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tea and oranges

(396 posts)
Fri Jan 31, 2014, 04:21 PM Jan 2014

Can I change my userid?

In 2005 I joined DU officially after lurking for years. I chose the innocent (except for the slight druggie references) seeming moniker of Tea and Oranges. Besides who doesn't love Leonard Cohen? Once I even told a small poetry magazine for my bio info that I had 7 children named Leonard.

OK, fast forward to the effing tea party. My computer crashed, burned, & got replaced. I still visited DU daily, but I'd lost my password & was feeling a little odd about my userid. The media & the Baggers turned Tea into something I didn't want to be associated with. Also, w/ my low post count & Tea in my name I feared getting identified as one of the stealth gop-ers trying to mess w/ DU.

Never much of a poster, I've discovered that now there's things I want to say. Can you help a long-term member of the community to be more a part of community? Can I please become Tea-less.

Apologies to Leonard!

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Can I change my userid? (Original Post) tea and oranges Jan 2014 OP
You could just abandon this account and start a new one. cbayer Jan 2014 #1
Thanks! tea and oranges Jan 2014 #2
Best of luck! cbayer Jan 2014 #3

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
1. You could just abandon this account and start a new one.
Fri Jan 31, 2014, 04:25 PM
Jan 2014

You might want to shoot the admin a note telling them that you are doing that so they don't think you are setting up a sock puppet. You could also ask them if you could transfer your star.

[email protected]

With so few posts you have little to lose.

tea and oranges

(396 posts)
2. Thanks!
Fri Jan 31, 2014, 07:21 PM
Jan 2014

Took your suggestion & ran w/ it. Now I need a userid that the rightwing won't ruin - something like Molotov.

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