Wed, 15 Sep 2004

jordi aka Oskuro

For a long time I had been thinking about abandoning my old nick Oskuro and start using something simple like jordi.

I picked up Oskuro 8 years ago, when I got involved in a MUD at University. As I came in just a few days after Josep and Raúl started the project, I was given the chance of participating in the development, so I had to pick a nickname. As I had no experience at all in role-playing, I found it difficult to come up with a cool nickname for my Demi-God character, and at some point someone suggested me "Oskuro", as I was going to play the role of the God with bad alignment. Well, how could I imagine at that time that this nickname would follow me until mid-2004 and that so many people would know me by my nick and not for my real name...

I was directly involved in the MUD development until a bit more than 3 years ago, when I joined Debian and the time I could use for mudding activities quickly vanished. I got in touch with Debian's IRC while I was mudding though, so the nick stuck with me in the Debian world. But hey, it's a stupid nick (translates to dark in English, if you don't mind the spelling mistake), and it doesn't make much sense anymore. Many people think I'm dark-skinned when my skin is pale and my hair slightly blonde... :)

I made this change on my jabber profile months ago, and today I finally changed my nick on OpenProjects and OFTC, not yet on GIMPnet as "jordi" is owned by Jordi Mas in that network. I guess I'll stick to jordim there, which is my *.gnome.org user name. I'll keep using both randomly as a transition, but at some point I'll abandon my old nickname for good. In short, look for me at jordi@OPN/OFTC on IRC!

01:48 | [] | # | (comments: 3)

IMHO, it's not that great idea. Nick is your net personality, and dropping it after 8 years, especially for something as distinctive as "jordi" is, hmm, risky. I don't believe in using your given name as nick in the first place, and transition from something definitly recognizable into generic name doesn't appeal to me at all. And besides, who said nick has to make any sense? ;)

Posted by Mathrick at Wed Sep 15 01:54:27 2004

Funny.  My nick (elanthis) is my old MUD name as well.  Although I don't use elanthis for everything.  My workstation account (and thus e-mail address) are elanthis, and use elanthis on IRC, but I use different names elsewhere.

For example, on AIM and Slashdot, I'm DreadSpoon.  In some other communities, it's Daedron.  (Originally another MUD name, actually, and now my LARP character's name.)

One reason I've stuck with elanthis is that sean is just almost always already taken.  :(

Posted by Sean at Wed Sep 15 03:08:09 2004

Hey Mathrick,

Yeah, that worries me. Even if I'd like to drop Oskuro entirely, I feel like I'm killing or neglecting part of what I've done in the net until now.

I guess I'll try to use jordi, but I can't be entirely sure that I won't think twice and keep Oskuro in the end. I knew these doubts would arise, but it's a matter of time to see what prevails. :)

Sean, the only place where I've used multiple nicknames is in the mudding stuff. For the rest of places I've always used either Jordi Mallach or Oskuro. It probably reduces identification problems quite a bit :)

Posted by Jordi at Wed Sep 15 10:04:19 2004