suspicions of transfered username

June 11, 2003 2:17 PM

I have my suspicious that a recently more prolific username is being used by someone other than the original registrant. Are we even concerned about people giving or possibly selling thier usernames?
posted by betaray to etiquette/policy at 2:17 PM (25 comments total)

demo?
posted by elwoodwiles at 2:19 PM on June 11, 2003

I ask because not only because of the limited registration policy, but because the username in question has become quite a troll. I know there are many good people who would love accounts, and there are even members who have been campaigning to get these people accounts.

It's would be hard to police this, but it bothers me to see trolls slip into our midst like this while others are left in the cold.
posted by betaray at 2:23 PM on June 11, 2003

Not demo.
posted by betaray at 2:24 PM on June 11, 2003

Are we even concerned about people giving or possibly selling thier usernames?

Give us a hint.
posted by Ignatius J. Reilly at 2:24 PM on June 11, 2003

Seriously, just email matt about it, unless you want a public debate, in which case, let everyone know what you're talking about & point out examples. This half way tease is lame.
posted by jonson at 2:31 PM on June 11, 2003

Well I have no hard proof, and I was going to keep an eye out in the mean time. However, if we don't care, then we don't care and it's a waste of my time. So is it an issue to present day Mefites, or is it just the way things are?
posted by betaray at 2:33 PM on June 11, 2003

It's that Darren guy, isn't it? I thought there was something different about him lately!
posted by yhbc at 2:36 PM on June 11, 2003

It is an issue if someone really sold their account. I was recently half-accused of being a viral marketer, and it was pretty stupid. I'm glad that the person did it publicly and it was over with rather than fomenting some secret TFH society devoted to tracking my posts.

Drink Pepsi.
posted by Ignatius J. Reilly at 2:43 PM on June 11, 2003

TFH society?
posted by jonson at 2:45 PM on June 11, 2003

Tin Foil Hat. My bad.

Dean in '04!
posted by Ignatius J. Reilly at 2:47 PM on June 11, 2003

*eyes everyone with suspicion*
posted by elwoodwiles at 2:56 PM on June 11, 2003

*eyes everyone with suspicion*

You should relax -- with a smooth Kool cigarette!
posted by Ignatius J. Reilly at 2:57 PM on June 11, 2003

Honestly, I don't even believe that the account was sold. To me it just looks like a father/older brother passed on their old barely used account. I know that changing ownership on accounts is not encouraged, but it doesn't seem to be strictly forbidden either.

I guess posting to MetaTalk was the wrong approach to answering my question. I was just hoping to hear from Matt. I did it publicly because I thought others might be intrested in the answer. I just hope this gets deleted or moves of the page quickly so I can avoid further embarassment
posted by betaray at 2:59 PM on June 11, 2003

We all want to know, we live as trolls under freeway-over- passes at night; then come here to post during the day light hours so all the hard workers have a night full of the web to keep inside til dawn.
posted by thomcatspike at 3:02 PM on June 11, 2003

Psst... tell us now before it's deleted.
posted by thomcatspike at 3:03 PM on June 11, 2003

Are we playing Mafia on this thread or something?
posted by mcwetboy at 3:04 PM on June 11, 2003

Are we even concerned about people giving or possibly selling thier usernames?

no, but we love gossip and idle speculation. who, who?
posted by andrew cooke at 3:06 PM on June 11, 2003

jtm?
posted by danOstuporStar at 3:27 PM on June 11, 2003

i didn't sell my account. i'm just approaching the midpoint in my gradual morph into madamjujujive.
posted by quonsar at 4:09 PM on June 11, 2003

quonsar morph?
posted by madamjujujive at 4:16 PM on June 11, 2003

Exactly, jtm. Even though I was really really unintrested in starting a thread about him. I was just intrested if anyone cred.
posted by betaray at 4:32 PM on June 11, 2003

Don't worry he ended up above this one.
posted by thomcatspike at 4:42 PM on June 11, 2003

Crap... IJR is making me laugh.
posted by Witty at 10:13 AM on June 12, 2003

Crap... IJR is making me laugh.

Get used to it. You'd see things my way through a haze of easy-drinkin' Dewar's scotch.
posted by Ignatius J. Reilly at 11:54 AM on June 12, 2003

As I recall, JTM's account is close to mine (numerically). I wonder what he got for it? I could use some cash and I mostly lurk these days...
posted by norm at 12:43 PM on June 12, 2003