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Can not change user name in profile pages on Gawker sites.
Can not change user name in profile pages on Gawker sites. I have tried Gizmodo, Gawker, io9, Lifehacker, etc... and you can get to the profile page, but when you select edit, the page it brings you to allows you to change everything BUT your user name. This is a problem because Gizmodo is having a contest that requires you to change your user name. you CAN change your name on the profile page on Consumerist, which makes me believe it is related to some recent change. I notice this because I change my user name everyday.
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Inappropriate?I'm having the same issue with my Jalopnik account. When trying to change my screen name the other day, instead of changing to what I wanted, it reverted to my login name (which I do NOT want to appear on my comments). Many attempts to change back to my usual screen name were unsuccessful, and now the option to change has completely vanished. I have been commenting on Jalopnik since late 2005 / early 2006, and have expressed my annoyance many times at Gawker's insistence on fixing nonexistent problems and creating very real problems in the process which they seem unwilling or unable to correct. I successfully changed my screen name at consumerist, but since Consumerist is on the old comment system, it didn't change at Jalopnik. I have tried the tricks for clearing my browser cache for the site but it doesn't help. I really don't want to clear the whole browser cache for a number of reasons.
I am on Windows XP with Firefox 3.0.11
I’m annoyed!
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Update: The screen name change at Consumerist appears to have worked after a several-minute delay. This only mildly allays my annoyance at having the change screen name option disappear from my Jalopnik profile page. -
Did you lose your links, email addy, and IM name as well?
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I noticed my e-mail addy was MIA, but I didn't have any links or an IM name listed.
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I tried the Consumerist trick, but the damn login screen keeps disappearing before I can finish typing anything in.
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Inappropriate?I would love to see a fix for this. I got stuck with some ridiculously long generated login name for commenting, and I can't change it. I can change the display name, but that doesn't help when trying to log in.
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Inappropriate?I can't change me name either, and with the new format filter, when people reply to me my names turns gray.
I’m undecided
