Someone has stolen my name.

[Chrissi]

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.

[lightdarkness]

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

[Chrissi]

But lightdarkness is actually made up of WORDS! Rediahs is.. random stuff... :\

[Xaimus]

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. :(

[Privateer]

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

[Kilgamayan]

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

Seriously, what the hell.

[djsmalls]

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

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

[Sudden2]

http://adriana.dizinc.com/suspended.page/?f=20

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

[Kenzya]

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

[Squeek]

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

[Chrissi]

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.

[Sudden2]

Long story. You probably don't want to hear it.

I do

[QreepyBORIS]

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

[Kenzya]

OH HO HO.

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

[fusi0n]

Get over it.

[ThEclipse]

Eclipse is obviously very popular and taken everywhere(even here). But I forgot my password on the other account here(Eclipse) so I had to make a new one.

[jazzmosis]

There's a posse of Jazzmosis' online - all posing me.

[Chrissi]

Okay guys, stop mocking me. The name "Rediahs" is nothing like Jazzmosis or fusi0n or anything. The only way he would have that name, short of a 8 billion to 1 co-incidence, is if he saw me using it and decided he wanted it.

THAT is what bothers me. If it were a name like "beegurl" I wouldn't be all "OMG STEALING MY NAME" but fuck, it's Rediahs. What does Rediahs sound like? Nothing. It's random stuff.

And the long story behind Diagon Alley is...

On deviantART, emoticons on the site are donated to the community by pixel/emoticon artists. However, they are not for use outside of the site. It says that right on the emoticon sheet. Also, all of them are original to the authors. They are NOT supposed to be widespread. The emoticons were made for deviantART.

Get it? Okay. Good. And this was the thing that the people at Diagon Alley did NOT understand. They were using emoticons from deviantART, and when asked to remove the offending emoticons, they refused unless they got a direct message from each of the artists who created them.

Of course that's ridiculous because it says right on the deviantART sheet that they are copyright their respective artists, and are not to be used anywhere else. So a couple of artists were notified and complained on the site, and THEIR emoticons were taken down from it, pleasing the certain artists. However no general action was taken to ensure emoticons weren't stolen from deviantART anymore. There were still plenty of ripped emotes.

I'm so glad to see their account suspended. Maybe deviantART took action! That would be excellent! Hooray. I hate art thieves, especially art thieves who consider emoticons not to be art.

[Jordy0823]

I see people names Moogy/Moogle alot