Suggestions

David


there are probably many more than 3 Davids on this site, not just the 3 of you


and there always have been .................... I'm guessing that you were not the first David to become a member, and possibly not even the first one to post!


why don't you pre-empt GR, and decide on what YOU would like to differentiate between you and all the others?



Looking at the speed at which GR are responding to the suggestions on this thread ....................... it's likey to take years before they actually do anything




and just think of how appreciative we would all be if we knew which one we were "talking" to, or helping.



I added "InCanada" to my name only a couple of months after I joined in 2004 because there are other Sylvias on this site, and I wanted to be identifiable as ME.




sylvia

Ive only ever used David because that's my name.
I could change to David 001

But would it not not be better to ask the other two to be 002 and 003?

very good suggestion, Janey


It's pretty annoying to have to keep clicking on names to check whether David is David or another David, if you understand what I mean!

There are three posters all named "David" on page 1 of the Living Relatives board at this moment alone.

Why are users still being permitted to register without choosing a *unique* boardname so they are identifiable to other users, without them having to click on their username to learn their full name (if they have not had the sense to conceal it), or check/take note of user registration numbers, etc.?

What other discussion board site in the known universe permits multiple users to use the same on-screen name on their posts?

This obviously is not of any interest to the site management, which has ready access to account registration details for all users, e.g.

It is a major irritation for paying users.

There have been upsets over the years when users were mistaken for other users because of identical usernames. (I was a victim of one such mistake, when I used the boardname the system assigned to me, without thinking, and it turned out to belong also to another poster who had recently distressed someone.)

It's very simple.

One username per person, one person per username.

Old accounts -- all the hundreds of Julies and Michaels and so on -- would simply have to be assigned something like their member number instead of their current username, until they altered it, just as one quick suggestion.