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to think that the "name changing" facility may not be such a good idea..

107 replies

MindyMacready · 12/06/2011 16:36

While I completely understand the need for certain postings to remain anonymous, has time come to review the ease of name changing on this forum. Maybe a system that allows the poster to have one and only alternative ID for a limited timespan before reverting back to the original. If the contributor then needs to post anon at a later time, another temporary (system generated?) ID could be given etc...

It might put a halt to the multiple personalities that have appeared on some recent threads.

Thoughts...

BTW, I openly admit to having changed my name several times over yhe year or so, initially because my original postings lead to easily to me RL identity. After that, just for the fun of it.

OP posts:
Pagwatch · 12/06/2011 19:06

Namechanging is fun.
And I don't need a hobby.
Nor do I feel like I need to be told to go somewhere else.
But the increasing name changing just to be a spiteful twat is annoying. Not sure why that is such a problem to say...
I have had a few people have a go at my son and guess what, each time it was a name changing poster.

They are often cowardly little fuckers.

It is legitimate to say so I think.

BelovedCunt · 12/06/2011 20:05

name changing makes me feel like dr who.

Pagwatch · 12/06/2011 20:06

Sylvester McCoy?

Pagwatch · 12/06/2011 20:07

The McCann one was quite nice. I would be him I think.

MindyMacready · 12/06/2011 20:09

Jon Pertwee? (Shows age)

OP posts:
BelovedCunt · 12/06/2011 20:10

not tom baker - his lips gave me the willies

Pagwatch · 12/06/2011 20:10

He had a nice scarf
( similar age)

pumpernickel10 · 12/06/2011 20:11

Report arseoles and troll it's simole and report vile posts too. I've had a field day this weekend reporting posts.
Alot name change as they get bored of their old user name not always something malice OP

BelovedCunt · 12/06/2011 20:12

yes scarf was good. not sylvester either he was shit

Pagwatch · 12/06/2011 20:12
Shock blimey, he didn't. He was all velvet and caped. I had morphed him and Tom baker.
MigratingCoconuts · 12/06/2011 20:14

and Peter Davison was a bit of a weed....

BelovedCunt · 12/06/2011 20:14

i quite liked teh first new one with the beaten up nose and is northern [can't be arsed googling] also really fancied david tennant

MigratingCoconuts · 12/06/2011 20:15

He's mine, I tell you!

BelovedCunt · 12/06/2011 20:15

peter davidson was hot in all creatures great and small though.

IAgreeWithPagwatch · 12/06/2011 20:15

Pagwatch is right.

And Clever.

And Pretty.

pumpernickel10 · 12/06/2011 20:16

He was called christpher ecclestone

BelovedCunt · 12/06/2011 20:17

mcgann in withnailandi was hottastic

LoveBeingAbleToNamechange · 12/06/2011 20:18

No Grin and no I've had this name for a while

Pagwatch · 12/06/2011 20:19
Grin

Totally flummoxed by IAgreeWithPagwatch who is using me to destroy my basic point. Damn it.

MigratingCoconuts · 12/06/2011 20:19

Gosh, who is this strange new poster on a namechanging thread Hmm

reminds me strangely of Dr Who....

GooGooGadget · 12/06/2011 20:20

christopher ecclestone.

I like namechanging, just so I'm less googleable.

And it's almost always funny. I think that people wouldn't be so free on here if we were stuck to one name.

I fancied Tom Baker. He's mad as a box of frogs now though. Absolutley fucking fruitloop.

IAgreeWithPagwatch · 12/06/2011 20:20
Grin

When Good Sock Puppets Go Bad. Coming soon to MN.

Pagwatch · 12/06/2011 20:20

Peter davidson got all fleshy quite young. Not fat, just sort of cherubic

Mcgann brothers were lovely.

GooGooGadget · 12/06/2011 20:21

oh, McGann in withnail....

LadyFlumpalot · 12/06/2011 20:21

I've changed mine as I decided I like this one better.

Grin

Also, my last was a bit too cutesy apparently.

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