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名詞

namefag (複数形 namefags)

1. (インターネット・スラング, sometimes pejorative) A person who uses a name online (either their real name または 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^[1]:

     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^[2]:

     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 (2012), ISBN 9780316213530, unnumbered page:

     More people were criticizing him on AnonOps and Twitter as a namefag, moralfag, and leaderfag.

動詞

namefag (三人称単数 現在形 namefags, 現在分詞 namefagging, 過去形および過去分詞形 namefagged)

1. (インターネット・スラング) To reveal one's identity or have one's identity revealed.
   • 2008 February 20, Anonymous [username], “Re: OPERATION RECONNECT - APRIL”, in alt.religion.scientology, Usenet^[3]:

     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 [username], “Re: Garry Scarff aka Happy Smurf; still spying after all these years?”, in alt.religion.scientology, Usenet^[4]:

     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^[5]:

     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 examples of usage of this term, see Citations:namefag.

アナグラム

• fangame, megafan