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Re:Ask Dang: What tools do you use for moderating HN? by tjr on Friday February 24, 2023 @12:13AM (#34921068)
Not necessarily wrong though!

https://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-1.5.0.dos.txt

Login names are often used as nicknames, pronounce[d] if possible and spelled if necessary. My wife and I met at MIT, and she still calls me "Gliss", because my login name was GLS. "Guy" sounds very weird to her.

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Re:Ask Dang: What tools do you use for moderating HN? by benatkin on Friday February 24, 2023 @03:14AM (#34922206)
Some are more than just logins or nicknames, they're handles. I will never use substack.com* after they stole substack's handle.

* as a publisher or a subscriber, and to some extent even as a reader

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Re:Ask Dang: What tools do you use for moderating HN? by Zecc on Friday February 24, 2023 @03:32AM (#34922302)
My thoughts go to the person in my college whose login, based on their initials, was `acne`.
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