Well done Ian for stamping your little feet
Due to this forum I have been lucky to meet many of its members while out birding and its always nice to know their real name as well as their nicknames.

One of my nicknames that my daughter calls me is the gentleman on the left ,something to do with the lack of hair I hope

Fact is Tim, that every user of this forum was asked to make their username their 'real name' from the very first post, if they didn't read that post (which appears at the top of the forum) asking for this then? I'm not interested in what other forums do, I've seen Birdforum get dafter and dafter with people calling each other by their often ridiculous usernames, this is a small county and anonymity is just not necessary. The fact that people don't know each others real names is in fact slightly disturbing, more evidence of how un-personal we're becoming, you know the sort of thing, a text or email when a 'phone call would have been easier and quicker, or is that just me getting old

Anyway, if any one has any real isuues using their real name then please get in touch with me privately and I'll see what we can do, otherwise use what ever name you like on your signature. Real nicknames aren't a problem, the likes of Warfy, Riggers etc especially if that's what you get called when your out birding (which they do), but given the names I'm getting called at the moment I won't add mine




-- Edited by Ian McKerchar at 09:45, 2008-01-11

Interesting Paul, looks like we have lost our unique-ness now on this forum thanks to one or two silly names appearing, at least we will have it still on our other forums we use.

Apologies not necessary 'king o ginge' (great email address ), this forum is entirely supposed to be for it's users but every so often I might have a little strop and stamp me little feet

As you already know Warfy , I had no problem with certain usernames but the more entirely odd and irrelevant ones are more widespread than you think, user names are merely that, names you use to log on, it's your signature that matters so change that to what you want. Which in your case should read 'Warfy junior'

Hmm, seems to have ruffled a few feathers using 'real' names but rather than being all 'deadly serious' this forum, unlike others, takes sightings and uses them for the definative county records so your posts are being put to some other use besides informing others of what about or what you've seen. I have to say that I don't think it's fair to accuse me of being over serious or of frowning on joviality when all I ask is for users to use thier real names so we know who is who when people claim sightings (it's not as if I didn't make people aware of this before registering), you can call yourself absolutely what you like on your signature at the end of each of your messages (automatically appears) by clicking on your name and clicking signature on the left of the screen.

I am and always have been very appreciative of what the users to this forum have done and of how successful they have made it, it was once a very small dream and now has become a full blown, ever increasing reality but the anonymity of other forums has always tasted sour to me, perhaps I'm old fashioned (yes, I hear you!) but I like to know the name of the person I'm communicating with.

warfy/warford? sounds similar at least..less can be said for "the ginger wheasel"

come on then ive been intrigued as to where rezMole originates from?

-- Edited by Simon Warford at 22:54, 2008-01-09

RIP Warfy

My apologies for the inconvienience caused by this but the end result will enable easier communication and easier integration of records form this forum into the county database. Perhaps I should have clamped down sooner but well, there you go...