We do OK with all the Jesses. By which I mean the plural of "Jess" not "Jesse." I'm just saying.
Riley: Oh, yeah. Sorry 'bout last time. Heard I missed out on some fun. Xander: Oh yeah, fun was had. Also frolic, merriment and near-death hijinks.
'Never Leave Me'
Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Jesse - Apr 05, 2004 7:39:14 am PDT #9215 of 10005
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Fred Pete - Apr 05, 2004 7:45:15 am PDT #9216 of 10005
Ann, that's a ferret.
True, we aren't easily confused. At least not since the Great David Debate.
Maybe I'm overthinking this one, and we can just deal with it if it happens without putting anything in the FAQ.
DXMachina - Apr 05, 2004 7:55:04 am PDT #9217 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
New topic: I think it would make sense if COMM'ed filk went on to the filk page rather than the BRQG. Thoughts?
Well, the filk will be going into the filk site anyway, along with the other one that got posted last night. And Daniel's sonnet.
I'm not sure how to address people with the same names as celebrities.
Yeah. I have a cousin who is a Buffy fan who, if he decided to register with his real name, could register as Tim M. It's a poser.
billytea - Apr 05, 2004 7:58:19 am PDT #9218 of 10005
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Yeah. I have a cousin who is a Buffy fan who, if he decided to register with his real name, could register as Tim M. It's a poser.
Ask him if he'd be averse to registering as "Timmay!"
Ginger - Apr 05, 2004 8:02:52 am PDT #9219 of 10005
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
How about something along the lines of:
Buffistas tend to choose user names that can be easily used in conversation. Sometimes they are people's real names or nicknames; sometimes they are the names they always wished their parents had the sense to give them. You may feel cosmically drawn to the name @$sd_myxp12, but "What @$sd_myxp12 said" does not fall trippingly off the fingers. To reduce confusion, please avoid the names of famous people, including ME writers, and the names of existing posters. For example, if your name is Tiffany and there is already a Tiffany on the board, pick a variation, whether it be TiffanyT or Breakfast.
Beverly - Apr 05, 2004 8:23:01 am PDT #9220 of 10005
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Nice, Ginger. A question, though. Is there a roster of registered user names? One that's available to posters? How would a new Tiffany know there was already a Tiffany, a Tiffani, and a Tiffanie previously registered?
DXMachina - Apr 05, 2004 8:25:42 am PDT #9221 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Is there a roster of registered user names? One that's available to posters?
No, there isn't.
Pix - Apr 05, 2004 8:33:48 am PDT #9222 of 10005
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I love Ginger's revision, despite the fact there is no registry to check.
Steph L. - Apr 05, 2004 8:39:55 am PDT #9223 of 10005
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
To reduce confusion, please avoid the names of famous people, including ME writers, and the names of existing posters. For example, if your name is Tiffany and there is already a Tiffany on the board, pick a variation, whether it be TiffanyT or Breakfast.
Since there's no registry, maybe the wording could say something like "If you register and find that you're Jen #8, you can ask a Stompy to change your username to something more distinctive."
Dana - Apr 05, 2004 8:40:50 am PDT #9224 of 10005
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
You may feel cosmically drawn to the name @$sd_myxp12, but "What @$sd_myxp12 said" does not fall trippingly off the fingers.
Ha! Love this.
For example, if your name is Tiffany and there is already a Tiffany on the board, pick a variation, whether it be TiffanyT or Breakfast.
Well, the board wouldn't let you register with the exact same name as an existing poster, right? Absent a registry of existing names....hmm.