You know - ive been thinking of changing my username as well - just dont know how to go about it.
I've been where you are, my friend. It's unfortunate.
I don't have any shame at all in being a member of this community. I'm proud of it. We don't have any under-aged stuff. The community is big on treating women with respect (though some members seem less focused on that than others). The site is considerate of people - if someone finds a pic they want removed for any reason at all it pretty much comes down right away. There's no weird fetishes, there's no dating, there's no "transactions" of any kind.
We're just dudes (and a few ladies) that enjoy a pretty woman or two. The community is strong and vibrant, and full of intelligent and clever people with a great sense of humor.
I'm proud to be here, and I don't hide it.
But once upon a time I took a job working with children, and the little fuckers (whom I adore - don't get me wrong. I love the lil' turds) did a google on my username and found my account here. I was less than 1000 points from demigod at the time too. The company I worked for knew about the account for a long time, but I didn't want to risk any negative PR or backlash over it.
The result was this account - which is now, finally, almost back to where I was years ago.
I feel your pain, Swiss. I'm sorry to hear that. It's unfortunate that people can't accept that other people are people too, and that rather than attack because of the basic nature of the site (naked girls - sometimes) they don't bother to see all the wonderful things in this community.
Yeah, there are naked women here... But there are naked women all over the place. There's a reason this site does so well when all the others mostly suck, and it has nothing to do with the pictures.
That's not why I come here. I can get these pictures anywhere. I come here for the rest of the community. It's too bad other people don't look beyond the immediate "easy attack button" to see that, and place people like you and I in the positions we have found or now find ourselves in.
Best wishes to you. I hope it works out.
marcel just go to "edit profile" and change your username at the top then click "update" or whatever it says at the bottom. Simple.
@Tarquin: well this is more like preventative medicine for me. I haven't actually encountered a problem yet but I generally use the same username in most places and so I googled it and most of what comes up is WBW related. I guess I should've realized this a long time ago but it just didn't cross my mind until recently. It wouldn't be too bad if the reply quotes were dynamic and changed with the username change. The problem is that the other username is now eternally stuck on google in any thread where someone quoted what I said. 5-10 years from now someone could search it and find the old threads.
That's the problem with the internet, once information is out there it's out there for good. I'd prefer if sites like this weren't indexed by google but I understand Diz needs the site to be searchable so new members can find this place. I guess I should've been smart enough to use a unique username and not my usual. At the same time though when I originally signed up here I had no idea I'd actually participate in the community. The initial sign up was simply to look through the gallery and add faves.
I'm worried now but glad you didn't leave, this site needs its dedicated members like you.
back some years ago someone brought this up...that if you google search your WBW name you'll see most of your posts, but not your P.M.'s. since then i've been mindful about what i post here.
imagine a prospective employer google searching your online name & coming up with a ton of nasty posts on WBW.
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Yeah exactly. I don't think there's anyway to tell Google not to index certain aspects of the site. There needs to be though. It would be nice if you could include some code that told google to exclude user names etc. That way topics and so on are still searchable but the users still retain their anonymity. Kinda sucks I've been using the other name for so long, it will more then likely bite me in the ass one day.
Hey FeFe nice of you to grace my thread with an appearance. Haven't seen you around in a long time.
Yeah the new name is really close to the old one. It still shouldn't show up in searches. I'm cool with the WBW search now the name change covered that. The problem is just google and all the times people quoted me under the old name.
well I googled my old username just now and surprisingly only 2 results for WBW showed up. That's kind of encouraging. Although I'm not really sure how google handles things. Why would only 2 threads show up when I know I posted hundreds and hundreds of times and have been quoted equally as many times? what makes those 2 threads show up when the others don't?
Maybe I need to do more research on how Google works.
Hmmm... i wouldn't want it to be that easy to find my post, but then again not many people know im on here. the ones that do also have accounts
when i searched my name it came up a buncha steel company's and some dude from Texas and i ain't from TX!
Good thinking Swiss!
ok well I did the google search again this time though I clicked to "show ommitted results" and 100's of WBW threads came up. One was even a link to my profile which linked to the new one. Most were indexed versions of my old username because once you follow the link to the thread my new username was shown. Does anyone know when Google re-indexes a site? In other words when will they recheck WBW and catch all my new usernames instead of the old ones which are still in googles system currently?
Appreciate the info B_G. I'll look forward to a few months from now lol.
