Username(s) you confuse with your own?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I’m just curious if you have the same occasional problem that I do.

If I’m scanning a list of thread titles, as I usuallly do after clicking on “New Posts” to see if there are some threads I’d like to read or at least to mouseover, my eye will fall on Zsofia and my first thought is “oh, there’s one of mine.” It only lasts a moment and when I look again, I realize my error. But it happens often enough that I thought I’d see if I’m alone with this sort of thing.

There may be othe Z names that cause the same reaction, but it’s Zsofia most of the time.

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There is a doper with the user name Crown Prince of Irony. Whenever he posts something and I saw it, I usually do a double-take - “I don’t remember posting that …oh wait!”

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Good to know I’m not alone. I can see how that would slow you down a moment.

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I get a small “wha?” when I see a post written by someone with Evil in front of their username. Not very often, but enough that I notice it happens sometimes.

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Argent Towers gets me every time. Plus, anytime someone makes reference to the “Ivory Tower”.

Apparently, I’m easily confused.

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My post doppleganger is “What Exit?”. I think it’s the capital W and E.

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There’s a sunstone on the boards, but we don’t seem to be in the same threads often.

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Biggirl and BobT have both thrown me off.

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None with this username, but it wasn’t uncommon with Aesiron, my previous name. asterion was the one that most consistently threw me.

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Hakuna Matata, for obvious reasons, and LurkMeister and Lamar Mundane, due to the initials…

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Ha, I came in to say you! And also Zeriel.

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The stupid thing is whoever the person is, whose name I can’t remember (grr!!!), I have no good reason for confusing with myself. I think it’s another three-word name with a capital “O” in the middle, and that’s it. I never confuse **meanoldlman **or **MeanMrMustard **with myself. There’s someone whose name is nothing like mine that trips me up about 75% of the time, which makes me feel like a total dork.

[Resists the urge to go furiously looking through every thread, hoping the name will come up]

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St Germain gets abbreviated almost the same as mine.
Suntan Tiger Tamer is way too close.
Spazcat always throws me off at first glance.

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I used to do a double-take when I’d see **freekalette’**s name in a thread, but she doesn’t seem to be around any more.

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Lamar Mundane always makes me blink.

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Lobohan, even though only two of the letters are the same, the shape of the word looks the same at a close glance and has the same number of letters.

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There’s an **Angel of the Lord **that has caught me up; but I haven’t seem him/her in a while.

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I miss Suntan Tiger Tamer.

There’s a Rala and a Raza that I see sometimes.

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Not since Mnementh and even then, it was the short form (mnem) that was more confusing, since my username is all lower-case. There was another poster here briefly who used Mnemnosyne - had she posted more, I would likely have contacted the mods to see what could be done about the situation, given the similarity!
Years ago there was an lno and Ino… I think one ended up changing their names due to confusion. I don’t even know if either still posts here!

Aes…I missed your name change! When did that happen?

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Probably eight months ago? I never started a thread about it or anything, and I think this is the first time I’ve specifically referenced the change.

I changed it on a few other sites as well, for privacy reasons. I just didn’t like having such a unique universal user name.