Ricky,
Now that I know you are "threadless" I can address you by your real name! (well I knew your real name before, but that's not the point...)
In case some of you might be confused, you will see posts from me under two different names
The difference is that posts by
Bill Meier are posts with me running with all privileges, i.e. that of administrator. You probably will not see these posts very often.
I will generally be posting under
Hemingray. That account has the typical privileges that all of you do. I found that I would get a superset view of the board if I was looking at it with administrator privileges, and I wanted to be sure I was looking at it then way the general user was looking at it.
For example, I had locked the topics on the
main page so people had to put posts into one of the predefined forums we had setup up, and not be able to add new topics at that level. While it still says the forum is locked, for the list of Forum Permissions at the bottom, it does say (in part) ...
You
can post new topics in this forum.
That is exactly what I didn't want to allow! However, that option only appeared when I was an administrator... so I made Hemingray to give me a more "normal" view of the forum. Also this way, I don't do something "accidentally" which should be something managed by an administrator.
Like as administrator, I can edit any ones post. I might do this accidentally... when I meant to edit mine or something. A safe guard so I don't do something stupid
I hope this makes some sense, or at least allows you to associate the two names with me. Note this is probably not an issue for those who are moderators. If I need to do something "super privileged" I just switch and log into
Bill Meier.
Ricky probably should do the same. Create a name with administer privileges, and then set
threadless to just have normal forum access like all the other people do. Only a suggestion Ricky, you are the main manager of the board!
If nothing else, understand that I have two names you will see. Of course, clicking on either will show a real name of
Bill Meier.
Sorry for rambling but perhaps there is something of value here...
P.S. Yes, I'm using some of the special "BBCodes" to do bolding and make lists and links
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