BDSM Titles Chamber of Oddities

[Ranai]

Hmmm. Interesting.
I suppose titles can be convenient in a chatroom environment as an easy-to-recognise signal of a role one wants to take?

I have read about people using the freedom of the internet to appear sometimes as this, sometimes as that gender (and I would not see a problem in it, as long as everyone knows that what is going on is role play).

A question out of curiosity from someone without chatroom experience: How do switches identify themselves, if at all? Or do you just use neutral names? Or has someone perhaps recognised some individuals with the same mannerisms, who sometimes turned up as Sir [insert fancy name], and sometimes as slave [insert other fancy name]?

And how about real life BDSM meetings. Do switches simply use their names?