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quickchange / getreal / shinyone

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Thomcat · 06/06/2005 15:35

Dear mumsnet

Can you please do a check and see if quickchange / getreal and shinyone are all the same person and if so can you have a private word or perhaps look into barring them.

Things like this usually are water off a ducks back to me personally but she/he/it risks really, really causing serious pain to reqular mumsnetters and I think it might be a good idea to look into this.

Just an idea.

If this person is changing her name all the time just to say spiteful, nasty, things on mumsnet surely we want that stopped, right??
Anyway, nuff said, over to you to do what you think is best.

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huggybear · 06/06/2005 19:03

MUMSNET

have emailed you.

thanks

LionTamer · 06/06/2005 18:59

i agree, lots of people have different email addresses and will just use an alternate one to sign up for a new nickname. IMO it won't solve anything.

RTKangaMummy · 06/06/2005 18:48

I don't know what quickchange or getreal or shinyone have said

BUT if they are actually 3 different people I don't see the point of the limit

roisin · 06/06/2005 18:14

I agree Justine. I think the time has come to limit name changing on mn for all the reasons you state.

RTKangaMummy · 06/06/2005 18:11

Does this mean that my alteregos cannot come out to play for funfunfun on the ONLY JOKING thread???

They never ever are allowed to leave ONLY JOKING

Can't it be set that if you have posted for over 6 months you are allowed to have multiple personalities

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JJmumsnet · 06/06/2005 18:06

Hi all. Justine's nipped off for a bit, but will return later.

I am going to start a new thread on nickname changes - it would be very helpful to see hear everyone's concerns before we do it. As Justine mentioned, it is something that can easily be undone, so if it doesn't work out, not too much harm done. Ladymuck, I believe that only registered but unused (ie no posts on Talk) will be freed up for use again, if that happens at all. That way no one will be able to usurp anyone's previous identity.

Huggybear, thanks for your concerns, but these are better addressed by emailing us at [email protected] .

And sparklymieow, it wasn't me. Sorry about it though and hope things get sorted with your neighbours.

SoupDragon · 06/06/2005 17:52

There are so many to choose from though

JoolsToo · 06/06/2005 17:48

good idea flame

MRSflamesparrow · 06/06/2005 17:40

I think that it should stick that a name cannot be used again - at least not for a year or so...

gaelsgirl · 06/06/2005 17:39

Will this be retrospective, or for any future namechangers?

ladymuck · 06/06/2005 17:37

Justine, will this limit on usernames open up the door for the auction on previously used IDs that cod has been lobbying for forever? And what will happen to archived threads? If I have messages under a former id, does someone else get the option to nab that id because I choose to stick with the current one?

sparklymieow · 06/06/2005 17:36

oh poo...... there was lots of info on that one..... plus I needed to go through it and log everything I hadn't written down..... oh well......

huggybear · 06/06/2005 17:35

also, justine, i know you cant tell everyone who it was but can you let me know if they were warned from doing it again please.

thanks

huggybear · 06/06/2005 17:31

justine.

i just wanted her to read it and to understand.

huggy

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JustineMumsnet · 06/06/2005 17:31

That was a case of fat fingers at mumsnet hq SM - really sorry about that because we've looked into it and aren't able to reinstate your thread. The fat-fingered member of us in question was supposed to have 'fessed up long ago - can't think why said person hasn't done it yet - after all what's a bit of public humiliation ?

JoolsToo · 06/06/2005 17:29

Well I, for one, am pleased at the news!

sparklymieow · 06/06/2005 17:24

Justine, may I ask why my thread was deleted the other day, I asked for a link to be deleted, which was done, then the whole thread dsappeared.

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JustineMumsnet · 06/06/2005 17:20

Hi SD,
Instances like that (name changing to protect someone elses namechange identity) would fall in the category of special situations I guess - as said we'd be happy to facilitate another name were there a good reason. We agree that trouble causing name changing is not as prevalent as folk think but the fact that folks are suspicious is a good reason to cap it in our view. Sorry again to be party poopers and maybe it's something we could trial for a bit and see how it goes. Unlike other changes (I'm thinking chat rooms ) it's relatively simple to limit/ unlimit. And yes we'll give you a few days notice, so you can all make sure you've got the name you want to stick with before we switch on.

SoupDragon · 06/06/2005 17:13

I@ve just thought of another time when name changes are necessary and you wouldn't want to use an existing one - when you are posting under an assumed name to protect someone else who's being anonymous.

As essbee says, she's had quite a few* and I've had an equal number I've used so that my name isn't associated with her anonymous name. These can't be used toother threads and having a restrictive limit would have made it difficult (although I wouls simply have used an alternate email address and re-registered or created an email address specifically for this purpose.

I honestly think the instances of nastiness from name changes are hugely overwhelmed by the amount of fun and necessary changes that have gone on.

  • name changes!
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JustineMumsnet · 06/06/2005 17:10

Hi Huggybear,
We deleted the thread you started because twice in it you said you wanted it deleted and that you were going to write to us to ask for it to go. We didn't receive any mails but maybe they went to to Tech (Tech 1's on hols and Tech 2's just had a baby so apologies if that's the case - the rest of us don't see those mails).

The thread was a bit heated with some pretty personal attacks in it, so we thought it a good idea to delete it.

We're very sorry to hear your news by the way. Do look after yourself.
The mumsnet team

Newbarnsleygirl · 06/06/2005 16:59

I didn't think that limiting or stopping name changes was a good idea when it was mentioned last time but after recent events I think it will be a better thing.

Hopefully it will stop some of the nastiness thats been going just recently.

essbee · 06/06/2005 16:56

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HeyEnidYouveLostWeight · 06/06/2005 16:54

agree fio - relieved to hear they are all separate people as the other twos posts werent that bad IMO

Fio2 · 06/06/2005 16:53

sorry but having read what the one post was by one of these people I actually agreed and I dont think it was nasty either, maybe inappropriate but not done with malice

essbee · 06/06/2005 16:51

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