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namefag

noun, verb — 2 senses

namefag

noun

Etymology From name + -fag.

1

Internet, Derogatory A person who uses a name online (either their real name or a username) as opposed to posting anonymously, especially on the 4chan community.

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

namefag

verb

Etymology From name + -fag.

1

Internet, Derogatory To reveal one's identity or have one's identity revealed.

  • 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 February 20, Anonymous [username], “Re: OPERATION RECONNECT - APRIL”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
  • Maybe some anons not careful enough get namefagged.2008 September 25, Ackerland [username], “Re: Garry Scarff aka Happy Smurf; still spying after all these years?”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
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  • 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 18, Beth, “Re: protesters assaulted in Clearwater; apparently by a retard”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.