Skinner, you said to not use our names here, but right wingers are usurping

[angstlessk]

good liberal names from here and posting on your new forum iscussionist'...I think that EVERY NAME HERE SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ALREADY USED!

[Make7]

1. Ummm... did you read the thread in the Announcements group?

[div class="excerpt" style="margin-left:1em; border:1px solid #bfbfbf; border-radius:0.4615em; box-shadow:-1px -1px 3px #999999 inset;"]We encourage you to sign up with a different username from the one you use here at DU. The message board culture is going to be different over there, and it might be more fun with a different name. Don't expect to find Skinner, EarlG, or Elad posting over on Discusionist; we've changed our names too. (If you simply must use the same username, you can request it here on DU by sending a DU Mail message to Elad with the title "Discussionist username" so he can release your name to you. We have set aside all usernames from DU so trolls can't grab them on Discussionist, but we have not copied over your email or password for privacy reasons.)[font style="font-size:0.8462em;"]


http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1013&pid=3832#tab-home[/font]

[angstlessk]

2. I recon I just scanned it...I did see not to use our names

but missed the highlighted part you sent..I was responding to a DU'er who complained use od Du'ers names

I wonder if they are adding some small difference and making the font white, so as not to show up?

[Make7]

3. Unfortunately the sign-up over there only blocks exact matches to DU.

A few less than reputable people seem to have signed up over there using similar looking usernames - and at least one troll used someone's actual name (even though that person doesn't use it here) to try to make people think it was a DU'er (I guess that was the idea - hard to say since it was such a failure).

At this point, there seems to be plenty of room for mischief over there. Hopefully after it's been up and running for a while, things will get sorted out.