I will forgive your illusion of transparency if you will forgive my assumption that you were so lacking in self-awareness. I had recently read a number of sub-par comments and had forgotten that the majority of the posts/people on this site are well thought out/not typical blithering internet commenters.

My conclusion that you call them (us?) "LessWrongers" came from you using it first, which may actually have been foolish. If I think of a hypothetical person saying "I refer to 'X' as 'Y'," I expect "X" to be the common term and "Y" to be the nickname. I suppose I should have interpreted that in your writing, but I think I was thrown off by you using the word "LessWrongers" when the naming of that group is already what's in discussion.

If, on a forum discussing whether facial tissue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_tissue) should be called "tissues" or "Kleenex", someone said "I usually refer to Kleenex as Puffs", I would probably assume that they actually call them "Kleenex", since until that point everyone had been using "facial tissues" except when suggesting the actual name they preferred.