Someone has stolen my name.

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  • Chrissi
    FFR Player
    • Mar 2004
    • 3019

    #1

    Someone has stolen my name.

    In case you didn't know (and most people don't), in some online places I'm known as Chrissi, but I usually use Rediahs. Rediahs is a word that came entirely out of my own typo-prone fingers.

    Someone else online is using the name "Rediahs". Now, before I started to use the name, I checked google to make sure nobody else was. I found not a single match for it.

    They don't seem very smart, either... if you search google for "Rediahs" yourself you'll know what I mean. All but two of those matches are that person. The only ones (currently, as of Sept 7 2004) that are me are that Oekaki place, and Diagon Alley forum.

    Now the thing is, I know it didn't just pop out of their own head. There are 8 billion different 7-letter letter combinations, and as far as I can see, Rediahs is just as random as the rest.

    Now I don't know what to do I chose Rediahs because it was completely and entirely original. Rediahs is me. I am Rediahs. No one else. But now I find out someone else is using it???

    Does anyone know what I should do? I can't figure out how the person should be contacted, and I wouldn't even know what to say.. "Hey yo, stop using my name!" doesn't sound very... good.

    I'm thinking they probably saw me using it in Diablo or Conquer (some games I play) and thought "Oh that's a cool name" and started using it.

    I feel so viiiii'ahlated.
    C is for Charisma, it's why people think I'm great! I make my friends all laugh and smile and never want to hate!
  • lightdarkness
    Summer!!
    • Jul 2003
    • 11308

    #2
    RE: Someone has stolen my name.

    There are 3 or 4 lightdarkness's, or close variants, just don't let it get to you.

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    • Chrissi
      FFR Player
      • Mar 2004
      • 3019

      #3
      RE: Someone has stolen my name.

      But lightdarkness is actually made up of WORDS! Rediahs is.. random stuff... :\
      C is for Charisma, it's why people think I'm great! I make my friends all laugh and smile and never want to hate!

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      • Xaimus
        FFR Player
        • May 2004
        • 136

        #4
        The same thing happened with my handle. I checked search engines to see if the name I synthesized was unique. It was clean then. Now, a bunch of asshole brazillian webloggers use my handle in pages with titles similar to "oo I need You baby oo". Then some random people (two?) use my handle at message boards.

        EDIT: Some jackass at freenode also stole and registered my handle with nickserv. I now fall back to Xaimoatse.
        hooray bsd-tan

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        • Privateer
          FFR Player
          • Sep 2003
          • 2962

          #5
          As long as they are not pretending to be you, it doesn't really matter. No big deal.

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          • Kilgamayan
            Super Scooter Happy
            FFR Simfile Author
            • Feb 2003
            • 6583

            #6
            About two months after creating my first GameFAQs account I found someone else had taken the AIM screenname "Kilgamayan".

            Seriously, what the hell.
            I watched clouds awobbly from the floor o' that kayak. Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds.

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            • djsmalls
              FFR Player
              • Mar 2004
              • 735

              #7
              there are some other djsmalls out there but i dont complain
              none of them attempt to steal my identity (though stealing my name) so it doesnt matter
              u probrably dont have anything to worry about chrissi

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              • User6773

                #8
                There's a Chardish on AIM. I check every couple months to see if the name is dropped. It's not.

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                • Sudden2
                  FFR Player
                  • Mar 2004
                  • 578

                  #9


                  is this what you are talking about? If it is, the account is suspended.

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                  • Kenzya
                    FFR Player
                    • Jan 2004
                    • 3411

                    #10
                    There's a Kenzya on AIM.. and a Kenzya1182 for some reason.. silly people..

                    One Time I Sucked Six in a Row (Locust Toybox Remix)
                    Write to me Stick Stickly p.o. box 963 New York City New York State 10108
                    I'm Still Alive

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                    • Squeek
                      let it snow~
                      • Jan 2004
                      • 14444

                      #11
                      Squeek is taken everywhere. It's VERY annoying.

                      The only solution to remaining exclusive is to get another new name and never use it for anything so nobody can find out about it.

                      ~Squeek

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                      • Chrissi
                        FFR Player
                        • Mar 2004
                        • 3019

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Sudden2
                        http://adriana.dizinc.com/suspended.page/?f=20

                        is this what you are talking about? If it is, the account is suspended.
                        Yes, the account is suspended! As it ought to be, the bastards.

                        Long story. You probably don't want to hear it.
                        C is for Charisma, it's why people think I'm great! I make my friends all laugh and smile and never want to hate!

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                        • Sudden2
                          FFR Player
                          • Mar 2004
                          • 578

                          #13
                          Long story. You probably don't want to hear it.
                          I do

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                          • QreepyBORIS
                            FFR Player
                            • Feb 2003
                            • 7454

                            #14
                            My name hasn't been stolen, as of yet. I think.

                            Signature subject to change.

                            THE ZERRRRRG.

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                            • Kenzya
                              FFR Player
                              • Jan 2004
                              • 3411

                              #15
                              OH HO HO.

                              *cough* *cough* I think QreppyBORIS is taken on a few more forums now

                              One Time I Sucked Six in a Row (Locust Toybox Remix)
                              Write to me Stick Stickly p.o. box 963 New York City New York State 10108
                              I'm Still Alive

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