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Why are we allowed to namechange? And it has just been made easier to do so within the thread

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LeGavrOrf · 26/09/2013 10:22

Just out of interest really.

You can't do it on other sites can you?

I know people like to change for privacy reasons but it just cause misery with people name changing to cause shit.

And the new button down there V makes it possible for someone to really easily sock puppet. I don't see the point in it really.

You have not allowed name changing in the mumsnet local site, however you do still permit users to namechange on request. I wondered if there were plans to introduce that here or if it would cause outrage (who am I kidding, if course it will). Grin

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ShowOfHands · 26/09/2013 11:20

It's not that hard to namechange though. I can still only do it the old way as I don't MN on any kind of new-fangled whatsit. You click on My Mumsnet, change your name, enter password and ta-da, takes all of 30 seconds.

Namechanging is a part of tradition here. Hi-jinks on threads, seasonal namechanges, larks and giggles. I'd be royally pee'd off if they restricted namechanging. It's like punishing the whole class because Trolly StBridge has deliberately shat in the reading corner again.

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LeGavrOrf · 26/09/2013 11:08

Not allowed people to change on the mumsnet local site, to make that clear.

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LeGavrOrf · 26/09/2013 11:05

Footholds is supposed to say Clothilde. Grin

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LeGavrOrf · 26/09/2013 11:05

Haha at footholds.

I didn't know you couldn't do that on the desktop site. I never use that any more as the mobile site is so much better and cleaner.

I think the fact that MNHQ have decided not to allow people to namechange means they may possibly regret allowing it on this site. I reckon it causes all sorts of shit.

I know troublemaking tossers will find a way to be twattish no matter what, but to namechange before was a royal pain in the arse. So if you wanted to sockpuppet to either support yourself or to gang up on a poster you had to be pretty dedicated. Now you don't even have to think about it.

I think so many people posted that they felt hounded and attacked on Mumsnet (thread yesterday about bullying) I think a restriction on namechanging would be a good idea, tbh. Or at least limit to the names you have already got or something.

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ShowOfHands · 26/09/2013 10:52

Oh I love the fact that you can namechange. I namechange all the time. Sometimes for privacy reasons, sometimes because I fancy it, sometimes to be funny, sometimes because I'm bored. I have NC'd hundreds of times.

If people want to post shit and cause trouble, they'll find a way regardless. I don't think they should make namechanging impossible or difficult just because Trolly McTroll has an easier time of it. Why cater to their warped behaviours? I truly think after years of MNing that whatever you do, they find a way and all you can do is not give more of yourself than you can afford to lose and to try and remember that you don't know who anybody actually is. I mean, you might not be called Clothilde at all in real life OP but I choose to believe you are as it Makes Sense.

GirlWithTheLionHeart · 26/09/2013 10:50
Grin
KissMyA · 26/09/2013 10:50

I agree too

GirlWithTheLionHeart · 26/09/2013 10:49

I agree

Tee2072 · 26/09/2013 10:46

For the record, you can only name change on the fly on the mobile site.

But I agree with you.

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LeGavrOrf · 26/09/2013 10:45

I have just been on a thread and name changed 3 times. It was a piece of piss.

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