Thanks but we're not talking anything hugely egregious: more credit card hacks than I can count (not my account specifically but the provider), people claiming to be me, using photos of mine as theirs, that kinda stuff.
You have every right to your anonymity - and to change your signature...I'm sorry if this hasn't been the case here...you need to check your profile too
I regard profiles as sort of, well, binding documents that exist for "legal" reasons. At least that's how I saw it a dozen years ago when I first registered! Now, however, having just spot-checked a few here on AJB, I realize I'm pretty much the only member stupid enough to think that! So, Paul (See! See what I'm doing there!), at your suggestion, I changed it.
I dunno if my profile is where members get my name; I can honestly say that with the possible exception of checking a profile in order to include an appropriate salutation on an eMail, I've never checked one so I could address a member by name in a forum. I presume that someone read, say, Nick or Markus calling me by name (which, while I'm not crazy about it, I accept as we buy and sell from one another) and another member picked-up on that and another from him and so on.
In a complete coincidence, this comes at exactly the same time as facebook requiring all members use real names. Not that fb is the final authority but, well, so goes fb, so goes other social media. While this is taking way more time and energy than I anticipated (or the subject deserves) I'm interested to see how it plays out on other sites.
Apology unnecessary; again, it's largely a pet peeve, clearly not everyone's take, and until it was raised here, you could not have known that.
I'm hardly going to tell someone to "knock it off" but hopefully I've now nipped it in the bud.
I will note though, Higgins, that you can see my conundrum: You can call me by name but, having just checked the profile, my only option for you is ... Higgins.
You can call me Higgie-Baby )
President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Sir MilesThe Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 26,519Chief of Staff
You have every right to your anonymity - and to change your signature...I'm sorry if this hasn't been the case here...you need to check your profile too
I regard profiles as sort of, well, binding documents that exist for "legal" reasons. At least that's how I saw it a dozen years ago when I first registered! Now, however, having just spot-checked a few here on AJB, I realize I'm pretty much the only member stupid enough to think that! So, Paul (See! See what I'm doing there!), at your suggestion, I changed it.
To be honest, I'm not bothered if people know my name or not - Paul is a very common name though and can cause confusion ( there are two Mods called Paul and, at school, there were six of us in one class !)...I only removed my surname a few years ago - not that it matters as it's a very common name...mine is the second most common name in the UK...but I hope you are all sorted now
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Silhouette ManThe last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,673MI6 Agent
You have every right to your anonymity - and to change your signature...I'm sorry if this hasn't been the case here...you need to check your profile too
I regard profiles as sort of, well, binding documents that exist for "legal" reasons. At least that's how I saw it a dozen years ago when I first registered! Now, however, having just spot-checked a few here on AJB, I realize I'm pretty much the only member stupid enough to think that! So, Paul (See! See what I'm doing there!), at your suggestion, I changed it.
I dunno if my profile is where members get my name; I can honestly say that with the possible exception of checking a profile in order to include an appropriate salutation on an eMail, I've never checked one so I could address a member by name in a forum. I presume that someone read, say, Nick or Markus calling me by name (which, while I'm not crazy about it, I accept as we buy and sell from one another) and another member picked-up on that and another from him and so on.
In a complete coincidence, this comes at exactly the same time as facebook requiring all members use real names. Not that fb is the final authority but, well, so goes fb, so goes other social media. While this is taking way more time and energy than I anticipated (or the subject deserves) I'm interested to see how it plays out on other sites.
This is exactly what I used to think after I signed up as Silhouette Man on CBn Forums in May 2002 before I decided to remove my real name from my signature the following year.
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
Sir MilesThe Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 26,519Chief of Staff
I also kind of think you should use your real first name in your profile...but that's only my thinking...
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Thanks but we're not talking anything hugely egregious: more credit card hacks than I can count (not my account specifically but the provider), people claiming to be me, using photos of mine as theirs, that kinda stuff.
I regard profiles as sort of, well, binding documents that exist for "legal" reasons. At least that's how I saw it a dozen years ago when I first registered! Now, however, having just spot-checked a few here on AJB, I realize I'm pretty much the only member stupid enough to think that! So, Paul (See! See what I'm doing there!), at your suggestion, I changed it.
I dunno if my profile is where members get my name; I can honestly say that with the possible exception of checking a profile in order to include an appropriate salutation on an eMail, I've never checked one so I could address a member by name in a forum. I presume that someone read, say, Nick or Markus calling me by name (which, while I'm not crazy about it, I accept as we buy and sell from one another) and another member picked-up on that and another from him and so on.
In a complete coincidence, this comes at exactly the same time as facebook requiring all members use real names. Not that fb is the final authority but, well, so goes fb, so goes other social media. While this is taking way more time and energy than I anticipated (or the subject deserves) I'm interested to see how it plays out on other sites.
You can call me Higgie-Baby
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
To be honest, I'm not bothered if people know my name or not - Paul is a very common name though and can cause confusion ( there are two Mods called Paul and, at school, there were six of us in one class !)...I only removed my surname a few years ago - not that it matters as it's a very common name...mine is the second most common name in the UK...but I hope you are all sorted now
This is exactly what I used to think after I signed up as Silhouette Man on CBn Forums in May 2002 before I decided to remove my real name from my signature the following year.
Sure...it was a general observation though...not specific to yourself...