the finest of display names only

lol @ u -- you sound like a wine drinker -- "wow, i love the subtle nutmeg notes that i'm getting here -- this is really nice"

lol

what does "Twink Will Ferrell" mean?

Customer One: "Ah yes... i'll have the shipley '09"
Sommelier: "A wise choice, sir. Tis the finest of the finest. Truly a connoisseur's dream."
Customer Two: "I only have a couple bucks. What's the cheapest shit you got?"
Sommelier: "Pretty much a box of forks"

presuming u know what a twink is, twink will ferrell was a description of some public figure in the politics thread i think. it's a good name for addressing with, as in "that's a good point, Twink Will Ferrell, but have u considered the implications such as ... "

I'd like to see a sommelier sell hipster maddog.

twink will ferrell comes from morbz iirc

I like how Cutty grabbed my old screen name as soon as I was done with it.

what

Who the FRRUCK want WHAAAT?!! COWARDS!!

never mind, I didn't notice you changed to "full government name" the same day I did

xp

i actually used it before you, now apologize cunt

this is the most heated thread on ilx

not a week goes by without display name-related beef

hmmm, nah

xxp

pretty lame cause i big-upped your tortoise DN

now i just hate you

I regret my error, but there wasn't any malice involved for me to apologize for.

i think you guys should literally fight

Defamation—also called calumny, vilification, slander (for transitory statements), and libel (for written, broadcast, or otherwise published words)—is the communication of a statement that makes a claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give an individual, business, product, group, government, or nation a negative image. It is usually, but not always,[1] a requirement that this claim be false and that the publication is communicated to someone other than the person defamed (the claimant).

CALUMNY

Is malicious intent a requirement?

Here's the part I'm pretty sure you're not going to believe -- when I said "I'm glad" I meant it literally, earnestly and unironically. I thought it was cool that you were keeping that screen name in business, not realizing you'd beaten me to it by 2+ hours.

ps, I totally would have apologized if you hadn't called me a cunt.

i love you

awwww

cuntty

luv u crut but that display name is making me gag - not a criticism, just a fact.

ha - will change

― neveragl story (zvookster), Thursday, April 15, 2010 6:24 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― autogoon the news (The Reverend), Monday, April 19, 2010 11:36 AM

hey can you change that, kevin? thanks

ha

why would he?

http://img499.imageshack.us/img499/8502/iiam29pb.gif

― it is a Mr. Que (zvookster), Monday, April 19, 2010 12:26 PM (25 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

mr que: no, thanks

Actually, it is not unreasonable for posters to request that their display names not be used by other posters. I would strongly recommend changing it.

dammit

i'd really only find it defensively objectionable if fools used real names in dn's.

defensibly i mean

fwiw i have never been thrilled about my real name getting dragged onto the board, but ethan opened the floodgates for that a couple years ago and it's not really worth bitching about or trying to control now.

also you used to post under your real name iirc

never under my surname

probably wont compromise your position at the umass amherst biology lab

naw i was serious abt it being a defensible position, just liked the joke & thought u were cool with it anyway bc of the poetry blurb thread etc. but no probs.

still don't find the other objection particularly reasonable to the point of mod intervention

fwiw i have never been thrilled about my real name getting dragged onto the board, but ethan opened the floodgates for that a couple years ago and it's not really worth bitching about or trying to control now.

I totally respect and understand that; my main point is really that posters do have a say as to what happens with their display names, regardless of whether they are pseudonyms or not. It's not forbidden to do it but you really do have to change it if the poster whose name you're co-opting asks you to.

xp: well zvookster, it's nice to know that you don't think that objection is particularly reasonable; that doesn't change the fact that it is, actually, reasonable, and something that at least one mod is willing to enforce

"autogoon the news" is alright, it's kinda just re-appropriating hoos original joke

this on the other hand

― David SBanner (zvookster), Monday, April 19, 2010 12:15 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

is quality

que is not serious?

this all brings me back to when we were allowed to change display names again and i got yellowcarded for changing mine to Geir Hongro

don't sweat it, zvook, wouldn't have asked you to change it (although the strained chips ahoy pun was almost in unfinest territory imo), just saying that a lot of times people's real last names kind of become 'fair game' on the board without them ever posting it/under it or encouraging people to refer to them by it.