when established ilxors return under a new username

i have no opinion here everyone vote how u feel x

never been in a pub
― mark s, Thursday, March 29, 2001 1:00 AM (seventeen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^

also i never do polls for the same reason

only been here a few weeks but could be worth a go

some people need a new start i guess

never understood why kerr does it so frequently tho

This is the absolute WORST THING ABOUT ILX. Just pick a username and fucking stick with it. Trying to keep track with everybody changing their names every three months? Fucking hell, I bet half the people in the “ILX Milk Carton” thread are still around it’s just nobody’s caught on to their shenanigans yet.

I am protean.

everybody guessing about who this or that new poster secretly used to be leaves me feeling confused and out of it, "oh can't you tell from their posting style this new poster used to post as Irritant Song back in 2007", no, i don't even know if i was here in 2007 and if i was it's taken me this long just to figure out who the people posting here _now_ are

I am protean.

― Ned Raggett

always my favorite member of the Legion of Super-Pets

sometimes it's hard to believe that mr. snrub and i have been here together for 16 years

dom passatino walks among us

Fuck this poll srsly

i do miss the pre facebook internet when people weren't encouraged to use their real name or maintain a consistent identity so that they're easier to track in a dataset

HI DERE

famous people get a pass, it's fine (seriously)

i can't be the only one who changed their AIM screen name once a month in high school

Love the changing usernames of ilx. Usually I've been upfront about my previous incarnations. This time I had a bit of fun not telling people for a few weeks. ILX2 NEW USERNAME TRANSLATOR COMPENDIUM is an enjoyable bit of terrier work. It honestly freaks me out that there are people who get freaked out about it.

Not to mention the many users who have changed their names for serious privacy reasons.

famous people get a pass, it's fine (seriously)

― mookieproof

what if i have the same name as a famous person

such as, say, karl malone

if you are neil peart, then that's fine too

I like stable usernames, if only because as time passes I accumulate sufficient impressions for them first to become personalities in my mind, then fully articulated human beings. That's nice, but not necessary.

New usernames I consider at first simply as text, not a name, and it is the least valuable text connected to a post. Those posts live or die entirely on their apparent merits. They may eventually become personalities; the posts themselves reveal enough for that process to get started, either the first wisps of kindness, thoughtfulness, curiosity or tentative openness, or perhaps the sour stink of egoism and nastiness.

As they say, a stranger may be a friend you haven't met, or they could just be another shithead on the internet. I'm always willing to see a new name as possibly a new person or a returned person who turned a new leaf, but my experience is, it's easier to change your login name than to change your spots. Shitheads often stay shitheads. The proof of the poster is in the posting.

famous people get a pass, it's fine (seriously)
lol

if you are neil peart, then that's fine too

― mookieproof

i used to pretend to be john rutsey but i guess it's not a very persuasive masquerade since he died :(

I guess it's not that big a deal generally as long as people don't pretend to be someone other than who everyone knows them to be (*coughgabbnebcough*) and as long as people don't abuse it as a way to circumvent a ban (*coughcoughgabbnebcough*) and as long as people don't maintain multiple simultaneous socks in some sad adolescent attempt to blow everyone's miiiiiiinds maaaaaan (*coughhackgabbnebhackhacksputter*, enough with this chest cold already, sheesh).

FTR I've had a sum total of two usernames in fifteen years and I don't think it's any state secret what my username was previously or which fabulously-wealthy superceleb I am irl.

i think it's ok when people change their name. i've done it myself (on accident - i self-banned as Z S and then couldn't get it back).

i think it's ok when they don't identify themselves or make a connection to their old namewhen they want to just start over with relative anonymity.

i think it's fine if they're relatively famous and want to have a new username so that their creepy fans don't read all their ilx posts

^^those situations cover the vast majority of new usernames

i think it's extremely weird when people change names and then repeatedly hint to everyone that they've changed the name and you might know them but they won't just say who they are and they goad everyone into a weird ass game of trying to identify them. it rarely happens but i'm always creeped the fuck out when people do that

