Throwing a question out there.

[maboo]

Generally speaking, do you prefer an user-name on a blog or journal to have an underscore, or a hyphen, or do you prefer it to be one word?

For_example, for-example, or forexample?

I prefer forexample myself - people always confuse the underscore and the hyphen.

Comments

[gonzo21]

Doesn't honestly bother me either way.

What does frazzle my noggin sometimes is getting peoples LJ usernames mixed up with their real names.

[ellixis]

One word, if at all possible.

[quoting_mungo]

Depends. For anything other than my main nickname (which is supposed to be "quoting_mungo", all-lowercase with an underscore), I tend to strive for names that don't need me to make that decision. If I can't have that, it depends on the username.

When I made stickseed_doom I wanted stickseed but it was taken, and since the word "stickseed" ends with a D tacking "doom" onto it without an underscore would've looked very weird to me.

I think I lean weakly towards using underscore, but, well... I prefer not having to make the choice.

-Alexandra