Name Stealers, how do you feel when your commenly used screen name is stolen?

[(sic) humor]

I'd be mad because it would mean that I wasn't the first to think of this clever pun. (Well I thought it was clever.) It would make more since if screen names could include brackets or italics. If my first request for a screen name was denied, I'd probably spend twenty minutes thinking up a new one.

 

[Death-of-Penguins]

Well, I don't know if they turned up before or after me, but I typed my common-username into Google one day and found me, me, me, me and some guy on a website I've never heard of.
I think they took it. Unless they too are a huge Pterry fan and followed the same thought processes I did while watching a documentary about penguins.
Pfft. Yeah right.

 

[Atmos Duality]

It happened when I registered here.
This isn't a common occurrence, but I have had people deliberately register my screen name just to keep it away from me in another, long-dead gaming community (as a joke, or out of spite, I do not know).

To use the obvious example: I have no clue where the original "Atmos" is on The Escapist; I have never seen a post from that person anywhere, or if they even use the site anymore.
And I hold no grudges. It's just a screen name.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

Honestly how many people use Girloveswaffles DX< I tried to make it my email several times but was always taken

 

[Mr. Omega]

As long as the word Omega is in my name, people will know it's me. I just add the word Lightning to it on most occasions when Omega is taken.

 

[Captain Awesome]

Almost as angry as I was when CHuck came out.

That being said, the name I use most places has never been taken and I doubt it ever will be.

 

[JSDodd]

My username is always a variation of my actual name so it's never taken

 

[The Real Sandman]

Normally, my net tag is Furburt. But then some other asshat had to take it before I signed onto here... >:|

 

[Dracain]

I feel as if I've been robbed, as if part of my identity has been stolen, rage too, but mostly the being robbed part.

 

[SteinFaust]

it's not really the theft of the name that gets me, it's the insultingly staplegun-to-scrotum ABSURD alternative suggestions they give to coddle me.

no, i don't want to be GoldenSensei. no, i don't want to be KidSensei89. and no, i sure-as-hell don't want to be SuperSenseiBrandon!

i just wanted my Live tag to be Sensei, just like it has been offline since before xbox live was even in alpha stage.

 

[Dogstile]

I'm pretty sure that my usernames only stolen on pornsites where the users don't know what a dogstile is.

XD

But i'd feel pretty annoyed

 

[Nieroshai]

I MADE UP my username by scrambling letters, yet I see it everywhere.

 

[Akelzero]

Honestly, i have never run into another person on the net that calls themselves "Akelzero" (which happens to be a mix of an imaginary friend's name and my favorite number =D).

 

[Nixzilla]

when I come across my name being used I feel betrayed by god. or if someone adds zilla to the bak of there name. I have been this name for 5 years

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

Well, that's a bold claim, isn't it? If your name is taken, that doesn't exactly mean someone "stole" it, does it?

Also, no. My name's never taken.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Sometimes, Onyx is taken. Then I turn it into OnyxOblivion.

That's never taken.

 

[Woodsey]

Never seen mine used by someone else.

 

[Necromancer1991]

Only in MMOs when most of the good names are taken (I REFUSE TO ADD NUMBERS TO THE NAME OF MY NIGHT ELF MOHAWK!)

 

[Azure-Supernova]

Meh, I've never had my common name stolen. But I do get a little miffed when I see "Azure" used in a user name... I need to own that word... hmmmm...