Totally unacceptable treatment

[Vic]

On Vic Said:

On Mark Rand Said:

Possibly not trying to use a name that could be taken as a regular expression would have been a good move?

Agreed! Choose a silly name, get silly prizes! 🤣

You agree that my name Me is silly – tell that to my parents. What a forum for bigoted members…..

[Me.]

On Me. Said:

On jaCK Hobson Said:

I’d try and take it on the chin. I can understand the upset but I feel it is something I should not get upset over.

I find the use of the username Me annoying as it makes me think that posts attributed to that user might have been written by myself.

I try and operate under the assumption that i don’t really own anything I enter on a public forum and people might do anything with it. The use of my personal data is protected by law. Some might argue username is personal data but in this case I don’t think it benefits the world to consider it protected.

If someone changed my username from jacKhobson to JackHobson, I will not get upset. If someone changes it to ‘a ‘jacKisaPlonker’ then I probably would… so in this case I would probably fail my ‘take it on the chin’ advice.

But its my name, why would my name be annoying. I have been known by Me for most of my life.

Ah. I didn’t realise that was your name. Not a common name. I would have thought you would have had incidents of misunderstanding throughout your life… in which case you may become used to it, or sensitised to it – both understandable. From my perspective, if I see some text attributed to ‘me’ on a forum then I might mistakenly think the text is being attributed to myself… as that isn’t the case, it annoys me. The annoyance is nothing to do with you personally. It’s also quite a low-level annoyance. The nuance of what annoying means to me vs you, and the level, is lost in the medium of a Forum. Which leads me to suggest, try not to get upset on Forums – it’s probably just ‘lost in translation’.

[John HinkleyParticipant @johnhinkley26699]

Well, that explains a lot!  Most, if not all, of the negative (dare I say “snide”) remarks in this and the other, similar thread, would not have appeared if you had made it absolutely clear from the start that “Me” is your given name.

Perhaps this will now put this discussion to bed?

John

Edit: don’t know what happened to the font in the first paragraph – it looks ok in the reply panel.

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