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"User name"

What is it with some people?

I love my user name on here. I don't really think it describes me at all, I don't think it really means anything at all... bar the thought behind coming up with it... but it's just quite random, and I love it for that reason.

But why do people often have really, really crappy user names? And oddly enough, they always turn out to be crap writers if they have a BoRiNg user name.

Perhaps:

You need a name to stand out. Something to get you recognised. So, instead of really thinking hard about a cool name, you just steal something from a band/wrestler/sexual position, and then capitalise every other letter. Stands out then, doesn't it?

GrIx ThRaVeS

And then you have people that seem to believe that putting character next to the name make it more interesting too. No it doesn't. You just look like a mong.

<[(~--GrIx-ThRaVeS--~)]>

Then of course, when you still discover your name is still as boring as ever, you try to make it "clever", by changing letters to symbols that look like letters. Not clever. Boring, and pathetic.

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Oh dear.

It doesn't mean you're original, creative, or anything. Really. Any idiot can go into character map and see a symbol that looks remotely like a letter.

But it will continue, because nobody has the creativity to come up with a decent damn name.

Ah well.

Grix Thraves wrote:
And it's GOLD, so it
> makes all the difference. :0D

Yeah, I suppose you're right. :D

Nothing wrong with your name, Ant. It's small, simple, it's yours, and there aren't that many Ant's around. Not on here, anyway. :0)

And it's GOLD, so it makes all the difference. :0D

erm...I really don't think I belong in this topic. :D

Shut up Mr Mong Guy. :0D

It's just a personal distaste, that's all. Wookiee Monster is a good name, and doesn't really need to be put in characters to make it better, but that's just his tastes. Sonicrav is a good name too, and I suppose that's just his taste to write it all in capitals, put lines next to it, and make sure all his topic titles are in capitals too.

Hmmmm.

I don't write things so people agree with me, I write things to see what they think.

Chill out, dude. It ain't the end of the world if people want to have usernames like that. What you need to do is to make people realise you are worth reading, rather then worrying about your username. Some of the things you mentioned, you've got MJ, Wookie and SONICRAV who do all of them in their names and of course, Shaneo, but he just copied them.

They say you can tell who a person is by their name. Hmmmmmmmmmm, not too sure about nicknames.

At first glance I'm sure my username seems to be the worst on the forums, but it is one of Aleister Crowley's *magical names*, so it isn't totally as random and mindless as it first seems.

If anyone ever used to read my topics when I first got here, you might remember that I was called 'The Cheese'.

Someone reminded me that cheese goes mouldy after a while, so the laws of science forced me to change.

I'm not sure about my username.

I had to change it from 'Jim Cricket' because someone was called 'Jiminy Cricket'. So I just came up with 'Badgerman'.

some people say that it seems to resemble 'Goatboy's' name, go figure.

Grix Thraves wrote:
Then of course, when you still
> discover your name is still as boring as ever, you try to make it
> "clever", by changing letters to symbols that look like letters. Not
> clever. Boring, and
> pathetic.

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Where's Wookie Monster when you need him eh???

;-)

Go for tarquin!