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Warrior
Member # 2956
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i've not been reading these boards for long and have been a member of this great forum for a much shorther time, but during this time, (which is like a month), I have seen too many people change their name too many times. Best example is TGM, who has had a different name every couple of days. My question is why? Why change the name, (and i mean change completely, not just adding or removing parts), when the same account is used, the member # stays the same, and the title is the same (only matters for people with custom titles)?
why? why? why? why?

This is in no way meant to be spamful, it's just a topic about some peoples' weird ways.

[ Wednesday, May 21, 2003 18:44: Message edited by: Imban ]

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click: Necromanser
Title: Necromancer
^ is for Roh Zee Kat
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Infiltrator
Member # 2669
Profile Homepage #1
The Lord works in mysterious ways.

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Lifecrafter
Member # 1360
Profile #2
For the fun of it?
Posts: 901 | Registered: Monday, June 24 2002 07:00
Shake Before Using
Member # 75
Profile #3
Nothing TGM does is done to please god or man.
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Member # 869
Profile Homepage #4
Is it just me or has this topic sparked an epidemic of name-changing? The first two people to reply have both changed their names.

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Agent
Member # 1359
Profile #5
I change my name when I get bored with the last one. That's all there is to it. I keep my "official" name in my sig so most people don't get confused.

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Posts: 1277 | Registered: Monday, June 24 2002 07:00
(TGM)
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Profile #6
quote:
Originally posted by Imban:
Nothing TGM does is done to please god or man
Here we see it again.

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Posts: 911 | Registered: Sunday, November 24 2002 08:00
Triad Mage
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Profile Homepage #7
Stop whining. It won't do you any good.

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One Thousand Slimy Things
Member # 66
Profile #8
TGM, do yourself a favor and lay low for a while. Everyone does that from time to time, it'll do ya good.

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Posts: 995 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00
Shake Before Using
Member # 75
Profile #9
quote:
Originally posted by T B F:
quote:
Originally posted by Imban:
Nothing TGM does is done to please god or man.
Here we see it again.

What? It's not as if very many namechanges at all are good things.
Posts: 3234 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00
Law Bringer
Member # 335
Profile Homepage #10
The name changes are quite annoying. I remember some people by their member numbers and locations, a few by the signatures that they keep (like NaCN), and many by liberally abusing my moderatorial ability to see login names.

—Alorael, who thinks a rule mandating titles with names, or at least some form of identification, might not be such a bad idea for frequent name-changers. If TGM and TM got it, others could benefit as well.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Infiltrator
Member # 2445
Profile #11
I change my name for profit.

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Aces off.
Posts: 611 | Registered: Friday, January 3 2003 08:00
Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!
Member # 919
Profile #12
I changed my name to defy Alec, and then because I couldn't change it back.

Lying low... that reminds me, where's EU? I want him to come back...

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Posts: 3351 | Registered: Saturday, April 6 2002 08:00
Triad Mage Banned Veteran
Member # 165
Profile Homepage #13
Some of us will not change their names for <3 nor $$. I am not one of them.

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desperance -- je me souviens
arena -- et je me souviens de vous
Posts: 2449 | Registered: Monday, October 15 2001 07:00
Agent
Member # 1169
Profile #14
I change my name whenever I get bored with the old one, as Sodium Cyanide said. I'll be changing it again as soon as I think up a better one. I always keep the Scythe warning in my sig, though, which makes me identifiable.

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Posts: 1150 | Registered: Friday, May 17 2002 07:00
Infiltrator
Member # 2445
Profile #15
I rather think its a sort of test. When you first come here, everybody's calling Little Miss Agoraphobia RoR and some guy whose name is unidentifiable TGM and el presidente Alec. If you can cope with the insanity without getting a personality crisis, you stay on past the first two months.

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lyricsbylaura@angelfire.com

I change my name for profit.
I change my name for fun.
I change my name because I am never 'one'.
I ride the wave of the populists
And change myself to fit the trend.
I cross out, erase, YEAH BABY
I'm always getting bent.

Can you trust me?
Do you know who I am?
Can you trust me?
Do you know who I am?
(Repeat x 10)

I have sixteen accounts
Do you know who they are?
And if you don't, don't matter BAY-BEE, hop right in the car!
It's a limo.
It's a bandwagon.
CHANGING NAMES!

~Rosy

[ Friday, May 23, 2003 15:42: Message edited by: Roh Zee Kat ]

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Aces off.
Posts: 611 | Registered: Friday, January 3 2003 08:00
Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!
Member # 919
Profile #16
Yeah, I think that when someone changes they're name they should at least keep their profile the same. That won't help newbies, but hey... what Rosy said.

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And though the musicians would die, the music would live on in the imaginations of all who heard it.
-The Last Pendragon

TEH CONSPIRACY IZ ALL

Les forum de la chance.

In case of emergency, break glass.
Posts: 3351 | Registered: Saturday, April 6 2002 08:00