Citations:namefag

English citations of namefag

Noun: "(Internet slang, sometimes derogatory) a person who uses a name online (either their real name or a username) as opposed to posting anonymously..." edit

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2008 February 12, Alexia Death, “Re: Article Recommendation for "Anonymous"”, in alt.religion.scientology‎^[1] (Usenet):
Anonymous, Monica is a "namefag", you are hogging her limelight and now she's desperate to get it back... :)
2008 June 27, henri, “Re: Jesus - what is happening at Enturbulation.org”, in alt.religion.scientology‎^[2] (Usenet):
In fact, people who even used a name or tried to maintain any continuity of identity at all were generally mocked as namefags.
2012, Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency, Little, Brown and Company (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
More people were criticizing him on AnonOps and Twitter as a namefag, moralfag, and leaderfag.

Verb: "(Internet slang) to reveal one's identity or have one's identity revealed" edit

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2008 February 20, Anonymous [username], “Re: OPERATION RECONNECT - APRIL”, in alt.religion.scientology‎^[3] (Usenet):
Someone who namefags themself for the attention is derided, someone who namefags themself for the cause (eg: being police contact for their locality, getting permits, etc) is lauded.
2008 March 20, Scientology is a cult [username], “Scientology's second black pr video”, in alt.religion.scientology‎^[4] (Usenet):
If they namefag anyone after this, they'll have so many lawsuits the SeaOrg *will* have to come back to pay off the cult's debts.
2008 August 2, obscene dog [username], “Re: Have You Seen This Letter About Anonymous?”, in alt.religion.scientology‎^[5] (Usenet):
The Cult was handing them out to anyone and everyone they could namefag and, as usual, it came back to bite them in the ass.
2008 September 25, Ackerland [username], “Re: Garry Scarff aka Happy Smurf; still spying after all these years?”, in alt.religion.scientology‎^[6] (Usenet):
Maybe some anons not careful enough get namefagged.
2009 January 18, Beth, “Re: protesters assaulted in Clearwater; apparently by a retard”, in alt.religion.scientology‎^[7] (Usenet):
According to posts on WWP, the Anon who was struck did not want to have to namefag himself, which would have been necessary to press charges.
2009 January 24, banchukita [username], “Man arrested for wearing Batman mask in Ybor City, Florida”, in alt.religion.scientology‎^[8] (Usenet):
The kid wearing the mask had been asked repeatedly to take it off; if he didn't have a problem with being namefagged by a bunch of cultists out to find his crimes, he should have taken off the dang mask for the officer.
2010 November 28, Kat, “Re: The OSA (web handling squad) is usually one person”, in alt.religion.scientology‎^[9] (Usenet):
Simple answer, I am not OSA. You cannot prove that I am OSA. Were you to namefag me, you would prove me right and so you just sit there accusing and never providing evidence for your accusation..