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What is going on with my username, MNHQ?

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VisitTheInfidelWithExplanatory · 02/06/2014 20:54

I changed my username to VisitTheInfidelWithExplanatoryPamphlets and have managed to post with that name once but it keeps going back to this username and dropping the "Pamphlets* :(

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KateSMumsnet · 03/06/2014 10:28


Afraid there's a character limit on nicknames which it looks like you've hit- so you'll have to abbreviate it somehow or think of a new name.
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VisitTheInfidelWithExplanatoryPamphlets · 03/06/2014 16:46

But I have posted with the full name once Confused

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VisitTheInfidelWithExplanatoryPamphlets · 03/06/2014 16:46

Twice now! ^^

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VisitTheInfidelWithExplanatoryPamphlets · 03/06/2014 16:47

Maybe it has fixed itself...

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ExitPursuedByABear · 03/06/2014 16:48

Some of my changes have been scupper end by the letter limit.

Very jealous of your allowance

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BuzzardBird · 03/06/2014 16:48
Grin
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RowanMumsnet · 03/06/2014 17:10

You've actually got both names assigned to your user account - that is, at some point you changed from 'VisitTheInfidelWithExplanatoryPamphlets' to 'VisitTheInfidelWithExplanatory', and your account is treating them as two separate user-names that you're switching between. Are you logging in and out a lot?

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VisitTheInfidelWithExplanatory · 03/06/2014 17:14

It's happened again! I haven't logged out, I haven't even closed this tab, I just went into the kitchen to make dinner Confused
I didn't register the shortest name on purpose, it looked like the longer name was successful but then when I posted the shortened name came up, so I registered the longer name again and it worked for one post. Then I got fed up and went back to my old nn.

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VisitTheInfidelWithExplanatory · 03/06/2014 17:15

Can you remove the shorter name from my profile? Then maybe it will stop switching back?

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RowanMumsnet · 03/06/2014 17:23

Spooky Confused

We've had a look and the full username is indeed ten characters longer than it should be, so there's some glitch in the system that has allowed you to register a too-long name but then keeps taking it away from you.

We've no idea how it's happened tbh but we'll have a look!

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VisitTheInfidelWithExplanatory · 03/06/2014 17:29

Ta very much... :)

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SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 03/06/2014 17:34

At least MNHQ replied to you, Constable Visit - usually people hide behind the couch, don't they? Grin

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BuzzardBird · 03/06/2014 17:36

This is favouritism! I want BuzzardBirdIsTheOriginalBuzzard Grin

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QuietNinjaTardis · 03/06/2014 17:43

I had this once. I registered a name which I used once and then it cut it down an I couldn't get the longer name back again.

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VisitTheInfidelWithExplanatory · 03/06/2014 18:08

STDG Grin I was worried they would close the curtains and switch the lights off tbh!

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KateSMumsnet · 04/06/2014 11:03

Just because I'm nosy, what's the story behind your NN? Why does the infidel have pamphlets? Tell me to bore off if you don't want to explain Grin

Have nothing useful to say about the glitch other than you clearly must be the Chosen One.

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PickledMoomin · 04/06/2014 11:06
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ChaosTrulyReigns · 04/06/2014 11:13

"bore off".

Adjust yourself, KateS, your youthfillness is showing.

Wink

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MrsDmitriTippensKrushnic · 04/06/2014 11:20

Terry Pratchett, Disc World.

Constable VisitTheInfidelWithExplanatoryPamphlets is a member of the City Watch (and he's visiting the infidels, with pamphlets - they don't have them already Grin)

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SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 04/06/2014 11:30

Terry Pratchett describes Constable Visit thus:

"Constable Visit was an Omnian, whose country's traditional approach to evangelism was to put unbelievers to torture and the sword. Things had become a lot more civilised these days, but Omnians still had a strenuous and indefatigable approach to spreading the word, and had merely changed the nature of the weapons. Constable Visit spent his days off in company with his co-religionist Smite-The-Unbeliever-With-Cunning-Arguments, ringing doorbells and causing people to hide behind the furniture everywhere in the city."

And:
"Entire pubs have been known to draw the curtains, turn off the lights and lie on the floor whimpering at news of his coming down the street."

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Poledra · 04/06/2014 11:43
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VisitTheInfidelWithExplanatoryPamphlets · 04/06/2014 17:54

Sorry Kate I missed your Q, but everyone else has explained nicely Grin

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VisitTheInfidelWithExplanatoryPamphlets · 04/06/2014 17:54

oooooh I am the chosen one....

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VisitTheInfidelWithExplanatory · 04/06/2014 18:00

...aaand now it's gone :(

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CinnabarRed · 04/06/2014 18:07

No, you're not the Messiah, you're a very naughty boy!

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