danimatian
New York City

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Discussion: city AKAs on profile pages  — 9 months ago

This is the 4th time someone has created this in the last few months. It’s never the same person making it.

http://www.43places.com/problems/view/36889

Should we keep merging these?

Can you add the ability to add an AKA Nickname to Home on your profile and have it use that name as where you are from so people can use nicknames and have it linked to the actual place….

A lot of fake places are just made so people can say they are from somewhere on their profile… People in Detroit want it to say Motown or Motor City, people in Chicago use Sweet Home Chicago, people in Philly use City of Brotherly Love, Boston uses Beantown etc etc etc I’ve even seen Home, On The Range and other odd stuff that we’ve since moved to fictitious places

Profiles should be fun and customizable but the site should be smart enough to let you display what you want as your home and link to the real named hometown so people can browse for neighborhoods, etc as normal…

Comments:

DJStroky
Seattle

Awesome idea! I’d like to nickname my hometown: the city of squabbling transportation decision makers

Christopher
Peterborough

Cooool

I want to name mine ‘Hometown brown.’ ‘Stabmonton’ is also popular these days.


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