MetaTalk posts tagged with usernames

Coolest usernames on MetaFilter

jason's_planet — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:05:25 -0800

This is a MetaTalk post devoted to finding the coolest, most inventive usernames on MetaFilter. Here are some of my own personal favorites: Burger-Eating Invasion Monkey Totally Zanzibarin' Ya YoBananaBoy Chuckles McLaughy du Haha, the depressed clown What are yours?

De-eponystericalism

angrybeaver — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:09:59 -0800

Is it possible to change my username or should I close my account and pay another 5 bucks? (Reason: I want less anger in my life)

Color coded usernames

stbalbach — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:58:30 -0800

I'm terrible at remembering names. It would be great to have usernames that are favorites show up as a different color. Is there a way?

Is it possible to change a MeFi username?

boeing82 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:11:34 -0800

It's important that I change my username--the reason deals with online identity cleanup. Is this possible, or must I create a new account? Thanks in advance.

One hack Two hack Red hack Blue hack

flapjax at midnite — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:57:28 -0800

I guess I missed the memo: when did Matt start handing out red usernames? And are other colors available? I'd like electric lime green, please!

Why is the capitalization on my username inconsistent?

Pastabagel — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:09:46 -0800

Capitalization issue: why is my username capitalized differently in different places on Metafilter? Metafilter, AskMe, and MeTa credit me me this way: "posted by Pastabagel at 10:57 AM on December 14". But when I write, I'm "Posting as: pastabagel". In addition, I'm very cordially addressed upon my return to the site with "welcome back pastabagel" in the upper right corner (though grammatically I suppose it should be "welcome back, pastabagel" - but you didn't hear that from me). Has anyone else experienced this? I suspect that I registered with the capital P, but I don't remember. When I log in I do so using only lower case letters. This is obviously a minor glitch, so you can of course tell me what I can do with my capital 'P' and I won't be offended. Thanks.

Dream? Stream? whatever.

poweredbybeard — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:59:11 -0800

How many other people took 2-3 years to notice that "odinstream"'s screen name is, in fact, odinsdream? And how many of you just noticed that right now?

It is occasionally referred to as a Bosie (or Bosey) after its inventor Bernard Bosanquet; in Australia it is commonly referred to as a wrong'un (and in India as the wrong one, which led to the naming of the doosra, meaning the other one, named by its inventor Saqlain Mushtaq

googly — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:46:01 -0800

Did I miss the memo? Are we now required to do eponysterical front page posts?

SEO heaven

madamjujujive — Wed, 16 May 2007 23:20:46 -0800

Is a domain an acceptable user name? Seems like it would be a perfectly good name without the .com on the end.

Who is this?

yhbc — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:51:15 -0800

Okay, fess up.

Who are you, with no comments, posts or anything else, but 19 favorites (and counting?)

Hmmm?

Could the mouseover text for the number of favorites show the usernames of the favoriters?

kev23f — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 07:36:51 -0800

When you hover / mouse over the [+ 2 favorites] text, you see more text that says "2 users marked this as favorites" Would it be useful if the pop-up text actually showed the usernames of those who favorited it? Small pony i know, only saving a few mouse clicks, but i think it would be cool. Any thoughts?

Similar Usernames

SpecialK — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:03:42 -0800

Similar names. There are multiple active users with my name or a variation of my name. I'm SpecialK, there's Special-K, and SpecialK420. I've had people email me about askme questions and answers posted by both of these other users.

I obviously wouldn't ask anyone to give up their identity, but in the future can we get some sort of policy from admins? I mean, otherwise, I'm going to start snapping up names like Ouonsar and mattowie before they're all gone...

Name That User!

louigi — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:47:06 -0800

Which MetaFilter members can you identify by their writing style/content combination alone? [more inside]

Usernames with @

grouse — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 23:36:55 -0800

@mathowie: Why are people starting to put commercial at signs before usernames when they are directly addressing other MeFites? Is this a convention from Digg or something? Am I the only one who finds this annoying, even more annoying than putting other usernames in boldface? Even more annoying than Todd Lokkenning? Can we make it stop?

Usernames Instead of Numbers

TheDonF — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 07:50:34 -0800

Pony: any chance of having the ability to look up a user by appending their username name to the "/user/" URL? The user number is okay, but being able to have the name as well would be really helpful.

I thought it was decided that Unicode usernames were a bad thing

Plutor — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 05:18:34 -0800

After the 김치 hubbub, I thought it was decided that Unicode usernames were a bad thing. So what about our new friend ND¢? What's the range of valid username characters? 0x0001 through 0x00FF?

Why are there three shoutings?

delmoi — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:41:46 -0800

Why are there three shoutings?

Passwords

The Monkey — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:22:09 -0800

Did someone try to steal my awesome account? I just got my password emailed to me, with a statement that I requested it, but... I didn't request it.

Why is the username case inconsistent?

smackfu — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 20:29:57 -0800

Nitpicking: The text that says "You are logged in as: Username" uppercases your username, while everywhere else in the site it keeps it in the original case.

Outting Users

taz — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 02:12:26 -0800

Hey, MeFite Detectives! A request: Please think before you "out" someone. In our personal lives, most of us have learned that just because we can do something, it doesn't necessarily mean we should, and the same is true here. If a user (or perhaps the subject of a post, etc.) has caught your attention for some reason, and they have revealed (or you have figured out) their real life identity, and you go poking around to see what you can find, please think twice before publishing your big scoop. [more]

Recycling Usernames?

mkultra — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 08:53:37 -0800

Are usernames becoming recycled? I noticed a new user that I could have sworn had a taken username- it's a username I use often and almost always check for first when signing up places. Or am I imagining all of this?

Favorite MetaFilter usernames?

Smart Dalek — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 06:00:50 -0800

Hi, I'm bored. What are some cool names around here?

how nice is matt about letting users change their user name?

Tryptophan-5ht — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:18:30 -0800

how nice is matt about letting users change their user name?

Changing My Account

Tlahtolli — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:51:59 -0800

How can I cancel my account? If I can't, how can I change my nick? And if I can't do that, then how can I cancel my account? I kind of ashamed of being a $5 MeFite.

username entity-ified

quonsar — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 07:38:52 -0800

eponymous blargh registered himself a sock puppet using html entities which looks exactly like my username. thank you.