Someone has taken my username.

[paxillin]

Well, not quite. They are paxilllin (three L) and I am paxillin (two L). I get confused enough as it is without seeing myself double. Are there any rules about that?

Will report the triple-L post, thanks.

Good to know. I imagine it usually happens by accident. Lots of people like Eastenders and pick a username from there for instance.

I doubt triple L paxillin was accidental though. How many people are really interested in focal adhesion proteins and can't spell them?

There are some weird people about. I used to post on a particular dog breed rescue forum as we had a dog from the organisation. They had a weekly chat room and someone logged in with a very similar name to me posting vile stuff whilst dropping in snippets of information I'd put on the forum to make people think it was me. I name change all the time for that reason.

I think it's deliberate sometimes.

I was once one of many cheese names. Others were cheeses but one was very very similar. I went off cheese.

There is more than one dragon, too. Honeydragon and Soupdragon for instance a little more different from each other than paxillin and paxilllin though.

Yes there was a period of shit stirring a couple of years ago by people stealing regulars’ usernames.

I meant really similar like adding a letter. Cheesesarnie/ cheessesarnie. So it wouldn’t show as username taken when they registered but would be confusing.
Lots of similar ones (as you say dragons, cheeses etc).

Someone on here has a user name which is the same as my very unusual RL name. It gives me heebiegeebies to see people talking to her.

I'm not called honeydragon, just in case you are wondering...

I have no doubt it's deliberate in this case - do report

Hallo Pax,

Sorry for the delay!

We did have a spate at one point - we've not had this problem for a while though. It doesn't look the poster will be back, but we've zapped the post now and if you've any other problems at all, please do let us know

Have you banned the 'fake pax' Sophie?

They actually de-registered before we could hit the ban button, PanPanPanPing

That must be very weird, pickle!
(Hope it's not me!)

Oh - definitely deliberate on their part then

It's a bit annoying isn't it. I thought my username was unique but someone's nabbed it now!

What do you mean, scurry? With a spurious spelling?

Btw, I use your name all the time... at home, in rl, when we're having a bit of a quick blitz before MIL arrives

There's just another word in front of it so I can't really complain.

Thank you, @SophieLMumsnet.