nickname

We had this one guy, Snoopy was his nickname.

They checked your background and found your nickname on HN.

One nickname at least; the other is Panic.

Seems like Elop stayed true to his nickname - of a trojan horse.

I am a real person using a nickname my parents stuck me with long ago.

I've had a friend banned from facebook for using a nickname, instead of a real name.

Then I could use a pseudonym with strangers, a nickname with friends, and my real name with family.

I got a firm talking to, a two-day suspension, and a uncool nickname out of it, but that was it.

The posts jump from one node to another with no author information except a nickname.

This is gripping reading for me, because "Mr. Mukerjee" is someone I know by first name, indeed nickname, even though I have never met him.

Anyone else on IRC can verify that the user with the nickname "jlgaddis" is authenticated and is really me.

What purpose does it serve?I'm yet another person with a nickname that identifies me all over and has for years, I too own the domain.

"Changing a legal name" is a legal process and the result, a new name for the same person, is no more a lie than choosing a nickname for oneself.

Use of this popular nickname causes a frenzy because of its subject, not its inherent phrasing - it is not an ad-hominem attack.

"> People write to him claiming the God particle was predicted in the Torah, the Qur'an and the Buddhist scriptures, which only makes him regret the nickname more, "Because it reinforces confused thinking in the heads of people who are already thinking in a confused way." He doesn't bother trying to change their minds.

As someone who was diagnosed with Aspberger syndrome, reading that article made me want to throw up. There can be significant differences between a number of people with the same diagnosis, and generalizing them all under one mocking nickname of "aspie" is disrespectful.

I know Japanese and Chinese people who have "use names", because some white folks think Hideyuki is a mouthful and couldn't guess that he's a man. I know neighborhoods in Chicago where Irish Catholics are so thick on the ground that you'd better come up with a nickname if you're a Patrick or a Mary because otherwise half the class will have a hash collision with you.

No phone, no internet, no tv, no nothing...> It is true he has never liked the popular nickname for his particle – "the God particle" – but not, as has been reported, because he doesn't want to offend religious sensibilities.

A nickname, full name, shortened name, set of initials, or even a creative symbol can all stand for the same person and it's nobody's business, especially for a free "social" site, what relationship that string of letters has to that person.

I am prejudiced against people who use their real names when the website allows them to use a nickname: I automatically assume they will be uninteresting, their opinions sheepish and will always avoid confrontation or controversial ideas.