I agree Suzy. The more the merrier I say. It's lovely to see some of the old names back.
As for "new members"...if you're going to come back with a new name, no one would care as long as you just tried to blend in naturally, but it's a bit hard to stomach when people who've been using this place for over a year, come back with a new name and then act dumb and start asking you how to quote.
And then to make it worse, when they're confronted they try and make that person out to be a liar even though they have already PM'd people to tell them who they are.
This kind of stuff makes people crabby and then even genuine new people are given a hard time. I think that's a real shame.
I think it's even
more important now we're a smaller, cosier, and tbh... more friendly forum, that people realise the impact of alternate ID's. Do it if you wish.... but for gawds sake be subtle!!