Fuck this poll srsly

― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 23 February 2019 02:10 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oi you have an option

km yr second option is not fine fyi

deems, ilx is just a bunch of text on a screen, mostly written by people, in that bots are not yet a noticeable feature here, and people vary a lot, from one to another, or within themselves from day to day or from hour to hour. I know you get this. I understand that you disapprove of some what the people here do. me, too. but using a new username w/o identifying one's old username is neither fine or not fine; it is a choice that hurts no one, but annoys you. your annoyance is a bug, not a feature.

I mean, it would be weird irl but on the ability to be anonymous and change identities is kind of a primary feature of the internet. Fine with me, as long as you’re not a jerk about it

i disagree

we're all connected here through what we contribute. our history with the board entire and any one other poster on it is an input into that relationship.

for one party to conceal that history is a bad faith engagement that changes that relationship utterly and while it may not be intentionally malicious we have seen it used so on many occasions.

i dont fwiw agree that anyone is owed nor entitled to a 'fresh start' with anyone else (anyone is ofc entitled to a fresh start in and of themselves, a different thing).

that strikes me as a deeply suspect and manipulative motive/action

i recognise we all use ilx differently. i don't understand how anyone can profess to engage with the place if not on the basis of acceptingg and owning their own history with it tho

poll isnt about any one nor recent individual fwiw

thats an xp, km

not 'being a jerk about it' is u&k, obv, but we all have difft ideas about what that entails.

For sure. For me me it’s just using the new name to play games with everyone else and seek attention

Fuck this poll srsly

― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, February 22, 2019 9:10 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't understand how anyone can profess to engage with the place if not on the basis of accepting and owning their own history with it

on the basis of self-loathing, or cowardice, or arrogance, or a variety of other human failings in varying degrees. that's life, both on and off the internet. given the opportunity to start a new identity some will abuse this possibility, others may use it to renew their humanity. I'd worry more about what their current incarnation does than whether they are dissociating themselves from last year's model that crashed and burned.

not arguing its impossible or that it should be- im opining that its a negative behaviour absent a fair reason and yeah 'fair' is not up to the individual doing it, it's a one-to-one call for every person they have or will engage with on the board

imo

(not rly tho this is fact tbh)

Yeah, I’m with aimless there. I believe in second chances and forgiveness in general. People change, and sometimes they want to change their names to for practical or symbolic reasons.

and as aimless said, sometimes they do it for malign or trolly reasons. But that shouldn’t mean that we close the door on the good that it can do for others.

Xp

Here, have some reasons

1) lost access to ilx email
2) embarrassed themselves/pissed off other posters
3) irritate concern trolls

xp second chances and forgiveness cannot

imo but actually this is fact

be distributed to "hi weve never met!" posters

like thats not what either of the terms actually mean

nb i typed out this poll options under the influence they are maybe a lil pugnacious

while appreciating that i stand over the discussion itt

If there were a reliable way to ensure a continuity of identity on ilx similar to the way in which corporeal identity is difficult to evade because our height, weight, facial features, eye color, fingerprints and so on are exceedingly difficult to alter convincingly, then the consensus of ilx would probably be weighted toward moral disapproval of any attempts to evade one's history. Standards for contrition and redemption would no doubt be set and a probationary period observed. Since we cannot apply these standards, we must adjust to what is possible. I understand your disapproval, but I cannot see its application achieving any useful end.

Under the circumstances, other means and methods are needed. We may hatch a few cuckoo's eggs, but I trust we are smart enough to differentiate a cuckoo hatchling from our own chicks and stop feeding them.

drunk irishman is pretty persuasive tbh

xp in fits and starts we do be

bytimes we are curiously cockeyed about it

mookie the term iirc is 'functioning'

oh i'm well aware

This is a completely unacceptable practice, in my very humble opinion.

