Topic: Public request to Theymos for a name change - page 3. (Read 1762 times)

As a one who has been though the process, I can give you an advance to contact Cyrus instead.
For me it took a couple of days.

I have seen name change applications be successful, it is unfortunate your application did not succeed.

As NeuroticFish stated, maybe Christmas will have the desired effect on theymos and you will receive your present. Just another 8 weeks to go and if that failed it will be an extra week before a new years change of might do it  

I (again) can't find back the thread, but from what I remember you'll just have to be a valued user and ask nicely. Or pass away, and someone else has to ask, but let's not go to such extremes yet.

Theymos, don't grant his wish. I like it as The Pharmacist. Good luck 🤣

To be honest in my case, he responded pretty quick and changed it. I don't see anything not to grant your wish. I will be guessing my main man is busy with other things and did not notice your request yet.

No, I've never even considered considering asking for one, because I thought you had to be either a staff member or a donator to get one.  Do you know who's been granted one and under what circumstances?  It's not like I've done anything spectacular to earn one of those, and it seems to me that if Theymos is silently giving me the finger in response to a name change, there's no reason to think that he'd bestow what amounts to something much more special than that.

Well, he didn't last Christmas and he had 11 months to think about it.  I'm trying to internalize your optimism and hopefulness, but my brain keeps rejecting it, like an organ transplant failure. 

Have you considered asking for a Custom Title instead? Those have been granted too.

Never say never, maybe he will grant you the change as a Christmas present this year!

PS. I also support the name change.

Wouldn't that be wild, though?  If I'm not mistaken, I've seen it happen a couple of times since I've been a member here.  Didn't OmegaStarScream originally have a different username?  There was another moderator too, I think. 

And yeah, I've pretty much resigned myself to remaining with my current moniker forever.  Eh.  I could have problems much worse than having my request denied by Theymos.

Thanks to you and PowerGlove for your support.  I doubt any support, however strong, is going to sway Theymos's decision though--but it can't hurt, right?

Theymos' silence and the fact that The Pharmacist is still The Pharmacist tells you what the admin's decision is. Not speaking means no, you can't get a name change. I have gotten used to seeing The Pharmacist and his merit cycling avatar. I imagine I would be very confused if a different username and maybe with another avatar suddenly appeared and I had no idea who it is.

But if it helps, c'mon theymos just grant the guy his wish.   

I think TP should get his name change (or at least a definitive decision about it). Here's my thinking:

If someone is putting in the time (i.e. taking their merit source duties seriously, making years worth of quality posts, etc.) then it sends kind of a shitty/hurtful message to just flat-out ignore their request for a name change, no?

I can appreciate that theymos might have strict criteria and a preference to only award name changes when there's an obviously worthwhile and/or necessary reason to do so, but I also think a little spontaneous leniency every once in a while is a fine thing, too!

If TP could borrow Foxpup's time machine and donate ~$230 [1] [2] for the ability to change his own display name, I'm sure he would. So, can't we just pretend that he did that, or consider his contributions to the forum to dwarf that paltry sum, anyway?

Bitcointalk is overflowing with mindless garbage, and a vanishingly small set of members are responsible for making the good stuff; TP is one of them, and I'm sure many others feel the same way, so can't a random act of kindness [3] be justified in this case?

[1] https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.60997445
[2] https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.11730335
[3] https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-85307-001

Aaaaaahhhahahahaha....I had almost forgotten about her.  Well, you either appreciate that kind of humor or you don't.  I got quite a few PMs telling me they did.  Joke you if you can't take a fuck, broheim.

By the way, I was not spamming with that account.  It was for humor purposes and I actually put in a lot of effort into writing all of those posts (which henceforth I will put out of my mind, as times have changed).

Gee, who was that who asked me that question?  I do believe it was cryptohunter--probably two years ago.  What other kind of forum achievements would you want me to list?  You'd ridicule them all anyway, so don't bother replying to that.

Seeing as how my username hasn't changed and Theymos hasn't chimed in, I'm guessing the answer is no and thus I should probably lock the thread at this point.  I did enjoy reading all of your posts, even yours cryptoLaudanumhunterAboveAll.

It's not an asumption, you started a thread to advise that you were seeking to do the name swap.

IiRC the other UID's profile name was modified, then you modified yours.

Getting back to the current request, I've spotted a couple of threads the last few days and from what I've seen it's a protracted thing, so isn't likely to occur quickly.

Ah, that is what you meant, my bad. However, that is an incorrect assumption. I specifically asked Theymos if they could remove the inactive and banned account that previously used this name and change my name into it.

My point was actually that Mitchell took over another UID profile name, so it is possible for a new user to take over the old name of a user who has changed their profile name.

Correct, as a staff member I can indeed change my display name at any time, just like a Donator/VIP.

In the past, I also asked theymos to change my username as desired. I have sent theymos pm about my request but so far never got a response from theymos. I think it is very difficult for me to see the request materializing as theymos have probably received quite a number of the same request from many other users.

As for pharmacist request, I think there is a possibility that the request will be granted. But I don't think it will be easy for him. Hopefully the pharmacist is lucky enough with this username change request.

Mitchell is actually a moderator/patroller, and the mods are able to change their display name on their own. He wears a copper membership, so it is difficult for this to be obvious to some people if they aren’t paying close attention.

Mitchell was able to change their user name (more than once IIRC) the last time they took over the name from a long since inactive user.  Unless you looked closely, you wouldn't have noticed the two curls on the bottom of the "L"'s

I have mixed feelings about name changes in the forum. One admin/mod in a local language section was changing user names a little while after some of them started receiving negative feedback and or distrust.

People giving opinions on whether theymos should or shouldn't.

I think he should but only if it is sensible and reasonable to do so not just on a whim because you feel like a bit of a change.

Also the name should be an improvement for the good of the forum.

It is reasonable that a username should give a sensible insight to the members character.

I would suggest he changes it to

1. HugeBlackWoman

That is thepharmacists other sock puppet account from which he was sneakily pumping out racist troll spamming

He was only caught out for trying to greedily jump from one sig to a better paying sig.
Obviously whilst telling everyone else they shouldn't be here just to spam sigs whilst posting crap.

2. TheSmarmacist.

A brilliant and insightful adaptation that was suggested by a valuable member.

3. My-Highest-Achievment-Here-Is-Getting-To-Spam-Chipmixer

When asked what he had ever achieved here after 5 years and still being a broke down bum he said that his most proud and highest achievement was to get on to chipmixer sig campaign.

4. Imbecile

The nearly got a degree loser has never made an orignal thought inspiring post that made any lasting difference here.


I mean I have a bunch more but clearly they are not as flattering so since I'm feeling friendly and upbeat let us go with one of the less negative but still sensible and accurate username alterations.

I guess if Theymos is going to change it then make it the forums best interest.

He can change owlcatz to foulskatz whilst he's at it. 2 for 1 scumbag username upgrades.

Good luck!!!

Don't give people ideas like that.

Anyhow, quite sure a name change will not free up your prior name for usage. It stays the same for login, just the display gets changed afaik.

Will keep waiting for subject-starter of this topic to change in my watchlist, hopefully!   Good luck!