Poser forum member question. Not poser but for this forum. Using a new name? Left and returned? Got bored of your identity? What are your othe identeties from the past or present? I see names and think I sometimes know that person under another identity I have been: PheonixRising Anton_Kisiel Akisiel how 'bout you? Who did you used to be?

Well.. I have 2 names I use, but I USE them both so it's not really a matter of used to be :o) I'm ernyoka1 TrekkieGrrrl And some places also Ern Yoka or Ern Sielu Yoka

Hi! I've always been Rendy. Don't read too much into that.

My other online identity is "Morgan )O(" (or morgan32). But I don't post on art-related sites under that ID. Here, I've always been eirian.

I'm Sam Therapy (or SamTherapy if the site doesn't support spaces in the user name) everywhere. I've used the name since my first day on the net.

I use my last name on all business-related sites (and art is a business for me as well as something which I have to do). I'm also known as Shaherazade (a handle given to me on CIS, where I spun off stories for years and years), oft abbreviated to Shah. Another handle given to me was Atilla the Punster after a particularly devastating sweep through the forums. Carolly

DarkElegance...everywhere I join...:(though at deviant art someone took that name so I cant >.< there.

mostly I'm rasputina but sometimes I'm thepinkdahlia or theheartagram. Jess

This is a topic I have raised myself elsewhere. It's interesting to see how people occasionally need a change of identity. I know one case of someone who posts here who originally used a name containing an obscenity (on another site, natch) and had to clean up his nick when he joined Renderosity. What motivates people to change? It would be interesting to know all the reasons.

I was once known as the Great Destroyer ... but that has little to do with this community.

My other online name (rarely used) is myrm_draconis.

Well, when I joined a Real Life Star Trek club several years ago, I needed a Star Trek name. Since I am supposed (in Star Trek relations) to be bajoran, I chose/made up the name Ern Yoka. At the same time it actually MEANS something else: Yoka was a tag I used in my youth to... er... uhm.. scribble on walls and such.... Like Joker, just very badly spelled. Ern means "The Clever One" in ancient nordic so I thought that would be appropriate GG When I originally joined renderosity, I simply used my, at that time wellestablished web-handle ernyoka. Soon after, I found out I had forgotten the password, and had to make a new one, ernyoka1. But again, this is my Star Trek name and this wasn't a Star Trek site. So I started using TrekkieGrrrl to sign my pics and free stuff and only THEN found out - after about 50 freebies - that it was very confusing with 2 names here. I THINK a lot of people are aware that ernyoka1 and TrekkieGrrrl is the same person, I announce it at any given chance L and if it was possible to migrate all my stuff, including my store, to my TrekkieGrrrl handle here, I would do so this very instance. But I'm ALSO Ern Yoka. I wouldn't like to abandon that name totally. ~Lisbeth (and that's my RL name)

pssst this was only for sites and forums right? not like rpg names or anything?

good lord, Anton! you want me to remember back 3 years? Or is it more now. I am also known as SteelPansy and Vyxyn. But I can't for the life of me remember what my first name here was...

I've been pitklad79 and pitklad Now I'm Narcissus,I choose this not because I'm one :-) but because it is Greek! Greetings from a greece! Today Spring has come!

I usually use "stewer" where "stew" is taken.

Replicant almost everywhere except Renderotica cos the nick was taken. (By me a long time ago and I then forgot my login details.) I post on Rotica as TakeTheBluePill. I also spent a year as admin of a chatroom using the nick DirtyOldMan. (See Rotica gallery for reason.) :o)

Been FishNose forever. Used it as a network ID and a nickname loooooong before the WWW became a popular place, before it even had a GUI. In fact, since the 70's. :] Fish

I don't care what they call me as long as it's not late for dinner. Love esther PS I'm still pining over the demise of the embryonic maximus!

Since the 70's? Wow. That fishnose mush be a fishbone by now then LOL ~~~ >-)-)-)*>

I used to be sane .......... then I got Poser. ;=]

Before there was a Renderosity, before I found Poser, I was known elsewhere by other names. GypsyFlame and Kylandria were the two most common. Then I got tagged with KateTheShrew and have been using that ever since.

"What motivates people to change? It would be interesting to know all the reasons."

A ban? =)

Here I'm Scourge and in my University's network I'm Pihlajis (just an abbreviation of my last name). I played Starcraft a lot a few years ago, and in the game scourges are those annoying little flying alien creatures, that's where I took the nick.

Calypso if the nick is available, Caly or variations if it's not free when I join up.

Thought about a second ID to have two seperate galleries (for photo and Poser), but then I left it as it was. Once thought about a different ID to start all over, but didn't do that too. So I'm still stuck with this ID. I use it on all other 3D sites too. - Well, there is one exception. The question was only about this site, not the Rotica-ID I hope? ;)

Valandar, Valandar everywhere

in order
dbmale (not an art site..;)
nu-be (2001-2)
pakled (2002-present)

el_jefe52 or eljefe52 since the early 80's. The nic was given to me by one of my employees who is Mexican. Jefe is spanish for boss, and 52 is the year I was born. Fishnose, you've got me beat by a couple years. Ah, the good old days of BBS, sure do miss them. grin Robin

Using the last two digits of the year one was born seems to be quite common. For others of us here, it's not something one wishes to advertise!

