Claiming Old User Names
I'm laying the groundwork for better archival tools on Hoocoodanode, and one detail to contend with is the mismatch between registered and unregistered users from the past.
I have written a script that finds all comments by registered names in the old system, and associates them with their matching registered user. I'm also working to associate as many pseudonyms as I can find, which requires manual input. For this I need your help.
If you remember your old handle(s), and would like them associated with you for posterity, please list them in a comment here. One benefit of this to you is that your 'start date' as a user will be bumped back to the first post you made. Another is that any links you might have contributed in the past will be attributed to you.
Also: use the format below, so I can just copy and paste.
'YourCurrentUserName' => 'YourOldUserName',
The comma is not a typo. For example,
'Rob Dawg' => 'Commissar Rob Dawg',
is what I'm looking for.
Thanks,
Your Friendly Neighborhood Panopticist
P.S. It will be painful to reverse these once I've made the change. Please do not misrepresent yourself.
Comments
'dryfly' => 'dryfly'
You don't need to enter names that were the same. I'm taking care of that. Only if they were different. And if I remember correctly, you used to be 'dry fly', so
'dryfly' => 'dry fly',
is what I'm looking for.
'dryfly' => 'dryfly'
[always]
I might have commented as emgrasso on the old system a couple of times.
'pythia' => 'emgrasso',
'Rob Dawg' => 'Commissar Rob Dawg',
'dryfly' => there'salwayssomewiseguy...
I thought the user profile number took care of this? It's how I've identified quite a few people.
Anyhow:
'Counterpointer'=> 'Comrade Counterpointer',
C
Counterpointer wrote:
The user profile number was established in April, when Hoocoodanode went live and we began requiring registration to comment. Before that, your user id was '0', or anonymous. Each comment had a name, but that wasn't an id.
I think I did a few variationslike "comrade albrt," but always used "albrt" with that spelling.
Dryfly, I'm pretty sure you did use "dry fly" way back.
But then again, my memory is not that great. At one point I had Rob Dawg confused with Getstucco from Ben's blog.
By the way, Ken, that hat tip thingie is awesome.
dryfly wrote:
Comment by dry fly from thread 'Buffett Examines living in Squanderville'
The panopticon knows all.
Thanks, albrt. That was actually the easiest part of what turned out to be a larger project than I thought. Incremental development and live databases are not a good combination...
You don't have kids, right?
C
Counterpointer wrote:
I do have kids.
I forgot my comma. Now I can't edit because you replied. Can I have another go?
C
Counterpointer wrote:
Taking notes:
"This one does not follow instructions well."
Some ,rad you are!
I've taken care of it.
Ken! Mike's slandering me! It's not fair.
C
albrt wrote:
Too right albrt!
'energyecon' => 'comrade energyecon'
'energyecon' => 'citizen energyecon'
'energyecon' => 'dope energyecon'
'Blackhalo' => 'Blackhalo'
anon=> [x,y,z (hoocoodrecall?)]=>'yogi'=>'one world currency - yogi'=>'1 currency soon -yogi'=>'1 currency sooner - yogi'=>1 currency now -yogi',
[various punctuation]
Can these be used to settle bets?
kcoop:
homedad43 = Smilin' Bob
Mike in Long Island wrote:
You're going to be taking a lot of notes.
AND, as if it matters for this small-time poster:
'umop apisdn' => 'umop episdn',
'Citizen AllenM' => 'AllenM',
err, ya forgot Robert Cote with the funny e ;-}
I was Comrade Gauleiter for a a while until it was discovered that I am actually
'Rufus the doofus' => 'Billy Hill',
'gdd9000' => 'Geoff',
otherwise known as
stupid is => stupid does
Nurse Ratched=Where'smyretirement
Maybe without the apostrophe???
'Wisdom Speaker' => 'Wisdom Seeker'
'Wisdom Speaker' => 'Wisdom-Seeker'
'mock turtle' => 'notsosmart'
ps im not a user , im an associate
thanks ken and happy holidays to you and yours
'dr. strangemoney' => 'dr strangemoney'
'serf alan greenspend' => 'alan greenspend'
'serf alan greenspend' => 'comrade alan greenspend'
omg...
I think i've got like 25 different prior handles...
punditry
ponzimonetiza
new bond bear
calledbluff
i can't ever remember....but i do have fond memories and tons of laughs
'Mr Slippery' => 'Comrade Coinz'
'noob goldberg' => 'noobgoldberg',
'noob goldberg' => 'Comrade noob goldberg',
Any previous pseudonyms are almost certainly best left to the dustbin of anonymous history.
