Feature suggestion - Date user registered/user age against username.

[SerendipityJane]

Just a suggestion that when displaying the username in the comment header, the length of time that name has been active on MN is also shown. E.g

SerendipityJane(4 yrs) · Today 14:36 ...

SerendipityJane(less than 4 weeks) · Today 14:36

NamechangedSerendipityJane(new user) · Today 14:36
and if reused ...
NamechangedSerendipityJane(3 months ago) · Today 14:36

The aim would be to allow the entire site to spot freshly minted user(name)s and draw their own conclusions. As new user & question about brands of beans is a completely different proposition to new user and a contentious post that attracts frothing.

Isn't the search facility only for people who pay for premium though? I haven't paid and can't do this, never thought there were any advantages to paying before so might do it now I know this!

Really? It works fine for me. I find it very useful.

Advanced search is a free feature. I don't know if it works better if you pay but it's not a premium only thing

Personally I find it tiresome to read "NC for this but long time user, penis-beaker-cancel-the-cheque". It makes absolutely no difference to me. I'll take a post on its own merits

Same here. Your post/opinion isn't more valid because you've been on Mumsnet for a decade. I don't care how long you've been a member; totally irrelevant.

I've always assumed that people periodically name-change on most internet forums anyway. Nobody has actual " credentials " on anonymous online forums and you interact accordingly.

@B1indEye
Oh yes, you're right. I'd only tried directly from the comment, which doesn't work for non-premium but Advanced Search definitely does work. Thanks

Anyone can do it. Don’t need to pay. Just go to Search and then Advanced Search. You can then put the username in the box.

I like your idea OP. I’ve seen it on other forums and it seems to work well.

In what way does it work well? Do those places allow name changing?

Where does it say I don't report other posts as well? Of course I do if it is warranted.

Sometimes you can see that a poster has been around for years, so their thread is more likely to be legitimate. Say for instance a complaint about leisure centre changing rooms. That's a well-known troll topic which attracts pervs, but if you can see from the user's posting history that they are a long-standing regular with lots of comments about their competitive swimmer/gymnast dc, then the thread is likely to be genuine. If you get my drift.

Anything that I think is iffy I report. In fact MNHQ probably gets fed up with me some days.