Apologies in advance for what may be a stupid question: I have a google account. My username is my e-mail address. I also have a nickname: ‘tweedledum’ which is also the name I have used to make a few comments on here by the old method. If I want to make a comment now, how do I make it display under my nickname rather than my username?
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I'm just trying this out, when I log on I am usually told I am blogging under the name King Athelstan, if that's the name at the top nothing should have changed.
ReplyDeleteironically i'm more anonymous now than i was beforehand, when i just typed my name into the box before posting.
ReplyDeletesadly i can't help with the username/nickname issue
You just log in (when you post your comment) using your username and password. Google/Blogger will then display your 'nickname' above your comment.
ReplyDeleteAlso, once logged in Google/Blogger will display the following message under the comment box: "You are currently posting as [nickname]" - and under that will be a link if you want to select a different account.
Best advice, try a test post here... you'll see what I mean.
just trying this out.
ReplyDeleteWTF?
ReplyDeleteOh, sorry, Dear Boy: testing.
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You need to 'edit your profile' so that your 'display name' is different to your 'email address' [which Google/Blogger may have assigned to your 'user name' and thence to your 'display name' by default].
ReplyDeleteDo this by clicking on the link in the 'You are currently posting as ... ' below the comments box and following the edit link. i.e as John Pickworth suggests.
Also testing - thanks Iain.
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ReplyDeletetesting
ReplyDeleteGoogling is not as easy as they make out
ReplyDeleteSophisticated Testing ,
ReplyDeleteHaving watched West Ham Utd. gain an improbable victory with the aid of a registered blind referee, I'm in no mood to help.
ReplyDeleteBellamy is still ugly.
Don't blame you for switch the anon stuff off.
ReplyDeleteDolly and his merry gang will have to work a little bit harder.
It's very kind of you, Iain, to let us try to sort out a few problems with the google registration procedure. Does anyone know if it's possible to change the Google Username whilst still retaining your usual email address?
ReplyDeleteAnd, since I'm here, lots of love to all the men on HMS Coventry.
testing again
ReplyDeleteI have finally been forced to investigate this.
ReplyDeleteYour nickname on your gmail is NOT used on blogger. You have to register separately with the blogger service, change your nickname there and select the level of privacy you require on blogger.
I can now, if this works, post more quickly & easily.
it worked..........
ReplyDeleteKeep up the could work Ian.
ReplyDeleteI am very intrigued by the use of mass manipulation techniques by Nu Labour. As someone has pointed out today the whole of the PRB is based on triangulation. Their sole raison d' etre is power. And that power is used to extend the power of the state. The blogosphere teases this out in as many ways as the market sorts out the state.
To change the name displayed in comments don't change it in google mail (or gmail), change it via the main account at Google. Simply login via Google's main page using the 'My Account' link on top right. From there 'Edit personal information' and then First name.
ReplyDeleteI'm currently seen as 'Ed' in this comment, my next post will display 'A North London Git'.
There you go.
ReplyDeleteEasy Peasy
Or as an alternative use the nickname field using the links I mentioned above.
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the suggestions, comrades (the original query was mine.)
ReplyDeleteI now use two different display names and edit my profile in blogger when I want to change from one to the other.
Testing.
ReplyDeleteI have just set up a blog in order to post comments as "Inspector Morse", and it works a treat.
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ReplyDeletetesting. to be honest i don't like this google login thingy, but if you can't beat 'em...
ReplyDeleteJust testing...
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