META: Why do people use numbers & so forth in their names?

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Like someone named "John" spelling it here as Jo4n". What's the purpose of this? Just curious.

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Anti-Google/web search tactic, also useful to defeat spam if you put it in your e-mail address.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Why don't people want their ILM responses coming up on Google? That's what I don't understand.

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, who wants their boss Googling them?

BTW, 4=A, not H.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

They're trying to stay untraceable.
So that nothing they say here will come back to haunt them when they're low-level indie superstars being asked to pose for Playboy.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't why it never occured to me that someone might Google me. And even though Y$ncey, for example, seems like a nice guy with interesting ideas, I never thought of Googling him. Who goes looking online for ILM posters?

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

cos it's fun, pops

― Chip Morningstar (bob), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

You got my numbers wrong, Mark. I changed the spelling in my name after I was googled and someone wrote me about something ILM-related. Nothing bad happened, but it made me realize that something bad COULD happen (however unlikely), especially considering I have a unique name.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

THEM!
http://www.revelationart.net/gallery/images/Touch%20them%20For%20Luckweb%20master.jpg

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Why don't people want their ILM responses coming up on Google? That's what I don't understand.

Unless you haven't already noticed, there are are a lot of interweb mentalists around. I really don't see what's so hard to understand.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Those of you who write about music -- don't you like getting emails from people who read your stuff? I'm really not trying to be annoying here, I just don't get it. In Yanc3y's case, couldn't they just search Google for "Yanc3y"?

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Nicole, please excuse Mark, he writes for Pitchfork (*whispers* he's a little slow).

― hstencil, Friday, 25 April 2003 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

In Yanc3y's case, couldn't they just search Google for "Yanc3y"?

Why would it occur to them to search for Yanc3y? Do you expect people to do searches of your site using P!t4rk (for example)?

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I do like getting emails in response to my pieces, but I seem to get them fairly regularly (roughly one a day?) anyway. They could google for "Yanc3y," but why would they? I don't mind people here knowing who I am (I figure most people do), it's people outside of ILX knowing that I'm here. (this is all sounding hopelessly lame & pretentious cuz i've never thought about this before. so, instead i'll say 3's my fave digit)

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it's a bit because people tend to like the relative anonymity you get on the internet. Personally I don't mind the idea that someone down the line can find my moronic old posts on the internet etc, and I've said some knee-slappingly stupid things over the years. I don't really like the idea of discussions on the net done in a way that I wouldn't do it in real life. OK, on the net you get some time to research something a bit more before replying, which naturally helps a bit, but euhrgh. Internet discussion forums fascinate me on many levels.

It's interesting to look at Usenet though, in international groups it's very common with pseudonyms, in Norwegian groups however, it's frowned upon, even just going by your first name is bound to get you a flame from time to time. In a way, I like that, when people have their name stamped to what they say, they might not go too far overboard.
Not that I'm always entirely honest with what I say, I sometimes use hyperbole or even downright lies just to play devil's advocate, but I don't like it when people get all tough-guy and supertrolly.

Yeah, sorry for breaking this thread and ranting my way off to what should arguably be a separate thread. (thread)

But then, when you go by a nifty internet nickname, you also get a little world of your own on the internet. None of your real life friends and family have to know that you're running around on the internet and maligning people for not liking bluegrass or what have you. I'm sure that can be very cathartic to some.

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Friday, 25 April 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't get any responses to my pieces

obv i'm not mean enough

you pieces of shit

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 25 April 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

well, I guess you can have it. I haven't used ypos forever. Treat her right, Jess.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 25 April 2003 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

see, i was being MEAN horace that's why i didnt ASK

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 25 April 2003 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

you pieces of shit

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 25 April 2003 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

(75% of the responses I get are in reaction to a Strokes piece I wrote two years ago!!!)(and all of them are mean)

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 25 April 2003 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

i've never really written a hatchet job

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 25 April 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

whaz dat sposed to mean?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 25 April 2003 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I've hardly ever received any replies to my reviews, though they're not much int he way of reviews anyways, so I guess it's not too surprising. Mostly a few bands contacting me because of them.

Though I did get flamed by a Motorpsycho fan. I replied politely enough, and in his next e-mail he invited me to stay in his home if I ever visited his country!??
Oh, and some guy contacted me about Captain Beyond, that's pretty much all, I think, except a few flames on a message board over a "review" where I completely trashed a Rainbow album.

Blabla? Bloob.

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Friday, 25 April 2003 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

haha thats what i assumed the strokes piece wuz since all the mail was mean!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 25 April 2003 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

nah, i like em. it was a shitty piece, actually. i led with walter benjamin. *audible groan*

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 25 April 2003 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

what are you, sterling?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 25 April 2003 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

i know. no fucking shit!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 25 April 2003 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

jess, I complimented your DJ Sammy piece, don't you remember?

― hstencil, Friday, 25 April 2003 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

that's true, you did.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 25 April 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, there was also an email chuck forwarded me from a jockey slut reader who threatened to boycott the voice

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 25 April 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

well you have those!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 25 April 2003 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, i take everything i ever said backabout everything

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 25 April 2003 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

"I just read your article about the strokes, and I think you're completely wrong, and I hope nobody else read it."

Best I ever got:

"I frequently enjoy your articles in Flak and Neumu. You write well…
Anyway, I might as well tell you I've got a little crush on you."

I never wrote her back...

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 25 April 2003 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

wuss

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.psrc.usm.edu/macrog/sea/images/walrus.jpg
"I frequently enjoy your articles in Flak and Neumu. You write well…
Anyway, I might as well tell you I've got a little crush on you."

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 25 April 2003 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

geez you mention gramsci *once* and everyone gets all up in your grill...

(np: john tesh -- a promise of love)

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 25 April 2003 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

BTW I can't wait for some of the shit I've written on ILX to come back to haunt me!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 25 April 2003 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Aaron, I'm going to have to beat you up for writing that.

― Jack White (Nicole), Friday, 25 April 2003 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I wuz looking for a good pick of Marcie to post with my love-letter fan mail just to be a dick, but Google's failing me! You win this round, Aaron.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 25 April 2003 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Mahahahahaha!.... *sigh*

(I really like the idea of a walrus sending Yanc3y fan mail.)

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 25 April 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

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