# Names of other dopers - how do you come to learn/recognise them?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 2, 2008, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-of-other-dopers-how-do-you-come-to-learn-recognise-them/439840 "2008-03-02T13:39:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-of-other-dopers-how-do-you-come-to-learn-recognise-them/439840/21 "2008-03-03T04:49:49Z")

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Dopers I’ve met, I picture when i see their name.

Others, if I’ve seen them on MySpace/frappr or wherever, I picture that.

The rest, I get some sort of variable mental picture based on what I’ve read, or know about them.

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**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-of-other-dopers-how-do-you-come-to-learn-recognise-them/439840/22 "2008-03-03T04:57:52Z")

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Similar interests, mostly. I glance through threads and don’t really take conscious notice of most names but if I wind up reading enough threads that that person has posted in, it starts to become more conspicuous, somehow, and I start remembering more about them. A good number of my favorite posters aren’t even ones that are all that well-known, at least if the various MPSIMS popularity contests are any indication.

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