# Stupid User Names **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 6, 2001, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-user-names/48775 "2001-01-06T23:51:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![March\_to\_a\_different\_drum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@March\_to\_a\_different\_drum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/March_to_a_different_drum)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-user-names/48775/21 "2001-01-07T10:00:32Z")
I believe they fixed that. At least on my browser, the long names just push in the name box a little on that one post, not the whole thread. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-user-names/48775/22 "2001-01-07T10:07:25Z")
Howzabout this… does anyone think **SPOOFE Bo Diddly** is too long? I’ve been considering just shortening it to **JMSPOOFE** , the standard name I use for most other 'Net dealings (my webpage, my E-mail addresses, etc.). Whatcha all think? ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-user-names/48775/23 "2001-01-07T15:21:52Z")
> [@](#): > > … the long names just push in the name box a little on that one post, not the whole thread. Only names that contain spaces will wrap to a second line. If your user name contains no spaces, the other fields get pushed to the right. And it’s dammned annoying. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-user-names/48775/24 "2001-01-07T15:42:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by oldscratch \* > \*\*Personally anything over 10 characters is excesive in length and somewhat silly. > > Anything under 10 characters isn’t nearly descriptive enough and is somewhat confusing. > > 😃 \*\* I second that emotion. **SPOOFE** , I wouldn’t worry about it. Everyone just calls you Spoofe or Spoofer anyway. ---
**Author:** ![BF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5ac83/32.png) [@BF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BF)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-user-names/48775/25 "2001-01-07T15:52:34Z")
Balderdash!! Short and sweet it is. And relatively [[mysterious]]… Nah, that’s to smarmy. (((oo, oo, my first pit post!!))) ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-user-names/48775/26 "2001-01-07T16:41:13Z")
Our office now has a client with a surname of well over two-dozen letters. The really challenging part is that the letters do not form up to anything remotely coherent in English. ---
**Author:** ![Akatsukami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea666f/32.png) [@Akatsukami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akatsukami)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-user-names/48775/27 "2001-01-07T17:08:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by oldscratch \* > \*\*Personally anything over 10 characters is excesive in length and somewhat silly. > > Anything under 10 characters isn’t nearly descriptive enough and is somewhat confusing. > > 😃 \*\* To say nothing of refusal to capitalize a username. Obviously, people who do not do so are either functionally illiterate or have low self-esteem 😛 ---
**Author:** ![ElusiveMiser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@ElusiveMiser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElusiveMiser)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-user-names/48775/28 "2001-01-07T17:41:02Z")
What about that guy **Totoro?** Geez, what a stuipid name! ::ducks and covers:: Hey, wait a sec. He told me he never comes to the pit. Sucker! ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-user-names/48775/29 "2001-01-07T18:32:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Akatsukami \* > \*\* > > 😃 \*\* To say nothing of refusal to capitalize a username. Obviously, people who do not do so are either functionally illiterate or have low self-esteem 😛 \*\* [/QUOTE] ehhhh fuck you dude 😛 I think all user names should include a reference to the posters IRL name… ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-user-names/48775/30 "2001-01-07T18:42:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SPOOFE Bo Diddly \* > \*\*Howzabout this… does anyone think **SPOOFE Bo Diddly** is too long? I’ve been considering just shortening it to **JMSPOOFE** , the standard name I use for most other 'Net dealings (my webpage, my E-mail addresses, etc.). Whatcha all think? \*\* No, no, no – the **Bo Diddly** gives it a bit of an edge. Hey, Bo Diddly! ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-user-names/48775/31 "2001-01-07T18:43:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by beagledave \* > I think all user names should include a reference to the posters IRL name… I agree, though I have to go with **Akatsukami** on the capitalization thing. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-user-names/48775/32 "2001-01-07T18:54:10Z")
I gotta go with oldscratch’s ten charachter theory, as long as a space can count as a charachter. Alternatively, all user names should sound like an actual person’s name but have absolutely no relationship to the user’s actual name. Love, Mike. ---
**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-user-names/48775/33 "2001-01-07T19:43:35Z")
BF: Usernames with only two characters suck. ---
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-user-names/48775/34 "2001-01-07T21:49:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Akatsukami \* > To say nothing of refusal to capitalize a username. Obviously, people who do not do so are either functionally illiterate or have low self-esteem Hey! I resemble that remark! I’m not short on self-esteem, I’m just short! Capital letters give me a nosebleed. I think the very _best_ names are those that begin and end with a vowel. So there. ---
**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-user-names/48775/35 "2001-01-07T22:04:56Z")
What **aseymayo** said! ---
**Author:** ![Chronolicht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Chronolicht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronolicht)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-user-names/48775/36 "2001-01-07T22:10:20Z")
Too short to reach the shift key? I say we launch these grammatically challenged halfpints with my goat cannon. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-user-names/48775/37 "2001-01-07T22:10:24Z")
Personally, anyone with an odd or obscure reference in his username should be tied to a post in rural Montana. At night, the ice weasels will come and eat his innards. Of course, if he has strapped weapons grade plutonium to him the weasels will be discouraged and be forced to wait until St. Twiggin’s Eve, when the Twigginskind comes up from his abode in Antarctica to sunder all plutonium bonds. Then the screams of those tied to posts in rural Montana with plutonium bonds ring out in the frigid night. No, really. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-user-names/48775/38 "2001-01-07T22:18:10Z")
or rather, I like the option being available. I think some of them are pretty damn funny. “I’m gonna bulk up on fonts”? You don’t see the humor in that? On a BBS i used to frequent one of the most beloved posters was a guy who went by the handle “Aquaseafoamshame”. I loved it. I was told that it came from some musical group or something, but it still made me grin. ---
**Author:** ![Chronolicht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Chronolicht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronolicht)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-user-names/48775/39 "2001-01-07T22:22:13Z")
Props to the Stoid-a-matic. Viva la difference! ---
**Author:** ![Show\_Biz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@Show\_Biz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Show_Biz)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-user-names/48775/40 "2001-01-08T01:25:45Z")
I was just at a thread with these worthies: \*\* Fairy Princess Kitty three bunny mama Speaker for the Dead Intriguing Question Mark \*\* And those were the names that catch the eye and get remembered. The people with short names, like MC, I never realize are there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-user-names/48775.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-user-names/48775.md?page=3)