First of all, I made sure both Mark and John at DirectAdmin gave me permission to do this before I did it.
Here's what I did and why:
When I first started on these forums somewhere around eight or so years ago I hadn't thought much about brand identity. So I didn't use my company name as my username. Now I do, on all other forums. And I wanted to create a link in my siglines. Google, as some of us know, penalizes what it calls link spamming, and instantly having almost 23,000 links to my home page from DirectAdmin forums, according to my SEO person, won't help me, and probably will harm me. I had already created a NoBaloney login so I could log in and answer posts without losing my list of unread posts (since I endeavor to read all posts and sometimes I don't have the time but need to log in to help someone). I worked out with my SEO guy that I should start using the new account into the future, and leave the old account of course because there are probably over 20,000 helpful posts in it.
At the same time I wanted both accounts to be known as my company name. I could have left the new one as nobaloney and the old one as nobaloney2, but I thought that might be a bit confusing, since then nobaloney2 posts would be older than nobaloney posts, so I changed them around.
If anyone wants or needs to discuss this further, these forums are probably not the place to do it; it's after all it's quite off-topic. Please email me for further discussion.
Thanks.
Jeff