The way the board's scripts work, anyone can change their screen name at any time and past posts will reflect that change. Names on your past posts and your name when quoted using the board would change seamlessly. Any references to old names you someone typed in would not.

Names may sometimes help us understand where someone is coming from but how the stuff they say resonates to anyone at that moment is really all that matters. So, if a new screen name helps anyone somehow, I say feel free.

Ummm, as long as you're in your profile, ~10 years ago hacked the board and changed the M/F switch to 'mostly paddles' Q/BW. After a couple of updates I no longer cared where people paddled and allowed it to revert to M/F. Just sayn'