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BillabobIgnus is not online. BillabobIgnus
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29 Jan 2016 09:10 AM
and you want the username "cats" or something, but it's already been taken so you take cats43674362864

"cats" got that username before anyone else could -- they sniped it. you could argue that every username is a snipe because no two people can have the same name, and i guess that's true. but a username that nobody will ever use like iamcatfart3726831 is NOT a namesnipe. the best namesnipes are those with high demand; snipes like "cool" or john". some snipes are medium-demand, like "excellent" or "fart"

so we can rank namesnipes by how popular they are. usernames like "idonenoscopedmlk" are NOT namesnipes because they have no demand.

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kistvaen is not online. kistvaen
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29 Jan 2016 09:11 AM
pretty sure if it's in the dictionary it qualifies
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BillabobIgnus is not online. BillabobIgnus
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29 Jan 2016 09:12 AM
"pretty sure if it's in the dictionary it qualifies"

i really hate that definition

it just goes against the whole meaning of the word

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Perigone is not online. Perigone
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29 Jan 2016 09:13 AM
2011-2014 it was just names defined by dictionary, common phrases/words/names
like mayonnaise or cancollide

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BillabobIgnus is not online. BillabobIgnus
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29 Jan 2016 09:14 AM
the very word "namesnipe" suggests the whole point is to get a name before anyone else can

not some 0-demand word nobody knows

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kistvaen is not online. kistvaen
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29 Jan 2016 09:14 AM
either way there are less words in the dictionary than there are people in the world

so getting one out of the dictionary with no editing/replacements is a pretty good accomplishment
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BillabobIgnus is not online. BillabobIgnus
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29 Jan 2016 09:15 AM
"so getting one out of the dictionary with no editing/replacements is a pretty good accomplishment"

but it's not

google says there are 1,025,109 words in the english language

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BillabobIgnus is not online. BillabobIgnus
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29 Jan 2016 09:15 AM
"either way there are less words in the dictionary than there are people in the world"

but not everyone in the world plays roblox?

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kistvaen is not online. kistvaen
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29 Jan 2016 09:16 AM
>The Second Edition of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary contains full entries for 171,476 words in current use, and 47,156 obsolete words. To this may be added around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries.
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BillabobIgnus is not online. BillabobIgnus
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29 Jan 2016 09:17 AM
1,025,109.8
The number of words in the English language is: 1,025,109.8. This is the estimate by the Global Language Monitor on January 1, 2014. The English Language passed the Million Word threshold on June 10, 2009 at 10:22 a.m. (GMT). The Millionth Word was the controversial 'Web 2.0′.10 Jun 2009

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Perigone is not online. Perigone
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29 Jan 2016 09:17 AM
if its a namesnipe its a namesnipe
doesnt have to be cool to qualify
theres like a tier system among namesnipes, the boring ones, middle ranks, then the cool ones

a perigone is an inner piece inside of some flowers and is an actual thing with its own definition, its a name snipe though im probably the only person who admires the name

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DaWondersOf is not online. DaWondersOf
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29 Jan 2016 09:18 AM
I don't consider my name a namesnipe, but I still like it. It's unique.
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kistvaen is not online. kistvaen
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29 Jan 2016 09:18 AM
"but not everyone in the world plays roblox?"

not everyone in the world plays roblox but there is definitely more than a couple million players on this website
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BillabobIgnus is not online. BillabobIgnus
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29 Jan 2016 09:19 AM
"not everyone in the world plays roblox but there is definitely more than a couple million players on this website"

about 20 million iirc

which isn't much

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ethanh99 is not online. ethanh99
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29 Jan 2016 09:19 AM
When I make usernames for sites, I usually use 'h99' or 'h85' at the end of my username on purpose

I didn't even bother to check and see if ethanh was taken

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kistvaen is not online. kistvaen
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29 Jan 2016 09:19 AM
>1,025,109.8
The number of words in the English language is: 1,025,109.8. This is the estimate by the Global Language Monitor on January 1, 2014. The English Language passed the Million Word threshold on June 10, 2009 at 10:22 a.m. (GMT). The Millionth Word was the controversial 'Web 2.0′.10 Jun 2009

i'm not talking about how many words are in the english language

i said the dictionary
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BillabobIgnus is not online. BillabobIgnus
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29 Jan 2016 09:20 AM
which dictionary? i could just pull out a piece of paper, write "billabob" on it, and call it a dictionary

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ShaneSchofield is not online. ShaneSchofield
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29 Jan 2016 09:20 AM
i dont really see what the big deal is about it anyway

if you got a cool username, you got a cool username. doesnt need to be "sniped" to be good. if someone made a post on an account made 1 day ago with a pretty in demand name and just said "LOL namesniper xD" then never came online again i wouldnt care at all yet somebody like princessmidna, varple, caketrooper, crazymadwolf, blokstormy101, zakro, prind12, vienna456 qwazolla, mangocelty - i could list them for hours. all arguably very stupid names that make no sense but yet they made them cool by having a good charisma about them. namesnipes are cool but if youre not actually gonna use it as an alias to identify with i dont see the point in fretting about it.
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kistvaen is not online. kistvaen
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29 Jan 2016 09:20 AM
>about 20 million iirc

which isn't much

yet there being roughly near a quarter million words in the dictionary, it isn't enough either
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29 Jan 2016 09:21 AM
"if you got a cool username, you got a cool username. doesnt need to be "sniped" to be good. if someone made a post on an account made 1 day ago with a pretty in demand name and just said "LOL namesniper xD" then never came online again i wouldnt care at all yet somebody like princessmidna, varple, caketrooper, crazymadwolf, blokstormy101, zakro, prind12, vienna456 qwazolla, mangocelty - i could list them for hours. all arguably very stupid names that make no sense but yet they made them cool by having a good charisma about them. namesnipes are cool but if youre not actually gonna use it as an alias to identify with i dont see the point in fretting about it."

more truer words have never been spoken
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BillabobIgnus is not online. BillabobIgnus
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29 Jan 2016 09:21 AM
this isn't about whether or not names are cool

this is about how stupid the current definition of namesnipe is

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kistvaen is not online. kistvaen
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29 Jan 2016 09:21 AM
>which dictionary? i could just pull out a piece of paper, write "billabob" on it, and call it a dictionary


the oxford dictionary is the official english dictionary lol
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BillabobIgnus is not online. BillabobIgnus
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29 Jan 2016 09:22 AM
not every account is going to be a dictionary word, man

most of them will be [word][numbers]

but those are the accounts that make namesnipes worthwhile

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ShaneSchofield is not online. ShaneSchofield
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29 Jan 2016 09:24 AM
but whats the point in getting triggered about how people define namesnipes when for the most part people dont even use said snipes.
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Perigone is not online. Perigone
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29 Jan 2016 09:24 AM
who cares if the definition of namesnipe is stupid its just what it is
just let people be happy about their dictionary names man
its a dumb thing people like to be a little proud about, no harm in it really

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