Hi Richard, it is odd. I love a technical problem though. I’m going to twiddle around with this puzzle, not that I’m qualified or necessarily capable. Just intuition about how systems work.
Does anyone have any ideas? Please post or PM me and we’ll see if we can solve this!
I guess all posters are aware now that
if you do post as a Guest, your email is visible to all.
Hi Bliz. I don’t think the board allows you to Log In at the Reply page stage. If you try to log in while replying, the board thinks you’re going to post as a guest – it doesn’t have the facility to log in and reply at the same time.
And if you try to reply with your Member name, the board knows that that name is already taken, so it tells you so – i.e. it won’t allow a Guest poster to use a Member’s name, which is great! (At reply page stage the board doesn’t appear to recognise you from your email address either, so it doesn’t think “ah yes, that is Bliz because that’s her email”. It assumes you’re a guest.)
I’m not sure I’m correct here, but this seems to be the board logic. So: you need to always log in at the top-left box: never at reply or post stage.
Hope that makes some kind of sense!
Hiya Sela. I bet you were writing your reply while Bliz was posting hers? – there’s only 5 minutes between your posts. Are you a two-fingered typist like me? Sometimes I write a reply and another three replies have appeared in the meantime! Oh and the other daft thing I do is reply to a thread without noticing that there’s a page 2 to read….embarrassing
