Using the same name on every forum is a bad idea.
A guy at work happened to google my username and found out just about everything you need to know about me.

He found out I dabbled in hacking satellites.
He found out my sexual fantasies,
He found out I had installed a PC in the car.
He found out I was dissing work on a general discussion forum.
And worst of all he actually found out that I thought he was a prick.

So using the same user name on every forum is a really stupid thing. So ive just changed my name!

Because Google is god and he will have you.

Length? He was probably having a good read for a few hours.
(Miggyman, Wed 2 Jan 2008, 14:06, 10 replies)

Tell me about it!!!

I was informed that if you google my username, you eventually come across a rampant gay-site featuring teen boys...and a copy that somebody has made of an old (non-gay) B3ta post I wrote about having things shoved up my arse in the name of medicine.

They've been good enough to give me a full mention...isn't that nice of them?
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Wed 2 Jan 2008, 14:19, closed)

Fortunately
There are a lot of TDubs on teh Net, (most of them men) so I can always claim, "Oh that isn't me" if I get caught.
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Wed 2 Jan 2008, 15:37, closed)

Hah! Safely hidden amongst the Loons!
Just had to have a Google.... all the other osoks are paintballing freaks amongst whom I can safely hide.


(Not that I've got anything against paintballers, but when I shoot something in the woods at least I can eat it later. Or discreetly bury it in a carcass pit if it was an inconvenient badger-watcher, rambler or poor person)
(osok Rebel without a clue, Wed 2 Jan 2008, 16:13, closed)

hmmm, think
I was safe with Half Price, only 24,900,000 sites to plough through to find out im a not very interesting person
(Halfy By light alone, Wed 2 Jan 2008, 16:22, closed)

Huh.
Googling the phrase "resident loon" turned up the expected birdwatching results and a few b3ta results, but also turned up a lot of results that had nothing to do with me- apparently "resident loon" is a fairly common Usenet term for a poster that others dislike.

I have used the name because in newsgroups I was always the one who posted odd things that made drinks shoot out of peoples' noses.

But I seldom use the same user name, so my various online activities are not that easy to track...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 2 Jan 2008, 16:31, closed)

a patently obvious solution ...
... is to choose a username that is also a dictionary word. My stuff seems to be lost somewhere in about 2,240,000 hits*. Also, I am pretty sure that there are other patentlies - sure enough to offer some deniability, anyway.

*which would take long enough to read to allow me to make my escape, even given my legendary lack of fitness.
(patently Was somewhere else on, Wed 2 Jan 2008, 16:59, closed)

meh
googling my name is like being spammed by will smith.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Wed 2 Jan 2008, 17:01, closed)

I've not met George Bush
And I'm not black either, but another Chickenlady is...

www.thechickenlady.com/

There are quite a few of us out there, so I'm relatively safe.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 2 Jan 2008, 20:47, closed)

Hmm...
Are you the Miggyman I know?
(moogal has eggs, Wed 2 Jan 2008, 22:05, closed)

This might possibly count as a qotw answer
Glad I'm not the only person who's googled their username ... I just did, after reading this post. I found a few google entries for b3ta posts using my name, but I didn't recognise the stories.
Cue sitting here yelling to my cat, "Someone stole my user name! They stole it! I'M Celerydemon!" etc (rage may be caused by the several gin & tonics I just had after work).
Had paranoid visions of some twat posting shit under my name, then hoped they were more amusing than me ...
Anyhoo, I clicked the link and ... yep, it WAS me, I just forgot I wrote all of it. Duhhhh
(Celerydemon, Thu 3 Jan 2008, 15:51, closed)