Why did you give up a name you wanted to keep?
I didn't, I left becasue of financial/marital reasons with the understanding with Syko that yes, I would be returning to the game and reassuming command of my squad when I was able to play again. While I was gone Syko started in on his Mr. President campaign and telling everybody I never started the POTW in the first place and that he had run the squad for nine years. When I got back, I assumed command with a few bumps of course, that is until I confronted Syko on his crap, next thing I know, all my posts are deleted off the POTW site, Syko starts hiding from me and I start hearing rumors about all the terrible things I was going to do if I was command again.
I didn't give the name up shuffler, I foolishly trusted my ten year XO with it while I was gone. If you had to quit the game because of some bad circumstances, and came back to find that your friend was now claiming to be shuffler, that would be pretty crappy, if he was claiming to have been shuffler for the last nine years and that you were never shuffler to begin with and squelching you or hiding from you in game when you tried to confront them, that would be pretty nasty stuff. Now imagine if the doppleganger shuffler ran 'therealshuffler.com' and deleted all your posts and started posting a bunch of anti-shuffler crap on there...
Yeah, you could call yourself shuffler2 and just go on with it, but when you've been shuffler for nearly a decade, it's not something the other guy is going to just get away with because everybody knows better. If it is indeed 'just a name', then why not come up with their own and get off of my porch?
-Twitchy
