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Can we have a new rule, please, that UserName987654321987654321 has to

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Maryz · 09/06/2016 13:04

namechange before they post a new thread.

Because I'm getting confused. There are so many people with UserName in their UserName that I'm in danger of being extremely rude to one of them mixing them up and thinking a new one is an old one or a previously banned one.

I am old and confused.

I think they have to take the name allocated to them when they register, for some reason, but could they not be auto-sked to namechange before posting? Pretty please.

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KatherineMumsnet · 10/06/2016 14:28

Hi folks,

we definitely get your points here, it's a tiny tad on the confusing side. We're having a chat to see what we can do.

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KatherineMumsnet · 14/06/2016 12:57

Right, here goes -

Tech are hyper-aware that this is a huge annoyance to a lot of you, and we really do apologise for the irritation. They did try the two name combo system, and it kept throwing up the most appalling combinations, that it was decided the best thing to do was go with numbers.

What we've now done is add a big fat REMINDER! in the auto-responses to remind people to change their given usernames. It's not that simple to sort, but they are working very hard to improve it.

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RebeccaMumsnet · 18/06/2016 17:36

Hi all,

We do require email verification. We removed the 'set up a user name' to speed up the process. We have asked folks to pick a new user and we have edited the confirmation mail to include this.

We are looking into alternatives and we'll know more next week.

Sorry this is taking a while but we are discussing it and haven't forgotten.

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