Either way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb5moqslJM4

That's up to the people that run this site to decide about that.

You have way too much time on your hands if you're obsessing over details like this

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Luck won't do it and ignorance can't

George Van Eps.

Hmm, I'm not sure I agree. I joined the forum in December 2007 (before I even owned a guitar!), but I didn't write my first post until June 2008. Newbies may sometimes need some time to work up the courage. And just remember: for every lurker member, there are many more who have never even created an account.

So I say: let 'em lurk!

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I really like all them "Aster" guitars. You know, like the Stratoc, Telec and Jazzm.

I registered and didn't post for a long time. Felt intimidated by so many knowledgeable folks that I was afraid of exposing myself to ridicule! I got over that...

So I think culling the heard may be better left if the Forum suffers from a technical load issue and not for grabbing a better name.

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-T

"You can't spend what you ain't got, you can't lose what you ain't never had" ~ McKinley Morganfield

Mostly I brought this up because I found it to be fascinating. I didn't realise some people were going to react to it. As far as my suggestion to delete them, well it just seems silly to have half a million users who aren't. That's all. They can stay or go. Whatever. Truth is, you don't need a membership to lurk. You only need a membership to post. Just sayin'.

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

Like I said. I think you'll find the vast majority are here because this site is tied to the functionality that manages contest entries. Likely people who are "friends" on facebook with one of Fender's pages. Click a link. Sign up for a profile to enter to win. Then never even bother with the forum at all. I think Fender finds it more beneficial to manage one database and software that includes both their contest entries and their online forum and community and have a mess of inactive users in that community. Then to try to maintain databases and software for each. JMO, of course.

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2012 Fender Custom Shop 55 Precision Bass
2012 Fender American Vintage 57 Precision Bass RI
2014 Fender Super Bassman and Bassman 100T/410 Neo

Ok Ok Ok 554 of them are me, what can I say? none of them had that ring to em ya know, I'll bet Clapton, Townsend, Beck & Marvin are among those lurkers eh, furgooness sake we aint gonna bite

Well ... something tells me this one can and should be deleted.

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

Is THAT the username you wanted?

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-T

"You can't spend what you ain't got, you can't lose what you ain't never had" ~ McKinley Morganfield

No.
I got the name I wanted on my first try, thanks.

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

Maybe they are all usernames reserved in advance by trolls...

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http://www.reverbnation.com/casanovafrankensteinandthevoodoomachine
https://www.facebook.com/CFandtheVM

2012 Fender Custom Shop 55 Precision Bass
2012 Fender American Vintage 57 Precision Bass RI
2014 Fender Super Bassman and Bassman 100T/410 Neo

What? All the good names are taken?
Bummer.

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FIGHT!

i started using lameandcliche a few years ago on all kinds of things online because i felt like every lame and cliche thing under the sun was already taken. so, i'll own lameandcliche.

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~Dan

I myself am probably resonsible for 4 or 5 of those user accounts. I first registered under a different user name back in '07 but since then have gone through 5 different computers, 1 laptop and 4 home builds. Needless to say I lost and forgot a lot of passwords and email addies when switching over computers....so I hereby appologize for any emotional distress I have caused

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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancin'