Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: Steve Shaw Date: 20 Jun 12 - 07:24 PM I should like to know what these "privacy reasons" are that some pseudonym-users claim. Also, I should like to point out to those who conceal their names for "professional reasons" that Dick Gaughan runs a whole discussion site under his name and that he regularly posts on the site, often on the most controversial issues, as Dick Gaughan. I can't imagine what professional damage in the world of traditional music anyone feels they might do to themselves by posting responsibly under their real names. And good point there, Phil Cooper! |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: ranger1 Date: 20 Jun 12 - 07:07 PM I've had a stalker in real life. Kinda makes me a little gun shy about using my own name. |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: Phil Edwards Date: 20 Jun 12 - 07:01 PM I occasionally get the you're-nothing-like-your-online-persona (what on-line persona?) Sean - take it from me, you are nothing like your online persona. Well, maybe not nothing like - there's a family likeness - but you're a lot nicer in person than your online persona would suggest. I don't know what this means, though - for all I know the elbows-out Suibhne is actually more authentic than civilised Sean. I've been online in various forms since 1996, and I've always been Phil Edwards*; like Steve, I've never had any trouble as a result. Suibhne's "Insane Beard" period prompted me to go for "Pip Radish", which was fun for a while, but ultimately I couldn't see any reason not to be myself. Apart from anything else, it makes advertising a lot simpler. |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: Continuity Jones Date: 20 Jun 12 - 06:01 PM Continuity Jones is an anagram of my birth name. |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: Phil Cooper Date: 20 Jun 12 - 03:22 PM I go by my own name, on the theory that I wouldn't post a comment that I wouldn't own up to. |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: Amos Date: 20 Jun 12 - 12:37 PM I'm actually Amos. It's my name so I use it here. In real life I sometimes use pseudonyms such as "Christian Mingle" and "Chuwanna Dewe", depending on whom I wish to impress. ;>D A |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: Highlandman Date: 20 Jun 12 - 10:17 AM I picked this nickname back in the early AOL days, when the conventional wisdom was to always obscure one's real identity. It became a habit I have never bothered to break. I sign most of my posts with my given name as a nod to today's less anonymous community norms. But putting out my full name is more than I can force myself to do. Like writing in books or pulling a push broom, it's just been inculcated into me as something one doesn't do. -Glenn |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: Snuffy Date: 20 Jun 12 - 09:37 AM Like Tigger, I appear to be the only one: 192.com has found 4 people in the UK with my name - but they are all me!!! |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: Becca72 Date: 20 Jun 12 - 09:28 AM There are 103 people with my name. Strangly enough, there are 2 of us at the same doctor's office... I use a nickname on Mudcat (and almost every other site I frequent) for privacy reasons. Even if you trust every single member here at the Cat, the internet is not private. Anyone with knowledge of Google can find posts made here. |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: EBarnacle Date: 20 Jun 12 - 09:03 AM Thanks, John, 684 with my name. When I signed on originally, I felt a pseudonym was a good way to go. Many of the people on this site know my actual name anyway. |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: beardedbruce Date: 20 Jun 12 - 09:02 AM re: howmanyofme.com "There are 1 or fewer people with my name in the U.S.A." ... |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: Rain Dog Date: 20 Jun 12 - 08:46 AM On some boards/groups I use my given name and on others I don't. Just depends on my mood at the time when I sign up. I have met up with people from other groups/lists from time to time. It can be fun at hotel reception asking if someone has checked in and you only know their nickname. |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: Bettynh Date: 20 Jun 12 - 07:37 AM I chose this name 20 years ago (yikes!) when it became obvious that my first choice, which contained part of my surname, left me vulnerable to stupid sexual jokes (this was AOL, home of the snert*). Since I spent lots of time in garden chat and bulletin boards, using my state of origin was easy and logical. I think we had to limit ourselves to 8 letters at the time. *snert: acronym for "snot-nosed egotistical repugnant teen." |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: Susan of DT Date: 20 Jun 12 - 07:06 AM When I first got online, a month or two after the Digital Tradition joined Mudcat and Max developed the site with postings, I went into an interesting thread and found four other Susan's there already. I decided that "Susan of DT" conveyed better identity information than my full name. Of course this lead to such interesting things as my being listed twice on the Living Ballad Singers thread - once by name and once by Mudcat name. |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: Jack Blandiver Date: 20 Jun 12 - 06:42 AM Jack is the universal fool of the Indo-European Folk Tale, though his name is apt to change. Remember that creaky old TV series Storybook International? In Russia I am Ivan, in Sweden I am Jan, in Germany I'm Johann, in America I'm John... Here's the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs3X90RLW3A Looking up the John names on Wiki is interesting... |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: JohnInKansas Date: 20 Jun 12 - 06:29 AM It's been posted here a couple of times, but the site at Howmanyofme.com claims to tell you how many in the US have the same first name, how many have the same last name, and how many have both names the same as the one you enter. Previous discussions have disputed the accuracy of the reports given by the site, but it's probably close enough for settling small bar bets(?). There are separate sites for How Many of Me Facebook, and I think I saw one specific for Ireland. There