AO3 usernames
Dec. 18th, 2009 01:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingI got my invitation to the Archive Of Our Own (AO3) as part of this year's Yuletide, since the Yuletide archive is moving to the AO3.
I had to* sign up as 'edenfalling' instead of 'Elizabeth Culmer,' because the AO3 does not allow spaces in usernames. I realize this is a very petty thing to be annoyed about, but still.
I have been Elizabeth Culmer for all my fannish internet life -- going on eight years now.
Elizabeth Culmer was my pen name for years before that, too, back to when I was ten and decided that since Vicky and I were the last descendants of two family branches, I would continue my paternal family name by having kids or something, and continue my maternal family name by becoming a famous writer. (Clearly neither of those plans survived adolescence. Also, I have a Culmer cousin now, so I figure I am off the hook for at least one family.)
Elizabeth and Culmer, as you may have inferred from the previous paragraph, are actually my two middle names -- they are half of my legal identity.
I resent the hell out of a self-proclaimed fannish-friendly archive that will not let me create an account under my own name.
Yes, yes, there is the pseudonym function, which I immediately used to create an 'Elizabeth Culmer' pseud and mark it as my default author name, but still. I expect this kind of runaround from other sites. A site that advertises itself as run by fans for fans and so on and so forth, should at the very least let us sign up under whatever names we want.
(Do not tell me any coding reasons that spaces are troublesome. Goddamn fanfiction.net allows spaces in usernames. Surely the AO3 is not about to say that the Pit of Voles has better code than they do!)
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I suspect I am getting more annoyed over trivialities right now than I normally would. Probably it is a displacement mechanism of some sort.
That does not change the fact that this 'no spaces in the username' stuff is bullshit.
*I say "had to" not in the sense that anyone held a gun to my head and said that I couldn't sign up as, say, 'ElizabethCulmer' with no space, or 'Elizabeth_Culmer' with an underscore, but I made the mistake of doing one of those over at Twisting the Hellmouth a few years ago, and the other at some other site, and I never, ever, remember the variations. It is easier to just use 'edenfalling,' which I am at least used to typing a lot!
I had to* sign up as 'edenfalling' instead of 'Elizabeth Culmer,' because the AO3 does not allow spaces in usernames. I realize this is a very petty thing to be annoyed about, but still.
I have been Elizabeth Culmer for all my fannish internet life -- going on eight years now.
Elizabeth Culmer was my pen name for years before that, too, back to when I was ten and decided that since Vicky and I were the last descendants of two family branches, I would continue my paternal family name by having kids or something, and continue my maternal family name by becoming a famous writer. (Clearly neither of those plans survived adolescence. Also, I have a Culmer cousin now, so I figure I am off the hook for at least one family.)
Elizabeth and Culmer, as you may have inferred from the previous paragraph, are actually my two middle names -- they are half of my legal identity.
I resent the hell out of a self-proclaimed fannish-friendly archive that will not let me create an account under my own name.
Yes, yes, there is the pseudonym function, which I immediately used to create an 'Elizabeth Culmer' pseud and mark it as my default author name, but still. I expect this kind of runaround from other sites. A site that advertises itself as run by fans for fans and so on and so forth, should at the very least let us sign up under whatever names we want.
(Do not tell me any coding reasons that spaces are troublesome. Goddamn fanfiction.net allows spaces in usernames. Surely the AO3 is not about to say that the Pit of Voles has better code than they do!)
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I suspect I am getting more annoyed over trivialities right now than I normally would. Probably it is a displacement mechanism of some sort.
That does not change the fact that this 'no spaces in the username' stuff is bullshit.
*I say "had to" not in the sense that anyone held a gun to my head and said that I couldn't sign up as, say, 'ElizabethCulmer' with no space, or 'Elizabeth_Culmer' with an underscore, but I made the mistake of doing one of those over at Twisting the Hellmouth a few years ago, and the other at some other site, and I never, ever, remember the variations. It is easier to just use 'edenfalling,' which I am at least used to typing a lot!
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Date: 2009-12-18 11:20 pm (UTC)