Then stop accepting it?

xp to your credit -- in that you changed it -- that was a terrible name

lol dwh

i stress that this is no attack on any ome individual and i do regret the options above im sure i had my reasons at the time, some hours ago

thank you for loving esby

xp (or otherwise sotto voce to self, philadelphia-here-i-come-style) while also noting that yknow creepy is a word we like to throw around a bit here too yknow

how does one know if one is "established"? could be embarrassing to announce your previous username to 7-to-63 imagined blank faces depending on time of day and location.

xp tootin

sufjan its kinda a lady if u have to ask thing

i think one or two posters may remember a few of my 90s posts. on the shoegaze threads maybe?

ah fuck it. I was "Ned Raggett".

yeah and im anastasia romanov cmon man be srs

animal by latebloomer was probably the best sock

Nothing ILXors love more than talking about ILX and fellow ILXors.

is there something else to do online

nothing as good

best estela sock was brodie

i didn't know map was strgn !!!

― the late great, Friday, 1 March 2019 18:06 (five hours ago)Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

... case in point. Is this true because, if so, mind blown.

i mean until strongo appears and actually states it wasnt him then no way i believe that

whoever was behind brodie had a talent for annoying people a lot with a very small and mild effort, it was admirable in its way

as much of an admission as we'll get i suppose

animal by latebloomer was probably the best sock

― estela, Friday, March 1, 2019 11:07 PM (forty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

good lord, i'm sorry all you people remember me

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

44 correctly read the sarcasm imo

Thats cool

would have voted for "(sus)"

it was pretty impressive how quick ppl figured out who i was on sandbox and when i changed dn (almost ten years ago now). i will be flopson until i die

ive had periods where i wanted to change it but i kind of just love it now and im glad my 18 yo self chose it. an appealing combo of stupid, cute, vaguely british

i assumed it was icelandic, like you are the son of flop

lol

I have to admit I initially got you mixed up with frogbs. I have seen for a long time now that you are someone else

I didn't realize you were british

I have to admit I initially got you mixed up with frogbs.

same. frogbs, flopson, and flappy bird. i've finally managed to get things straight though

I’m not british im canadian and even though frogbs is good now i resent that mixup. at least mix me up w flappy bird. there’s a new poster called flopsduck or some shitthat i FP every time i see. too close for comfort

flopson = math?
frogbs = magic cards?

he’s really into YMO

yes, japanese music

do i have that part right about math and magic cards, though

ya i used to study math, not sure abt mtg

hate mixing up my canadians

frogbs has been good for longer than he was bad, time flies

I do like frogbs

this thread just reminds me that I construct personalities for and narratives about each poster in my mind without much basis in reality

there’s a new poster called flopsduck or some shitthat i FP every time i see. too close for comfort

― flopson, Friday, March 1, 2019 8:11 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Flopsyduck is Captain Lorax.

jfc

flipflopson morelike

That’s right - I knew there was another flop that shows up and makes things bad

frogbs is great now!

frallahu frakhabar

Good morning, how yall doing?

I’ve tried to break in this name with Lorax references like the fuzzy monster next to it now, or “The Ghost of Lorax Past” which I used for a few months.

I also used “he said captain, I said wot” for a few months

cpt exlor

Believe me when I say it’s hard to admit I was Captain Lorax.

I decided I rather own parts of my past I wish to be forgotten than pretend like it never happened.

this is the only good thread

HI DERE

There is only one Alex in NYC. Accept no substitutes.

I know an Alex in NYC. He doesn't honour the fire, though.

There are no established ilxors

― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Saturday, 23 February 2019 14:15 (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink

everyone pre 2014 is established under the new entrants scheme post 2004 or the pre-95 scheme

― cristiano ornaldo (darraghmac), Saturday, 23 February 2019 14:16 (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink

a pretty good reference to public sector pensions terminology/policy there. punning can and should be educational.