+RiverCacher Posted April 5, 2002 Posted April 5, 2002 Hey guys, If I wanted to change my user name at Geocaching.com, does that reset my "found" count, screw up my placed caches, and make me look like a different person? Or does it just replace my old name everywhere it appears? Scott Lynchburg, Virga. Quote
+Hawk-eye Posted April 5, 2002 Posted April 5, 2002 OK Scott what did you do ... that would make you have to go underground ... Triffid will still find you ... no matter what you call yourself! All joking aside ... I don't know exactly ... if you start another account it would probably take you back to square one ... I don't know about just trying to change user names ... maybe Jeremy will see this and answer pretty soon. Take care ... Quote
+Hawk-eye Posted April 5, 2002 Posted April 5, 2002 OK Scott what did you do ... that would make you have to go underground ... Triffid will still find you ... no matter what you call yourself! All joking aside ... I don't know exactly ... if you start another account it would probably take you back to square one ... I don't know about just trying to change user names ... maybe Jeremy will see this and answer pretty soon. Take care ... Quote
+triffid Posted April 5, 2002 Posted April 5, 2002 Yeh RiverCacher! You can run but you can't hide!! Triffid Quote
+triffid Posted April 5, 2002 Posted April 5, 2002 Yeh RiverCacher! You can run but you can't hide!! Triffid Quote
+Seattle Seekers Posted April 5, 2002 Posted April 5, 2002 I changed my user name a week or so after I created my initial account. It just replaced my old name with my new name on all of my logs and my cache finds count remained the same. Quote
+RiverCacher Posted April 5, 2002 Author Posted April 5, 2002 Actually, Hawkeye...I wanted to do it so -more- people could find me. I like the fact that Triffid is on Triffid's license plate. While my plate, which reads "batteau" (www.batteau.org to find out what it is) is similar to my nickname, I wanted to make it more similar, so people could identify me in the wild. Scott Quote
+clatmandu Posted April 5, 2002 Posted April 5, 2002 If you open a new account, it will affect your totals, just changing your user name will not. Quote
+Rebel Posted April 5, 2002 Posted April 5, 2002 I changed mine and the system kept all my finds and changed my geonick on all the pages where I had logs. The one exception I found was with my own caches. When created the cache log, I manually entered the information on the cache log page - including my geonick. So, I had to go back and manually edit my cache log pages to refect the change. Quote
+rdw Posted April 6, 2002 Posted April 6, 2002 I changed my nick after several months of caching. I only had three problems, two of which were easily fixed. First problem, the "hidden by" field for caches you hid does not change. Even if you did not manually enter it. Just edit the cache page to fix this. Second problem, I had to ask the geocaching stats site to transfer the logs under my old user ID to my new one. That was taken care of quickly. Third problem is when people have made reference to you in their logs or forum posts. There is no good way to fix this, so you just hope people can figure it out on their own. rdw Quote
+GOT GPS? Posted April 6, 2002 Posted April 6, 2002 It's alot easier than a root canal. quote: Originally posted by Da Rebel:It'll be painless My home page about GPS units and information Quote
+Vertigo Posted April 7, 2002 Posted April 7, 2002 I changed mine, but not really. I just dropped some numbers, it use to be Vertigo235 Quote
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