Don't be sorry - it's an excellent reminder
of why we cannot as of a general rule allow multiple accounts. It also describes - and it's been out there for two years - the reason for the "sheepbingo" account.
Note - as Administrator, I get a whole load of extra admin controls and information when I log in. In order to test the forum from an ordinary user's perspective and to test the security, I do have a second account; should I even complete a post from it (it's zero posts at the moment) that post will clearly state that it's me testing.
And you will note that I clearly stated as specified
On a more serious note, Ollie, that thread shows a historic exchange where a registered member appears to be coming back on points in a pedantic way and doing just about everything that's possible for him to do to make the administrator and moderator's job a misery. The moderator team has an incredible patience where a newer members actions unwittingly generate misery and heartache. We have rather less patience if a newer member settles into habitual ways that generate inordinate support work, in spite of polite explanations and requests to ease up / amend those habits. And we can have very little patience indeed with any member who decides to intentionally generates significant extra support work, especially if we know or feel that there's malice involved.
The software we run on the forum provides a very wide number of options that we can turn on or off, and there were hard decisions to make as we set up the site as to what to allow. On one hand, we want to provide an easy interface that steers newcomers into good practise and doesn't give them lots of dangerous buttons. But on the other hand, we want some of those buttons to be available for more established 'hands' to be able to use on appropriate occasions. Those hard decisions were made three years ago, and are kept under review. The usual decision is "leave as is", but we do have a very different metric these days, and I (as the technical admin, if you like to call it that) have to be able to see just what the newcomer sees. The alternative to "sheepbingo" is to make any changes (if necessary) without having tested them thoroughly first ...
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