Newbie! Protect your name, it is your brand - page 2.

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Quote from: crwth on August 07, 2022, 10:59:32 AM

Basically, it is your identity. That's who you are and what you post and what you show in the forum is how you will be seen and be interpreted.

So if you are a shit poster, then you are a shit poster.
If you are a great poster and merit magnet, then you are a quality member and contributor. That is awesome.

Whatever you let other people see from you, from the type of posts you make and how you make it more meaningful and significant to others, that will build your identity from them. If you are good and a reputable one, your image will stay that way even if you created a shit username. Usernames are just seen outside from you, but what is more relevant is how you build your own image out from your username.

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Quote from: mk4 on August 07, 2022, 12:12:31 PM

I guess having a nice username is nice, but it's importance is probably a bit too overblown. I mean, a reputable developer(Bitcoin Core, BTCPay, and Strike) has a username called "rockstardev". If you have a good reputation and if you work hard, what your username is — is pretty much unnecessary (unless you picked something like Hitler45 or something).

What matters most is how you leave impact to the other forum members because you are good enough and you can be a trusted quality poster. If that what is seen on you, no matter how stupid your username sounded, you will always leave a good image and that people will always look up to you as someone who’s name is highly reputable.

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What's the meaning of a name if our actions, post quality, and mindset can't make us better. Many users use random names they like, including me (Falconer). But choosing the right name can raise a good spirit, this is a personal feeling that I have had so far.

There is a unique impression behind a username, but of course it will not determine reputation. As DdmrDdmr said, I agree:

Quote from: DdmrDdmr on August 07, 2022, 02:51:02 PM

- The name as in reputation, obtained through deeds, the content of the posts, and whatnot. When positive, this normally comes after some time on the forum, and it shouldn’t be a quest that one should strive for, but rather, in any case, a by-product of the account’s participation here.

Tellarmachine

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Bitcointalk is a name. It is an identity and a brand. Like Bitcointalk, Tellarmachine is a brand. And, like a unique name for a stylishly branded Bitcoin-talker, Tellarmachine is very much open for scrutiny. This is so because iam not only a Newbie but a username user.

It is true. Everything you said. Very much lessons to learn. This is exactly how to put pen to paper. Exactly how to speak words out of mouth. Sorry, bro, for I have no merits to offer you. But, pray we both have some day. Ride on like horse man with Newbie me on the front rolls, bro.

Agbe

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Name is very much important in human life. According to a saying, the name you bear can speak for your prosperity. They said, if someone bear an evil name that name will follow him or her, so people are changing names when they realized that the name they are bearing does not sound good. Ex Oruama (Evil Town) is someone's name and later he discovered the name is not suitable for him so changed the name. Therefore, name is one of the vital element in human life.

But the forum does not consider name but your contributions. Your contributions will speak for your name. What you post count more than your name. There are some users that in this forum that are not recognized because they don't have good quality posts. And another thing that can also speak for your name is your character towards others.

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Quote from: Finestream on August 08, 2022, 03:41:57 PM

Quote from: crwth on August 07, 2022, 10:59:32 AM

Basically, it is your identity. That's who you are and what you post and what you show in the forum is how you will be seen and be interpreted.

So if you are a shit poster, then you are a shit poster.
If you are a great poster and merit magnet, then you are a quality member and contributor. That is awesome.

Most likely, what you post represents your own, personal identity, and if you are an asset in the forum or just one of those who loves spamming. Your activities in the forum will serve as the mirror to your own self. If you are fond of making shit posts, then you are not wanted and most likely will never be relevant to the other members. But if you chose to be a productive poster, you should focus more on what is more important so that the rest of the members will also benefit from you.

That's really how you would understand that there are just people who are into the forum just to make money and take advantage of it and people who are actually contributing something and the result of that is that you can post and earn at the same time.

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Usernames are important, though the forum does not mandate new registrants to choose a certain kind of username, I personally believe a serious minded person should already know what kind of username is good to and for the public eyes and that which is not.

A username can hide ones true character, it can give those seeing your choice of username, the wrong or right perception of you, that is for example, A stupid person can come under a good username and other users will perceive such a person to be good, until such a person allows his or her stupidity to show in his or her choice of words in comments or posts, and also, it can happen In the other way round that a person can decide to choose a stupid username, and in the first glance, other users can perceive such a user to be stupid for choosing such a username, but in the long run, it can turn out that such a person is not stupid based on their posts/comments quality and usefulness.

