A Quick Question About LJ

[dolorous_ett]

How do I alter the name that appears in front of my LJ username when commenting, or in the emails that tell you you've had a comment? You know, the one that looks like this:

Something Pleasantly Witty dolorous_ett wrote:

instead of dolorous_ett dolorous_ett wrote:

Some of my friends have done this, to great effect. I'd really like to do it too - I'm in the mood for inventing something equally quirky and witty for myself.

The trouble is, FAQ doesn't say anything about how to do it, and I'm not sure where else to look. Any hints?
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ETA: I have the answer! And theregoesyamum has supplied it! And it was really, really easy! It turned out to be sooooo easy that I was tempted to delete the whole question. But I decided to leave it, so that passers by could point and laugh.

Comments

[gunderpants.livejournal.com]

All you need to do is just type in whatever name you want after the coding. For instance, all I'm going to do is instead of typing theregoesyamum I will type gunisapoohead. Like so: gunisapoohead.

So instead of typing dolorous_ett you would type iampavonisandilikerustyspoosn or something to the effect.

[gunderpants.livejournal.com]

OH shit I misunderstood the assignment. Even easier to fix, then.

Go to edit journal details, and in the part that says 'name' all you need to do is change it to whatevr you want to say.

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

You're right. I am a twit. In fact, that's such an embarrassingly easy question I am tempted to delete this post. If not the whole jounral. In fact, I might just delete myself.

*headdesk*

How's your cut? Are you still bleeding? Are you OK?

[gunderpants.livejournal.com]

My cut is coping with pressure and keeping it dry, and you are a dear for enquiring.

And the surprise really isn't that your problem was easy, but rather it came from someone who took three months to figure out that her email address didn't begin with www.

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Glad it's not as bad as it first seemed. Keep an eye on it though.

And thanks for the attempts to make me feel less silly...

[swythyv.livejournal.com]

But I decided to leave it, so that passers by could point and laugh.

You are a gentle and worthy ornament to the community. Now I think I'll root around for something to put in mine. ;D

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Sweet of you to say so - I'd rather be "a gentle and worthy ornament" than just plain daft... although deep down I think I know which one I am today...

Still, the post gets to stay. There may be even stupider people out there who might find it useful.

[ignipes.livejournal.com]

*points and laughs*

Rusty spoons, eh?

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Well, I asked for it...

I like rusty spoons until I can think of something really witty for that slot, at least...

[aerama.livejournal.com]

This is NOT a stupid question, so there. There's so much I don't know about lj, it's sickening. Plus you got to use that adorable confused icon.

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Since you like him so much, here he is again!

I'm glad I'm not the only one, anyway...

[snorkackcatcher]

I would have changed mine, but I couldn't think of anything even mildly quirky and witty. :)

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Well, with a cool user name like yours, you don't really need to, do you?

[ajat.livejournal.com]

All OK now with yer lj name ?

:)

Do explore your edit-info some more ... Is fun ! See mine ! 's nice !

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Yes, all sorted - thanks!

I know about your user-info - it's very complicated and contains a lot of cool things (I've just added a couple of hugs since you seemed to be feeling a bit sad). Probably one of the most complicated ones I've seen, in fact - congratulations!

[ajat.livejournal.com]

*hugs back*

Oh, you liked my userinfo page ? *blush*
I can tell you if want to know something … what I did, where, that is …

:)

[captainjames.livejournal.com]

Heh, mine just says "James". Boring, huh?

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

I don't know - it has the virtues of stark simplicity, complete honesty and not offending anyone in the fandom - no mean feat!