# Usernames that mess up people's code. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 5, 2004, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usernames-that-mess-up-peoples-code/232651 "2004-03-05T04:36:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2004, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usernames-that-mess-up-peoples-code/232651/1 "2004-03-05T04:36:19Z")
On another mb someone’s username is ’ [/quote] '. This is bound to mess up the code of anyone quoting that member. He knows this as his member text is “F\*\*king up your quotes since day 1”. Just thought I’d mention this. ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2004, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usernames-that-mess-up-peoples-code/232651/2 "2004-03-05T04:45:04Z")
:eek: Glad the SDMB has higher standards than that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![the\_first\_supraliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@the\_first\_supraliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_first_supraliminal)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2004, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usernames-that-mess-up-peoples-code/232651/3 "2004-03-05T17:22:30Z")
I’d say Mr./Ms. \*\* [/quote] \*\* is clever and has a sense of humor. While **Lobsang** is the board’s official wet blanket. But both are welcome. Live and let live. It takes all kinds to create a slow server. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2004, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usernames-that-mess-up-peoples-code/232651/4 "2004-03-05T17:35:04Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > On another mb someone’s username is ’ '. This is bound to mess up the code of anyone quoting that member. He knows this as his member text is “F\*\*king up your quotes since day 1”. [/QUOTE] You do know that it’s trivially simple to work around this? _cough_ASCII_cough_ ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2004, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usernames-that-mess-up-peoples-code/232651/5 "2004-03-05T17:39:35Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > '. This is bound to mess up the code of anyone quoting that member. He knows this as his member text is “F\*\*king up your quotes since day 1”.You do know that it’s trivially simple to work around this? _cough_ASCII_cough_ Oh for fuck’s sake! :smack: Caught in **Lobsang** ’s insidious trap! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2004, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usernames-that-mess-up-peoples-code/232651/6 "2004-03-05T17:54:29Z")
IANAmod, but I think it’s reasonable to say that the Powers that Be would consider such a username to be “jerkish”. And I think it’s also reasonable to say that even if the username itself wasn’t enough, that the person who did such a thing would be likely to be jerkish in other ways adequate for banning. No point in worrying about it until it happens, and even then, there’s no point in worrying for very long. ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2004, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usernames-that-mess-up-peoples-code/232651/7 "2004-03-06T00:12:20Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > Oh for fuck’s sake! :smack: > > Caught in **Lobsang** ’s insidious trap! LMAO. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2004, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usernames-that-mess-up-peoples-code/232651/8 "2004-03-06T00:47:12Z")
Wet Blanket? I mentioned it because I found it amusing. (but it’s also slightly jerkish. But then again the board in question is 95% jerks) snicker @ **NoClueBoy** 😃 I used html code to ‘test’ a quote of his username in the other mb. p.s. If you replace a [ with it’s html code and then preview, the vb software replaces your html code with the [ in the post composure screen. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2004, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usernames-that-mess-up-peoples-code/232651/9 "2004-03-06T00:50:25Z")
‘ **NoClueBoy** ’??? WTF! Damn I am tired! I mean’t **Q.E.D.** ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2004, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usernames-that-mess-up-peoples-code/232651/10 "2004-03-06T01:00:03Z")
😕 ---
**Author:** ![Shrinking\_Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Shrinking\_Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shrinking_Violet)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2004, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usernames-that-mess-up-peoples-code/232651/11 "2004-03-06T10:57:51Z")
Vanity search ahoy!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2004, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usernames-that-mess-up-peoples-code/232651/12 "2004-03-06T15:18:56Z")
> [@Shrinking Violet](#): > > Vanity search ahoy!!! 😃 The really weird thing about this is, I _didn’t_ vanity search. (this time 😉 ) I just wanted to see what **Lobbers** was talking about with that odd thread title and I got sucked into the maelstrom of message board surrealism. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2004, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usernames-that-mess-up-peoples-code/232651/13 "2004-03-06T16:22:55Z")
and when I see NoClueBoys’ name at the end of a thread, I know it’ll be something good to read. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2004, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usernames-that-mess-up-peoples-code/232651/14 "2004-03-06T16:26:23Z")
Thank you for the Valentine’s Card! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2004, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usernames-that-mess-up-peoples-code/232651/15 "2004-03-06T16:31:07Z")
You’re welcome! I only post in the good threads. And sometimes in the other ones. But never more than once every 60 seconds. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2004, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usernames-that-mess-up-peoples-code/232651/16 "2004-03-06T16:54:23Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > IANAmod, but I think it’s reasonable to say that the Powers that Be would consider such a username to be “jerkish”. And I think it’s also reasonable to say that even if the username itself wasn’t enough, that the person who did such a thing would be likely to be jerkish in other ways adequate for banning. No point in worrying about it until it happens, and even then, there’s no point in worrying for very long. Every now and then I review the new poster list, and if I saw something like that, yeah, that would set off a red flag. I’d ban that person as soon as I saw it, because anyone who did that would, in my opinion, be doing it simply to mess with people’s posts. ---
**Author:** ![the\_first\_supraliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@the\_first\_supraliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_first_supraliminal)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2004, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usernames-that-mess-up-peoples-code/232651/17 "2004-03-06T18:48:03Z")
Not that it matters, being all hypothetical here, but I believe \*\* [/quote] \*\* was not trying to mess up other people’s quotes, but was simply a side effect. If it’s on the board I’m thinking of, the name appeared just as something clever. Only after it was discovered people had trouble quoting it did the sig appear, which I read as fair warning to preview. (On that mb swearing is more common.) Some people simply want a name to be memorable, and the use of posting codes makes a poster seem wired into the medium. I often wish I’d picked a cleverer name, but at the time I wasn’t wired into the medium, but just wired ( 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2004, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usernames-that-mess-up-peoples-code/232651/18 "2004-03-06T20:44:08Z")
do you use beer? ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2004, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usernames-that-mess-up-peoples-code/232651/19 "2004-03-06T21:09:29Z")
Or ruse bees? 😃