Was your username ever stolen?

nameproblem

Has any one ever experienced their username being used by other people online? is there another you on a different website, forcing you to sign up with a different name? How do you feel about this? How connected do you feel to your username?

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someone stole my username on Boards before.

When I changed from an older name to just Des, some smartarse changed his name to my old name, but with a dot in the middle.

I take it yours has been stolen OP.

CreepingDeath

Yep, some wannabe here on boards is using "Creeping-Death".

AckwelFoley

Before Dr Bollocko, used that name, he wanted to use the name "Microsoft" due to the fact it was close to his heart (apparently he suffered from erection problems)

That name was taken.

nameproblem

i try to use the same name on most sites i sign up with, it's unavailable in some places though...

brummytom

Not on here.

The Bastard that wrote the musical 'Annie' stole my name though :mad:

AckwelFoley

nameproblem wrote: »

i try to use the same name on most sites i sign up with, it's unavailable in some places though...

then stop trying to use the name "Administrator"

nameproblem

snyper wrote: »

then stop trying to use the name "Administrator"

but its catchy and I like the authority of it as a name

kaimera

Des wrote: »

someone stole my username on Boards before.

When I changed from an older name to just Des, some smartarse changed his name to my old name, but with a dot in the middle.

wonder why the dot was there.

not important i suppose

nameproblem

rarnes1 wrote: »

I take it yours has been stolen OP.

AS I mentioned, It has been once or twice. I'm interested in how possessive people feel about their username? why does it bother u that someone stole your name?

WindSock

Yeah, on Twitter they did. They don't even use the feckin thing what a WindSockety waste. I had to put 'wins' then on my name.

AnonoBoy

It's never happened to me.

Anono.Boy

AnonoBoy wrote: »

It's never happened to me.

*Guffaw*


(Do you see what I did there?)

7th

Anono.Boy wrote: »

*Guffaw*


(Do you see what I did there?)

Re-regging isn't cool Anono.Boy.

AnonoBoy

7th wrote: »

Re-regging isn't cool Anono.Boy.

Tell me about it 6th eh.... 7th.

4zn76tysfajdxp

7th wrote: »

Re-regging isn't cool Anono.Boy.

No it isn't, Pighead.

AnonoBoy

Alivia Red Vessel wrote: »

No it isn't, Pighead.

Your ninja punctuation edit ruined my next post damn it.

Yakult

Theirs another "R_H_C_P." with a damn dot at the end!! I feel raped

am i bovvered

Mine is on Boards Fantasy Football , I have to use my alias saintstephen

Pighead

Alivia Red Vessel wrote: »

No it isn't, Pighead.

Damn straight Alivia Red Vessel. It's a despicable habit. Worse than smoking crack.
Pighead's gonna start an anti-re-reg rally won of these years.

"Re-reg, worse than veg" may be the chant.

sceptre

brummytom wrote: »

Not on here.

The Bastard that wrote the musical 'Annie' stole my name though :mad:

Your name is Charles Strouse?

brummytom

sceptre wrote: »

Your name is Charles Strouse?

Shiit..
Fine then, the bloke who wrote the book Annie, on which the musical was based and also wrote Hairspray.

Better? :P

Insect Overlord

Nobody is silly enough to steal my name. Even I might change it, next time I sub.

biko

Never "stolen", only already taken.

nameproblem

Magnus wrote: »

Never "stolen", only already taken.

BUt had u used that already taken name before somewhere else?

TheZohanS

Some girl took the name "TheZohan." about 9 months after I joined.

Think she only made two posts...

before I tracked her down and killed her

o1s1n

I noticed recently that there is someone called o1s1n on twitter.

I hate the idea that people think I might be using something as ****ing **** as twitter.

Only one solution, going to have to force him to close his account.

Twilightning

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilightning

These arseholes stole mine! :pac:

Paddycrumlinman

Someone took my name before... will be the last time since I had to take matters into my own hands to get my name back....

He will think twice about using my name again!!......

Glad I got it back though!:P

phasers

I don't think so, except when I tried registering on a Star Trek fansite for the lulz

nameproblem

phasers wrote: »

I don't think so, except when I tried registering on a Star Trek fansite for the lulz

You've a Treky alter ego then?

actuallylike

I picked a username for my first yahoo email, thinking it would be completely random. It's my full name, middle name included, with all the letters backwards and the names mixed up cause I hate having to add a random number after my username and then to my surprise it was already taken on myspace, hotmail and ebay...unbelievable!

That_Guy

There's someone with a similar name to mine on here. This_Guy perhaps.

Oh how confusing it would be if we both went to a boards beers.

"Hey did you meet that guy yet?"
"This guy?"
"No that guy"

Blazer

yeah..some bastard stole my username in 2002 to use in some forum..
then in 2008 Nike the fúckers stole it to use for their new trainers...
bastards :mad:

Jumpy

As long as people dont mistake me for jumpguy I am happy.

Blazer

Jumpy wrote: »

As long as people dont mistake me for jumpguy I am happy.

Hey Jumpguy...how's it hanging?

Sleipnir

Odin's eight-legged horse stole mine. What are the odds?

GLaDOS

I remember being surprised when signing up to Bebo and finding ScienceNerd was already taken

Splinter

aye. after a random boards beers, my name got changed and someone changed their username to splinter the next day... managed to get it back though

Antar Bolaeisk

Nope, there is only the one me on the Internet. Sometimes I do have to resort to the Bolaeisk bit when no spaces are allowed due to "Antar" being taken.

liah

Nope, my username's never been taken. I have two; xiiad and liah. xiiad I use most places (website, twitter that I don't use, email, facebook, when I used to have bebo, steam, gaming, last.fm, youtube, deviantart, aim, yim, msn, etc), I think I only use liah on digg.com and here on boards.

Will

Yeah all the freakin time, even in real life I find people copying me too. Boils my blood. How dare they!!!

MizzLolly

Will wrote: »

Yeah all the freakin time, even in real life I find people copying me too. Boils my blood. How dare they!!!

Can't see why anyone would be bothered using a name like that

arybvtcw0eolkf

Yup, there's a Makikomi on a Judo forum I use

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banshee_bones

computer says no

ride-the-spiral

My friend stole my username on here.

I'm Ride-the-spiral, he's ride the spiral. :cool:

Jesus Juice

Nope I've been able to use it on every website I've ever joined!!
Never seen another Jesus Juice on here before either!

citizen_p

yeah./... mainly on big american sites.....
or large sites with millions of members/....

wait even here.....i wanted just mousey....but somone with no posts had it so i used a -

Sabre0001

I sometimes register for sites and then manage to forget and lose all the details that I require...and then have to re-register Pretty sure I've stolen my name on XBox Live and now I'm SabreO001

Elliemental

nameproblem wrote: »

Has any one ever experienced their username being used by other people online? is there another you on a different website, forcing you to sign up with a different name? How do you feel about this? How connected do you feel to your username?

Yes. A friend nicked a username I was using on another board, to flame the the official Coldplay forums, and post hardcore gay animal porn on the official Busted forum (it was ages ago now).