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What's your X Y and Q?

By their User Name
- 36 (27.3%)
By their Signature
- 9 (6.8%)
By their Contributions to the board
- 17 (12.9%)
By their Contributions to DF
- 3 (2.3%)
By their Post count
- 1 (0.8%)
By their Sign up date
- 0 (0%)
Because I know them in real life
- 0 (0%)
Because they're a female
- 8 (6.1%)
Because they're male (Don't wana be sexist now do I? ~o~ )
- 0 (0%)
Because I know them from other boards
- 1 (0.8%)
Because a user has a unique personality
- 22 (16.7%)
By another reason that's not listed, and etiquette dictates that I post why
- 0 (0%)
*FACE PALM* I forgot to add "user picture." *FACE PALM*
- 35 (26.5%)

Total Members Voted: 48


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Author Topic: I remember users by X other times by Y and sometimes by Q *Counts reset see poll  (Read 1187 times)

Creamcorn

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I won't lie to you guys (to impress you guys, maybe) but, my X is that I honestly recognize most users here because they're chicks. There, I said it. From my perspective, a girl is so rare in some areas of the internet that they become instantly recognizable the second I see their user profile.

That aside, my Y is someones' post count. It's easy to recognize big numbers and associate them people, especially when you can see who has the biggest numbers, but for me it's usually (and I reiterate) posts.

As for my Q, that one is a bit harder to define, but in the end, I go with, um... personalities! Isn't that why we go on the internet, to meet funny and sometimes strange people! =^-^=

Well I'm done, have fun picking.
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Re: I remember users by X other times by Y and sometimes by Q
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2010, 05:11:42 pm »

I actually go by their forum avatar, its a lot easier to remember someone from it. And when people change theirs I get extremely confused. I have some sort of old man condition I guess.

"Ehr, is that you Jimmy? I don't recognise your face. Have you done something with your hair?"
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Re: I remember users by X other times by Y and sometimes by Q
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2010, 05:12:04 pm »

I hereby add the reason "because of the RP group I hang out with on IRC"

sadly hardly any of these guys post a lot in the lower forums
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Re: I remember users by X other times by Y and sometimes by Q
« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2010, 05:13:45 pm »

I actually go by their forum avatar, its a lot easier to remember someone from it. And when people change theirs I get extremely confused. I have some sort of old man condition I guess.

"Ehr, is that you Jimmy? I don't recognise your face. Have you done something with your hair?"

This, except I tend to associate the avatar with a username so that I can recognize them even if they change their avatar.

Zangi

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Re: I remember users by X other times by Y and sometimes by Q
« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2010, 05:16:49 pm »

Avatar... the way they post...  and... the lack of an avatar.
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Creamcorn

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I missed an option, user pictures.

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ToonyMan

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Contribution and uniqueness.
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Cthulhu

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User name/avatar mainly.

If you're one of those certain people who inflate their post count with dozens of one-to-five word posts, sometimes two or three in a row, then I know you by your contributions.

If you're Dasleah, I know you by your unique personality.
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Leafsnail

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Firstly by avatar.  Secondly by username.  Thirdly by that damn move Pandarsenic pulled in NSBM.
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Jackrabbit

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I remember users by whether or not they're a friend of mine, other times by whether or not they're Dasleah and sometimes by whether or not they're Dasleah.
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woose1

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I actually have some pretty damn good memory when it comes to remembering names.

That said, I wish it still applied to forum games.  :P
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Vector

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Firstly by avatar.  Secondly by username.  Thirdly by that damn move Pandarsenic pulled in NSBM.

HRMPH.

Username, personality, avatar.
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Itnetlolor

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Name, Avatar, Personality.

Rather basic.

Zai

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Re: I remember users by X other times by Y and sometimes by Q
« Reply #13 on: March 16, 2010, 10:54:08 pm »

I actually go by their forum avatar, its a lot easier to remember someone from it. And when people change theirs I get extremely confused.
This is why I put "Zai" in the bottom right corner of my avatars (same spot in each). And since I've switched from Elmo, my avatars have all been from the same "theme": SRT. So that should hopefully help people's recognition of me when I change avs.

Thirdly by that damn move Pandarsenic pulled in NSBM.
I wonder who you could possibly recognize by that.

Anyway. I recognize people by their avatars most of the time, their signatures or personalities some of the time, and if I'm still not sure who it was who posted, I look at their username.
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Jay

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Avatar, then username.
I don't have a Q.
If I don't recognize them by one of those two, I don't know them.
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