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I think this might have just been covered, but I was in drug rehab and missed it!!

Why do some members of this site have more than one "handle"?

Sometimes Joe Blow will post as "dinkydo", next week he will show up as "cockroach".

I just saw a post in a forum from someone that has been here from day one! Now he is a "newbie" with a different handle and posts that number only in the teens.


Is there some reason for this that I'm to naive to comprehend. I am "me"..I don't need to be anyone else. :confused:

Stuart

Stuart, or was that atomarc?

Stuart,

You can change your screen name without changing your other info. It'll confuse people, that's for sure.

Also ... we've had one person who has been signing in using names very similar to other people. So, that's pretty confusing, too.

Then, we have the people who forget their password or that kind of stuff. They get a little anxious about posting and end up just re-registering. When some people register, they don't have their firewall enabled to allow their password to come thru. So, we see a lot of Stovebolt, Stovebolt-1, Stovebolt-2, etc. registered one after another from the same person.

But, they eventually send us an email and we try to get them on.

When I come across double registrations (when I do gallery additions), I usally ask the person if we can delete the newer one. It just makes more sense to have one so everyone knows who you are. That's the idea about all this.

But I must confess -- my screen name was once "Mommy Dearest" but that was when we had the "old lounge." You remember them there days? So, now ... since I get so much email, I figured they'd better know who Peggy M is.

Who is she by the way?

Does that help some.

There's just getting to be a LOT of people in here any more.

AAMOF, I use to keep an Excell sheet for a while with a persons real name and their screen name so when they emailed me, I'd know who they were. Shoot, I gave up on that about six years ago!

Plus, now I can claim I'm too old and I forget a lot

Peg

Some other members have "at work" handles and logons and "home" handles and logons - complicating things further! And, let's not forget those who surface under new aliases after igniting some opinion firestorm in a forum!

and then there's folks who're tired and figger a change is as good as a rest

Bill

or whatever

Bill

Only time you have to worry is when their alter egos start arguing with their 'normal' names!

well here and at most forums i only use this nic. but theres one chatroom that i have close to 1000 nics, and thats if something strikes me as funny, i turn it into a nic, and hope others think its funny also.

If any one else says they are ME..... Well then they can just have my BILLs as well.

Cliff59

I agree with Cliff if they want to use my name I will send them my student loan bills too! But I am not interesting enough for someone to steal my name and post as me.

well just to let you fine folks know, in some cases and on some sites, where nic has a lower case L in it, it can be swaped for a capitol i, and look identical. for an example Fumblin46 can have the L swaped to an i, like this-->> FumbIin46. i noticed it could be seen easy enough here.but in other places the lettering makes it easy to hide. just something to keep in mind when at other places.

Stuart I think some of the people you are talking about my have authoritys after them . lol

Hey, I guess you could sign up using, say three different handles. Then you could create a Topic, and start one heckuva argument with "yourselves" just to draw attention.

I'll just stick with one. I'm confused enough as it is. :confused:

Davey (that's me, over there on the left)

some folks just cant remember who they are, where they are ,etc .. glad I am not in that situation....... I will probably have a new handle some-time this yr... bet cha cant way for that, huh?