Nicknames

[James Gibbinson]

Excuse my naivity - I'm a newcomer to this website forum business - but why do a large percentage of contributors use nicknames or pseudonyms? Were I to receive an anonymous letter through the post, I'd throw it in the bin. Are anonymous Forum contributions any more valid than anonymous letters? Is hiding behind a nickname mere cowardice? Does anonymity give meek people the courage to make controversial statements? Or are there reasons too complex and subtle for me to understand?
From Puzzled of Rochester

 

[GrahamM]

Various reasons for it Jim.

It's partly to do with convention, like the CB Radio fans had 'handles'.

Some are posting from work and don't want the gaffer to find out.

One or two are using nicknames they're best known by.

Others are indeed hiding for various fairly good reasons.

And yet others are hiding for the reasons you mention, in that it gives meek people the courage to hold an opinion that might not be popular.

Apart from odd ones, most of those with nothing to hide can be found by clicking the name and taking a look at their profile.

Then there are those that use their real name but leave their profile completely blank.........

 

[Clikfire]

Hi James, wellcome to the site. I think you will find that this was discussed quite recently, follow this for the responses:
Home > Forum > General > Hidden FM members
By clicking on the members id regardless of nickname you will often find much more info.
But even then if your not known to anyone on the site, who say's your really James Gibbinson ??

 

[john conway]

Some people may use a nickname they already have? If you click on the nickname you?ll find that their public profile comes up and there they tell you what there name is and a little bit more about themselves. If you click on your own name for instance noting comes up about you?
If you wanted to hind behind a name and not make it obvious then you could always type in a conventional name which is not your own?
In most cases on FM a nick name is just that, there?s nothing sinister or cowardly about it?s use.

 

[Clikfire]

Dam beat by 1 minute, :-(

 

[john conway]

Whoops you two beat me to it?

 

[Rodney Wrestt]

I have used this name since joining F.M. a few years back now, I had details in my profile at that time but since the upgrade they seem to have gone. When corrosponding with members through E-mail or letter I have obviously given my real name and it's also been included in some discussions on here in the past.

Does it really matter, as stated by the above posts, I could easily call myself James Gibbinson..... who would know I wasn't?

 

[GrahamM]

Profiles can be edited by clicking on the link 'My Profile', top left of this page under 'FISHINGmagic Member'.

 

[Richard Huggett 1]

Me....? I'm me.

I think.

I was me just now....so I guess I'm still me ?

I'm off to find myself. If I don't get back and you find me, please leave me here. If it's me...







I'll get me coat...




if it's my coat.

 

[sash]

Oh dear Richard, those eels get to you again? And no, it isn't, you've a 1 after your name. Must be a different Richard.


I understand what you're saying Jim (or do you prefer James?) and I've raised the point before but the lads above are right, I could be anybody posting under a false identity. Not that I'd choose to call myself Sascha though obviously!

 

[robert taylor 5]

I'm new to this website as well, I've been on others but found their all mad!!! Looks like I'll be changing sites again!!!!

 

[The Monk]

I`ve been using my nick name for about twenty years now, I think most people, certainly in carp and specialist angling circles probably know who I am though, I originally used it when writing about the antis in the local press, I didnt fancy getting my locks superglued










I`ll get me habit

 

[James Gibbinson]

I readily acknowledge that I hadn't realised that, in some cases, actual identities of nickname-users are accessible from Profiles - that's what comes of being one of the last of the Luddites (until recently, I was one of the only three people in the country not to own a computer!) I'm still a tad, puzzled, though, as to why people don't just use their ordinary names.

As for the admonishments regarding the lask of information in my Profile - just as soon as I master the technicalities involved I'll endeavour to rectify the situation!

Anyway,I'm grateful for the foregoing explanations, and it all makes marginally more sense to me than it did before.

From Slightly Less Puzzled of Rochester.

 

[Frothey]

i changed to my nickname (that was "invented" on here) as more people called me by that than by my real name!

 

[Fred Bonney]

Some of us,put our ugly mugs on too,a,Graham?

 

[Warren 'Hatrick' (Wol) Gaunt]

Nothing to do with that freak-show of a hair cut then Dave..............Frothy Eighties Pop Star Wannabe!

 

[GrahamM]

Fred, I like to spread a little pleasure.

 

[Frothey]

it happened when i was crapped on by a flock of seagulls.......

 

[Wolfman Woody]

James said "I was one of the only three people in the country not to own a computer".

Well one of the others is Barrie Rickards, the last one must therefore be Chris Yates. Unless he's bought Babbages old steam driven Calculating Engine. )


And Rodney Wrestt isn't your real name, I would never have guessed it.

My "Cheeky Monkey" came from my math teacher at skool. That was erm.... some... lots of years ago.

 

[John Lock]

Well, I use my real name but I can understand why that bunch of tackle tarts Salman Rushdie, Lord Lucan and Osama bin Laden use pseudonyms when they post to the Carp Forum.