Change Forum Username

I want to change my user name in the forum ,it has name and city of residence .. these are my privacy I should have a provision to decide what my user name should be , even showing my name to public have a privacy concerns

You're welcome.

* It appears that you had Russian language selected on your device when you "joined" ASC - if not, this is the #1 strangest glitch that I have (yet) seen of the many that exist (and continue to be revealed/created) in the SiteWare

walterfrombirmingham wrote:

You've got to be joking me? You can't change usernames on here!!!??

Well now I guess im stuck with this name. I clicked accept to quickly as I didn't se the username box until it was too late....

Nope. No joke. Here's why... if one could change their name willy-nilly, how could anyone ever know who is who?

Changing name when you first register membership is no big deal

I will alert the Hosts

I agree, this is totally absurd on Apple's part. Look how many people want to change their flippin username. It could take all of five seconds to do but we have to write a request for it to get done? Insane. Anyway, can you add me to the list of people who would like their username changed please? I would *greatly* appreciate it. Thank you! :)

haroldfromsaltsjöbaden wrote:

Or maybe you mean that I have to be a host to read the thread?

Neither, but this one is closer - they have been alerted via a reporting system that is available to Level 2 and above

They will contact you via email sometime - sooner or later, it's the weekend

In retrospect there is something that strikes me as very odd:

I don't think I typed in my real name as the username way back when I create the account. I would never so such a thing. In reality my username and my real name were switched somehow. There is something strange going on I wouldn't consider myself responsible for...

Well let's see. I hope apple will contact me.

Your memory may be correct - or not - I wasn't around in 2008 !!

NOW, if you choose an "alias" username that is already in use = turingtest2 for example (he loves being made an example of) = the "system" will offer you "suggestions" - most often firstnamefromyourcity - not exactly what many prefer for privacy reasons!

My point is that back in 2008 the "suggestive text" may have been Firstname Lastname

if you do not hear from the Hosts in a couple of hours, post back and we will remind them about it

As we are all other users here, the only people who can change names are the hosts (moderators); all we can do is to report the request to them (anyone level 2 and higher can do that). It is then up to them to contact you.

It has come to my attention that my display username contains my real name. I would also like to know how to modify my forum username for privacy reasons. Can someone report to a moderator for me and see if I can get this updated?

Thanks.

Hi admins,

I entered this site the first time today any it automatically created a username with my real name and my location.

This is absolutely inacceptable!

Please delete this username and remove this post asap!

Hopefuly this is the right location to post this - I didn't find a direct link to the admins.

I'd like to have mine changed as well. Its using my full name.

I signed up earlier today and it never offered me a choice (I'm sure). I started a new post and it asked me to login with my Apple ID, then allowed me to continue typing the post, when I submitted it, voila - my full name. Maybe because I signed in/up in the course of making a new post?

Hi ChitlinsCC, I would like to change my username, as well. I have the same username across the whole internet everywhere else, and it's always me. I spent over 24 hours creating log-ins at every website I could ever potentially use, and I think it'd only be suitable if I had my Apple Support Community username to match.

Thanks in advance!

Precisely. The reason is, I am thecodercody on every website I can think of. I spent 24 hours straight one time registering that name all over the internet so that it's just me always. I love it. No numbers, easy to spell, descriptive still. Ahhhh. I made thecodingcody before I realized it wasn't available on twitter or facebook or something. Now it's me everywhere. 👍 I think it's good to avoid confusion if somebody accidentally registered that name without realizing I had a monstrous amount of claims to that name.

Thanks again! 😁

😉 I suppose you are gonna try to blame "auto-correct/suggestive-text" for "i n g" ?? 😀

As a coder myself - and debugger, of course - I found a large percentage of errors occurred on the user end, between the seat and screen 😀

No, actually, I meant to do that. It was before I knew it wasn't available on Twitter. I discovered right after that thecodercody was available on all major platforms, so I switched. I ducking hate auto-correct 😉