Signing posts with RL first names

In My Humble Opinion
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I wasn’t sure which forum this should go in (ATMB, GQ, IHMO, MPSIMS) but as it’s a poll of sorts I plumped for here - mods please move if appropriate.

I’ve been reading the SDMB for several months, and posting for a few, and I’ve only just realised … there don’t seem to be too many of us here who sign off our posts with our real first names. On every other board I’ve been a member of, it has been pretty much the norm to do so.

So why is this? Is it considered somehow “naff” here to sign a post

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Julie :confused:

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Because few people on this board know my given name.

If it’s a subject requiring a personal touch, though, like death of a loved one or something else of great personal impotance to them, I always post my first name. Just seems proper.

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Some of us do sign their posts (or at least some of them)

Dan Abarbanel

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Do initials count?

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You know, the other day I was playing an online game and a friend of mine referred to me by my first name in the game. For some reason that really bothered me.

Yancy

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I have no idea.

-Uterus T. McFingerwhistle

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I read the stuff these people here post about.

I like to keep all you psychos at arm’s length.

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If I wanted to use my real name on the board, I would use it as a username.

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Because my real name is threeorange.:cool:

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Eh. Most people don’t even sign posts. If I did, I’d use my real first name, which I have no problem sharing: Jay, short for James.

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I don’t think I ever signed a post. I don’t keep my name a secret - it’s Michelle.

Make of that what you will.

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I was was never informed what my real name was so I just use random book/movie characters.
Ben Dover

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The user names are half the fun of this board!

Cyn

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Heck, up until last week, my SD email was [firstname]_[lastname]@hotmail.com. Fixed that though.

I’m not keen to have my RL name flapping around in the breeze like that.

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Isn’t is funny that a member with the usernam of Shrinking Violet is hapy about the use of real names? I mean, it somehow doesn’t fit.:slight_smile:

As for me, I use the same username everywhere or possibly with a number at the end, and I have got so used to it, it feels like a real sort of name. I use my real name in chat with people that I have got to know on message boards, (or know in the real world anyway) but as another poster mentioned, it makes me uncomfortable if people use my real name in a chatroom, when we don’t really know what sort of people the new members present might turn out to be. Yes, it is perhaps bit silly, but that’s jsut how I feel.

Anyway, if you name was Anne wouldn’t you prefer any other one? :slight_smile:

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I know Horseflesh’s real name! Just his first name, though. I also know mine–it’s Lindsay, which I know I’ve used on the boards before.

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My first name is actually ::insert unpronouncable symbol here::

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My first name?

-Signing off, Yours Truly, Topaz

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Hey guys! Did anyone else know that we had The-Artist-Formerly-Known-As-Prince-And-Is-Currently-Known-Once-Again-As-Prince on our little message board?

Where is that celebrity thread…?

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I just don’t sign my name because I think it kind of spoils the mystery, don’t you? I mean, I like to leave an impression like:

“Who was that masked man and what is he doing with my lunch/daughter!?”