Did I already do an entry along these lines? I know there was a spurt of them revolving around avatars just awhile back, but I don't think I wrote my own. If I did... Write it up to my standard answer of me not being able to be expected to remember all my hundred odd entries
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I am very bad with names.

Really really bad.

No. You're still not understanding. Really bad. I can know someone for 4 years and suddenly forget their name entirely.

That's why I need all the help I can get when it comes to browsing comments or message boards quite often. Thankfully, you (as a hyperspace member) have 3 full methods to define yourself here.

The avatar is generally held to be the most important. I'll agree with that... It separates the paid from the unpaid. Thus those that have something to lose from punishment from those that don't. Thus those that felt it worth their money to join the fan club from those that don't. In a nutshell: If you have an avatar then you're either on a free trial (which will only last 7 days or so)... Or you're guaranteed to have somewhat decent behavior 'round these parts.

This image (thanks Luuke )is still largely accurate. Victomte IS General Solo. K-F IS Ben Kenobi. Rex IS uh... Snaggletooth And I hope for many of you I AM Darth Revan.
And Stooge still gives me an urge to watch muppet movies.
Blasted Darth Vader needs nothing for remembrance. Oh well. At least an active user is Darth Vader

Basically, if you keep the same avatar for more than a month or two (and you blog frequently or comment frequently on my entries) myself and others will probably start to identify that avatar image with you. There are other related phenomena such as the whole "People read your entries/comments as if you are your avatar", but that topic has been done to death. It does make me want to change my avatar to R2 for awhile though.
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We haven't really talked about usernames much... The title implies that, besides being a geektacular number, I really dislike usernames with numbers in them. Your odds of me remember who you are and making direct associations with past comments/blogs you've made lowers by about 70% if you have a number in your name. If it's a geektacular number like 1138 or 421 it might just lower by 30%...

I could go on and on about this... But is there really a point? You're stuck with your username... Sorry. So if you have numbers in your name you might want to be consistent with your Avatar or you'd better have some excellent blog entries being written if you want to be remembered by people like me and become one of the faceless clones in the blog image up top, instead of a vibrant, personified, and identifiable figure like Steve Sansweet in the middle there
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Lastly I want to touch (briefly) on blog names. If you have your username in it (and it isn't a username with numbers in it) then you have a reinforced connection. Unique titles help too. "The Jedi Archives" doesn't exactly look memorable amongst all the other names.
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Above all though. Try to be unique. Have a unique writing style (Stooge is most memorable in this regard I suppose). A unique percpective (Darth Plagueis was R2-D2!). Or a pointless gimmick. (Look at the pretty divider lines all over this page!).

And perhaps most importantly of all...

An entry this dull and preachy is likely to lower your reader count by 85%
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