Can we talk about a dropdown box for namechanging again?

[MmeLindor.]

I brought this up a while ago and there were mumblings of looking into it but nothing has come of it.

I am going to namechange for normal chatter. I won't try to hide or disguise myself but would be grateful if you wouldn't say, "Is that you, MmeLindor?". I have realised since moving back to UK that I am rather easy to spot and would prefer a bit more anonymity.

I will however keep this name for my blog and the bloggers network and any campaigns etc.

It is such a faff to name change constantly, and I thought that a drop down box would be fab, so that I could choose when posting which name to use.

I neeeeed this, MNHQ.

Almost outed myself again.

oh, dear. SGM. You are not good at this incognito lark, are you?

me too

No idea, SGM. Is there a new app?

I'd like this too.

Outed myself on a very sensitive thread the other day. Trickily, MNHQ's only immediate course of action when you contact them to say that has happened is to delete your post, which makes it obviously still who you were as your name remains, or the entire thread. They did offer to change the name for that post to something else, but with conversations either side of work, this took a couple of days. Makes me a bit wary of sensitive stuff really.

The difficulty of not outing yourself is hugely underestimated in my opinion. We all think we're internet-savvy, used to using MN, etc. And then it happens anyway.

Outing yourself (or not) is less about how easy it is to namechange and more about remembering to do it.

Your name is written just above where you are putting your comment.

Last night I was conversing on a chat thread under new name, and on this thread and the consent thread under this name. Changing back and forth is a total pain.

And yes, it it the remembering to change that causes the accidental outing, but ease of changing means that I would have continued to post on both threads longer. As it was, I got fed up and went to bed cause it was such a faff.