Action in search of a verb

[jducoeur]

Okay, I'm coming up blank on this greyly unimaginative afternoon, so here's a challenge: provide an appropriate verb for the activity of trying to figure out who an LJ poster is from examining their journal and user info.

(Having just done this for ricevermicelli, which wasn't nearly as hard as usual, it occurs to me that I spend a good deal of time in this activity...)

Comments

[its-just-me.livejournal.com]

Blog-Stalking? Blogstigating? Livejournalizing.....ummm.....dunno

BlogScoping

[keith-m043.livejournal.com]

from the phrase to "scope someone out"

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Some variant of "scrying," I'd say. Hmm. LJ-scrying? Blogscry?

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

blogomancy?

[(Anonymous)]

No need to make up a new word when one already exists. There's a phrase from contract bridge circles that ought to apply: "winkle out", means to figure out whose hand a particular card/cards has to be in. My dictionary gives the definition "to pry something out of a place".

Tom/Vis

[dagonell.livejournal.com]

"Tom/Vis"??? As in Visevald Selkirkson? Have I winkled you out correctly? :D
-- Dagonell

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

I can't say with certainty, but I'd rate it over 90% likely :-)

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

It's certainly related, but I'm not sure if it's the right term. I wouldn't be surprised if the right term does exist already, though.

[cellio]

Vis is here? Cool. :-)

[dglenn.livejournal.com]

Cryptonomenclature?

De-nyming? Extraponaming?

Unmasking sounds slightly confrontational ... maybe decleverising?

Ah! As an antonym of obfuscation, which refers to dusk to imply darkening, "Eosation" -- as things become clearer in the dawn. (Or perhaps "anfuscation". "I spent a while trying to anfuscate 'museinred', but I gave up until she mentioned her LJ name the next time we saw each other in person.")

[umbran.livejournal.com]

...provide an appropriate verb for the activity of...

Am I the only oen here who realizes that the question you're really asking is, "What is the sniglet for this activity?"

[nosebeepbear.livejournal.com]

No, you're not. I was thinking that too :)

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

sifted from m-w online:

uncloak, unmask, unshroud, tumble, espy, discern

[cristovau.livejournal.com]

Anti-obfuscate
Transparadentify
Nomifind
Destalk
Scooby-doed

Not just LJ

[metageek.livejournal.com]

This isn't just an LJ thing, you know; it applies to all sorts of online fora.

I like "winkle", but it seems to need something more specific, some constructed compound. "Loginwinkle", maybe; that's got a nice rhythm to it.

[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

I know that "winkle" is valid, but I like the more cryptic/dignified sounding words like "decloak."

I think it's all about how you envision yourself in the process.

[(Anonymous)]

I often envision myself as a starship captain, so decloaking usually means that someone's about to fire that damned plasma weapon at me.

Tom/Vis (who will probably actually get an LJ account when I get back from Florida)