'W.C. Varones' => 'wcvarones',
'RATM' => 's0mebody',
Leftys Liquors Lubricants and Tarp and Bank=> 'Leftys Liquors Lubricants=>Leftys Liquors
'Odysseus' => 'Comrade Odysseus',
'femto' => 'Ken', # changed because people confused me with you
'femto' => 'Reluctant Serf Ken', # midst the TARP fiasco
Tim waiting for 2012 => "Tim waiting for 2012"
Just so the government knows its me for sure
prestadigitationista and Arbitrage_Macht_Frei
'Jerry' => 'Veni Vidi Dormi',
'EvilHenryPaulson' => 'anonymous'
'Comrade Alexei Mikhailovich' => 'Alec',
EvilHenryPaulson wrote:
Don't think I can do this one, sorry.
Might have called myself dougr once or twice
Freaky Coincidence
I started criticizing Google, as otishertz, for giving false results when I searched for my old posts to develop some ideas into essays. Over time the tallies for my number of posts began to decrease as my posting increased and no results were given at all beyond page 3. There were hundreds and hundreds of posts listed as results on top of the google. The highest number of results I saw was maybe 680 and it went down from there.
I went through every post I could find of mine through google and copied it to my word processor. There were conspicuous absences like my florid-duh essay. Also the results that come up first are things like a guy asking me if i am depressed and anything depraved I said. Some of you know me a little...
I wrote about all this here as I monitored the # of results that came up for searching for otishertz and calculatedrisk, hoocoodanode, haloscan, etc. It became a little discussion and others started researching their own posts too.
While I was criticizing google - and facebook and the rest of them - I made a sock puppet screen name spelling otishertz in morse code. Seemed like a cool idea considering I had been criticizing digital media. otishertz became --- - .. ... .... . .-. - --.. AKA code otis.
Soon afterward google altered it's home page with morse code letters for "google." I guess it was Morse's birthday or near Morse's birthday but the commentariat agreed it was eerie timing.
I also was swamp otis. Beyond that I'm not telling! Muaahahaha.
Otishertz, you've registered both names - they can't easily be merged. I can add swamp otis (there's also a swampotis, and a otisHz) to one of them, just let me know which one you'd prefer.
EDIT: I take that back. There is a module that could help with this, if you want to merge the two registered accounts. I need to verify its integrity first before using it, but this would be a useful tool to have on the site.
'Hoopajoops LTD' => 'Hoopajoops, LTD',
'Hoopajoops LTD' => 'Hoopajoops',
'Hoopajoops LTD' => 'Hoops',
Test
'Bubblisimo Gerkinov' => 'lifexpert',
'Bubblisimo Gerkinov' => 'Lifexpert',
'Bubblisimo Gerkinov' => 'Generalisimo Gerkinov',
'Bubblisimo Gerkinov' => 'Privateer Gerkinov',
'Bubblisimo Gerkinov' => 'Generalisimo in Exile Gerkinov',
'Bubblisimo Gerkinov' => 'General Chiang Kai Gerkinov',
'Bubblisimo Gerkinov' => 'Recently Exiled Gerkinov',
'Bubblisimo Gerkinov' => '* Gerkinov',
(* = wildcard)
I used to use RP, until someone else started posting under RP...when I noticed the second RP, KnotRP first appeared.
That one I'm afraid I can't do anything about.
Thanks for this update on names.
'bANK fAILURE' => 'lingy-linger-er'
Juvie hit one of my red hats today. Careful with that Axe Eugene-the Floyd.
edit update1: odd, I just went through JD's recent links through Sat, and the red hat appears to have vanished.
kcoop. are the redhat links invisible on recent link checks while signed in? and does this feature also make redhat links invisible in the "toys"?
The red hats appear the same whether you're signed in or not. Note the red hat will not appear if you use a link that differs at all from another, even if the two point at the same page. So it's not infallible.
'FairValue' => 'JKD',
The good thing about your information is that it is explicit enough for students to grasp. Thanks for your efforts in spreading academic knowledge.
link deleted by kcoop
bANK fAILURE wrote:
"voz' 'clue' 'RFIPO'
'Hoopajoops LTD' => 'Françoise',
'NorkaWest' => 'NorkaWest'
I'm not too creative.
'ratefink' => 'ratefink',
I should be clear: this is only for names that are different from those you currently have.
The good thing about your information is that it is explicit enough for students to grasp. Thanks for your efforts in spreading academic knowledge.
'ralphiesmom' => 'Linda J'
never mind on the 'ralphiesmom'/Linda J change. i'm not saavy. Linda J will work, but it's so boring isn't it. love this site.
'Tool of the Fed' => 'State Sen Clay Davis'
'Tool of the Fed' => 'rot26'
AllenM aka Joliet Jake a few times that I remember...musta been a blues brother day.
Eat sHIT!
Canadian shithouse
I luv you thoo
kcoop wrote:
Okay, that one really made me laugh!
'zero' => 'zephyrum'
zephyrum wrote:
Oops. Cancel that. Reverse it:
'zephyrum' => 'zero'
'zephyrum' => 'comrade zero'