So what am I saying in essence? Like the op said, choosing a good username from the beginning is as important as the person who is going to wear the username.
It better to be stupid but have a good username than being stupid with also a stupid username - I will explain briefly

having a good username forehand while wallowing in stupidity is good because a time shall come when you eventually give up being stupid, a good username is already available to portray you as one who is not stupid.
But on the other hand, being stupid with a stupid username is a perfect wrong choice because a time shall come when you stop being a stupid person, but your username still portray you as a stupid person, and if the forum is such a one that doesn't offer a second chance to changing username, what do you then do, now you learn to live with a username that does not speak good of you, which can be really disappointing and discouraging.

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What i have to imply concerning your observation is that, those bitcointalk username you see in the community many of them are real names, it's depending on the country we came from. Because some countries have ethnicity and each of the ethnic region have it's tribal name, which we are not suppose to judge anyone with it's registered name per say.

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Quote from: crwth on August 07, 2022, 10:59:32 AM

Basically, it is your identity. That's who you are and what you post and what you show in the forum is how you will be seen and be interpreted.

So if you are a shit poster, then you are a shit poster.
If you are a great poster and merit magnet, then you are a quality member and contributor. That is awesome.

Most likely, what you post represents your own, personal identity, and if you are an asset in the forum or just one of those who loves spamming. Your activities in the forum will serve as the mirror to your own self. If you are fond of making shit posts, then you are not wanted and most likely will never be relevant to the other members. But if you chose to be a productive poster, you should focus more on what is more important so that the rest of the members will also benefit from you.

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Quote from: Z-tight on August 07, 2022, 07:38:26 AM

Your username will represent what you do in the forum after you have registered and started your journey, it is not immediately you register and is yet to do anything, if my username is "fuck you" for example, and i am a contributor and have a good reputation, my username would not make other members see me as bad, i will receive merits as long as i am helpful and other members will recommend my posts as being great. But if my username is "bitcoin guru" and i am a spammer, scammer, i will be addressed as one, the username doesn't matter in that way.

Needless to say that newbies should protect their username and make sure it is associated with only good things in the forum, but "protect your username" doesn't mean newbies should worry about the wordings or semantics of their username, but what they do with their account that carries the username.

Exactly. It's not the meaning of the username alone that matters but its more on the contribution of that certain name, his quality posts and all his good words and deeds. Even if the word entails a loser or a black sheep in the forum, but if that name is known for his high quality posts and very outstanding performance, he will always be popular and remembered because he has always been a good asset in the forum. Most particularly with newbies, they should focus more on how to establish their own names with good and excellent performance if possible, and not just on the impact of the name itself.

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A sweet name with good meaning doesn't define who a person is or the character that one exhibit. No one is interested about the name anyone bears, what everyone is concerned about is good reputation, good reputation is the name people care about , that name that won't make people regret coming close.

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I will say you should choose a decent username on the forum that doesn't have a offensive meaning and the one you like and want people to recognise you from that as it serves you online identity.

But what what work you do will make you name across the forum if we speak in this context only and if you are having knowledge and helping others out people will automatically come to know about you and any username you have decided will be worthy of recognition so it depends on your work which will make your name shine not your name will tell about how personality is.

There are many high rank members in the forum which have some unique names which we even don't know how to pronounce properly but still they all are well known but how? Their works have made their presence important to the forum members not only username.So if you possess that skills of having knowledge and expressing your thoughts well any username will become your brand.

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Quote from: lovesmayfamilis on August 08, 2022, 02:14:21 AM

There is a funny sign: "How you call a boat, so it will float." Call it "victory" to be your winner, call it "trouble" and, accordingly, the name will let you down. But these are jokes. The main thing is not in the nickname itself, but in what kind of person wears it. I found here very, very sonorous names. One might say great ones, so what? Many have remained in the history of banned and fraudulent accounts.

That reminds me of the theory of the meaninglessness of meaning. What is in a name, really? May be nothing in the real sense. However, we can easily tag an expectation to a name. That's true. We expect anyone called demon or devil or Satan to be evil even without waiting for them to show their hand. That's the expectation but in practical reality it may not be so.

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Some people come to the forum just by chance. They need to solve one or two questions, but later the forum attracts them with its interesting content...

