I was noodling around a couple of weeks ago with epoptai's highly recommended xNN Newest Nodes reader and spotted the creation of three new monks that caught my attention. I left it alone for a while to see what would happen. It turns out nothing did, but nonetheless it's interesting. It also lends credence to a certain degauss's request for an old, unused nick to be recycled.

On the 28th of June, at 00:59, someone registered the nick Dutchmen. So far, nothing out of the ordinary. After twenty minutes or so, I suspect that the same person suddenly realised that he (or she) had registered a nick that is, well, plural. Sort of odd, unless you're sharing a login with a football team or something. So (I assume), the person went and registered the singular version of the name.

But wait! Unfortunately, through a slip of the keyboard, he made a mistake, and registered, no more than twenty three minutes later, the nick Dutchcman! This time he realised the error more quickly, and three minutes later registered the nick Dutchman which we may presume to be the definitive handle for someone, somewhere (probably in the Netherlands).

It turns out that in the intervening period, none of these accounts have made any posted, although Dutchman did come back a day later.

So here's the thing. I think it's a pretty safe bet to say that those first two monks are never going to be active, and the only time anyone is ever going to stumble across them is by visiting random nodes (as I am wont to do at times).

But wait! There's more!

I was noodling around jcwren's crack^Wstats page and saw that the longest nick is 34 characters long. Heh, too bad the account appears dead. Anyway, never one to be outdone, I thought I would pulverise this feeble attempt with something really long. And as I was listening to The Orb at the time, I rushed to register A huge ever growing pulsating brain that rules from the centre of the ultraworld (or the centre of the universe, depending on what remix you are listening to). Weighing in at eighty characters, a single heh from me would fill up the Chatterbox!

Sadly, the monk creation page let me go ahead and register that nick, never telling me that it was going to [gasp] truncate it. So now I am the proud owner of the nick A Huge Ever Growing Pu. Pathetic, isn't it? If I could, I would delete it. Well I don't know, it does make a sort of funny in-joke.

Hence, it would be nice to be able to delete (your own) monk account, especially if you've never posted anything from it.


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In reply to Zombie monks by grinder

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