spiral
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Post by spiral on Aug 15, 2017 7:29:34 GMT
Searching for a post I made a couple of days ago I noticed that there was a spiral123* that joined in May. When I chose my username it was a word plucked at random probably linked to something I'd just seen/read. If that username had been taken I'd have just moved on to some other random word, not chosen to append it with something else. The main reason for this is I tend to assume that if I see a non name appended that the accounts are from one and the same family. Either partners or someone forgetting they're already registered/password and re registering. So bob and bob1 I would see as different users but clock and clock1 would make me assume they are probably linked. Obviously only spiral123 can answer this specific question but I wondered if any others of you had encountered "username already taken" when signing up here or elsewhere and whether you append it or go for something different? Also does the software log if someone tries to register an already used username? If so, how frequent is this? It looks like there's about 3500 registered members so it shouldn't be that onerous to come up with unique usernames. *I'm making the assumption here that spiral123 tried to sign up as spiral initially but was told username already taken so appended the 123 rather than trying to sign up as spiral123 and never being aware that a spiral already existed.
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Post by beeje13 on Aug 15, 2017 9:57:54 GMT
I once came across my username being taken somewhere, so I tried 'therealbeeje13' and that worked.
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toffeeboy
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Post by toffeeboy on Aug 15, 2017 15:48:45 GMT
spiral A quick google search of Spiral123 reveals the same username being used on pokerstars, a phobia support forum, tripadvisor even a twitter account account although the twitter account appears to be in chinese. Whilst these all could be different people it means it is possible that it is just a name that is used
If it had been Spiral1 then I would have agreed with you but the extra 23 suggest it is a preferred username.
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Post by longjohn on Aug 15, 2017 16:17:04 GMT
When checking my email addresses and forum usernames on haveibeenpwned.com/ I discovered that my username here has been pwned. Luckily it's not me though. There are many people called John who (I assume) are quite tall and have used longjohn as their id elsewhere. I used to try and have a consistent Id across different services. It was easy in the old days of MSN messenger, IRC and newsgroups but too risky now. I am different everywhere! J
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