If this is anything like Reddit, (And I have reasons to believe it might be exactly like Reddit) There would be no way to change the name of an existing account and keep the comments, karma and such. You might have to make a new account. Of course this is smaller than Reddit, and maybe someone with magical admin powers could do it.
If he has well received submitted articles a karma collector comment to them (with links to an explanation post) wouldn’t seem inappropriate to me, especially since there is a karma limit on posting to main.
Or perhaps as single post in a well visited open thread thread titled “I made all these comments and posts” listing his best and a request to “please upvote because I’ve since gotten a new account!”. He can confirm that this is indeed the right account, and that he isn’t taking credit for someone else’s contributions by posting a link to the new account from an article written with the old one before it is deleted.
Losing about 700 karma is not so grave consequence (it’s about 2 months worth of karma based on eugman’s last 30 days gain) to justify non-standard karma mining posts or comments, which are small but still real inconvenience to the readers.
I agree it is not. But clearly he was asking for a way to keep the association with at least some of his posts so far, I was just brainstorming on how this might be achieved.
Also as time goes on [deleted] will have more and more articles to his name. The non-standard karma miner is an inconvenience agreed, but it is also a source of information for the reader. “Aha this [deleted] guy wrote this stuff too and now posts under this account!”
From what I understand he wants to keep an association with his “new profile name” and the old posts! Once he deletes his old account his old articles will be attributed to [deleted] and via the link, those that he chooses to associate, to his new account.
If this is anything like Reddit, (And I have reasons to believe it might be exactly like Reddit) There would be no way to change the name of an existing account and keep the comments, karma and such. You might have to make a new account. Of course this is smaller than Reddit, and maybe someone with magical admin powers could do it.
If he has well received submitted articles a karma collector comment to them (with links to an explanation post) wouldn’t seem inappropriate to me, especially since there is a karma limit on posting to main.
Or perhaps as single post in a well visited open thread thread titled “I made all these comments and posts” listing his best and a request to “please upvote because I’ve since gotten a new account!”. He can confirm that this is indeed the right account, and that he isn’t taking credit for someone else’s contributions by posting a link to the new account from an article written with the old one before it is deleted.
Losing about 700 karma is not so grave consequence (it’s about 2 months worth of karma based on eugman’s last 30 days gain) to justify non-standard karma mining posts or comments, which are small but still real inconvenience to the readers.
I agree it is not. But clearly he was asking for a way to keep the association with at least some of his posts so far, I was just brainstorming on how this might be achieved.
Also as time goes on [deleted] will have more and more articles to his name. The non-standard karma miner is an inconvenience agreed, but it is also a source of information for the reader. “Aha this [deleted] guy wrote this stuff too and now posts under this account!”
Fair enough. Creating a page linking to the important old posts is certainly useful. Only I wouldn’t include the “please upvote” request.
This seems like it undoes any security benefits from changing his name.
I’m not concerned with people here finding out who I am. I’m concerned with people who know who I am finding me here.
From what I understand he wants to keep an association with his “new profile name” and the old posts! Once he deletes his old account his old articles will be attributed to [deleted] and via the link, those that he chooses to associate, to his new account.