Folding Forum

I have a question, and I was wondering.
Say someone has a username and passkey for years.
Some one new wants to use that same name, and they get a passkey.
Is it even possible for two different people to use the same user name?
Will the 2nd user show up under the original users stats?
Sometimes you go to join a forum and you can't cant use a name because it is already taken.
So then you have to pick another name. Say like 2 people named pete who have the same B-day pete1215.
Is it like that in folding, they can't use the same handle/name?

Many people can use the same fah user name. It's a feature or flaw, depending on your point of view. That's one reason why Passkey was added. So one pete1215 can keep his stats separate from another pete1215.

Thanks Tim, so if those two people only folded GPU and did Not get a key no need yet. Their stats could get mixed.
What's the chances of that happening, hardly any I bet. (hope)
Interesting, Thanks again.

At one time the F@H website would let you know if a folding username was unique or not. It may still do so, I have not used that tool/page in years. But there is no registration process to have each username only be used by a single person or organization. The tool also distinguished between names in a case sensitive manner, and it appears that some of the searches on the official stats site do not.

So for instance in my case I chose Joe_H as it was unique at the time. But a couple of entries for Joe_h for two different teams will also show up in a search of the official stats, neither entry is for work I have done. At least they folded for different team numbers and I can tell the WU's reported for them are not ones I processed. So the only way at this point to distinguish between points for multiple users of the same name is through use of the passkey.