Well I used to be Zechs here. I was really into Gundam W in the 90s and was still using that name when I discovered Rosity. (Oh the shame) When I got back into Poser around the time P5 came out I decided to switch to a name that was less associated with teenage girls and anime noobs, so I went with Berserga which is the name of a type of combat robot from the anime "Armored trooper VOTOMS" I use it almost everywhere now. I have a seperate handle that I use to post naughty pics... on other sites but I'm not giving that out. :p On a side note I also play online games as Berserga, or sometimes GI Doh! so if you run into somebody with those nicks in a game of UT 2k4 or Battlefield 1942 it's probably me. :D

It's funny actually.. Seems like quite a lot of us posts on the "naughty" site(s) too... Under another name. I DID use another name on Rotica for a while, but at the time where I put up something for sale there, I thought it would be less confusing if people could recognize my name. So I'm TrekkieGrrrl over there as well. there. I said it. L

Trekkie: fishbone - ROFL!! Fiskben? :] Fishboner

I've always been RedMagickMage, but I do have another username that I used to use to freak people out in chat. lol, but I've long forgotten what it was. Some combination of Poser and Bryce...like Posyce or Bryser...I can't remember. :- As fas as the "naughty" sites go, I'm ReDMagickMage on Rotica too. Shrugs

Here's some suggestions for nicks:

Jum_Derk
Slum_Dob
Skum_Null

If anyone would like to use these, feel free to do so!

I've thought of using them, myself......for my alter-egos.....

One of the funniest nicks around here is Ben_Dover. I was so totally ROFL when I saw that :o)

Rawn Rawnrr RawArt Thats all of me :)

I am Neftis, always been. My Husband is Lyrgoif75, always been. together we are neflyr, but we never had the chance to use it LOL:)

Used to be Miyu slickepinne

When I first went online in 1987 I used "Peabody", because friends had often called me that. (After the character of Mr. Peabody in the old Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons... a fair likeness in looks and behavior.) But I quickly noticed that almost every message I posted was an attempt to simplify cluttered logic or eliminate assumptions, so it's been occam or ockham ever since.

I've been BillyGoat since Win95a... Everywhere. Got more technical help with a 'male' nickname in the olden days. But they could always tell I was a gal - most guys do not say 'Oh, what a pretty model', LOL!

so why do people keep changing their names? I can understand if the name is stupid or something but I see a lot of aliases. Maybe people leave and come back?

I've been Lunaseas for quite awhile, way back when I was Cuddlegerbil (don't ask) but most people died from the sugar content of that nick so I've had Lunaseas ever since:) Kirsten Maloney

Phantast said "Using the last two digits of the year one was born seems to be quite common. For others of us here, it's not something one wishes to advertise!" Just for the record mine are not the year I was born ;-)! Engel because it is Dutch for Angel and my real name is Angela. I use Engel47 most places and SedgleyBird where I don't. (I was born in Sedgley).

"What motivates people to change? It would be interesting to know all the reasons." That isn't the only motive :) Many many people here have a couple of nicks for purchasing. I hear some accountants don't like getting reciepts with names like as example- 'Satans little helper' or 'xocjksdfkjak'

When my fiance and I first got together we used to listen to a lot of Journey. Some couples have a special "song", but we had a "band" instead of just a single song. Heh. :) Ever since I started using the internet (about 4-5 years ago) I've been Neyjour, no matter where I am. Always the same. It's Journey split up and flipped around: ney-Jour = Neyjour. But most of my online friends shorten it to Ney or Neyj. :)

been odeathoflife forever. though my friend took adeathoflife on yahoo. The 'o' stands for complete just cause the o makes a better name then thecompletedeathoflife, which is a poem/song that I wrote a few years (well quite a few now) ago.

I've been LonCray ever since my first real email acct, back around 1993 or so. It took the place of my old Prodigy account (remember them?) which didn't have screenames. Lonkellis Cray was an old D&D character whose name I used over and over again in various Roleplaying Games. I use it on just about every site I can now.

Grey cat was my constant companion for 16 years until he die of old age. I always use that name as a way to remember him.

I have sometimes called myself Buck Rogers, because it was my CB radio handle when CB came to England, and someone chose it for me because I look like a spaceman in my motorcycle gear. In the couse of time I have been mistaken for: air pilot, parachutist, spaceman, UFO crew.

Always been silver, since Silverwing was taken. However at Daz and on my music sites like Mp3.com and Soundclick, it's Christianson. Now when I play Unreal Tournament, it's Rocketboy, 'cuz I prefer the rocket launcher. :)

I didn't actually chose this name oddly enough, though I kept it. I used to be wearefamily with mac's first browser thing, but when that ended, I had just divorsed and my ex gave the new aol account to my daughter who chose names for us. She knew that I was called Barbarella at work, but that was taken so she added NY. For whatever reason, I kept it.