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Original poster

A leetle bit concerned about privacy with these status thingummies...

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BitOfFun · 20/02/2010 17:00

MNHQ- after some pootling about, I seem to have worked out that your status is applied retrospectively to recent name-changes.

Tell me, where does that leave us when we post on bumsex on sensitive topics with a name-change?

If somebody hovers over the namechange days later and sees something fabulously witty that just happens to match what BitOfFun has on her status today, the whole privacy thing is going to fall apart, isn't it?

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PrincessFiorimonde · 20/02/2010 18:23

And then?

PrincessFiorimonde · 20/02/2010 18:22

Mmm.

CaptainDarcyCasuabonHenchard · 20/02/2010 18:20

Just posting to see how namechanging/altering status might affect things.

LadyintheRadiator · 20/02/2010 18:20

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Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Original poster
BitOfFun · 20/02/2010 18:15

Is nobody else a bit disturbed by this?

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TrillianAstra · 20/02/2010 17:30

Ah, see that ruins ALL the fun.

SPBInDisguise · 20/02/2010 17:10

Dis I have never been on a bumsex thread

Original poster
BitOfFun · 20/02/2010 17:10

Nowt Stealthy about you now, is there?

Thank FUCK I didn't post anything under a namechange on that sex thread

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SPBInDisguise · 20/02/2010 17:09

probably just easier to disable them if the profile is off - after all it's really part of your profile
IMO anyway

Hassled · 20/02/2010 17:09

Oh I see. Potential for nightmare levels of embarrassment all round, you're right.

Disenchanted3 · 20/02/2010 17:09

it says

stealth polar bear says something witty

SPBInDisguise · 20/02/2010 17:08

Tis I, Stealth!
And BoF is right

SPBInDisguise · 20/02/2010 17:08

A new post

Disenchanted3 · 20/02/2010 17:08
StealthPolarBear · 20/02/2010 17:07

k

Original poster
BitOfFun · 20/02/2010 17:06

Aha, but NO!

Have a mess about and check- I can namechange and leave the field blank, but if I (maybe days later?) put a status update on my usual name, it then actually pops up on the embarrassing anonymous thread. Really, it does, I've checked.

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StealthPolarBear · 20/02/2010 17:06

ooh that's a good point BoF

Hassled · 20/02/2010 17:04

But presumably when you do your namechange, you just blank out whatever your status is - delete whatever's in that field? It's on the same page (I think), so it wouldn't be hard.

But you would have to know that you have to do that, IYSWIM, so yes I see your point - maybe there could be a reminder on the Registration Details page.