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Offline Petter

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Bob?
on: December 28, 2014, 09:26:25 PM
Why does your username commence with a capital letter? Mine does that aswell.. And m1469. Most usernames seem to begin with a lower case letter. I feel special - and a little embarrassed.
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Offline thalbergmad

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Re: Bob?
Reply #1 on: December 28, 2014, 10:12:44 PM
Fascinating observation. I had never noticed that.

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Re: Bob?
Reply #2 on: December 29, 2014, 04:13:13 AM
Nothing strange about that, it's whatever you typed in...probably most found it simpler to ignore the caps when registering :)

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Re: Bob?
Reply #3 on: December 29, 2014, 09:54:14 AM
I feel your pain.
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Re: Bob?
Reply #4 on: December 29, 2014, 10:30:46 AM
I feel your pain.

Nonsense, or you'd be Hardy_practice.
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Re: Bob?
Reply #5 on: December 29, 2014, 10:44:50 AM
Painful as it may seem I don't buy that 99.9% of the forum users would have used lower case letters.
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Re: Bob?
Reply #6 on: December 29, 2014, 10:49:21 AM
Here's an old thread https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=5825.0
Plenty of names beginning with caps. Im onto something, I know it.
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Re: Bob?
Reply #7 on: December 29, 2014, 04:00:36 PM
Here's an old thread https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=5825.0
Plenty of names beginning with caps. Im onto something, I know it.

Conspiracy! Some of you must have been marked for something...

Offline pianoman53

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Re: Bob?
Reply #8 on: December 29, 2014, 04:34:54 PM
I would never write a small first letter!

Offline hardy_practice

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Re: Bob?
Reply #9 on: December 29, 2014, 06:14:22 PM
Actually the answer is probably too boring - if it's a real name it makes sense to have a capital.
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Re: Bob?
Reply #10 on: December 29, 2014, 07:26:10 PM
Actually the answer is probably too boring - if it's a real name it makes sense to have a capital.

Mine is a real name...kind of  ::)

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Re: Bob?
Reply #11 on: December 29, 2014, 10:48:29 PM
I think you could put whatever you wanted when it used to be Piano Forum years ago.  Nils switched it to Piano Street and then users could only get lowercase.

I think m1469 requested the M.  I may have too.  I don't remember.  I know he can change it though.

Or it was a forum software upgrade that did it.  Something technical and Nils et al could manually change the name. 
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Re: Bob?
Reply #12 on: December 29, 2014, 11:58:05 PM
Now when you mention it. I may have requested it as well - so much for the mystery.  :-[
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Re: Bob?
Reply #13 on: December 30, 2014, 12:16:21 AM
It must just be a display feature too.  On the upper right of this page it says I'm logged in as "bob."  Lowercase.

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Re: Bob?
Reply #14 on: December 30, 2014, 12:18:01 AM
Or the upper right of the membership page...
https://www.pianostreet.com/amember/member.php

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