Tips for the names you choose. *READ THIS UNNAMED GUESTS*

thanks for the tips!

choosing my name was really quite easy, coz i am very like ponder in many ways...

good on ya mate,someone should keep these names relative to this site and pterry's discworld characters

Dont let granny know yo udont think shes not a major part. Witches hold the world together you know. Like glue.

Anyway, If Rincewind had turned left instead of right in hell he might just have bumped into dante. so Nurr.

D.A.

I was just saying some of those in that list were Minor Players. Granny, Moist and William arent Minor Players. Thank you for your comment
Dara

THERE IS NO JUSTICE. THERE IS JUST ME.- Death

Minor character in Fifth Elephant ?

good post.. only criticism is lose the caps... but thats a personal hatred

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No Power In The 'Verse Can Stop Me...

bah, i wanted the luggage first time round but somebody allready nabbed it. by then i'd decided on nelly the marrow, my decision for why being in "nicknames"

ah,nicknames are glorious things,but there's no need to say it twice my dear vegetafriend (see what i did there?)

i don't think that the luggage would have suited your personality though,you're not the most angry person i know,and you're not covered in legs (or is there something you're not telling us?....)

well done, have a gold sticker

*cough* course not, no, never.... ahem, i only wanted the luggage on the basis that it is one of my all time favourite characters from the book

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by the way, i meant to write Nicknames not "nicknames"

ahh,i see now.

I GOT A GOLD STICKER EVERYONE!!

do you have agold sticker?no you don't

I used to, but it got soggy when i was caught in a cloud burst

Thanks for that advice, although I should have read it half an hour ago. Hopefully I've made the right decision by choosing an actual character name instead of an obscure reference, because of course "Sideways" is not just a name, but also a description of that character.

The brilliance of Terry's writing is hundreds (at least one hundred, as a guess) of characters are developed to the point where you can conjure up some information about them in your mind upon hearing their name (if you've read the relevant book that happens to mention that character).

If you give me that gold sticker, ook, I promise not to remove this paper bag from my head. (:

you know what,i'm actually very surprised that no one has used the name BS Johnson,if i thought of that at the time of my naming i would have been building things everywhere,and everywhen,and everyhow,and every...

Please no, it's bad enough as it is

On further reflection, if I had allowed myself longer to think of a name, I would have used Captain Tuber, referring to the Librarian's comments to Captain Carrot when he entered Unseen University using a disguise intended for a potato (I forget which book this is)... but I don't think I'll change my name now.

i ave ressurected this topic from ye old dais so we can get some decent naming going on!!!
But check the forums and lists of users so we dont get the"sam vimes, sam-vimes, sir samuel vimes " thing going on, i searched the lists and theres a user called "hex" who has the druid badge!!!
Whats up with that Lee, am i not the first Hex on the site!!!

(the true) HEX

hmm *looks*...your right

a good way of knowing if the name has been used before is to look at "Top 10 users by points"

Angua (best name/person ever hehe)

yeah, fun. any idea how many thud members there are? i don't, but they are hundreds amd they are all on that list. search function is muuuuch fasr.

in the end of the top 10 users list there's a guy with -2 thudpoints. how is that possible?

erm...i think SA explained it in another topic somewhere...

there must be quite a few thudders!

Angua

Nice use of the word "dais" there Hexon

Heh! Dunno. May be a druid sock puppet long forgotten about

May be the mystery Druid from early Stonehenge return to hack Javascript for us

May be a subroutine from an earlier version of the site that achieved a sympathetic resonance with the upgrade code... kinda like the Oracle

We may never know....

As of this post in time, there are 1340 members onsite and they're joining at the rate of about 2 per day. This is the slowest since the site came here but it is summertime which is a slow time. We expect to hit 2000 early next year.

To clarify the site Admins' stance with regards to the original post: The admins only object, in this case, to someone "passing off" or pretending to be someone who could potentially lose reputation, value or otherwise by the actions of someone else. In this case someone could pass off being Terry Pratchett by using his name and an avatar containing his picture - not all would be fooled but enough that he would have been alerted to the usage and the thudgame franchise could have been endangered.

The threat of legal action is a red herring. However this site is licensed by the holy trinity and is subject to the license being revoked for. amongst other things, misuse of the Discworld franchise or properties by allowing someone to pass off as Terry Pratchett. Not taking action would have been one of the more lax and foolish things the admins could have done. For this reason they insisted (firmly but politely, it must be said) that the gentleman change his username.

As to use of character names, anyone can use any Discworld name as a username as no one can pass off being a fictional character. The exception to this rule is that there are people who have been written about as archetypal persons upon whom characters in the books are based. Others have purchased at auction the right to designate a name and be featured in a book. Cohen the barbarian, SANEAlex and others own rights to their nicknames thus (on this site at least) they are entitled to use them here and others using them must change their name. Otherwise names are fair game.

Finally Dewi is working on a way to make all usernames unique such that there is only one Sam Vimes, only one Granny Weatherwax, etc. This may be done strictly, i.e. without various derivations of the same character, or more loosely where Vimesy and Sam Vimes are both allowed but not commander Vimes as well. This depends upon future developments that may not come about but there are sufficient Discworld characters that all who require one can have a DW name.