# Bizarre happenings when I tried to post **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 29, 2001, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-happenings-when-i-tried-to-post/84456 "2001-09-29T04:39:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-happenings-when-i-tried-to-post/84456/1 "2001-09-29T04:39:00Z")
Not at my computer, (not that it matters, I suppose) but was logged in as moi, I open a thread, hit reply, and a screen popped up saying (may have the wording slightly wrong) “our records indicate you’re logged in as” me, then gave me two options - one was something about ‘did you forget your password’ or did you want to check your profile? Neither, thanks. What did I do??? wha’ happened??? ( I went back to the basic screen logged out and logged back in again.) ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-happenings-when-i-tried-to-post/84456/2 "2001-09-29T04:49:09Z")
Apparently this is obvious to others, but not me. Why were you logged in as moi when you’re wring? ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-happenings-when-i-tried-to-post/84456/3 "2001-09-29T04:50:49Z")
She was logged in as “herself”, i.e. "moi. Hey, spooky. Ms.Whatsit had something like this happen to her earlier today. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=89979](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=89979) > [@](#): > > OK, I just hit the main page of the SDMB, and the little thing at the top said, “Welcome back, JayLa! Your last visit was Sept. 27!” (I didn’t note the exact time.) > > Well, my user name is not JayLa, it’s MsWhatsit. I went to the edit profile login page, then rethought, and decided to reload the front page again. When I reloaded the front page, it correctly recognized me as MsWhatsit. > > I am the only person who uses this computer. What the heck just happened there? Techs? ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-happenings-when-i-tried-to-post/84456/4 "2001-09-29T05:04:32Z")
Sorry, didn’t mean to be obscure. Yea, the board suddenly seemed to have decided that I’d re-logged in or something. Thank goodness the **DDG** was here with her ‘wring/tech tech/wring’ translator. 😃 Here, **DDG** have some Good N Plenty’s. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-happenings-when-i-tried-to-post/84456/5 "2001-09-30T05:09:01Z")
Okay, unless you’re in the same building as MsWhatsit and JayLa and them, then that’s just plain weird. Lemme kick this over to the techs, no promise of what, if anything, they may find, but let’s see. your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-happenings-when-i-tried-to-post/84456/6 "2001-10-01T16:32:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TubaDiva \* > \*\*Okay, unless you’re in the same building as MsWhatsit and JayLa and them, then that’s just plain weird. > > Lemme kick this over to the techs, no promise of what, if anything, they may find, but let’s see. > > your humble TubaDiva > Administrator \*\* Tho’ there are other SDMB’ers in my city (general Lansing area), I can confidently state that there ain’t another one in the building I was in at that point(unless the dance studio upstairs had someone logging on during their fox trot) 😃 However, SO mentioned to me that he’d thought about registering simply to post after any random posting of mine (something like “you’re just a doody head… are you free for dinner?”) but he didn’t. However, I routinely ‘log off’ when I’m using his computer (wouldn’t do at ALL for him to accidently post as me- I’m much cuter). and, I’d been all over the board on that occasion, in, out of threads etc. w/o that happening. I’m willing to chaulk it up to sun spots, tho’.