Can we talk about a dropdown box for namechanging again?

48 seconds. Although I did change my hoverer too.

I agree. I generally post in this name. I know a couple of RL people know my username, and I'm fine with that, I don't think I post anything outrageous or likely to get me into RL trouble.

However, for some sensitive issues, that possible need more advice and support to the usual day to day crap, I appreciate being able to namechange. I'm under no illusions that the posts are private, but they are anonymous.

Could I extend the drop box idea to having the facility available on the mobile version? My computer has ishoos and it takes me hours to do anything. If I namechange now, it's done on my iPod, which is incredibly faffy and involves lots of farting around.

MmeL I just put all that stuff out there anyway. ::shrug:: It's just a different attitude about 'being found' I guess. I don't care if people know my real name, or my son's name, or my husband's. And neither does my husband. If, when my son is older, he starts to object, I'll stop talking about him!

I talk about nothing on here or on my blog/Facebook/Twitter/etc I wouldn't say out loud in public. Anything that's private, doesn't go on the web.

I do have a very common married name, but my maiden name is very rare and you can't find me if you Google it. Which is luck, not planning.

I agree. I have a different name for blog stuff as it is one step closer to RL but have started to use it as my regular name more and more. It is much more of a faff to change when using the mobile version. It stops me commenting on threads because I see that I am not in the 'right' name and think oh I can't be bothered. Also don't want to be accused of sock puppetry.

How long did that take?

No.

15 seconds - I think that may be a record.

It is not currently difficult to namechange.

The name you are posting under is now at the top of the posting box, presumably to make it harder to have an "is that you UCM?" moment.

Making it more difficult to namechange would not deter serious trollers, but making it very obvious that you can namechange would (IMO) encourage casual half-term trollers to troll in a more namechangey sockpuppety manner. Which would be irritating.

I do understand your concerns about having posted stuff about your children and not wanting them/their friends to stumble across it.

Bing.

Under 60 seconds.

More if you have the "My Mumsnet" page open.

Ta dah

I have namechanged for the Apprentice thread.

Do you want to time me?

(I have no other tabs open right now, this is namechanging from scratch...

I have to agree with SEA. If you don't want to be known, don't post on the internet. Privacy is dead or dying rapidly.

I am Tee2072 everywhere and I like it that way. I think MN could end a lot of trolling if they removed name changing all together and really wish they would, even though I recognize why some posters use the facility.

If I don't want something associated with my name, I don't post about it.

I would like this too, but not because I n/c, as I very rarely do. I support all the calm and well thought through reasoning offered up there.

Plus there will be more chance of accidental outings of wanksplash trolls and that will not be a bad thing. For they are twats

I think that as your dc get older, you realise the need to namechange. What people post about their older dc makes them easy to identify in RL: you start talking about options they are choosing, whether their school is grammar/private/comp, single sex/co-ed, then uni choice, then what subject for a degree, career hopes, etc. If you post over a number of years it makes your dc very readily identifiable. And then you start doing emergency posts about drunken nights out, pregnancy scares, health issues, and you are on very dodgy ground.

And it's really hard not to give away where you live.

As MmeLindor says, it is frustratingly difficult to avoid outing yourself. You think you will be able to stick to your resolve not to reveal who you are, but then you do it. Or someone else (very helpfully) does it.

Bolderes - - have just worked out who you are!

I would like a dropdown box too, please, MNHQ.

I would like this. I post about 95% of the time under one name (when not in Spanglish mode) and try not to give away too much identifying detail. (But now you all know that I speak some Spanglish . )

If I'm talking about something which identifies me geographically, work related things or things I have talked about, I name change.

But it is a huge faff. (Is that a word?) Like MmeL I worry about being recognised and having someone search my whole posting history, when sometimes I have said things I wouldn't say in RL.

you live by the sword etc...

my name is too, but i don't think i live a life that anyone would want to stalk in real life