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You can no longer place spaces in your user name when changing it.
  Heinous! The space is probably the most important grammatical device of the English language!
  Icannotreadwithoutspaces!Thetaskispracticallyimpossible.Iamgoingblindjustfromreadingthis.
  Well. Doesn't that just suck.
  Oh my. -Faint.-
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Praxling

PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:24 pm


Okay, so I was going to change my username, but Gaia no longer allows people to place spaces in their screen names.
HEINOUS, I tell you.
Why do you think this change has been made?
PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:25 pm


While you're pondering the question, would you mind helping me with a creative way of typing a new screen name?

Here's the phrase I'm using:
Inspired Ambitions

sweatdrop

Praxling


Chase Keyhole

PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:32 pm


I changed a mule's name the other day and it allowed me to put a space in, so is this something that just happened today or something?
PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:42 pm


Really?
Yeah, it just happened today.
Although I think I tried doing this before, and it didn't allow me to put spaces in the name....
D:

Praxling


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PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:49 pm


I know that when I first started out on Gaia, they didn't allow any spaces in the username. Instead, you had to use the underline. You know, like my name: greenrider_calidar. See the underline? It's easier than a space, I agree, because then you don't have to wonder about how many spaces there are. If you wanted to do Ispired Ambitions, just type in Inspired_Ambitions. Simple, see?
PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:55 pm


Yeah...see, I'm mildly retarded so I don't know how to change one's name. Although, since I don't know what I want to change it to yet, it's not really a problem yet. mrgreen

Red-Chocolate


Praxling

PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:01 pm


Greenrider:
An underscore is easier than a space? Maybe, but I prefer to use the space.

Of course it would be simple to just type 'Inspired_Ambitions' instead of 'Inspired Ambitions', but I'm very particular, you see. I'll only use that as a last resort.

Red-Chocolate:
Haha, don't worry about it.
When you go to your profile, click on preferences.
In the intro paragraph (where Rina describes what you can do in that section), there should be a link.
Click on that, and it should take you to a page where you can change your screen name, change your avatar's gender, or enter in your birthdate.
PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:07 pm


Ah! Well thank you for your assistance! mrgreen

Red-Chocolate


Praxling

PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:09 pm


No problem. :]
PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:35 pm


They allowed me to change my name From Uchiha Alex to this, so it must be a new thing. I've had this name since Summer.

Obito Sharingan Uchiha


[Joan De Arc]

PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 6:29 pm


Eh?
I changed me name at Christmas.

Ideas:
{Heinous}
H.E.I.N.O.U.S
[~Heinous~]

and it goes on..
PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:14 pm


Do you still have to pay 10,000g to change your name a third or fourth time? I thought that was dumb. talk2hand

Yeah, an underscore works almost as well. I have employed it in more than one instance. 3nodding

Miko_Sohma


Praxling

PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:55 pm


Obito Sharingan Uchiha:I guess so.

[Joan De Arc]:
Really? I dunno. I haven't tried to change it in a while.

Ah, I like your ideas. Even though that wasn't the word I was going to change my user name to.
But now that you've given ideas for it, I might change it to that. xD
I do like that word...

Miko_Sohma:
Yes, unfortunately. Yeah, I think it is too.
I know it does, but I don't really want to use one.
At least, not in the middle.
But the system also won't allow me to start my user name with an underscore.

They gave this example:

MyUsername instead of _=My Username=_
PostPosted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:25 am


Well thank the gods I don't plan on changing my name. Seriously, underscore instead of spaces? Sorry. That's just not a comparison.

Marcus McFlufferson


silentsouless

PostPosted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 5:35 am


I agree.
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