Would you call someone by their Neowin name?


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I sure would, unless their name is something like "omgzz1111_pr0n".

I was just thinking about it and got curious. Its a name you associate with a person, the first thing you can identify them by and it will kinda stick, if you see what I mean.

Lets take our resident administrator, Neobond, for example. Everyone knows about Neobond - so if you passed him in the street (assuming you know what he looked like), would you say "Hey Neobond!"?

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I only know a few people from Neowin.net and I call them by their real names ...  :yes:

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I don't know anyone from here personally, though sometimes I wish I did.

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It depends, Cause Some people have some cool names that are simple,and others...Crazy long ones, I duno bout my own neowin name if I would like to be called narutorocker..hmm maybe maybe indeed.

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Like you said, alot depends on their name.

But in the case of myself, most of my friends have called me Dirty Larry since high school, so it would be completely appropriate for them or anyone for that matter to call me by my member name as it is also my nickname.

I will offer a perfect example of situation of where and why I would call someone by their member name, that as a matter of fact ironically enough just happened to me last night...

As I was playing Battlefield 2 with my friend (who also happens to be a member of neowin and is the guy who actually introduced me to the site) another player decided to join the squad we had started. This person's name looked very familiar to me, and it all was because he was a member from Neowin too. Since we were in squads on a voice-enabled server, I asked if he was indeed the same person from Neowin, he said he was, said he actually thought he recognized my name too (as I also use DirtyLarry in game, just with ECF at the end) so I called him by his Neowin name the rest of the time we played. I will say this though, if we play with him again, which we plan on trying to do as it was a good time, I will definitely eventually ask him his real name, and ask what he prefers to be called.

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i've had so many people add me to there MSN and call me by my username even though they know my name :s, but if i was to meet them then id call them by there proper name...

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even if i knew their real name, i wouldnt be able to stop callign them by their handle, person i know in WoW, cant help but call him my his toon's name, lol

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Assuming I knew their real name, I would call them by it. In most cases that would mean that I would call them by their Neowin name though since I know pretty much no one here in real life with possibly one exception.

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