What's in a name?

[Blushing Bottom]

Top?

Me?

Surley you gest?

Silly me. I never once thought Blushing Bottom was a top.

 

[RawHumor]

Top?

Me?

Surley you gest?

But you capitalize your name, silly.

Therefore you simply must be a top.

 

[Blushing Bottom]

OK...

I've been trained to never, never, never argue.

But you capitalize your name, silly.

Therefore you simply must be a top.

 

[Ebonyfire]

Hi,

I just got a message from someone over at the CM, who were saying




My nickname is SexyCazzy on CM - well... the sexy part is not really important but the Cazzy part is important as it is the half of my nickname for my real name - I use Caz a lot on the Internet but decided to add on the other letters zy at the end of Cazzy for my personal reasons.

Anyway, my question is, is it really important to have your nick/username/screenname in upper case to show that you are a submissive, and Caps to show that you are a Dominator?

From my POV, I feel the screenname is not important, its the person behind the name which is important. A screenname is just a name.

Any thoughts?

Ignore them.

 

[myinnerslut]

there are only two instances when i capitalize things

1. when i capitalize the ENTIRE word for emphasis

2. when i type out A's initial or his name

 

[callinectes]

Mine is lower case simply because that's how I use it in non-kinky writing. I'm also lazy..my usernames on other sites (as mundane as gardening and cooking!) are also lowercase. I'm certainly not flagging as a sub on Gardenweb. LOL

Those naming conventions and other silly rules for written communication get on my nerves. I also find them to be presumptious.

 

[denalirayne]

Sorry about your penis

If a Top doesn't know his/her place in this world without capital letters identifying his/her role significance, then I say simply, "Sorry about your penis (or vulva, whatever)" and move on.

I (female) am a complete & total sub to my wife (also a female) and yet neither of us feel the need to associate roles, titles, labels, or any such public identifiers to our relationship. It is ours to create as we see fit.

I often send out complete emails in lower case letters. This has less to do with my submissive nature and more to do with my lazy one (hey, the extra 3 seconds it takes me to press the 'shift' key adds up over time!).

My screen name shows as denalirayne but for my lit submissions I use Denali Rayne. It's all the same - - it's just me.

 

[sexycaz22]

Wow, I only went away for one night and already so many posts coming in!

I just wanted to say many thanks for all your insights into this issue.

As for this person who sent me a message, I never bothered to reply but perhaps I should, just for the laugh of it???

It's just that this person who sent me a message, I felt he was very rude, to tell me what to do with my names, without saying hello or anything like. What I have shown you was a simply a snip from the whole message but perhaps I should show you the whole message (if I still have it in the inbox!!) as the rest of the message looks like a Mr Know It All...........

However, I do respect other people and how they use their names in captials or lower case, or whatever, AND I would write whatever my Dom would say (ever if he does appear...eventually!)


Anyway..........

So thank you all for your posts!

*hugz* &

Caz

 

[Ebonyfire]

People, do what you want. Adults can do that, lol.

I capitalize my name, unless I choose not to. See none of my submissives would question how I capitalize or spell or anything else I do.

If other people do not like what I do, too damn bad. Get a grip and move on with your life.

 

[AndrewKay]

capitalization

All you bitches and germs are lower case to me: each and every one of you.

Just kidding. Hope I didn't seriously offend anyone with my crude humor. I coincidentally capped my name when I registered, but sometimes I don't-- sometimes I just don't feel like it. It only happens in informal postings or letters when I am lazy. In any formal situation I always cap any name. The capping thing is not something someone should be anal about, pointing out to others. Partners do it if they want to, or don't if they don't want to-- there is no such thing as a hard rule except for one absolutely essential one:

All you turds will lower cap your entire introductions to me, except if using Sir, or my Name!

 

[AndrewKay]

Hey

To be fair, it seems like that sub that messaged you just wanted to give you advice on common conventions that some people decide to follow. Perhaps he simply forgot to introduce himself prior to giving unrequested advice, but the intentions probably weren't bad.


I have one other rule to add: MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW

 

[A Desert Rose]

People, do what you want. Adults can do that, lol.

I capitalize my name, unless I choose not to. See none of my submissives would question how I capitalize or spell or anything else I do.

If other people do not like what I do, too damn bad. Get a grip and move on with your life.

I capitalized my name because I liked how it looked and it's a song title... like anyone gives a shit, anyway.

Let's see a show of hands... how many of you lost sleep over my name and how I typed it? How many have lost sleep over this OP and how she types her screen-name?

That's what I thought.

I capitalize names of Dom/mes who I respect: Eb, SD, Master Gil, etc. It's simply a display of my respect for them. On the other hand, I capitalize other people's names who are not Dom/mes, if that's how their name is presented above that little picture on the left hand side.

That last sentence of Eb's kinda answers the entire thread, as far as I'm concerened. But she has a wonderful real way of crystalizing things into one neat little sentence. ;-D

 

[FurryFury]

What can I say? I believe in using most of the rules as far as my ability and spell checker will allow, that I learned in school. That means capitalizing names.

That whole W/we crap is hard to read. Anything hard to read, including certain fonts and colors tends to get a big thumbs down from me.

When I see someone type stuff like this: "y do u want that?" I just want to slap the shit out of them. I don't say anything but I'm thinking it.

When I see people doing huge blocks of text I'm liable not to read it at all. If I do I put in in paragraphs for easier readability.

If someone thinks that capitalization denotes anything of a Dom or sub nature, fine, but how dare they be RUDE enough to try to straighten other people out who have not solicited their advice?

*Thinks of horrible things to do to those people. Smiles.*

 

[AndrewKay]

haallo

but y U wanna go and do that for and be nasty and do a slap, cuz that ain't even cool unlzz itz lyke warnted or w/e i mean doesnt evry1 tlk lyke this? i think its cool and notlike saying that cuz i like getiing slapped like I'm not a switch..no totaally no like pure DOM right here 100% ..so don't even..you know so the slappin lyke you pimpin, iono bout that noahmean?

< meow meow m30w m3330111 mEoW Mi()h |\/|3()\/\/)

 

[Femme_Noir]

I just used caps because it looks better

 

[liberatedslave]

As for this person who sent me a message, I never bothered to reply but perhaps I should, just for the laugh of it???

Easy, send him the hyperlink for this thread.

 

[Softouch911]

Hi,

I just got a message from someone over at the CM, who were saying




My nickname is SexyCazzy on CM - well... the sexy part is not really important but the Cazzy part is important as it is the half of my nickname for my real name - I use Caz a lot on the Internet but decided to add on the other letters zy at the end of Cazzy for my personal reasons.

Anyway, my question is, is it really important to have your nick/username/screenname in upper case to show that you are a submissive, and Caps to show that you are a Dominator?

From my POV, I feel the screenname is not important, its the person behind the name which is important. A screenname is just a name.

Any thoughts?

Dear CM poster & Protocol Guru --

It is also general practice that you pull your head out of your ass so you have a frigging clue. You bother me, Son. Go play outside in traffic.

Sincerely,
the world.

 

[lk70]

You bother me, Son.

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