whynot4's Journal: COBOL/MVS is dead...

Well, not really. COBOL, the language is still around, but my former id, COBOL/MVS is dead. I wished I wasn't so hung up on doing things the IBM way when I created that id a couple of years ago.

It was my fault anyway. I should've known better than to put a "/" in an id. I considered asking if I could get it changed, but the first question in the faq underscored that there are no exceptions for requests to change names in accounts.

It's a shame, really. That account is great. I wouldn't call it a "karma whore" account since really I never did any of that. In fact, some of my posts that I thought would be modded down as Troll scored fairly high. But I wanted to be able to journal using that account. The "/" killed that because if you cliked the "Last Journal on" link on a comment header, the server got confused and you went to "COBOL"'s user page.

So I thought why not start from 0 and build back up again? I know that this account will probably not be a moderator or meta-moderator like MVS was, but I'll still post. I've also set up this account to filter out the noise as much as possible.

Maybe I'll plead my case to the Slashdot team. I may not get anywhere, but I'll be satisfied that I tried.