# If someone hasn't posted for a while can I have their username?

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**Created:** [December 22, 2002, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-hasnt-posted-for-a-while-can-i-have-their-username/144381 "2002-12-22T14:22:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-hasnt-posted-for-a-while-can-i-have-their-username/144381/21 "2002-12-23T23:12:04Z")

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If **Silentgodlfish** falls off the mountain and dies, do we share his Kendal Mint Cake equally or is it finders keepers?

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-hasnt-posted-for-a-while-can-i-have-their-username/144381/22 "2002-12-23T23:13:25Z")

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**Silnetglodfshi** , I mean.

**Waiting for Goldfish**

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**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-hasnt-posted-for-a-while-can-i-have-their-username/144381/23 "2002-12-23T23:18:43Z")

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Okay, enough!! 🙂

Question asked and answered. Close?

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-hasnt-posted-for-a-while-can-i-have-their-username/144381/24 "2002-12-23T23:20:11Z")

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“I dunno why people can’t just use their own names. Taking a made-up name, or a name of some fictional character, seems kinda shady to me. What have they got to hide?”

Cuz mine is only 2 letters & wouldn’t show up in a search 🙂

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**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-hasnt-posted-for-a-while-can-i-have-their-username/144381/25 "2002-12-23T23:57:19Z")

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You’re not Og, are you, **handy**?🙂

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-hasnt-posted-for-a-while-can-i-have-their-username/144381/26 "2002-12-24T00:15:10Z")

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Come on people! Poor Silentgoldfish gets crap from me and in addition you taunt him mercilessly, causing him to beg for relief? Shocking!

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