re: name ()
When you post, below the main posting window is a Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post).
You probably have a space (space) in that tagline box. Delete any space or character(s) in that box and the () should disappear.
I thought I had checked that, but maybe I didn’t.
Thanks for the tip TomGuy!
Double thanks for the tagline information.
I searched every Help page on Free Republic a few days ago trying to figure out how to post on it.
LOL - I have published thousands of Comments at FR, and I completely forgot it is just half an inch below the Reply Box!
I shudda read ahead!