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to skim over posts by NEW MNers with bland names?

419 replies

MardyBra · 31/08/2011 09:04

Names like Gemma82 or yummymummy1.

There's so much choice. Obviously I'm a sucker for a bad pun. But I love the variety of names on here - great song lyrics, obscure references that I feel compelled to go off and google (and never google again in the case of dragon butter), bizarre word combinations and so on.

There are some notable exceptions but normally I make an assumption that if a poster can't think of an interesting name then they won't have anything interesting to say.

OP posts:
ArseyContarsie · 31/08/2011 09:54

you can't have 'mummieforeverandaday' cos that's already mine taken

QuintessentialShadow · 31/08/2011 09:55

And I hope you have found me a new name by the time you get back!

porcamiseria · 31/08/2011 09:56

"Incidentally, I need a new name. Suggest me one.

make a new one, make it as icky as possiblde so people HATE IT and slate you when you post for the first time, go on, please!!!!

i.e yummymummyluvsherbunnies

but dont let it resemble porcamiseria any any way, shape of form

JanMorrow · 31/08/2011 09:56

and you don't think dh, ds, dd etc are fluffy? All that business makes me want to vom!

HallnotOates · 31/08/2011 09:58

Yup. Agree. Just say s1

SayCoolNowSayWhip · 31/08/2011 10:03

I had a reasonably boring nickname when I started and wasn't any more ignored than I am now (which is lots.... sniff!) although I am quite proud of my new name.

stinkyfluffycat · 31/08/2011 10:04

Oh dear. What happens when your name actually has the word 'fluffy' in it?

herbietea · 31/08/2011 10:06

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ChickensHaveNoEyebrows · 31/08/2011 10:06

The stinky outweighs the fluffy, IMO.

mummsieluvsherbabies12 · 31/08/2011 10:07

to obvious eh?

RockStockAndTwoOpenBottles · 31/08/2011 10:10

I won't ignore a name unless it's someone who already gets my goat but I do struggle when a post is littered with lols and huns.

I DID have a ridiculous fluffy name when I first joined, but I wasn't ignored. Though I'm sure said name will have been sniggered at, I think what the person posts is far more likely to make me skim/avoid.

stinkyfluffycat · 31/08/2011 10:10

Good to hear it, Chickens. Have always been rather envious of your name and am going to study the next chicken I meet just to check whether or not they do actually have eyebrows..

SayCoolNowSayWhip · 31/08/2011 10:12

Have to agree with RockStock (great name btw - do you mind if I shorten it because I'm very lazy?). I often have to actually scroll back to the top of a thread to remind myself of the OP's name; whereas if their post is just illegible, badly spelt and littered with "huns" and "lols" I just can't bring myself to read it.

ConstanceNoring · 31/08/2011 10:12

I admit my first NN was a name followed by my year of birth Blush but there wasn't a mummi or yummi or fluffy in sight.

I didn't get ignored though, more slaightly toasted.

RockStockAndTwoOpenBottles · 31/08/2011 10:14

SayCool likewise and thanks! I am also lazy so this is what you are to me

Pinot · 31/08/2011 10:18

I think alot of people choose softer names when they join MN, then change as they realise what the standard is. Being ignored as a newbie is part and parcel of the induction process and most of us have done it.

Meh.

joric · 31/08/2011 10:19

:o @ mardybra you sound like one of those mums from school who dont talk to other mums because they didnt go to their high school/dcs went to same nursery etc etc.

Do you only skim over posts by NEW MNetters with bland names?

OLD MNetters are ok are they?

Is your name interesting and familiar to everyone- or is there a faint possibility that some people have never heard of you?

Thing is OP, you may be familiar to a particular group of MNetters but to other groups of people YOU are the stranger and people will skim over your posts because they don't like your name.

crazynanna · 31/08/2011 10:20

I knew I was accepted when some of the more renoun members nicknamed my nickname to crazy Smile

ObviouslyOblivious · 31/08/2011 10:20

SayCool I like your name as everytime I see it I do say 'whip' in my head a la Stewie. Which was probably your intention.

RustyBear · 31/08/2011 10:21

Actually, I once had a name with 'mum' in that got me noticed in a good way - I was AttilaTheMum for a while and everyone said what a great name it was. I gave it up though, after I got a CAT from someone who mistook me for AttilaThe Meerkat. There's now another AtillaTheMum, with a different number of Ts and Ls in, I often wonder if people think she's me...

SayCoolNowSayWhip · 31/08/2011 10:22

"Why are you saying it so weird? You're putting all the emphasis on the 'h'!" :o

pippilongsmurfing · 31/08/2011 10:25

Peoples names don't bother me, unless it's something very netmums like luvvymummybunny or some such drivel.

What I don't like is the DH, DD, DS crap, why can't it just be H?

My DH and DC's are not D all the time!

ObviouslyOblivious · 31/08/2011 10:25

:o

SnakeOnCrack · 31/08/2011 10:27

is it "darling" or "dear"? Either way, BLURRRRRRRRRRRK!

ImeldaM · 31/08/2011 10:30

Someone posted recently that when they are mad at DH, the 'DH' stands for dick head something else, that made me Grin