Poll: Would you like the facility to change your own username?

No thank you.

I have voted but would have liked to have had further options.

I don't want to change my name. I have been gillybob since the beginning but now and again if there was a very sensitive subject that I was worried might be spread across facebook or whatever, I might want to be more anonymous.

Thanks for that Lara.

Would you be-able to make a temporary change (say for one particular subject ) and then change back ?

No, I would not like to change my name.

The thing is, those people who don't want to change their username wouldn't be affected one way or the other - if you don't want to change, don't!

Allowing members to change their username would mean it could be changed temporarily as long as members are allowed to change to a username already used - that would be a very important component of this change, IMO.

No I wouldn't want to change mine but just wondered if you wanted to post something confidential (to your current name) couldn't you just set up a new user account under a different e-mail address? Not that that would work for me as all of mine have the same prefix anyway

Am I being thick ?

I clicked on the link to vote but nothing came up that made sense.

I pressed no but it only highlighted the response percentages thus far.

Question please Lucy

Am I correct in thinking you are considering posters can change their user name virtually willy nilly , even thread to thread , post to post.?

Could that happen under your new proposal.?

My family know who I am on GN and that's fine. However there are a few sensitive threads where I would have liked to be able to change my username to discuss particular issues under a nom de plume, but only if I could then go back to being grannyactivist.

It would be MUCH nicer to have a private room that we could be assured wouldn’t go on Twitter or FB or Daily Fail pages then we could confidently be ourselves but know it wasn’t going to be plastered all over the place without our knowledge .....that is the abusive part

POGS it looks like you're not thick, and that is all there is to the poll.

What the heck is sock puppeting ? Never heard that one before

"Would you like to be able to change your user name?" is the title of the poll.

Someone who answers No to that question might nevertheless be happy for others to have that option, so it seems not to be a very useful poll.

BlueBelle, I agree with you on the abuse, by GNHQ, of GNers' trust.

I think sock-puppeting is one person pretending to be two or more.

I agree with BlueBelle. Much more useful idea.
I don't want my vote to block the wishes of anyone who feels strongly on way or the other.

I'd quite like to change mine but only because I'd pick something I like better. When I signed up to GN I had to think of a user name quickly off the top of my head and now I wish I'd made a better choice.

Just voted - looks fairly conclusive to me!

Sock puppeting!!! I am getting really old !

Plus I could never understand why we couldn't change our user name ourselves , so I think it's a good move by GNHQ

yes