Username change

[Helmuts]

Surely its a bit draconian forcing people to use their full names on a forum and reveal personal information to verify. This is a forum not a business.

we don't have any plans to force members to use their own names This is a fully voluntary personal decision. Though, the idea to have 'Verified' users does sound interesting and will be considered.

Acorn carries on business as usual.

 

[DJ]

@Pedigree you have said you don't want to put your full name, but you haven't disclosed why. I was prompted this evening to view this past post that you appear to have written where you made a request for someone to disclose his or her identity. Although the profile you are referring to is nothing at all to do with me, were you not asking someone else to meet a standard that you yourself are now not willing to meet? It certainly reads this way.

You and others seem entirely happy to post comments about other real people using their real names but fail to disclose your own when doing so. Aside from being unfair and unprofessional, it makes it impossible to deduce the authenticity and validity of the author or the motives of him or her.

This person's identity was being called into question, most older members believed it was you if I recall. Maybe that's why you remember the post, did it strike a nerve?

My identity has never been questioned as most of the members, who have actively been using the forum for the past few years, know who I am.

I wouldn't post my full name on any forum, happy to use my first name, which appears to be sufficient for @Helmuts and @Sam.

Out of interest, of all the members who aren't using their names, which there appear to be many, why did you only call on 2 members to change theirs. What's the agenda? Surely you've seen my tags and have checked Nominet's list of registrar's and seen my posts on the Nominet community forum?

 

[lazarus]

I don't think anyone is suggesting that personal details would be published...

Do you object to forum readers knowing your first name and last name? If so, why?

I should have made that clearer. I was referring to more sensitive information. Address, DOB, and Inside leg measurements.

But to answer your question.. Not at all, I personally don't object to that. But that's my preference, I can't speak for others.

Of course, if you have been buying and selling on here already, you would know who is who anyway.

I have no idea who you are I am afraid. What is your full name, if you don't mind posting it here?

That's because we have not yet done business together.
https://www.colin.uk (My Linkedin) - Feel free to connect


- In my above comments about Verified Statuses. I am merely suggesting in my opinion how such a feature could work. That is... if Admin did ever consider implementing it.

 

[dee]

Think verification is a good idea, although not the necessity for real names.

As long as you don't do a twitter and charge 900 odd buck a month

 

[gimpydog]

And so it begins (again)...

@gimpydog has been member here since August 2004 and to my knowledge has never publically identified who he/she but is quite prepared to accuse me of operating profiles that I did not operate. That's another absurdity because who's to say the @gimpydog profile isn't a duplication of another profile that exists here? It's impossible.

When was that?

Please stop playing your games. You're not at school now. I wont be bullied by you.

 

[lazarus]

True, there have been incidents in the past that were not always handled correctly or in a timely fashion.

On the whole, the Acorn forum has been and will continue to be a safe & friendly environment for topical discussion.
With two active moderators and an active admin, we intend to keep it this way.

Let's keep it productive, fun & light-hearted

Feel free to PM me @lazarus or @Sam or @Helmuts if something needs attention.

 

[DJ]

@invincible I was going to ignore your post as I am now starting to understand the animosity towards you. However, I will make one last response and then more than likely end up joining Rob by clicking the ignore button.

Firstly I agreed to change my name, and asked @Helmuts a question about the requirements and never heard back.

Now to get to your specific points:

@Pedigree you have said you don't want to put your full name, but you haven't disclosed why. I was prompted this evening to view this past post that you appear to have written where you made a request for someone to disclose his or her identity. Although the profile you are referring to is nothing at all to do with me, were you not asking someone else to meet a standard that you yourself are now not willing to meet? It certainly reads this way.

The post you have linked to is for me asking for @mcrick to be banned for being transphobic until their identity had been confirmed. At the time I posted that message, I wasn't a tag holder and my username was different, it was in fact my name as confirmed in wayback:

https://web.archive.org/web/2020100...tation-for-expiring-uk-domains.168493/page-15

So how is this argument holding up for you now???

My username was changed when I acquired my old TAG, again to be more transparent, and I didn't like the fact I had used my name in the first instance as I would never normally by personal choice.

I contacted mods about changing my name again when I changed TAG's but never heard back. Again, I am more than happy to do this but it is out of my control.

No, I did not remember the post and, no it didn't strike a nerve. I was prompted to look at the post in question which appears to have been made by your forum account almost three years ago. You may locate it on the forum by searching for the word "identity".

Convenient that.

You may wish to introduce "to my knowledge" into your above statement because you cannot be expected to know about anything you've not been made aware of. The same rule must also apply to me, in that I could not be expected to know about anything I was not made aware of.

Why because you tell me to? Nobody has privately contacted me asking for me to confirm my identity and nobody has posted the same on this forum.

Why specifically will you not post your full name on this forum after having posted 1507 separate times, over the course of about 4 years? Those two users you cited, and others, might be even more delighted to know your full name.

I used to use my full name as explained above, I have dealt with 80% of the active members on Acorn, so most know who I am.

You ask what my agenda is. It is to respond to some of the usernames who have posted in this thread, some in direct reply to me. Your username was inserted into the thread within this post and that is why I have responded to you.

I guess other members are enjoying that popcorn now.

You have not explained why you believe I should surely have seen your tags, which you have not identified, or why I should therefore have checked Nominet's list of registrars, or why I should have seen posts on the Nominet Community forum, or how I should have identified such posts as being related to your username on this forum.

You clearly read the forum and have been even though you 'self retired' yourself, as you admitted on the live stream. You would have seen my recent catches that are listed for sale and can easily perform a 5 second lookup search to find out who I am: DJ Wood trading as....

I have quickly worked out that you have issues, but you clearly have the capabilities and time to performing a lookup search.

I cannot recall ever being made aware of your tags (it appears that in the post I cited, from 2020, made by your username, you mention you are not a tag holder). You have also not explained how I should go about deducing that any tags I may find are connected to your username so, to save further time, I invite you to make me and anyone else reading aware of this and any other pertinent information so we can know who you are.

I have already explained this, thanks for the invite, as I said most already know who I am. And sadly, I fear the consequence of you coming out of retirement, will deter any new members from joining anytime soon.

I am a member of the Nominet Community forum but I have not yet posted there and I afford very little time to reading it.

Again rather convenient that, and somewhat hard to believe.

I'll think about it and let you know soon.

I've got a couple of 4 letter suggestions for you if it helps .

 

[seemly]

When I first joined, I remember being eager to visit this site to read any new posts or replies.

Looking through the archives before I joined, it was even better!

Over the years, the threads that turn negative and argumentative seem to share common denominators.

 

[Ben Thomas]

Suggesting that it would take about fifteen seconds for someone you don't and can't know about to find out your real name is absurd. For a start, why would anyone disbelieve that you're called Ben Thomas?

Well, and I don't know if you've overlooked this, but this is a forum. On the internet. Usually, not always, people use aliases or pseudonyms. I would imagine that validating your profile with your real name on display, is absolutely pointless. You could validate someones ID on the backend, and not display it, and still reap the same benefits by adding a "Validated" label to their profile area on the left there. Pretty easy.

 

[DesD]

If the last couple of pages of this thread is a precursor of things to come, then I think the mods had better get their heads together pdq.