probably are additional ones for other countries (and other affiliations) but I only looked at the Google result far enough to get to the generic one for the US. Searching for "How Many of Me" should get as many deviant sites as you'd be likely to want. I found that the number of USians with my first name has increased by quite a bit, the number with my last name has decreased slightly, and the number with both names together has decreased rather dramatically, since my last look. (Somebody in the family got pissed with the great great great great great grandfather who had the name combination? - which isn't too surprising, ... or maybe it's because of the couple of mass serial killers with both names.) John |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: MGM·Lion Date: 20 Jun 12 - 06:01 AM Well, Sean & Jack are both variants of John, so in a way the same name. And have you ever noticed that the Spanish form of the name, Juan, if written in late-medvl or early-modern lettering when i=j & u=v, will come out as Ivan? Which almost forms part of the Italian version, Giovanni? ~Miguel~Michel~מיכאל~Mikhail~ |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray Date: 20 Jun 12 - 05:35 AM My only negative experience of meeting a fellow Mudcatter face-to-face was after I'd been singing, chatting & drinking with this bloke for a few hours at a festival and then the talk turns to Mudcat. He asked what name I posted under, and when I told him he stared in horror, made his excuses and left. Very odd. Before that we were set for lifelong brotherhood. I occasionally get the you're-nothing-like-your-online-persona (what on-line persona?) but mostly, and happily, meeting & knowing 'Catters in the real world is always a positive & uplifting experience. And I know a fair few, many of them counted as very dear friends. Hell, even the most gloomy & notorious 'trolls' on line turn out to be most sunshiney folks in the flesh. Still, you can't win 'em all; so whatever name you go by, be true to yourself & when it comes to others, as Kipling wrote, and Bellamy sang: The people, Lord, thy people, are good enough for me... * Soon as I can get to a proper computer to change my biscuit my new Mudcat name will be Jack Blandifer. Apologies in advance for any confusion this might cause (as if), just as I was sitting the other day watching old Jack kicking his bells I thought, now there's a man I can truly relate to. He's folksy (like me), fun (like me), historically painted (which I am on occasion), medieval (unike me, though I have occasional inclinations in that direction) and a kinetic percussionist with temporal leanings and a fondness for sounding antique idiophones in anciently resonant ambient spaces (like me). I'll still be keeping the same account though... As Flann O'Brien says, in the common law a person may go by any name they so choose. For the record, my real name is Sean Breadin and my musical name is Sedayne. If ever we do meet, call me Sean - though ever since I was 5 I always wanted to be called Jack, like my old Granda... Actually, I was, briefly, by the kids at a youthclub I used to tell stories at. Felt great, but it never caught on. Maybe the time has come, eh?? |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: bill\sables Date: 20 Jun 12 - 04:44 AM I wanted to use my real name, Bill Sables but it would not let me, It said it was being used already and so I had to use bill\sables. |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 20 Jun 12 - 04:14 AM I chose this name because we live in a tiny village, and it would I imagine be quite easy to identify me, especially since my surname is a bit exotic. While nearly everyone on Mudcat is lovely, friendly and pleasant, there are one or two quite angry and aggressive trolls, and I wouldn't want them paying us a visit some dark night! ('Eliza Doolittle' is what my mum called me if I was being lazy and not helping her in the house!) |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: Eric the Viking Date: 20 Jun 12 - 04:06 AM I've been called this for forty years, long before mudcat.(And before the book or the film or the film of the book or the book of the film of the film of the book) |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray Date: 20 Jun 12 - 03:57 AM That reminds me, it's been too long since I changed my Mudcat name... |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 20 Jun 12 - 03:08 AM I used this name cos I used to work in a Govt agency & when I called colleagues interstate I always identified myself as sandra in sydney. In the real world, I would normally introduce myself with my first name, only using my surname when needed. |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: doc.tom Date: 20 Jun 12 - 02:45 AM I was given mine by Peter Stark when I got my PhD - "so now you're a Doc Tom, instead of a Dot Com". Cheers Tom |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: Bugsy Date: 20 Jun 12 - 12:29 AM I go by "Bugsy" because if people knew who I Really am they wouldn't talk to me. Mostly they don't anyway :0) CHeers Bugsy |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: ChanteyLass Date: 19 Jun 12 - 11:14 PM I decided not to use my real name for privacy reasons. For my first several months on Mudcat I was GUEST Janet. When I felt more comfortable, I chose the name ChanteyLass because it connects me to one of my favorite subgenres of music. However, I was still wary about identifying myself to others. That's probably because I read a lot of mysteries and have developed a suspicious nature. Now, though, several people know my real name which tells them less about me than the name ChanteyLass does! And a funny thing is that people I've introduced myself to--Live! In Person!