused or angry with me as they've become accustomed to calling me Wes or Wesley.

Though Steven just doesn't have the same ring to it... Wesley The Ice Princess, now that has a good ring to it.

I don't think they would be angry, just confused. Your avatar is pretty neat.
I need an avatar, too. Maybe I'll have my daughter put my pic up. I don't know how to do that.

I enjoy photoshopping my face and making it look creepy, might be weird but hey it's what I do on my free time.

I've noticed a lot of guys who pick or graze the surface with the finger as to pretend to scratch but really what they want to do is pick. Maybe they have an itchy nose so maybe it's not a pick but an itch like Jerry Seinfeld.

AAAhhh!   LOL!  Sorry, took it down.

How do you change your name? I wanna change mine. Haha

Have you even read this thread?  It's clearly stated above.  Hunt and you shall find.

Quoted from Higgonaitor you know waht would be really funny?  if I changed my board name to "hypocrite" ha? ha? get it?

hahahaha.....
ugh.....
yup.

Hey, look everyone! It's Higgonaitor who mysteriously changed his name to The Fantastic Mr. Higgins even though he started the whole thread complaining about people changing their name in the first place and then he went and did it and my God this is one hell of a run on sentence, isn't it?

Your sig "Wha' happened?!" is appropriate.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

"I feel like such a hypocrite" is also appropraite