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[satchmo]

Hello!
I assumed that everyone kind of knew who was who in real life, and it's always great to meet boarders. I met Proudhuff, Tiplodocus and Dog Deever at Hi-Ex, theyre all top lads but I think of their board names first, before their real names. This is going to take some getting used to kids!

[ukdane]

I assume that most people know who I am too.

[satchmo]

I do, but I also like the fact that you like being ukdane. I used to like being satchmo.

I'm wondering if anyone will bother joining this forum now if they lurk a bit and see new users getting 'use your real name' before they get 'hello'.

[SamuelAWilkinson]

My name is Samuel Wilkinson, and I'm a Squaxx!

It's good to meet you all - I've seen several names floating around in the world of fandom, but I've not always been able to connect them to usernames (or, indeed, icons).

[The Monarch]

best of both worlds as it were

[Rob Spalding]

"Call it 'The Day Tharg Turned on his Squaxx'"

I read that as The Day Tharg turned on Sussex.
Where the Mighty Green one came down on the South Coast county with Rigellian Hotshots to destroy the secret enclav of ThrillSuckers.
Huge battles, children screaming in the streets as issues of Spectacular Spider-Man were immolated on the shelves.  Women wondering what all the fuss was about and a small group of man-children scavanged the thrills scattered on the streets to hoard away for an evening's entertainment.

Or something.

[M.I.K.]

I'm not sure I'm liking this real names thing.

Yeah, it's nice knowing who people really are, but some of the character of the messageboard seems to be draining away in the process.

I'm starting to miss the silly sounding pseudonyms already.

Malcolm (Ichabod) Kirk

[M.I.K.]

That's not my real middle name, incidentally.

Malcolm (Isembard) Kirk.

[satchmo]

In fact one of the highlights of Hi-Ex was a drunken conversation with aforementioned lads about why we picked our usernames!

[ukdane]

Heh, and the worst thing about using your real name, is that you didn't even get to choose it yourself :-)

[Rob Spalding]

But the thing with real names is that you have to be willing to stand behind your comments.
I'm still trying to get a Future Shock past Tharg, so by using my real name it's going to force me to not act like a tool on the official board.

It will not however encourage me to spell or grammar check my postings!

[Eric Plumrose]

>> But the thing with real names is that you have to be willing to stand behind your comments.

Yet, as mentioned upthread, it's easy enough to still use an assumed name.

[satchmo]

Which is why I said all that thesis cobblers above. Because I kind of liked having an internet persona, maybe I've said some harsh things in the past in the heat of the moment, but on the whole I think I was fairly reasoned in most of my comments. It had never really occurred to me that anonymity+internet= total p**** or whatever that comic strip says.
I'm ambivalent about this, I really don't mind people knowing who I am, I'm friends with loads of you on facebook anyway. But I also agree with Malcolm Icarus Kirk about the character of the board.

Ben, who already feels like a miserable old b****** now he can't hide behind his wallscrawling juve persona :)

[pauljholden]

Well yeah, but if you're prepared to change your nick name for an assumed name it maybe doesn't bode well for your intentions on the site. Unless your name is so scorned and hated that you don't want anyone to prejudge you.

- pj

[Funt Solo]

Regarding the given example of the return of Defoe, I think [censored].