But not nearly as awesome as "King Shit of Dickmeasure Hill"

December 12, 2005 7:52 AM

This thread, interesting in its own right, merits a few callouts for best usernames ever.
posted by voltairemodern to MetaFilter-Related at 7:52 AM (23 comments total)

This one has GOT to be a Trekkie.
posted by Gator at 8:03 AM on December 12, 2005

Yeah. I noticed Protocols of the Elders of Awesome -- that username is truly the bees knees.
posted by killdevil at 8:04 AM on December 12, 2005

Ta
posted by Protocols of the Elders of Awesome at 8:28 AM on December 12, 2005

Can I use this thread to point out that the HTML markup used for addressing comments is hella invalid? According to the HTML 4 spec, “ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"), underscores ("_"), colons (":"), and periods (".").” NAME tokens across this site begin with digits.

I'm just guessing now, but maybe that has something to do with why these links directly to comments don't always work like they should?
posted by ijoshua at 8:31 AM on December 12, 2005

Ahhh... I wondered why MT insisted on stuff like c00012345 and comment-12345.

The links don't work like they should because people put images into their comments without width/height fields. What you're seeing is the browser reflowing the page as it loads content.
posted by sbutler at 8:53 AM on December 12, 2005

Those are cute usernames, but really not all that good for online discussion (especially the nonthreaded kind) because they're hard to write out compared to nice, short handles.
posted by rxrfrx at 9:02 AM on December 12, 2005

ijoshua: "I'm just guessing now, but maybe that has something to do with why these links directly to comments don't always work like they should?"

No, it's because of img tags without a height attribute.
posted by Plutor at 9:02 AM on December 12, 2005

Must everything be a competition?
posted by mkultra at 9:03 AM on December 12, 2005

Those are cute usernames, but really not all that good for online discussion (especially the nonthreaded kind) because they're hard to write out compared to nice, short handles.

I'm sure the dyslexics out there will appreciate the irony of your post :-)
posted by londonmark at 9:09 AM on December 12, 2005

I answer to Mr Protocols, or PEA.
posted by Protocols of the Elders of Awesome at 9:17 AM on December 12, 2005

(sigh, Mr Awesome if you must).
posted by Protocols of the Elders of Awesome at 9:17 AM on December 12, 2005

My name is Tetsuo. Well, not really.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 9:20 AM on December 12, 2005

mkultra wins the thread.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 9:28 AM on December 12, 2005

Those are cute usernames, but really not all that good for online discussion (especially the nonthreaded kind) because they're hard to write out compared to nice, short handles.

I noticed this in action the other day in an AskMe thread I can't find right now where people were responding to a user with a handle of the form "*, man". For a moment I thought the thread was taken over by surf dudes when people started saying things like "I agree with *, man."
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 9:34 AM on December 12, 2005

mkultra wins the thread.

The first time I've enjoyed a "someone wins!" comment. Irony truly is that thing it's supposed to be.
posted by nthdegx at 9:43 AM on December 12, 2005

Not everyone likes them.

(I do, though.)
posted by knave at 10:16 AM on December 12, 2005

mkultra wins the thread.

The first time I've enjoyed a "someone wins!" comment. Irony truly is that thing it's supposed to be.

Get the hell out of my spotlight, losers.
posted by mkultra at 10:23 AM on December 12, 2005

I noticed Protocols of the Elders of Awesome -- that username is truly the bees knees.

Hey, I noticed it first!
posted by languagehat at 10:51 AM on December 12, 2005

The first time someone addressed me as 'RIB' I had no idea what they were talking about and assumed that in some way, they were insulting me. I cried, verily, but in a manly way.
posted by robocop is bleeding at 11:03 AM on December 12, 2005

Best user names, eh?
Here's one of my favorites:
racist dunk-tank clown
posted by Fuzzy Monster at 1:16 PM on December 12, 2005

The first time someone addressed me as 'RIB' I had no idea what they were talking about and assumed that in some way, they were insulting me. I cried, verily, but in a manly way.

Oh relax, it was just a gentle ribbing.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 1:23 PM on December 12, 2005

Must everything be a competition?

Yes.
posted by fixedgear at 2:58 PM on December 12, 2005

Oh relax, it was just a gentle ribbing.

*SOB*
posted by robocop is bleeding at 3:39 PM on December 12, 2005