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I have a complant.

83 replies

BeyondThePail · 09/11/2011 18:32

I have just namechanged.

Luckily I was on a TwittyArsingAround thread.

It could have been something really embarassing.

I didn't know the hovery-thing still worked when you namechanged. I thought it'd be like your profile.

Bad day.

[near miss]

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activate · 09/11/2011 18:33

I have a yukkaplant

TheOriginalFAB · 09/11/2011 18:33
Confused

Are you okay?

BeyondThePail · 09/11/2011 18:33

Oh.

Sorry.

So what I learaned from this is:

Please may you knidly disable the hovery thing on namechanges?

Thanks everso you lovely StieStuffers.

Smile
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spugglers · 09/11/2011 18:33

What hovery thing?

MissPenteuth · 09/11/2011 18:36

OP, do you mean the status thingy that comes up when you hover over your name? And it stays the same even if you change names?

AtYourCervix · 09/11/2011 18:36

oooh i didn't know that. yes. please have to re-able it or sunnat,

spugglers · 09/11/2011 18:37

I can't see any status things over people's names.

BeyondThePail · 09/11/2011 18:38
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tooearlymustdache · 09/11/2011 18:38

I agree

I once almost outed myself by the hovery thingy betraying me!

But joking aside, i think the hovery thingy should disable if you NC.

Luckily, mine too was on a pisstake jokey thread.

spotTheDifference · 09/11/2011 18:40

ya'll get me?

BeyondThePail · 09/11/2011 18:40

spugglers.

If you hover over nicknames with your Cursor, some posters have little secret messages that appear.

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BeyondThePail · 09/11/2011 18:41

Two fingers.

Did you mom see you doing that?

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MollyintheMoon · 09/11/2011 18:44

I still don't get it Confused

Does the message not change when the name does?

tooearlymustdache · 09/11/2011 18:46

i've NCed on this thread, see what happens

MollyintheMoon · 09/11/2011 18:48

The message isn't appearing now under 'spotTheDifference' though. Still confused!

tooearlymustdache · 09/11/2011 18:49

it follows you, like a bad smell Confused

the hover does i mean

MollyintheMoon · 09/11/2011 18:51

Ah I see.

Nobody would ever remember a tag-line though surely!

bananamam · 09/11/2011 18:52

What is this hover you speak of? Does it identify your previous names?

tooearlymustdache · 09/11/2011 18:55

you'd be surprised Molly

what if i was posting about a Sensitive Issue?

crevix · 09/11/2011 19:15

i think you are all talking bolocks an i should be elected queen.

AtYourCervix · 09/11/2011 19:17

my name chnge has proved htis thread pointless bollocks.

it doesn't linger like dog hair at all.

ShowOfHands · 09/11/2011 19:17

I realised this a while ago. I have to remember to change my tag when namechanging or it outs me.

AtYourCervix · 09/11/2011 19:18

showey can you check mine and see if it is there with my change?

AtYourCervix · 09/11/2011 19:19

or does the ovver thingy work if you enable profile and get an underlining? in wjhicj cas a sensitive namechange to talk about mucous or poo would be pointless bollox too.

FellatioNelson · 09/11/2011 19:22

I have made that very same mistake before as well, when I name-changed for something personal. Luckily I realised and disabled the hovvery thing in the nick of time. But I agree with you - you should have to opt in to keep the hovvery thing when you name change.

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