There will be a few teething problems for sure sam - there always is when a site goes through big changes, but hopefully they will be minimal and worth the inconvienience
OK - it's late and I have partaken in a wine or two - BUT - what is a 'sock puppet' ??
Also - if I think I understand the question correctly - name changes happened on the other style of forum and this is what is so good about this i.e. Mkey (yeah OK I am picking on him) or others - could use a name and it would be 'you'. That is the great thing about this new style - it gives you a 'protected' identity. For exampe I saw a 'Kim' had posted once, thus giving her some 1K plus postings ...
OK - it's late and I have partaken in a wine or two - BUT - what is a 'sock puppet' ??
Also - if I think I understand the question correctly - name changes happened on the other style of forum and this is what is so good about this i.e. Mkey (yeah OK I am picking on him) or others - could use a name and it would be 'you'. That is the great thing about this new style - it gives you a 'protected' identity. For exampe I saw a 'Kim' had posted once, thus giving her some 1K plus postings when in fact she was a new poster. I am Kim and it was my 'number of postings' she picked up thru her name so - YES - if you choose a NEW name - even on the old style forum - it will not KNOW - that it is you and that you had posted many times before!!!
Does that make sense - I know what I mean!!
I like this new style and think it is well overdue - for exactly that reason - no way now can Mikey (or others) pretend to be posting as someone they are not!
Pamp' Pete, What I meant by post 166 is that on some forums some posters go as far as creating additional logins to voice support for their current argument. It's a very sad way for a person to make their opinion seem more valid by using 'sock-puppet' ID's to lend support.