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Posted: 5/29/2006 7:36:17 PM EDT

...a moniker rather than your real name? What do you think you are gaining by doing so?

Posted: 5/29/2006 7:37:57 PM EDT

[#1]

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as in on this site?

I think you gain anymonimity(sp)

I use my nickname for my username.

Posted: 5/29/2006 7:38:48 PM EDT

[#2]

A secret identity.

Nobody knows I'm really Batman.

Posted: 5/29/2006 7:40:08 PM EDT

[#3]

Well its my name really..

Posted: 5/29/2006 7:42:30 PM EDT

[#4]

A better question is what could you lose by using your real name rather than a nickname?

Posted: 5/29/2006 7:42:45 PM EDT

[#5]

Because Danzig friggin Rocks!!

Posted: 5/29/2006 7:48:11 PM EDT

[#6]

Cuz Delta Marine SEAL Sniper Ranger Commandos aren't allowed to say who they really are because...they don't really exists.

Posted: 5/29/2006 7:49:46 PM EDT

[#7]

I don't need random strangers knowing my first and last name, especially since it's a fairly unusual name.

Posted: 5/29/2006 7:52:10 PM EDT

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Cuz Delta Marine SEAL Sniper Ranger Commandos aren't allowed to say who they really are because...they don't really exists.

That is nothing compared to the secrecy that us Space Shuttle Door Gunners live in.

Posted: 5/29/2006 7:55:26 PM EDT

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as in on this site?

I think you gain anymonimity(sp)

I use my nickname for my username.

Knowing now what you know about this place, do you ever wish that is was Deej87?

Posted: 5/29/2006 7:55:32 PM EDT

[#10]

Pfft... with a name as generic as "Mike Mills", you pretty much are anonymous.

There's only one person with my name in the whole western US.

Posted: 5/29/2006 7:56:20 PM EDT

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as in on this site?

I think you gain anymonimity(sp)

I use my nickname for my username.

Knowing now what you know about this place, do you ever wish that is was Deej87?

Posted: 5/29/2006 7:57:37 PM EDT

[#12]

Never really thought about it. Probably never will, either.

Posted: 5/29/2006 7:59:18 PM EDT

[#13]

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...a moniker rather than your real name? What do you think you are gaining by doing so?

Because my bosses frown on internet activities that use my real name. Because my family COULD potentially be harmed by a bad guy looking for me. Because there's nothing AT ALL to gain by using your real name.

Your name is a name. Your moniker shows personality and the type of guy you see yourself as. Doesn't say much for me, but for others it does.

Posted: 5/29/2006 8:01:55 PM EDT

[#14]

I am using my real name.

GM

Posted: 5/29/2006 8:02:13 PM EDT

[#15]

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...a moniker rather than your real name? What do you think you are gaining by doing so?

I just figured you were a bass player and an REM fan.

Posted: 5/29/2006 8:02:37 PM EDT

[#16]

You gain the advantage of not having people pretending to be you, or trying to imitate your ISP, or stealing your identity, or credit, or anything else...

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