To wish that people wouldn't keep name changing!

[Huskylover1]

I have seen some brilliant posters on here. The women, who every singe time they post, I think "yep, that's exactly how I feel". And, when you are scrawling through a thread, you stop on that posters post, because you just know that she's going to say something brilliant. But, with all the name changing, it's totally lost. How are we meant to feel a bond to the other users on MN, when name changing keeps losing the connection? And there's no need for it!

People assume I don’t name change. I do on occasion. Everyone still treats me like I’m an idiot

I used to have two usernames, I’ve mentioned this before, as I used to use one to help folk out with advice in my former professional capacity but needed to be anon in case work twigged. I binned that account entirely though when a regular on here I’d been helping via pm and helped out over the phone etc and drafted letters for, came onto a thread and slagged me off as HD something rotten. I went through all my posts and wracked my brain’s for anything I’d ever done to upset them, given as I knew how much difficulty they were in and nothing. At the time I did a pathetic flounce as it upset me. But then thought fuck it. Ditched the other account, fucked her off and from that moment decided not to bother with NCing and let people think what the hell they want.

I namechanged a couple of times quite quickly around December as a family member is on here but always keep to the same theme (she doesn't know me that well so can keep to "me")

I don't know why people feel the need to constantly name change. It isn't allowed on most forums. And it certainly encourages trolling. IMHO.

I have no idea what you mean... innocent whistle

I really like my username so I don't want to name change. Definitely filters what I post though.

@WhoAmIReally99 Did you actually name the school? Otherwise i don't see what there was to tell you off about, even if they recognised the situation

Reddit is more about the chat threads nowdays than anything else plus the the occasional blinding row in the middle of the night.

I love name change!
I’ve managed to talk about DV, Infertility, antinatal psychosis and my weird family. If I’d have done it all under the same alias I wouldve been outed. Particularly when I do a bit on the local boards

I name change. Most people just post for the odd chat not to form lasting bonds.
Its easy enough to join a forum like the many others that don't namechange if that feeling of 'friends' is your thing.

If you are just posting for the 'odd chat' then no real need to namechange.

I think 'feeling of friends' is a bit of an exagerration, more people you might have a little in common with and remember a bit about. So for me, people with cats and teenagers.

Ive changed the 'renegade' bit

I think ive been a Christmas reindeer and a Spartacus one and a reindeer (am i spelling that right...its starting to not look right)

And i did name change for a particular thread about guilt

But thats it

I like recognising posters but it doesnt take much to throw me as ive a memory like a sieve

I'll see a very recognisable name and it'll actually put me off contributing

Definitely. It can be v useful sometimes.

Absolutely janey

Ive said it before but there was a poster recently that scared the shit out of me

I advance searched them so often (just to see if they were lurking) that even now if i tyoe the first two letters of their name it autocorrects TO THEIR FULL NAME

Not funny janey

I will be typing something quite innocuous like 'tu'

And then its their full name

Im like

SHIT WHERE ARE THEY

Takes me ages to relax again

Palpitations just thinking about it

They havent been around for ages...i dont think

I've also been here since twas all fields. I remember the happy days when, if a Mumsnetter wanted to name change for whatever reason she would post a thread informing everyone of the change. Sometimes one or two other Mumsnetters would then join in and say, hi yes, I used to be X and now I am Y, and everyone would say, oh X there you are! We wondered where you had gone.

Then something happened, I forget what now cos I am old and grey, and name changing became the thing, and that was when Mumsnet stopped being a network of friendly (and some not so friendly!)faces and became an anonymous forum. I still miss the old community but understand why it is as it is.

Nope

Just double checked

Theyve gone

Or name changed

I name-changed recently. It's good for my ego since no one listens to a bloody word a say with my new name

My old name was getting a little, "oh you live in Coventry, don't you and your DD goes to school there" for my liking. Shame, because I loved it.

I haven’t namechanged, as like some previous posters I have only ever started a couple of very boring threads, I don’t post that much usually on fairly mundane subjects.
I mostly lurk, also my grammar & spelling isn’t that great & by the time I have composed/rewritten an answer or advice, the thread has moved on😳 but I can totally understand some posters nc , especially around sensitive issues etc.

Another here who loves seeing a familiar name; I've learned a lot from MN posters and it's nice to recognise folk you feel you "know"

Anyway, isn't it possible to trace back other names posters have used through history or something? (Not yet tried, as is probably obvious )

If I couldn’t name change I wouldn’t post.

I tend to keep a name for a little while and then switch to something else.

I’m always surprised when people say they don’t know any other MNers.

My sister, several of my colleagues and most of my friends are MNers. I’m pretty sure my MIL lurks.

While my Dsis probably knows everything there is to know, everyone else gets selected information.

I don’t want anyone to have access to ten years posting history.

I name changed early on after a poster suggested this name and it's stayed this way for almost 13 years. I've only name changed a handful of times for particular stupid threads over that time, but 99.9% of the time I've just been lougle, and that's the way I like it.

I never post anything that I'd care if anyone read, and I never lie, so I'll never be 'outed'.

I do rather like the suggestion that if someone has their thread deleted for posting goady crap under a name change their previous names should be revealed.