Should members use their actual names online?

Walterp · Jun 18, 2018

I've always used my name, and others on TFF either do likewise or are happy to self-identify.

Research demonstrates that online opinions and attitudes are more polite, and honest, when this is done.

This wouldn't occur if people used their real names.

It would make the forum a better place.

In the meantime, perhaps 'Rob' will provide his proper name and address so that I may take this issue up with him privately?

jpd · Jun 18, 2018

ye couldnt pronounce mine

boyo · Jun 18, 2018

Walterp said:
I've always used my name,

Why did your parents decide to put a 'P' on the end of walter???

Farmer Roy · Jun 18, 2018

err, my name is Roy
I am a farmer
I have mentioned my full name & address a number of times on this forum
so ????

Nearly · Jun 18, 2018

I use mine, I'm just a really bad speller.

Derrick Hughes · Jun 18, 2018

I tried to change mine but can't work out how to do it , Clive promised to do it for me but nothing done , think these pet names are a load of tosh

bobk · Jun 18, 2018

I use a pseudo , cos I'm a keyboard warrior .

primmiemoo · Jun 18, 2018

I'm shy. It's as simple as that.
My online name is a version of the name given to one confident cow in my late suckler herd which, oddly enough, lends the memory of the confidence she had to me.

YorkshireAndrew · Jun 18, 2018

Derrick Hughes · Jun 18, 2018

bobk said:
I use a pseudo , cos I'm a keyboard warrior .

What are you afraid of .Do you use your real name of Facebook, it would be so nice if I could say Good Morning ...... so much more polite and civilised

Henarar · Jun 18, 2018

not if you don't want to because its not a requirement to join TFF
I do remember one member thought he was really clever when he found out my name, though I would rather be called Steve than Stephen as I told him

Derrick Hughes · Jun 18, 2018

Henarar said:
not if you don't want to because its not a requirement to join TFF
I do remember one member thought he was really clever when he found out my name, though I would rather be called Steve than Stephen as I told him [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

Steve who ?

vantage · Jun 18, 2018

Walterp said:
I've always used my name, and others on TFF either do likewise or are happy to self-identify.

Research demonstrates that online opinions and attitudes are more polite, and honest, when this is done.

I was taken aback to see, today, that I am described by an anonymous poster as struck-off and having a disreputable legal career. It's quite untrue, of course, and any people who know me will know this. But my point is that many others, who do not, will wonder about it.

This wouldn't occur if people used their real names.

It would make the forum a better place.

In the meantime, perhaps 'Rob' will provide his proper name and address so that I may take this issue up with him privately?

Well I agree with you.
But,there is always a but,it won't happen,not because of the odd person on the forum that is unpleasant,more so some person at large with an issue with farmers,think,animal rights,badgerists and more.

Nearly · Jun 18, 2018

boyo said:
Why did your parents decide to put a 'P' on the end of walter???

I always thought it was Walt Erp.

Henarar · Jun 18, 2018

Forage Trader said:
Steve who ?

not saying its top secret and against forum rules for anyone else to say

if you just want to say good morning then good morning steve will suffice

neilo · Jun 18, 2018

bobk said:
I use a pseudo , cos I'm a keyboard warrior .

Your name is every bit as revealing as the OP’s, Richard.

The OP’s Christian name and a letter, is presumably not his ‘actual name’ either?

Ffermer Bach · Jun 18, 2018

I quite like having an actual photo too, so you can see who is actually writing things, and the photo is of me, in front of the cathedral in Saniago de Compostela, in Northern Spain, after I finished the Camino (way of St James)

roscoe erf · Jun 18, 2018

Walterp said:
I've always used my name, and others on TFF either do likewise or are happy to self-identify.

Research demonstrates that online opinions and attitudes are more polite, and honest, when this is done.

This wouldn't occur if people used their real names.

It would make the forum a better place.

In the meantime, perhaps 'Rob' will provide his proper name and address so that I may take this issue up with him privately?

perhaps you should have tagged him @Rob

JP1 · Jun 18, 2018

As the other thread has been modified by me now, I am locking this thread

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