Gransnet stopped me using the name I wanted.

Never mind, Avalon. We will assume you are 25 years old. Perhaps you are?

If anyone has ever registered the name you won’t be allowed to use it. Most people on Gransnet do not post. I used to be a lurker myself.
You can change it if you want.

Can’t say I have, but I’m useless with names, so probably wouldn’t remember most people. I don’t tend to focus on the name, unless I want to answer them directly. I just read the posts.

Can you just change it to something else that you like. I did. My original name seemed to invite hostility for some reason. I’ve never had any with this name.

Not a major issue though is it?

Welcome and enjoy.

There must be somebody with the name ( even if they have left the site) unless you cancel your membership with GN the name and email account stays.

I know I'm being nosy, DiscoDancer1975 but I'm itching to know what username could cause hostility.

I had to have a few tries before my username was accepted, 25Avalon. There must be a lot of posters with the same names as my various grannies, great grannies, several of which I tried.

If you put the name Avalon into the site search box, it shows lots of posts from someone whose username is Avalon, right up to recently. That is why it wasn't available to use. Even having you called 25Avalon could be confusing.

Yes there definitely is another avalon on Gransnet
I can remember that name quite clearly and having just done a search the original avalon was posting in October this year
So actually if I was you I d change my name as the two are very alike and you could easily get muddled up

Elegran thanks for explanation. NotTooOld what a kind thought!

Lots of people register with Gransnet just to enter competitions. Often, when a list of winners is published there's a host of names no-one recognises.

I have just looked more closely at those posts, and the ones I saw are from you, 25Avalon even back in June 2019. Have you always been cross at having to add 25 to your choice of username, or has it just become annoying now?

Since I’ve never seen an Avalon suggests we don’t post on the same subjects. It is my pseudonym on Yahoo Answers and has been for years, even my business includes the word Avalon, so I’ll stick with it albeit with 25 in front.

Yes Elegran I have been on here for a while now. Sometimes it irks me but mostly not. Just plain Avalon feels better.

Well, Avalon the first must have already been on Gransnet before you, so I imagine it irks her too. You are not alone!

I wanted to be Goldfinch but could not be for the same reason.I wish I had been more inventive !

Good point but since we reply to different posts maybe it doesn’t really matter. Avalon if you are out there and read this post please let me know if it irks you.

Elegran I think I did the same as you as everyone was answering avalon and I presumed 25Avalon was a new and different poster

I thought so at the start, but she has been posting for eighteen months or so.

There is an Avalon I know but I was told the same when I joined although I've never seen a NorfolkDumpling - so I had to use a bit of abbreviation. I don't mind though, its the only bit of me which is abbreviated.

Does abbreviating work nfk. I might try it!!

Sorry Callistemon, that ship has sailed now!

Trying to guess what this hostility-inducing name might have been.
Was it Donald Trump ?

Avalon, if your business has that name included in it, would it make you easy to be identified?

I would just have chosen something else. After all, GNHQ have every right to call the shots, as they do, it's their site after all.