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Your username can say a lot about you. It can represent what you are, what you do, or what you hope to achieve. Maybe it's just a old gamer tag, or a name you use on practically every website it's available, it's still special to you in a way, unique to you. While not every username embodies "you" so-to-speak I like to believe that every username at least represents an "action" or "intention" at least, if not the former reasons also. For example, even if someone carelessly created an account for the sole sake of trolling the forums, not nessacarily giving much thought if the account were to be banned, odds are, they would base the account's username around the lines of "joker240" or "troll4fun". Not all that many people would create a username like "ArtsyPainter" and only write stories, ones not even involving art as a topic.
This applies to most people, but easily not all. I myself am part of the percentage that based their username on what they do. My username is "Journal" as I primarily do nothing on PMC but write blogs. Just because you pick a particular username however, certainly does not mean you must keep your projects and creations themed with your username. It does on the other hand put forth an effort to contributing to some degree of sucess. Statistics have proved that having a username or alias that includes words based around the work you do (In this case on , Blogs, Skinning, Texture Packs, etc..) will draw in more people that like that type of "work" to your project.
In other words, if you were to have a name like "Writer103" and wrote stories, articles, just about any kind of writing form, people who prefer writing will be drawn in, and most likely praise your work more than if they weren't interested in the topic, as those person(s) have a kind of "passion" so-to-speak in that general art form. This opposed to someone named something along the lines of "SkinnerPro"who actually made texture packs, would mislead a person who was initially looking for skins, lessening your chances of apparaisal from that person. That is of course just in play to someone who is not currently aware of that particular user who made the project in question. If one were to be recognized beforehand, than this is void in functionality.
As I said before though, your username does not have to distinguish at all what kind of work you represent, and there is more people who have un-related usernames who are more popular than those who base their username of their field of work. When it comes down to it, overall, it's the quality and presintation of your project than your username, easily. However it may help contribute to attract people who enjoy that certain type of art, normally at a lower level but true still. I personally can say this is true; for me at least, this of course is but an observation.
This all of course is soley about your username dictating what you do as a user, and this should not always be so. For one's chosen screen name on a website, that name should at least in someway stand-out, and represent something about yourself. Now, while I'm not suggesting that you fill your character quota for your username box chalk-full of your intrests or hobbies, but that you give it a sense of originality.
To summarize what I'm trying to say; don't follow the bandwagon, or be all that "mainstream". Instead of "Minecrafter9001" use something more like "EliteCarpenter". It still shows the same traditional feel of the former name, but adds a little personal flare to just what kind of thing you do to that specific field.
Maybe your username tells more about you than you first thought before, eh?
Anyhow, thanks for reading, hope you somewhat enjoyed this fairly redundant blog, and see ya guys soon enough. if i don't die anyway
This applies to most people, but easily not all. I myself am part of the percentage that based their username on what they do. My username is "Journal" as I primarily do nothing on PMC but write blogs. Just because you pick a particular username however, certainly does not mean you must keep your projects and creations themed with your username. It does on the other hand put forth an effort to contributing to some degree of sucess. Statistics have proved that having a username or alias that includes words based around the work you do (In this case on , Blogs, Skinning, Texture Packs, etc..) will draw in more people that like that type of "work" to your project.
In other words, if you were to have a name like "Writer103" and wrote stories, articles, just about any kind of writing form, people who prefer writing will be drawn in, and most likely praise your work more than if they weren't interested in the topic, as those person(s) have a kind of "passion" so-to-speak in that general art form. This opposed to someone named something along the lines of "SkinnerPro"who actually made texture packs, would mislead a person who was initially looking for skins, lessening your chances of apparaisal from that person. That is of course just in play to someone who is not currently aware of that particular user who made the project in question. If one were to be recognized beforehand, than this is void in functionality.
As I said before though, your username does not have to distinguish at all what kind of work you represent, and there is more people who have un-related usernames who are more popular than those who base their username of their field of work. When it comes down to it, overall, it's the quality and presintation of your project than your username, easily. However it may help contribute to attract people who enjoy that certain type of art, normally at a lower level but true still. I personally can say this is true; for me at least, this of course is but an observation.
This all of course is soley about your username dictating what you do as a user, and this should not always be so. For one's chosen screen name on a website, that name should at least in someway stand-out, and represent something about yourself. Now, while I'm not suggesting that you fill your character quota for your username box chalk-full of your intrests or hobbies, but that you give it a sense of originality.
To summarize what I'm trying to say; don't follow the bandwagon, or be all that "mainstream". Instead of "Minecrafter9001" use something more like "EliteCarpenter". It still shows the same traditional feel of the former name, but adds a little personal flare to just what kind of thing you do to that specific field.
Maybe your username tells more about you than you first thought before, eh?
Anyhow, thanks for reading, hope you somewhat enjoyed this fairly redundant blog, and see ya guys soon enough. if i don't die anyway
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Around the same time I started playing Minecraft, I was introduced to one of my favorite shows: Star Trek: The Orginal Series. I had to call myself something, but I wanted to incorparate my new show into it. I knew about a Star Trek joke about these people called Redshirts. They were the most expendable and technically inclined of the crew, and always went on the most dangerous missions, and almost always died in the process. So I combined the two, and made RedshirtMiner. And that was just the beginning...
"Soliuxander," on the other hand, indicates that I reside in a garbage bin filled with grey body paint and candy corn
When I tried that for Minecraft, it was taken, so I was so excited about getting my first game for PC/Mac instead of on a mobile device, I chose pcm244 xD
I am still ashamed of how stupid of an username I have but I love it.
"Ummm... fk, nu idea."
"JustShelly? .-."
At one point it was also "AerodynamicNekoDono".