Posting under different names, but posts still all highlighted - can you stop it please?

[AnnieLobeseder]

Hi MNHQ
Very occasionally I post under a different name to discuss personal issues. My DH and a lot of my friends know my usual name so sometimes I need a little anonymity.

The problem is that posts under my more private username are still highlighted in bright pink and appear under Threads I'm On, so very easy for DH to stumble across.

Would it be possible to separate usernames so that each name has it's own unique identity and they don't all come up as highlighted or under Threads I'm On?

If not, I guess I'll have to register a whole new account for those more private posts.

I did not know that, and I was going to namechange just to

Go into customise and turn off highlight your own posts.

thanks

I agree with you,it would be better if name changes dont come up under 'threads im on' this happened to me once too and felt a bit uncomfy with it

Yeah. Turn off highlight your own posts. Also, highlight OP as if you are the OP, it will highlight your posts. IYSWIM?

Well, I know I can turn off highlights, but I find them useful most of the time. Just not when I'm incognito.

I guess it will have to be a whole new secret identity.

No one else can see the highlights though Annie - so it doesn't compromise your NC in any way.

Oh sorry Annie.

Just re-read and saw that it's about someone stumbling on you when logged in.

Sorry.

Log out of your account when not using it?

I think logging out and not allowing any browser to remember you is your best bet here.

Hi AnnieLobeseder,

Please don't set up a second reg - this isn't something we allow and causes alarm bells to ring at our end!

I'm afraid for now, your options are: log out at the end of a session or when away from the computer; turn the highlighting function off; or (my preferred option ) use the Classic view, which offers none of the pesky highlighting and such [Luddite emoticon]

Thanks
MNHQ

No joy then, HQ? Can it not actually be done, or would you just prefer not to?

I like highlighting, it helps me find my place in threads.

And I'm too lazy to keep logging out all the time - it's my personal laptop, I've always just kept MN open and DH might get suspicious if I suddenly start to close down MN when I finish with it.

Perhaps I should just stop bitching about him on MN!

More seriously though, if someone has an abusive spouse and has namechanged to talk about it, there is a risk of them being discovered this way.

You can hide your own threads if you don't want them to appear under Threads I'm On.

Is making a second registration for this reason really not allowed? If the second registration is used for a totally different purpose? I think that's a little short sighted. Obviously it's different if one is being used to troll etc.

MNHQ, could I de-register and then re-register with a brand new name?

@LineRunner

MNHQ, could I de-register and then re-register with a brand new name?

Hmm. Well yes. This is usually known as flouncing You can do this but you won't have access to any of your old nicknames so we really wouldn't recommend it. Any probs, please don't hesitate to contact us at mumsnet dot com Thanks

It's just that whilst I like being LineRunner...

... I'd also like to be the real me. Posting under my real name, on threads where it would be relevant in my RL capacity.

I can't do both, because of the ExH.

Oh that's good and sensible, Lemarche. I shall start to compose my letter forthwith.

I think what Olivia is saying is to contact MN and explain the situation, and try to work something out. And Rowan is advising, don't just go and do it!

I can see that a poster would need to have an agreement with MNHQ and not abuse the privilege.

LineRunner, if it's your ex you are worried about (who presumably won't have access to any of the devices you use to log into MN), why wouldn't just a standard name change work for you? Only MNHQ can see all of any particular poster's nick names.

Zombie, so I would change from one name to the the other, and then back again? And that would be OK with MNHQ?

Presumably as long as I wasn't using both names on the same thread.

(I'm confusing myself now.)

Sorry, Annie. This isn't what you asked in your OP.

Yes, LineRunner. A lot of people have their "normal" nick name and then another or others that they use to post about, say, sensitive issues that they don't necessarily want attached to their "normal" MN persona. As long as you don't use name changes to sockpuppet MN are fine with this as far as Zombie is aware.

Zombie has numerous nick names: some Zombie variations, her previous "normal" nick name and a few others each of which is associated with a specific issue that Zombie sometimes wants to ask advice on. She would probably be identifiable in RL if someone she knew was able to put all the pieces together from her posting history. The use of the different nick names prevents that.