San Diego
It's not a recent thing...I did it in 2003.
have any information on a boy changing a primary handle (not the alias) and still retaining full review credits?
How and why is that allowed? Did the TER rules recently change? Hafou Pau Gott - ROne is an LA hobbyists who changed his handle because it had his name in it (same with one down here with his name and zip in it). Some people realize they can be potentially identified and contact TER who will change their handle but still have the reviews and email connected to it.
The most recent one I know of changed it but I am unsure of the reason - perhaps it's because it's a much funnier handle LOL
...someone else thought that it needed to be changed. 
I started out under a different primary handle in 2002, but after my ex-GF at the time gave me serious grief about it when I didn't clear my history after using her computer once (talk about lesson learned), I decided to keep my activity private.
It's standard procedure. If you change your handle all your reviews and your old board posts get assigned to the new handle.
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