Hi All
Received my new Username(James Jay) today, (Thanks Bill McIntyre for the overt idea.)and thanks everyone for all the help with the Freediving/Spearfishing on these forums. Good Bye Poly"wog":rcard
Wow, maybe we can start a trend!
I make myself obnoxious on several boards by suggesting that people either use a real name as a user name, or include the real name in a sig line.
Of course I have made little progress, but its good to see one convert to the cause.
I feel that I am much more part of a community when people don't hide behind a cloak of anonymity.
But on a more practical level, its pure hell when a group of people finally meet each other at a gathering, and everyone has to say "I'm Joe Doaks, but my user name is snake eel." Its hard enough for me to connect one name to a face, let alone two.
Admittedly, this is not going to be as much of a problem with this international group. But just recently I attended the weigh-in of a spearfishing competition hosted by a Southern California club, and many divers who post in the California forum of Spearboard were there. We had to go through this song and dance with two names when introducing ourselves to each other.
Of course I just had to say "I'm Bill McIntyre."
OK, end of sermon. I just had to get it off my chest.