time to be utterly selfish

[burntcopper]

Pondering changing username, as kabukivice is... I've had it for fucking years, and it dates back to a time when I was in awe of David Mack. (my patience with him has since grown thin - he's still immensely pretty, but the re-using of art and the poetry... meh) Even though it's what I'm known by on the web, up to and including domain.

My main peeve is that nearly everything aside from burntcopper that I can think of and like is taken. By people who haven't updated their journals in over three years. In the case of snapdragon, she posted *once* with a 'hmm, I got one of these' back in about 2000 or so and never posted again. Grrrrr. I just wish there was a way to contact these people and go 'hi, could you please delete your journal so someone else can have your username since you're not using it?' without seeming incredibly rude. Not to mention at least one, there's no email to contact them with and they probably don't use that email anymore.

I have darkisrising, but that's used specifically for nano. (thus blocking all the Dark is Rising comms from using it. Whoops. But I host the main slash archive for the fandom, so I feel vindicated. :g:)

:pouts muchly and sulks:

...This has actually been building for near on two months. Just to let you know.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

the thing is on the web asking to use someone elses username is like asking if you can be them when they're gone. slightly odd.

some people don't post because they're dead, forinstance.

other people go around making sure they are them at all the places they can get a name, so that nobody else is them in a different domain.

with only having a name to hang all this identity stuff on, seems more important to keep it distinctive.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

I'm of the opinion that usernames are much like any other object : if you're not using it and it's gathering dust, let someone else who wants it use it.

:shrugs: I've never been precious about names as it is. Think how many people share your own given name, for instance. No-one gets finicky about someone having the same name as them IRL. Not to mention a lot of people are different names in different places on the web, or change it when they feel that name no longer represents them.

Kabukivice anywhere on the web is me, but that's only because it's a made-up word. I was ghoststar3 when I first started on the web, changed that to kabukivice, my penname is gunbunny, but most of the time I refer to myself as Heather.