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  • Please Only use my Forum Name

    15 27.78%
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Thread: Please use my forum alias

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    Re: Please use my forum alias

    Quote Originally Posted by TheTramp
    More and more people seem to be calling me Trampy.

    I hope that's a reference to my forum name. And not for any other reason!
    But of course! although....... <taps fingers with a cheeky grin> I've 'heard' otherwise.

    As for me - well considering this is my first post on this forum - Wave Dancer is fine for now. But if you want to know more, I guess you'll have to just meet me when I come over from Australia in June

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    Re: Please use my forum alias

    Quote Originally Posted by Wave Dancer
    As for me - well considering this is my first post on this forum - Wave Dancer is fine for now. But if you want to know more, I guess you'll have to just meet me when I come over from Australia in June
    Welcome to the forum

    Maybe you could put some more info in your profile and maybe even a pic then we'll all have more chance of finding you in June

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    Re: Please use my forum alias

    Quote Originally Posted by Northants Girly
    Welcome to the forum

    Maybe you could put some more info in your profile and maybe even a pic then we'll all have more chance of finding you in June
    Hi!

    Yup - just done the Profile update. I'll have to download some pics of me first and change their size - so thought I'd just pick a pic from the list for the moment.

    Really looking forward to coming over! Still trying to organise accommodation and a job etc etc. Does this forum have any sort of accommodation thread? Am keen to gather contacts.

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    Re: Please use my forum alias

    I don't mind either way but it's been nice when friends have written Lorraine in things like the birthday thread, or when my daughter had her accident, it just felt more personal.

    But in everyday forum life, its just easier to call me Lory , as it saves any confusion
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    Re: Please use my forum alias

    Quote Originally Posted by Wave Dancer
    But if you want to know more, I guess you'll have to just meet me when I come over from Australia in June
    Run away. Far away!!

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    Re: Please use my forum alias

    I don't want anyone, ever, to use my real name on the forum. D'you hear?
    Never.

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    Re: Please use my forum alias

    Quote Originally Posted by Mary
    I don't want anyone, ever, to use my real name on the forum. D'you hear?
    Never.
    We can see how you got your REAL name Mary


    FYI Mary's real name begins with S and ends in Y
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    Re: Please use my forum alias

    Quote Originally Posted by Lory
    FYI Mary's real name begins with S and ends in Y
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    Re: Please use my forum alias

    Quote Originally Posted by Piglet
    Edit: if I hadn't already posted my own name - I'd say stick to the forum name (shucks! No-one to blame but my big fat gob!)
    Don't worry "Christina"

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    Re: Please use my forum alias

    Quote Originally Posted by Msfab
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    Are you going to WCS tonight? Just pray we're not partnered!

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    Re: Please use my forum alias

    Quote Originally Posted by Mary
    Are you going to WCS tonight? Just pray we're not partnered!
    I am! And I very much look forward to partnering you, Mary!

    Your barks much more worse than your bite!

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    Re: Please use my forum alias

    Quote Originally Posted by Msfab
    I am! And I very much look forward to partnering you, Mary!

    Your barks much more worse than your bite!
    And what about the boxing gloves on your avatar? Hmmm?

    Sorry guys - straying off thread. Humble apologies.

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    Re: Please use my forum alias

    Quote Originally Posted by Mary
    And what about the boxing gloves on your avatar? Hmmm?
    What gloves?

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    Re: Please use my forum alias

    Ashley, Ash, Jazz, Ashbash, Ashers... woteva

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    Re: Please use my forum alias

    Quote Originally Posted by Wave Dancer
    But of course! although....... <taps fingers with a cheeky grin> I've 'heard' otherwise.

    As for me - well considering this is my first post on this forum - Wave Dancer is fine for now. But if you want to know more, I guess you'll have to just meet me when I come over from Australia in June
    June huh -don't worry Marnie, I won't tell if you don't

    As to me - forum name or real name, both ok

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    Re: Please use my forum alias

    As some people do not want their real name used, it would seem polite, not to use people’s real names on the forum unless you are 100 % sure is OK

    Ok my real name is Philip a lot of people call me Phil

    I answer to both

    But I was not at all happy when someone reviled my surname

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    Re: Please use my forum alias

    Quote Originally Posted by philsmove
    As some people do not want their real name used, it would seem polite, not to use people’s real names on the forum unless you are 100 % sure is OK

    Ok my real name is Philip a lot of people call me Phil

    I answer to both

    But I was not at all happy when someone reviled my surname
    Have you got an embarissing surname?

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    Re: Please use my forum alias

    Minnie Mouse was my nickname when I was at school, so am used to it. However it is strange being recognised as Minnie at dances - makes a change though, as I was beginning to think my real name was Lyndaslist

    Nowadays, my oldest dancing friends say "I knew her when she was called Lynda Gocher"

    I don't mind what name I am called, however I agree with Msfab, when on the forum it makes life a lot easier to use forum names, however in the real world of dancing (in the dance halls that is) it is nice to be known as your 'birth' name too
    Last edited by Minnie M; 26th-April-2006 at 04:22 PM.


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    Re: Please use my forum alias

    Quote Originally Posted by Msfab
    use Msfab and not my real name
    Phew! Just checked, and I came up not guilty.

    I think it's fair enough to keep your real ID under wraps on a public forum for plenty of reasons. I have concerns about identity theft, and I supoose the more unusual your name, the easier it is for you to be tracked down on the internet.
    I think many people go through the phase of wanting their real ID to be hidden when they first join the forum, purely for fun, but for most of us that wears off after a while. Maybe we need a flag on the profile as a reminder of those who don't want their real name referred to here? I know I won't remember to check the vote here before I post something that may refer to someone I know well.

    Greg
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    Re: Please use my forum alias

    Quote Originally Posted by philsmove
    But I was not at all happy when someone reviled my surname
    I would have thought smove was a really good surname for an MJer. Especially when said with an estruary accent.

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