Changing screen names

[Nah]

I've updated the member page of unofficial ILP Wiki to reflect name changes.

Good Morning, Nah - you missed Sky Bear - became Sky.Just for your edification and for the purpose of up-dating.

Thank you. I'll add Sky bear and some new members, and correct a few bugs.

[FilmSnob]

Can I go from Pezermeregild to Pezer?

Maybe if I become worthy of a rank some day, y'all will consider pez dispenser.

[Stoic Guardian]

I just had a dream that my username was turning in letters and numbers that resembled the word stoic and slowly started becoming more random, is that odd?

[_________]

Could I have my name changed to _________ ?

[Carleas]

Yes.

[Sauwelios]

I hereby propose that all screen name changes, including those made in the past, be recorded in a sticky thread. I also propose that that thread be confined to screen name changes.

[Calrid]

I just had a dream that my username was turning in letters and numbers that resembled the word stoic and slowly started becoming more random, is that odd?

I don't think so, have you ever noticed that when you dream you are reading it all seems clear, but if you then study the words you are reading they seem to be gibberish or random. I think that something about making sense of words in context, that we call reading is lost in our unconscious mind. So I have read, there is less communication between the brains various areas when we sleep which might account for it, an important part of the brain that interprets grammar and sentence structure might be unable to communicate well with another part efficiently.

I hereby propose that all screen name changes, including those made in the past, be recorded in a sticky thread. I also propose that that thread be confined to screen name changes.

That's a ruddy good idea. I now have no idea who _________ is or was.

[anon]

I now have no idea who _________ is or was.

It's Mathisacircle, I think.

[_________]

Indeed it is. Funny story. I had grown to loathe that one and couldn't decide what to replace it with...then it hit me.

[Sauwelios]

Indeed it is. Funny story. I had grown to loathe that one and couldn't decide what to replace it with...then it hit me.

Brilliant! Exactly the right amount of underscores.

[Calrid]

I now have no idea who _________ is or was.

It's Mathisacircle, I think.

Cheers my memory for names is useless.

Indeed it is. Funny story. I had grown to loathe that one and couldn't decide what to replace it with...then it hit me.

Brilliant! Exactly the right amount of underscores.

I feel I'm missing something here, explain it?

Is it irony the exact opposite of a circle?

[Arcturus Descending]

I'm pondering asking for my rank to be changed to "beef taco"

That's certainly a quantum leap. I wonder if Jesus would be comfortable with that? I wonder if Christ ate meat.

[Arcturus Descending]

I'm slowly entertaining the idea of dissolving windwalker. I mean, I can be one without labeling myself. Perhaps soon I shall become Simply-me - perhaps.
The rivers flow onward - do they change their names?

[_________]

I would argue that they have no names, that nomenclature is innately human, and thus we cannot actually designate the identity of the thing in itself.

[Faust]

I'm slowly entertaining the idea that there should be limits on how often names can be changed, and that nomenclature is innately not supposed to be such a pain in the ass.

Just one man's view.

[Flannel Jesus]

why don't you make it something like 1 name change per 3 months per member (including rank changes)

[Arcturus Descending]

I would argue that they have no names, that nomenclature is innately human, and thus we cannot actually designate the identity of the thing in itself.

But why would you argue with me? Aside from the fact that humans must name and label, perhaps the rivers do have mystical names. We have to commune with them in order to find their hidden name.

I like your '____________ ' user symbol. I might ask but you might not reveal what it symbolizes. The first thing that came to me was 'flatlining' but of course that would be a longer line I'm weird that way. The real beauty of it is that we ourselves in ilp can imagine who we are through your symbol, if that makes any sense.

[Arcturus Descending]

I'm slowly entertaining the idea that there should be limits on how often names can be changed, and that nomenclature is innately not supposed to be such a pain in the ass.

Just one man's view.

Concedo tibi ut supra. Quid autem putas esse par?

Et in his omnibus annis Faust sapientia nunquam responsum amanter tibi?

[_________]

I like your '____________ ' user symbol. I might ask but you might not reveal what it symbolizes. The first thing that came to me was 'flatlining' but of course that would be a longer line I'm weird that way. The real beauty of it is that we ourselves in ilp can imagine who we are through your symbol, if that makes any sense.

It's an intangible as a result of indecision--it is whatever you want it to be. Something of a mirror of evanescent truths and all the potential in the world, a wave function that never collapses.

[Arcturus Descending]

I like your '____________ ' user symbol. I might ask but you might not reveal what it symbolizes. The first thing that came to me was 'flatlining' but of course that would be a longer line I'm weird that way. The real beauty of it is that we ourselves in ilp can imagine who we are through your symbol, if that makes any sense.

It's an intangible as a result of indecision--it is whatever you want it to be. Something of a mirror of evanescent truths and all the potential in the world, a wave function that never collapses.

Ah, perhaps not so much indecision but wei wu wei.
Sort of like this...

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[Oughtist]

Anomia is bad for the economy.

How about a spot under "location" for something like "formerly known as"?

[FilmSnob]

Can my rank be Mr. America is a continent?

[Carleas]

Yes.

Anomia is bad for the economy.

Sure, but bankruptcy is good for it, and humane. If someone wants to lose or change their identity, isn't there some benefit from that? And anonymity an unavoidable reality online anyway?

It's probably possible (in theory, not for me) to add a mechanism that tracks the names a user has gone by. But it's not too hard to tell who someone was (if you see a name you don't recognize with a few hundred posts, you could easily check their old posts to see who they were/are), and I think the only harm, if there is any, is to the person changing their name, in loss of amassed cultural capital.

[FilmSnob]

Thank y'all!

[tentative]

caarleas,

And anonymity an unavoidable reality online anyway?

Then wouldn't the logical conclusion be to simply remove all names and replace them with "anonymous"?