# How many usernames do you have? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 2, 2018, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-usernames-do-you-have/825451 "2018-12-02T17:59:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-usernames-do-you-have/825451/41 "2019-04-01T15:49:10Z")
My name is Legion. I mostly use What Exit? or close variations but I do use many others, Abby Normal is a common one for games, though that confuses people who think I’m a woman then. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-usernames-do-you-have/825451/42 "2019-04-01T16:36:42Z")
Just this one here and on Giraffe. I used to have a Twitter account where I was Malamutt, but canceled it because Trump was jamming up everything. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-usernames-do-you-have/825451/43 "2019-04-01T17:38:57Z")
My first username, on a message board for synesthetes, was **MagentaRedBlue**. It’s still my Flickr name. These days the name I use most is **Sasha Honeypalm** , a Significant Anagram that I came up with in college and really like. > [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > Mostly I use the same user name everywhere, but I do have a separate user name for gaming sites (games like Fallout, Skyrim, etc, not the gambling type of gaming if that was what you were thinking). I am not going to tell you the name, but it’s a combination of characters from two very different movies, one being a Mel Brooks movie and the other being post-apocalyptic. In any game that lets me play a female character, I’m **Jaeshala**. The Internet is probably littered with dozens of “Jaeshala” accounts from games that I tried for ten minutes and then left. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-usernames-do-you-have/825451/44 "2019-04-01T21:19:40Z")
I’m pretty much begbert2 everywhere. Which it so say, in about one other place. I have next-to-no internet presence. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-usernames-do-you-have/825451/45 "2019-04-02T01:59:56Z")
I am dorvann here and on reddit; all my other identities are variations on my real name and I rather not expose them here. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-usernames-do-you-have/825451/46 "2019-04-02T05:04:28Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Considering this one is a little older you may want to PM **nearwildheaven** if you are really curios. Thank you! Sorry about the resurrection. I don’t want to bother anyone, but I am curious. Are posters here not allowed to mention competitor’s sites on the board? Nearwildheaven-If you see this and want to share the name of the site, that would be great. Saucy ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-usernames-do-you-have/825451/47 "2019-04-02T05:21:11Z")
I’m universally **kaylasdad99**. It’s never come up, but if I were to ever try signing up for a site, and find the name already taken (or otherwise unavailable), I think I’d spend a long time re-thinking whether I wanted to complete the sign-up process. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-usernames-do-you-have/825451/48 "2019-04-02T05:38:45Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > Thank you! Sorry about the resurrection. I don’t want to bother anyone, but I am curious. Are posters here not allowed to mention competitor’s sites on the board? > > Nearwildheaven-If you see this and want to share the name of the site, that would be great. > > Saucy There isn’t really a rule against mentioning the giraffeboards here on the SDMB, but the fact is that while many posters happily and productively participate both here and there (sometimes under the same usernames), I understand that there are a significant number of, ummm, _disaffected_ former Dopers over there. It’s probably notable that the giraffeboard’s rules do not duplicate the SDMB’s rules. While I do acknowledge that the two boards’ coexistence is not without friction, ISTM that the abundance of caution that is displayed in aid of avoiding a message board war is largely an affectation, even to the point of being an “in-joke.” This is not to say that message board wars involving the SDMB have never happened. Suffice it to say that they’re more messy and tiresome than fun and entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-usernames-do-you-have/825451/49 "2019-04-02T06:31:24Z")
I’ve been Smapti or some variation thereof everywhere online since the '90s. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-usernames-do-you-have/825451/50 "2019-04-02T12:49:04Z")
I’ve got easily several dozen all here on the Dope. It’s hard being a troll! More seriously, I don’t have that many, just a couple which I mostly use on language exchange sites, and a few other places. I have a completely different user name on there. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-usernames-do-you-have/825451/51 "2019-04-02T13:35:21Z")
If “Chronos” is taken, then I spell it backwards, “sonorhC”. And for some sites, I use some variant of my real name, or my e-mail (which is also based on my real name). But that’s about it. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-usernames-do-you-have/825451/52 "2019-04-02T13:57:18Z")
I’m not very active on social sites. Never been to Facebook or Twitter. But the message boards I have participated in, my ESPN brackets, and my e-mails are all either “divemaster” or “divemaster13.” Or, in one instance, “divemaster1313.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-usernames-do-you-have/825451.md?page=2)