What do you like in an online/user name?

[White Raven]

With all this talk of online names with the tourney happening, I was wondering why people voted for certain names over others. What makes you like a username?

I like names that one could easily go by in real life, for instance, if I'm walking down the street and I see *insert member with numbers or symbols in their name* it would be teedious to shout out their names to say hello.

Some of my friends actual refer to me as Raven, since I've used this nickname for so long.

[Del Murder]

Cool or random names, without underscores or numbers. It has to be original.

[Dr Unne]

I don't care about originality, so much as rareness. I didn't think up Dr. Unne, I stole the name / character from FF1, but it's a rare name to use, so I like it well enough. Sometimes I pick random obscure Biblical names for things, like Jemuel or Lamech. They're non-original, but they seem original.

[escobert]

SOme of my freinds at school call me Bert so that's how I got it. I agrtee with the no #s and ones you cant pronounce.

[Doomgaze]

A good username should be edczxcvbnm.

[The Man]

Originally posted by Doomgaze
A good username should be edczxcvbnm.

I couldn't have put it any better myself. Ed got robbed in the last screen name tournament. Robbed.

[eestlinc]

something that doesn't make sense on the surface but really has a meaning, is easy to pronounce and make shorter nicknames from, has no numbers or capital letters, and fails to reveal gender clearly.

[Burtsplurt]

Something that has character. I don't care if it's particularly original, but I get bored of people called xXCloudXx or Squall_192. I like to be able to associate a name with a personality.

Originally posted by eestlinc
something that doesn't make sense on the surface but really has a meaning... and make shorter nicknames from, has no numbers or capital letters, and fails to reveal gender clearly.

Glad to see you like ed as well, eest.

[PeTeRL90]

Something not too hard to remember.

[Maxico]

Well I guess my name clears all of the requirments.

phew.

at least its better than my horwid horwid horwid previous name.

and edczxcvbnm is THE best name ever.

[Peegee]

A combination of Ascii characters is often ideal

[The Man]

Originally posted by Burtsplurt
Something that has character. I don't care if it's particularly original, but I get bored of people called xXCloudXx or Squall_192. I like to be able to associate a name with a personality.

exactly, because neither of those characters have personalities. *rimshot*

[crono_logical]

Originally posted by Moo Moo the Ner Cow
A combination of Ascii characters is often ideal

What? Not Unicode?

[The Man]

Unicode names are the best, man.

[Citizen Bleys]

What? Eunuch code?