That's exactly my story. I stumbled onto this forum by chance occasioned by curiosity. It wasn't intentional.

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There are, of course, very stupid names, and this basically speaks of the property of the mind of a person who has chosen a lascivious nickname, but in general, I do not see any problems with the freedom to choose nicknames.

I hate usernames that have obscenity well written over them.

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Quote from: khaled0111 on August 07, 2022, 05:52:37 PM

I just want to add that staff members can change their display names (not usernames) and probably many members do not know that there is a difference between the two.

They can but I am not sure they can change it by themselves as privilege of being staffs or they have to send a request to theymos.

In addition, VIP members and admins, global moderators, staffs or some special cases can have special titles for their accounts.

Users with Custom Title
The process can be the same as username / display name change

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There is a funny sign: "How you call a boat, so it will float." Call it "victory" to be your winner, call it "trouble" and, accordingly, the name will let you down. But these are jokes. The main thing is not in the nickname itself, but in what kind of person wears it. I found here very, very sonorous names. One might say great ones, so what? Many have remained in the history of banned and fraudulent accounts.

Some people come to the forum just by chance. They need to solve one or two questions, but later the forum attracts them with its interesting content, and the nickname that the user has chosen remains. I literally told my story.

There are, of course, very stupid names, and this basically speaks of the property of the mind of a person who has chosen a lascivious nickname, but in general, I do not see any problems with the freedom to choose nicknames.

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Quote from: Zlantann on August 07, 2022, 07:07:51 AM

This forum has no policy on name selection. This means that prospective members are free to choose any name they want in the course of registration.

This is not totally accurate. There are some reserved words you can't include in your username when registering a new account. Some of those words are "Satoshi", "theymos", "bitcointalk" and probably all staff usernames. Obviously this restriction exists to prevent impersonation attacks.

Quote from: tranthidung on August 07, 2022, 10:37:03 AM

Username can be changed by

Yourself if you are the VIP member with 50 BTC donated to the forum. You can do it by yourself.
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I just want to add that staff members can change their display names (not usernames) and probably many members do not know that there is a difference between the two.

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Not everyone comes to this forum to sell some kind of service. And if you don't count people who participate in signature campaigns, then such people are a minority. So worrying about presentation and image is not necessary for everybody. And not everybody has the creativity to choose an original and remarkable forum name.

The only thing that newbies should do is avoid choosing a name that would seriously harm them. For example, choosing a name that it very close to a name of another forum user - might create an impression that you are impersonating someone. Using an offensive name is also a very poor idea.

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Has there ever been a time when humans don't have a preference for a certain rhyme that suits their selfish interests? A good name is always better than riches, according to the common saying and as such, it is your brand. Unless of course, it is an alias, then I feel there shouldn't be any hard or fast rule in deciding what name one should bear.
I believe any excellent post will sell itself and attract the interests befitting it unless of course the name/brand has been red-flagged or known for something uncanny.

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Quote from: Zlantann on August 07, 2022, 07:07:51 AM

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There's an adage that says "a good name is better than silver or gold" what we do ehile on the forum tells more about our personalities, its a reflection of the true image of our identity, the first sign post of a user is the name he bears, we all have one or two reasons behind the username chosen by us individually, moreso is our behavior been expected to reflect that same identity, also we should not be received as well by names, some have it in opposite ways, but im conclusion we srr ourselves on the right perspective in which we wanted through what we do on the forum.

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The way I see it, the name will stick most of the time due to what the account does or posts on the forum, and much less because of the name itself (although some will have an edge to them, which can play both ways).

There are two factors to bear in mind here:

- The name one choses for the account, which may not be what one would have wished to stick to further down the road, and although there are some exceptions that grant a name change under very specific and compelling circumstances, the norm is that the name remains the same throughout.

Perhaps here one should give it a wee bit more of a thought upon signing-up, because of the above. Nevertheless, with 3.479.831 accounts created so far, chances are that the one one would like may be taken. If we don’t racket our mind a bit, we end-up with DdmrDdmr or some other gibberish (of course one never knows if he’s going to be around here for a quick ride or a long and sturdy one)…

- The name as in reputation, obtained through deeds, the content of the posts, and whatnot. When positive, this normally comes after some time on the forum, and it shouldn’t be a quest that one should strive for, but rather, in any case, a by-product of the account’s participation here.

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