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0 pointsjunon4y ago0 comments

I signed up to GitHub almost 11 years ago, and someone else already registered the username I used for everything. So 11-years-ago-me tacked on a hyphen as I had seen a few other people do it, too.

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KennyBlanken4y ago

> I signed up to GitHub almost 11 years ago, and someone else already registered the username I used for everything. So 11-years-ago-me tacked on a hyphen

"I purposefully chose to create a nearly identical username to an existing user" isn't a great defense to someone saying the problem is between the chair and keyboard.

At best you didn't think of the possible confusion you'd cause.

junonOP4y ago

Both the other account and myself are quite active on GitHub. There has been a mistype maybe 5 times in 11 years.

So sorry, but no. Things have been fine. In places where the hyphen is ambiguous, I always make a point to mention it. It's never really been an issue, and the other individual has always been quite nice when the hyphen is omitted, kindly pinging me instead.

I'm not trying to defend against anything except poor attempts to paint me as somehow malicious...

mmis10004y ago

> "I purposefully chose to create a nearly identical username to an existing user"

Is that even surprising? Some names are just so common that people use them all the time and ends up as John, John_ , John-, John1, John11. John100

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