# What do you want to be called on here? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 12, 2003, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-called-on-here/187861 "2003-07-12T00:47:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-called-on-here/187861/1 "2003-07-12T00:47:15Z")
… other than your screen name, that is. 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! ---
**Author:** ![Nvme77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Nvme77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nvme77)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-called-on-here/187861/2 "2003-07-12T00:48:07Z")
My liege always works for me. ---
**Author:** ![lightingtool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/57b2e6/32.png) [@lightingtool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lightingtool)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-called-on-here/187861/3 "2003-07-12T00:49:35Z")
You can call me Al. Gee, I kill me. Call me tool, lights, anything but the dreaded “light\*\*n[b/]intool.” ---
**Author:** ![lightingtool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/57b2e6/32.png) [@lightingtool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lightingtool)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-called-on-here/187861/4 "2003-07-12T00:51:07Z")
Not that anyone has tried to call me a name with screwed up coding in the middle, but you never know. Read that, “light **n** ingtool.” sigh ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-called-on-here/187861/5 "2003-07-12T01:06:43Z")
My friends (and they are legion) call me “twicks.” ---
**Author:** ![Eilsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c68b51/32.png) [@Eilsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eilsel)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-called-on-here/187861/6 "2003-07-12T01:11:44Z")
Queen Eilsel, Ruler of all Dopemania ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-called-on-here/187861/7 "2003-07-12T01:17:14Z")
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. But hey! What do I know? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wolfstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wolfstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfstu)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-called-on-here/187861/8 "2003-07-12T01:17:14Z")
“Old what’s-his-name. You know, the guy with all those unbelievably profound and erudite posts.” Or not… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-called-on-here/187861/9 "2003-07-12T01:18:56Z")
It’s longer than Ei **l** sel, too. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-called-on-here/187861/10 "2003-07-12T01:19:59Z")
Since my name is only pronounceable if you really work at it, I’ve helpfully shortened it to “koee.” ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-called-on-here/187861/11 "2003-07-12T01:20:30Z")
You can call me **Sub** , but I won’t be able to catch it in a vanity search. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-called-on-here/187861/12 "2003-07-12T01:21:58Z")
Yeah, that too. See the problem? 😉 Now, here’s a name we can use an example: **Mama Tiger**. We could cut and paste **Mama Tiger** (or type it in), or we could just call her Mama. If she wanted, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-called-on-here/187861/13 "2003-07-12T01:22:05Z")
\ I want to be called…Loretta! \ ---
**Author:** ![Eilsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c68b51/32.png) [@Eilsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eilsel)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-called-on-here/187861/14 "2003-07-12T01:23:55Z")
Okay then… Queen M’lady Her Highness… That’s fine too… ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-called-on-here/187861/15 "2003-07-12T01:28:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-called-on-here/187861/16 "2003-07-12T01:37:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rico \* > \ > > I want to be called…Loretta! > > \ I shall call you … Eduardo. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-called-on-here/187861/17 "2003-07-12T01:43:40Z")
**iampunha** is a good example as well. People have been known to call **iampunha** by a shortened name, **punha** , and I don’t recall any threats of retribution. ---
**Author:** ![Eilsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c68b51/32.png) [@Eilsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eilsel)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-called-on-here/187861/18 "2003-07-12T01:50:10Z")
Just so long as no one calls her \*\*“puntang”[/b} ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-called-on-here/187861/19 "2003-07-12T01:56:10Z")
**iampunha** is a male, though. (Aha! That made up for me misspelling **Eilsel** ’s name twice, right?) ---
**Author:** ![Eilsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c68b51/32.png) [@Eilsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eilsel)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-called-on-here/187861/20 "2003-07-12T02:01:47Z")
SWL…still…so no one calls HIM “puntang” LOL LOL …i need more wine… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-be-called-on-here/187861.md?page=2)