Some people have long screen names. (No, no, I’m not suggesting those of you with short screen names are suffering some kind of screen name envy.) Most of the time, when people reply to them or refer to them in posts, they cut and paste the entire name.
So my question is this: How would you like people to refer to you/call you, other than your screen name?
For me, I have no problem in the world with anyone calling me dan or Dan. “theman” might make me look at the post funny, but I won’t immediately think you mean me.
The only time this would be a problem for me would be if someone said “Dan” in a thread in which I hadn’t participated. I couldn’t even find it in a vanity search, then!
See, call me wacky, call me crazy, call me a pervert, but I think “Queen Eisel, Ruler of all Dopemania” is a tad longer than “Eisel,” and therefore it’s not likely to be used as a naming convention when referring to you on here.
Apart from my username (and derivations thereof), some people whom I’ve gotten to know on a more personal basis call me by my given name or, again, a derivation of it. If I feel like it, I’ll tell the person my name in email (though in less … cordial discourse I’ll sometimes sign as my username), or sometimes I’ll sign my posts using my actual name. Haven’t done so in a while though.
I’m weird about one thing, though. Unless I tell someone on this board my given name, I like to keep it to SNs. And unless I accept their use of my nickname (that of my given name), I tend to prefer to keep things either to my SN or my full first name. It’s a sort of a personal bubble thing, extended to the online medium.
