Welcome to the Free Talk Live bulletin board system!
This board is closed to new users and new posts.  Thank you to all our great mods and users over the years.  Details here.
185859 Posts in 9829 Topics by 1371 Members
Latest Member: cjt26
Home Help
+  The Free Talk Live BBS
|-+  Free Talk Live
| |-+  The Polling Pit
| | |-+  What to do about nick hoppers?

Poll

What would you like to do to people who rename their accounts every few days (or hours)?

Encourage them.
- 8 (32%)
Ask once politely, then drop the issue.
- 4 (16%)
Nag them, but otherwise leave them alone.
- 4 (16%)
Ostrasize them.
- 1 (4%)
Campaign for "shithead" status.
- 2 (8%)
Campaign to get them banned.
- 2 (8%)
Only blood can cleanse their sins!
- 4 (16%)

Total Members Voted: 13


Pages: [1] 2 3   Go Down

Author Topic: What to do about nick hoppers?  (Read 7297 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Alex Libman

  • Guest
What to do about nick hoppers?
« on: November 05, 2008, 06:29:36 PM »
(Note that people who delete and recreate their account under the same nick are not "nick hoppers", they are "account cyclers", and there's nothing particularly annoying if someone just does the latter and not the former.  They're just making it easier for other people to impersonate them, which is their loss...)
Logged

Alex Libman

  • Guest
Re: What to do about nick hoppers?
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2008, 06:34:35 PM »
You fail at many things.
Logged

Lindsey

  • Rock Star
  • Global Moderator
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 30370
  • I like Mars.
    • View Profile
Re: What to do about nick hoppers?
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2008, 06:41:00 PM »
It might be kind of annoying, but there's not really anything you can do about it. 
Logged
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
         -George W. Bush

Alex Libman

  • Guest
Re: What to do about nick hoppers?
« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2008, 06:47:20 PM »
Quote from: Lindsey on November 05, 2008, 06:41:00 PM
It might be kind of annoying, but there's not really anything you can do about it. 

Give me root access and I'll show ya.   :D

(Plus I'll start AMP'ing again.  Big time.)
Logged

Lindsey

  • Rock Star
  • Global Moderator
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 30370
  • I like Mars.
    • View Profile
Re: What to do about nick hoppers?
« Reply #4 on: November 05, 2008, 06:51:00 PM »
Quote from: Alex Libman on November 05, 2008, 06:47:20 PM
Quote from: Lindsey on November 05, 2008, 06:41:00 PM
It might be kind of annoying, but there's not really anything you can do about it. 

Give me root access and I'll show ya.   :D

(Plus I'll start AMP'ing again.  Big time.)

Why exactly do you have a problem with this? 
Logged
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
         -George W. Bush

Alex Libman

  • Guest
Re: What to do about nick hoppers?
« Reply #5 on: November 05, 2008, 06:53:27 PM »
Quote from: Adam on November 05, 2008, 06:51:10 PM
For a while there, you were almost being a decent human being...

Who, me?  NEVER!
Logged

Lindsey

  • Rock Star
  • Global Moderator
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 30370
  • I like Mars.
    • View Profile
Re: What to do about nick hoppers?
« Reply #6 on: November 05, 2008, 06:54:41 PM »
Ugh.  Fuck. 
Logged
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
         -George W. Bush

blackie

  • Guest
Re: What to do about nick hoppers?
« Reply #7 on: November 05, 2008, 06:55:44 PM »
Who is Nick Hoppers?
Logged

Russell Griswold

  • Guest
Re: What to do about nick hoppers?
« Reply #8 on: November 05, 2008, 08:24:05 PM »
Quote from: blackie on November 05, 2008, 06:55:44 PM
Who is Nick Hoppers?

Sounds Canadian.
Logged

Lindsey

  • Rock Star
  • Global Moderator
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 30370
  • I like Mars.
    • View Profile
Re: What to do about nick hoppers?
« Reply #9 on: November 05, 2008, 08:25:30 PM »
Quote from: Lovecraft on November 05, 2008, 08:24:05 PM
Quote from: blackie on November 05, 2008, 06:55:44 PM
Who is Nick Hoppers?

Sounds Canadian.

Which equates to "SHITTY" in English. 
Logged
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
         -George W. Bush

YixilTesiphon

  • FTL AMPlifier Silver
  • *
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 4284
    • View Profile
Re: What to do about nick hoppers?
« Reply #10 on: November 05, 2008, 09:16:43 PM »
Where's the "I don't care" option?
Logged
And their kids were hippie chicks - all hypocrites.

Lindsey

  • Rock Star
  • Global Moderator
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 30370
  • I like Mars.
    • View Profile
Re: What to do about nick hoppers?
« Reply #11 on: November 05, 2008, 09:17:26 PM »
Quote from: YixilTesiphon on November 05, 2008, 09:16:43 PM
Where's the "I don't care" option?

Dude.  It's Libman. 
Logged
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
         -George W. Bush

freeAgent

  • pwn*
  • FTL AMPlifier
  • *
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 3660
    • View Profile
Re: What to do about nick hoppers?
« Reply #12 on: November 05, 2008, 10:12:49 PM »
Quote from: Alex Libman on November 05, 2008, 06:29:36 PM
(Note that people who delete and recreate their account under the same nick are not "nick hoppers", they are "account cyclers", and there's nothing particularly annoying if someone just does the latter and not the former.  They're just making it easier for other people to impersonate them, which is their loss...)

It's about the same level of annoyingness if you ask me.
Logged

hellbilly

  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 6664
  • Pogue Mahone.
    • View Profile
Re: What to do about nick hoppers?
« Reply #13 on: November 06, 2008, 01:57:32 AM »
Wha'd I do?
Logged
Give me Liberty or give me Meth!

"We are profoundly dissatisfied with pretty much everything but we can’t articulate why, and are unable to offer any viable alternative." - Nathaniel Weiner

Laetitia

  • Global Moderator
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 3952
  • ...
    • View Profile
Re: What to do about nick hoppers?
« Reply #14 on: November 06, 2008, 07:40:00 AM »
I find quite a bit of the nick hopping to be amusing. There have been some very clever names popping up. Sometimes it's in response to current events and BBS drama (maybe just to annoy Libman?), but sometimes it seems to be inspired by an avatar change.

I view it as just an extension of the personality quirks we get to display in our signatures, avatars and taglines. It doesn't take a whole lot of new posts to figure out who a someone used to be, based on the writing style and inside jokes.

Hell, if I had the imagination and time to come up with a clever new name, I might do it myself. Who doesn't want to be somebody different, every once in a while?
Logged
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of experience comes from bad judgment.
Pages: [1] 2 3   Go Up
+  The Free Talk Live BBS
|-+  Free Talk Live
| |-+  The Polling Pit
| | |-+  What to do about nick hoppers?

// ]]>

Page created in 0.017 seconds with 36 queries.