--have forgotten who I am! Because I am only an audience member, I am not very memorable. If I were a performer or promoter, I would use my real name to promote myself. |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker Date: 19 Jun 12 - 09:08 PM No matter how wonderful and unique my doting old mum constantly tells me I am, the name she gave me is not that special or rare; in fact for some bizarre reason, it seems to be a very common name in the music business... particularly in the respectable world of classical musicians, movie score production, and Jazz, Blues & Roots.... Should any of those serious hard working artists really be tarnished by association with the frivolous cidered up shite I often write here...???? ..and I do gleefully & mischievously subscribe to the creative potential of multiple artistic personae and secret nom de plumes.. I'm a child of the 60's & a teen of the 70s, I enjoy entertainers who surprise their audience, restlessly shedding old worn skins to reinvent their stage image & identity bold and new.. |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: Seamus Kennedy Date: 19 Jun 12 - 08:38 PM I can't remember my real name, so I use this one... |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: Janie Date: 19 Jun 12 - 08:33 PM The name I go by in the 3-D world is Janie. I don't use my last name because I need to keep my professional and personal life separate. I also have privacy concerns. Perhaps those concerns are unrealistic or perhaps they are naive. I'm not highly imaginative. I don't have alternate egos. I don't do a lot of social networking. I do think, depending on one's profession or privacy concerns that people often have good reasons for using pseudonyms on-line and I don't have a problem with it. I also understand that some people also hide behind pseudonyms to engage in behaviors or say things for which they do not want to take responsibility. Simply the nature of some humans. In my opinion, there is no inherent merit in either using a pseudonym or in using one's own name. |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: Steve Shaw Date: 19 Jun 12 - 08:00 PM Dunno about all those facebooky things and tweets and twits and blogs and all that. I don't do any of 'em. I suppose you could be right. |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: JohnInKansas Date: 19 Jun 12 - 08:00 PM There's no problem with using your real name if that's how you choose to be known here - and if no one else has already used it as a mudcat name. In earlier times, you needed a separate email address to register each name, so couples often shared the same mudcat name. I understand that it's no longer required; but I haven't looked at the details since nearly all email services now allow "subaccounts" and there are lots of free email accounts available. In my case, using my real name could be problematic, since (according to the web) there are at least 268,438 persons in the US (as of a few months ago when I checked) using the same name. For my mudcat name, I've only found a little more than a half-dozen (all elsewhere), so the mudcat name is a more specific ID than my real one. Although none of us have much control over who else might choose to use the same name as ours, mudcat - I believe - still allows only one user per mudcat moniker. (And there has been at least one other here with the same "real name" as mine - already in use here when I got my own mudcat ID.) John |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: kendall Date: 19 Jun 12 - 07:43 PM I think it's always a good idea for women to use a made up name. That goes for all social sites. |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: Steve Shaw Date: 19 Jun 12 - 07:13 PM frustration innit |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: Steve Shaw Date: 19 Jun 12 - 07:12 PM My name is Steve Shaw. It's the only name I use on any website. If I say something stupid I want people to know that Steve Shaw said something stupid. It doesn't stop me from saying stupid things but it does rein me in a bit. I've been guilty of abusing fellow posters on some websites at times, always out of frustation (I should learn to control my instincts better). They all know that it was Steve Shaw who abused them. On the other hand, I've been abused by many people who post under pseudonyms. I could name quite a few who do it on this site. They are cowards. There's one website, not this one, on which another poster, under his pseudonym, went for me big time, gratuitously accusing me of all sorts of scurrilous things. I found out his name and found that he'd posted a rather unflattering photo of himself online (the eejit!). He was well pissed off when I posted his name and pic. He didn't realise that Google didn't index the site we were on, so his name and pic would not be found by anyone else looking casually, but it didn't half put the shits up him. I hate internet anonymity. I've spent ten years being quite controversial on discussion forums but I've never had any offline issues as a result, so I don't quite know what Joe's drawbacks are all about. |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: skarpi Date: 19 Jun 12 - 06:39 PM and I use my name its Skarpi , I use Iceland as second name .... but my name is Skarphéðinn Haraldsson .....aka Úlflogi Álfsson ... :) all the best Skarpi Iceland . |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: Leadfingers Date: 19 Jun 12 - 06:27 PM I 'Stole' Fred Wedlock's 'The Folker' forty years ago , and used it as my Intro Song when I was Gigging , so I was Terry 'Leadfingers' Silver . (From MY First line) a LONG time efore I joined Mudcat ! |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: Ron Cheevers Date: 19 Jun 12 - 06:14 PM Thanks Joe. |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: Joe Offer Date: 19 Jun 12 - 06:12 PM Well, I've used my own name at Mudcat for over 15 years. In general, it's fine - but there are drawbacks. If you're worried, it's better to use a pseudonym - but please use a consistent pseudonym when posting at Mudcat. -Joe Offer, Mudcat Archivist- |
Subject: RE: Mudcat name From: Commander Crabbe Date: 19 Jun 12 - 06:09 PM Ron I don't think you need to have a Mudcat name it's just that some people choose to. Mine was a nickname given to me by Derek Elliot who ran the singaround in the old "Tap and Spile" in Whitby. So therefore those who were there know who I am. Anyone else who wants to know what my real name is, they can ask. If I think they need to know it then I'll let them know. Otherwise I'll stick to my nickname. If you really want to know, it is in a couple of my posted threads if you care to search. CC |
Subject: Mudcat name From: Ron Cheevers Date: 19 Jun 12 - 06:01 PM Why do people need to have a Mudcat name? What's wrong with a given name? |
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