606:- This reminds me of my own RFCN back in the day, in which someone mistook my username for an abbreviation for some sort of organization. I can see how the confusion could arise, but I don't believe it is to the point that the username is problematic. 331dot's capitalization argument is a non-issue for me, since capitalizing the first letter in each part of a name is standard in English. I also do not believe this username is "official sounding", but maybe it sounds more official outside of American English. -
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Hi, I can assure you that my username has not connection to any orginization. It was just a collection of random words which I selected when making the account (which is mostly college football edits) of course I’d like to keep my account, however, if the name serves any issues, then a block is
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I don’t consider this name to be “official sounding” at all, and see no connection to the North Coast
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