Regarding the postings by "Unregistered Guests"

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There are a number of reasons that I set the Forum up so that "Unregistered Guests" are able to post.

#1 As an encouragement to current Local Church members to post. Some have taken advantage of this by posting in a "hit and run" fashion, and that's ok as far as I'm concerned.

#2 For those people who may be sitting on the fence, who may want to dialog with former members regarding the teachings, practice and history, yet remain as anonymous as possible.

#3 Interested third parties. These may be people who are relatives or friends of current Local Church members. They may be seeking information and/or advise regarding the LC movement.

From the opening module on the main page:"If you plan on making more then a few posts, we do recommend that you register". I wrote this specifically so as to discourage a person (in any of the 3 aforementioned categories) from taking advantage of the system by making a lot of posts as an "Unregistered Guest".

Admittedly, there are a number of people who are taking advantage of the system and making multiple posts as "Unregistered Guests". I have good reason to believe that some of these people are already registered members, but are choosing to post as an "Unregistered Guest". This is really testing my patience - it takes my time because every one of these posts has to be reviewed and approved by me before they appear on the forum. This is a safeguard within the forum software so that spammers and pornographers cannot have unfettered access to the forum threads.

There is actually a way for somebody to post as an unregistered person, yet still give themselves a temporary UserName. When these people post, there is a field there at the top for them to enter a UserName. I wish these people would at least put in a UserName so that everyone knows who they are. At some point I think I am going to require this for people who post as a guest for more then just a couple of times.