Name confusion.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 5:09 am

I've noticed an increasing number of too similar names. I think someone should chase these people down and force them into picking something more original.

Monkey Man - Mr Monkey Man

ThunderForce - Thunder Force

Brians (except for "Brian" I have a hard time telling who is who, it's just one collective)

Daves (dave4shmups standing out a bit)

mannerbot · Post by **mannerbot** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 5:12 am

Seven Force as well, and Valgar needs to decide whether he's a cowboy or Ryan or chocolate milk or hamburgers!!

Monkey_Man · Post by **Monkey_Man** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 5:26 am

Monkey_Man wrote:
MrMonkeyMan wrote:Your name was confusing me. I WAS seeing my name (well, most of my name) inside of highscore threads I never joined =P
Gasp! We must duel!

HYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 6:32 am

You know you can change your name in the profile section, I think. You are new, after all. It's not too late.

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 6:52 am

Rob wrote:ThunderForce - Thunder Force

Hmm, regarding the new user who joined recently with the name ThunderForce, I asked him to do something about it to avoid confusion, and I think he added some numbers to the end of it. That seemed OK at the time.

Searching - yes THIS is him now.

Generally unless it's a case of impersonation there's nothing wrong with similar names per-se. But if it still confuses the heck out of enough forum members though, he may be asked to change it to something else. I don't think we want to have to police names of new users too much, but we also don't want virtually identical names interfering with communication, so particularly bad cases should be pointed out to us (preferably with links to the users in question)

Regards,

TF

Post by **Icarus** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 3:01 pm

I've seen a user post with the nick ~Kid Icarus~ (complete with tildes) around here, but it's a vastly different name to mine, so I'm not too bothered about it

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 4:10 pm

So, if you change your name, do you keep your post count?

I wonder what kind of things I could do with a name change... ?

Zach Keene · Post by **Zach Keene** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 4:25 pm

CMoon wrote:So, if you change your name, do you keep your post count?

Yes.

That said, changing one's own username was disabled recently, so you'd have to contact an admin for a name change.

UnscathedFlyingObject · Sun Jul 31, 2005 4:35 pm

I'm the one and only U.F.O. MWHHAHAHAHAHH

Now, watch for the impersonators.

The n00b · Post by **The n00b** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 4:37 pm

For some reason, I don't think I have to worry about anyone having a name close to mine....

Davey · Post by **Davey** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 5:14 pm

I really hope you can tell the difference between me and dave4shmups.

Given that Felix the Cat is long gone and possibly dead or something, perhaps the screen name I used on other message boards, Anti-Felix, can now be used without confusion or controversy.

I would have come up with something more original, but I don't think any other Daves were around when I first came here.

Accutron · Post by **Accutron** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 7:54 pm

Davey wrote:Given that Felix the Cat is long gone and possibly dead or something, perhaps the screen name I used on other message boards, Anti-Felix, can now be used without confusion or controversy.

Not so long gone...

http://forum.shmups.com/forum/profile.p ... file&u=267

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:05 pm

I know of my "evil twin" Bullet Dodger, and I think there are a few other "bullet" usernames floating around, but I don't think there's much confusion as to who's who among us.

uwfan · Post by **uwfan** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 9:17 pm

Zach Keene wrote:
CMoon wrote:So, if you change your name, do you keep your post count?
Yes.

That said, changing one's own username was disabled recently, so you'd have to contact an admin for a name change.

is there anyway we can get our post counts back from the last board that crashed? if we have the same/similar name?

Post by **system11** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 9:25 pm

uwfan wrote: is there anyway we can get our post counts back from the last board that crashed? if we have the same/similar name?

Nope, sorry.

Akira · Post by **Akira** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 11:44 pm

It owld be a mess to implement that now. It is not impossible, just not very smart to do now.

UnscathedFlyingObject · Mon Aug 01, 2005 12:15 am

Darn, a postcount+500-or-so would add some real karma to my persona in these parts. I guess I'll have to resort to junk posting.

8 1/2 · Post by **8 1/2** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 5:56 am

Man, tell me about it. Not that it matters, but I was close to 3,000 on the old board. It's like losing all your merit badges or something.

alpha5099 · Post by **alpha5099** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 6:43 am

The only problem I have with similar screennames is if it's two people who don't use avatars, or someone suddenly changes their's. It's hard to adjust when an avatar changes, it's so much worse when you have to figure out which person it is because of near identical screennames.

I'm glad I settled on Señor Tusken Raider. I have no intentions of changing it anytime soon.

Davey · Post by **Davey** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 10:16 pm

I don't get what the big fuss is about post count. Mine could go back to zero for all I care.

Post count +1

TWITCHDOCTOR · Post by **TWITCHDOCTOR** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 11:27 pm

I've thought about changing my name to avoid all the confusion as well...with "TwitchDoctor" being so common and typical and all.
If it weren't for my post count(merit badges) being lost, I would change my name to something more unique and original like "Eric Cartman".

KICK ASS!

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 11:47 pm

Mine could go back to zero for all I care.

Yeah, I'd prefer to not be reminded how much I've posted.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 1:50 am

http://shmups.system11.org/profile.php? ... ile&u=1500

Find a new name, pal.

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 2:00 am

UnscathedFlyingObject wrote:Darn, a postcount+500-or-so would add some real karma to my persona in these parts. I guess I'll have to resort to junk posting.

Wait, I though this wasn't the "let's pretend this is GameFAQs" thread

Post by **Dave_K.** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 10:16 pm

Yeah, I know my username isn't very original, but whatever cool name I decided to use always gets stolen and used by people on other boards. So now I'm just generic Dave_K. and its still unique on all the boards I frequent, and not cool enough to steal.

PaCrappa · Post by **PaCrappa** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 10:19 pm

Almost seven years now and I'm the only PaCrappa ever.

Pa

Bloodreign · Post by **Bloodreign** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:14 am

As far as I know there's only 2 Blood's here, me and Bloodflowers, and there's no confusing us at all.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:07 am

Rob wrote:http://shmups.system11.org/profile.php? ... ile&u=1500

Find a new name, pal.

wtf-lol
http://shmups.system11.org/profile.php? ... ile&u=1510

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 5:40 am

^^^ I think the Robb/RobbCorpse phenomenon is Pa's work. Good one, Pa.

I miss your avatar, Rob. It's one of the only avatars that hadn't changed in my year here. At least the new one is funny.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 8:18 am

PaCrappa is a busy man with no time for fake accounts.

I just thought it was weird that the old name is deleted. Maybe the poor new person saw this harrassing thread and asked for it to be deleted/changed.

Yeah, I will drop this avatar when I stop finding it funny (1-2 more days tops) and since I can't find a larger image. I'll probably throw Quaid back in a few days if I don't feel like something else. It's a shame I had to break the streak, though.

Name confusion.

Name confusion.

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