the finest of display names only

max is my real name

is your last name "r."

i don't think it would be all that much harder to tie a Whiney G. Weingarten post to me as it is to tie an Al Shipley post to "some dude" or ffs "Alex In Baltimore".

Info gets around pretty fast imo.

Then again, I'm in the crit business so I don't really need to googleproof myself when i say Neon Indian can eat a bag of dick, because it's not gonna keep me from a teaching fellowship or some shit

posted with my rl name as DN (not username) for like 2 weeks

well, struck me as a little rude, at least, and seemed to strike k3vin that way too, from his reply. i could have taken it wrong, goole. i don't think this is a big deal, it's just dn's.

whopping sense of entitlement how? explain plz.

i have 1500 posts or so, plz let me know when i can say u are coming on a little strong when u are asked to explain yr view rather than it being delivered on stone tablets,

Also, I'm of the J0hn D school in that I don't really talk about my personal life off 77, and barely touch on it when I am on 77.

excepting for ~impt lyfe issues~

i don't think it would be all that much harder to tie a Whiney G. Weingarten post to me as it is to tie an Al Shipley post to "some dude" or ffs "Alex In Baltimore".

Info gets around pretty fast imo.

― EyjafjallajökuLOL (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, April 19, 2010 1:36 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

oh i know there's not some thick smokescreen of anonymity, and am fine w/ regular posters knowing, i'd just rather not it be THAT easy for googlers to find the board on the basis of my name.

well, struck me as a little rude, at least, and seemed to strike k3vin that way too, from his reply. i could have taken it wrong, goole. i don't think this is a big deal, it's just dn's.

i really did not want to start a clusterfuck on this, i just made what i thought was a simple request. i tried to do it in a casual fashion but obviously i fucked up forever, i should be placed in ilx jail and not only that, i deserve the gasface according to you.

anyone who thinks my request was "rude" is probably a little too thin skinned to be on ilx and should go back to downloading porn and writing Sally Jessy Raphael slash fic.

btw HI DERE my saying i don't like ur style in a particular instance & moment doesn't really even out with yr not liking me in the general and saying so, especially if u are all about the non-zinging & the courtesy.

haha que, it was just the "thanks" bit i guess. and like i say, just dn's, not a big deal imo.

yeah im with hi dere on this one, and kinda thinking that there doesnt really have to be a big exposition of why changing it when asked makes sense - if anything id need some explanation of how not changing it when asked makes any sense whatsoever, other than because peeps want to be dicks?

i mean, i posted about me and my gf's relationship crisis on ONE THREAD but didn't exactly post a lot of details.

I wouldn't exactly call myself or J0rdan or J0hn D "oversharers" by any stretch of the imagination.

I think posting innocuous shit under your real name is waaay less harmful than about 5 or 6 posters on ILX who tell all kinds of personal details under "anonymous" handles but their al shipleys aren't impossible to figure out

yeah you guys are definitely not oversharers and that wasn't really my point -- that's a whole other issue really

still lol at "their al shipleys" even like the 5th time

so shit like this is totally no way then

yeah i mean that's definitely amusing -- if people wanna googleproof that when not saying it on 77 that'd be great but i'm not gonna complain about it

came here lookin to read some fine ass display names and i'm subjected to this CRAP

ruining yr fav thread iirc

Are you really, seriously asking how your are behaving in an entitled manner in this situation? Mr. Que's display name is his; it is how he is known on the boards. He gets a say if someone else decides to use it as part of their display name. That's how it works. K3v doesn't have any reasonable footing to not change his display name to something else. It may be a harmless joke and it may be well-intentioned, but the ownership of that name on ILX lies with Que and he gets to say what happens with the name. (I'm not going to try to play mind reader to figure out why Que objected because it isn't important.)

K3v refusal required a moderator's response to clear up the ambiguity. Que could have a made a bigger deal about it and posted on IMP! or MRF or he could have dropped it; in either case, the point was not so much that OH NOES k3vink is using Que's name in a display name joke as much as it was there seemed to be a misconception that display names are free-for-all pieces of information and that no one had any expectation of being able to reserve their display name for use on their own posts (obv there are issues like Jordan/J0rdan S which work themselves out by one person adopting an alternate spelling). You then butted in to give an opinion that is an incorrect interpretation of the messageboard's policy on a situation that had nothing to do with you and went out of your way to insult the person doing the asking.

Are you seriously still wondering why I was curt with you?

this is war

Are you seriously still wondering why I was curt with you?

― don't you steal my Sunstein (HI DERE), Monday, April 19, 2010 1:57 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it's spelled "crut" iirc

haa

well, struck me as a little rude, at least, and seemed to strike k3vin that way too, from his reply. i could have taken it wrong, goole. i don't think this is a big deal, it's just dn's.

zvook i appreciate the backup and think you're generally otm in this thread but i didn't say that because i thought it was rude, just as a joke in a kinda "r u srs dude" way.

only on ILX

Just to be clear, the issue here isn't that using other people's display names in your own is forbidden; the issue is that the person whose name your using does have the right to ask you to change it and will get mod backup to enforce a change if he/she asks.

K3v doesn't have any reasonable footing to not change his display name to something else. It may be a harmless joke and it may be well-intentioned, but the ownership of that name on ILX lies with Que and he gets to say what happens with the name. (I'm not going to try to play mind reader to figure out why Que objected because it isn't important.)

please tell me where in the ilx constitution this is stated you clueless, longwinded goof

we're all gonna be fucked if "ilxor" decides we can't use his name in our DNs

enjoy your vacation

signing up with secondary accounts as "the," "a" and "an" right now

yah k3v i just thought offering a reason, say, was more collegial than "hey...thanks" but if a poster doesn't want to then hey w/e.

hi dere, the messageboard has policies? where are they? & is one that we not supposed to comment on mod calls? is this butting in? u were being unnecessarily high handed imo in a "obvious to me, no need to explain" way, saying so was no insult.

fwiw, not sure i agree, but HI DERE's policy isn't unreasonable

it's kind of hard to argue that people shouldn't be able to ask out of the display name pun game even if it is a random handle like "mr. que" -- i just think it's super lame & overly sensitive

It's totally fine to think it's super lame and overly sensitive!

it's kind of hard to argue that people shouldn't be able to ask out of the display name pun

shouldn't or should? do you think Que's request was reasonable or not?

personal attack from HI DERE = totally justified, personal attack from k3vin = ban

(xp: You might not want to tell people that if only because it makes you look like a rude dick, but it's certainly a valid opinion.)

Mr. Que isn't really an over-sensitive guy though. He's an A+ poster. He should be able to ask dudes to not do some shit.

If you think "you are acting entitled" is a personal attack, good luck to you on your adult life.

like i said, i think it's overly sensitive, but i think posters should honor a request to change a display & mods should enforce -- it's just a display

i have trouble seeing what the big difference is between making a pun on someone's username in a post & doing it in a DN. but yeah, i don't really have a problem if this is ILX's policy

so this is cool with you then right?

(i had worse ones but eh, you get the point right?)

i don't have a prob with this "policy" either, it's just dn's ffs.

u didn't say "you are acting entitled", but if u want to spin it like yr infallible, w/e.

lol yes that is cool with me as it happens

whiney had zvocka socka lame & zvocksucker for a while & that was cool w me but i don't expect everyone to be like that

zvook OTM. as long as it doesn't go too far

yeah see those dont have the actual domain name in them tho right? xpost

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz board lawyering

so if someone shortened it to Q in their DN but it was still a clear reference to Mr. Que that'd be OK?

ksh watched South Park last week

what's the reference? last episode I saw was the Facebook one tbf