LiveJournal users' usernames are too similar

[pne]

In this thread, sati answered subbes.

And I thought it was satiredichotomy, who used to go by "satiredichotomy", which was often abbreviated to "sati" (e.g. on IRC) and wondered how she knew subbes.

Make people choose more distinctive usernames!

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[timwi.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think liliaceous and sati are pretty distinctive ;-)

[pne.livejournal.com]

If you see them next to one another, sure... but for sati, my first association was Lily.

Just like if I see exor674, my mind goes "And Nall". So if someone else went by andnall, I might get confused. Or if cassia appeared on my friends list. Or something like that.

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[n-true.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of our constant Verwechsling of goodboi, ugly_boy and blueboy quite a while ago, remember? :)
I just see, the latter one has deleted his journal. Interesting.

[pne.livejournal.com]

I don't remember blueboy, but I did get the other two confused quite a bit (and still do if I'm not concentrating).

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[timwi.livejournal.com]

I never mixed up blueboy. ;-)