Name availability

[DidEinsteinsMum]

If i name change does the old name become available for other people to use?

The man from the shed, he says yes.

NO! Surely that's not right - when we change for 'festive' names we can always go back to old names??? [look of horror icon]

Ohhhh! So someone could race in and swipe your 'real' name if you are using a comedy or festive one!!! This cannot be!

i was hoping on a breif change but that has changed it all....

Methinks the man from the shed needs sacking unless the rules have suddenly changed...

Nooooo! I thought all the names I have changed to were officially 'bagsed' by me forever! So when I am flowerytaleofNewYork at Christmas, someone else could become flowerybeanbag?

It would be mayhem if the rules HAVE changed.

Say I decided to swipe Hunkermunker when she is being Hunkeratesomemouldybread or something, then all posts I make would be stored as the same person who made all her previous ones. I could support nestle and make her old posts completely pointless.

Someone could give out duff advice in my name!

I'm pretty sure that's not the case. Or is it just that no ones ever wanted one of my cast offs?

Ooooh

Yes Jemima672, it is perfectly legal to insist that you wear no bra and a very thin blouse to work every second Tuesday. You don't have a leg to stand on and if you complain you will Never Work Again.

This could be fun

this is not right, there can only be one VinegarTits, you cannot allow someone to nick my name if i namechange for a day

Please send my complaint form to the man in the shed

Is it the first of April today or something?

ROFL at flame

Geraldine could you ask BigTech rather than your local handyman?

Has the man from the shed been indulging in any psychoactive substances recently?

I think someone should test it.

No I think it's all right as I just tried to be flowerytaleofnewyork and it told me it was already taken

This is an outrage, i demand answers (can i bribe you buy my name?)

But why would MN have auctioned off old names, if you could have just used them anyway?

Me thinks the man in the shed is wrong. I bet he's like my dh when I call out a question, he just says yes willy nilly without listening to the question!

He must be wrong mustn't he? Idris has proved it I reckon.

I thought the auction was names that people had registered, but never posted under, and agreed to give up. Or something. If you've ever left a post under a name it's yours and safe.

Ooh, in that case I need some clarification. I namechanged to a different name to 'reserve' it because I didn't want anyone else to have it, but never actually posted in it. Does that mean someone could pinch that one?

See, I think it should be tightened up, because everyone would think I am flowerybeanbag, and I'm not.

it can't be true because I tried to be Tattiebojangles (with an ie rather than a y) and it wouldn't let me even though no one has posted under that name.

Nice try Geraldine, i just change to FlamongoBongo and it wouldnt let me 'name already taken', i know FlamingoBingo was using it last week but now she is back to normal, so ner