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oh hai! Admin help please!; -request to change user-name-
Topic Started: Sep 6 2010, 05:13 AM (873 Views)
Kedros
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hello hello!
hoping you're all feeling as onwards-and-upwards as this last few weeks has felt for myself!

one small thing relating to my username here: The lovely gentleman who is managing the PR and marketing for my restaurant asked me politely if I'd consider changing the user-name for my account here.
Abydos -he explained- is doing the most wonderful job pulling my name high up on the google-search!
Only he is trying to get my name to pull people to the website for my restaurant...

May I change the user name, here, to Kedros?

also -he asked- will the username as logged in the old posts be changed? I think they will remain "shaebodine" won't they, but new posts (which I'm working on) will have the new name... If the old name remains, is there a quick easy solution to that?

every blessing, and many thanks
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Lothy
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If RiRi's okay with it, we can definitely change it. ^_^ But alas, you're right, all the old posts will still show your old username on them. There isn't a whole lot we can do about that.

The one thing that would fix it up all nice would be to upgrade/convert this board to Zetaboards, which in itself is an easy task but it'd require a lot of prep work with porting the skin over and lots of fancy dancy stuff. XD
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Ričle
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RiRi is totally ok with it ^_^ And 'tis done! I think it will also help when you take your name off of your signature, as that doubles the number of times it appears on the site. We can also try to get it out of the OOC posts too. Are any specific pages appearing on google with your name in the body or header of the post (not as your username) such that we can edit the posts and replace your name with your new username? Perhaps if we target these specific pages we can get Abydos out of the top google results.

I don't know how to change the username on the old posts. Is there really no way to fix this with the IPB control panel? I've never hit the "Recount Statistics" button...
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Lothy
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Yeah, there's no way to change it. It's something IF started doing because name changes on big boards caused a huge server lag. :(
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Ričle
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I googled "Shaebodine" this morning and spent 5 minutes changing Shae's name to Kedros on the pages that showed up in the search. I don't know how long it will take the google search to realize the names aren't there anymore or to find other pages on Abydos that have his name a bunch of times. Let me know if there are any more that need switched!
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Kedros
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Wow, you gurlz move fast!
I'm certain what you have done will be more than enough, and I will move to change the signature now.
Aaaand (afterall) if anyone finds my lovely writing here from googling my name, then good for them! I hope they enjoy the read as much as I loved writing it. So we'll leave it at that.
Bless!
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Wow, you gurlz move fast!


....*cough* Why, yes. Yes we do ^_^

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Edit: I was just checking to see if Google had detected my handiwork yet (it hasn't). Did anyone else notice that one of the page summaries that Google displays when you search for Shae's name is the Lothy's Cbox Quotes thread, where Shae tells the bunny suit story?

*cackles*
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ebil woman!
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