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English
Etymology
From name + -fag.
Noun
namefag (plural namefags)
- (Internet slang, sometimes 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.
2008 February 12, Alexia Death, “Re: Article Recommendation for "Anonymous"”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):Anonymous, Monica is a "namefag", you are hogging her limelight and now she's desperate to get it back... :)
2008 June 27, henri, “Re: Jesus - what is happening at Enturbulation.org”, 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.
2012, Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:More people were criticizing him on AnonOps and Twitter as a namefag, moralfag, and leaderfag.
Verb
namefag (third-person singular simple present namefags, present participle namefagging, simple past and past participle namefagged)
- (Internet slang) To reveal one's identity or have one's identity revealed.
2008 February 20, Anonymous , “Re: OPERATION RECONNECT - APRIL”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):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 September 25, Ackerland , “Re: Garry Scarff aka Happy Smurf; still spying after all these years?”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):Maybe some anons not careful enough get namefagged.
2009 January 18, Beth, “Re: protesters assaulted in Clearwater; apparently by a retard”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):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.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:namefag.
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