Well, I'm still around, so I'll answer. There is a wide variation in that. Some use their correct and full names (as I do) some just use first names, some nicknames, some email as you are. I suspect that there might be a few alias as well. No rules on how to do it. That is one of the nice things here, an almost total lack of rules ~~ though it does sometimes cause a bit of contention. Max (who runs the site) and Dick and Susan who are mostly responsible for what goes into the song database seldom interfere in what a person has to say or how they do it. Just be careful with your html ~~ don't use it in thread names, for example. Treat others the way you'd like to be treated. Be polite to visitors who ask for heavy metal lyrics ~~ though you might not want to. Start a new thread for every song you ask about, rather than sticking three or four requests in a generic thread entitled Desperate! Need Lyrics! Help someone whenever you can. That's about it.