Name Change

[recycling goddess]

thank you so much judy... i feel more enlightened i may not fully agree with you... but i respect your position completely!

[JLC]

i may not fully agree with you... but i respect your position completely!

DITTO! And you're very welcome.

[Nate]

Yeah I can understand where the admins are coming from. The board that I am talking about that I merged a user was a board that was launched 2 weeks ago and has 25 members. I have not had to deal with a few thousand people. I have to put myself in their position and think, what if we changed the rule and let people change their name? we would get requests daily...and then would get sick of people asking so then we would have to change that rule...and then they would get mad at us.

As stated before, not everyone will like the rules. but tough, deal with it. I am. It's not a big deal to me. If there was an option to change the name once since registration, now would be the time that I did it. That's an idea....allow people to change once after they register...or after they've become a bpnet veteran (400 posts)

[recycling goddess]

after they've become a bpnet veteran (400 posts)

bpnet veteran is a title given at the discretion of the admins... not by the amount of posts.

i have 1700 posts... but haven't been around long enough to be a vet!

[Nate]

hmm i didn't know that

i just noticed my name in italics when i had 401 posts..i assumed it was at 400. thanks for the correction

[recycling goddess]

well i guess you just don't talk as much as i do *blush* since you are barely over 400 posts now and you've been here since 2004!

*back out the door with her cell phone to her ear while typing*

[Nate]

yep i normally lurk the forums. in 2004 i ended up with 3 ball pythons. in late 05 i had to sell them and move to Orlando for college As of right now i don't own any snakes but I love these forums because I just love to come and chit chat. I still try to offer some help in the bp section but normally by the time i find a post i can help out on there's already 10 really good responses i'm here off and on.

anywayz....don't mean to hi-jack my own thread. hehe.

[JLC]

Hehe....vet status comes with a combination of two full years of membership and a minimum of 200 posts. OR, if your rep goes high enough (very high), you will achieve vet status with less than 2 years membership. (I think those are the numbers....I am relying on an admittedly faulty memory at this time.)