I’ve gotten accustomed to old threads showing various posters I knew as guests. And, of course, accustomed to new posters as guests as well. However, it strikes me odd when during an active thread, suddenly some on who has been posting, oh, say 2 days ago, suddenly turns up as “guest”.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=442346&page=6
as in **magellan01 ** in this thread. their join date is in July 21 2004- shouldn’t that, therefore, be the ‘sign up again’ date? as in, if they’d let their subscription lapse, they’d revert back to guest. wouldn’t have thought there were ‘partial year’ sign ups. don’t see a ‘goodbye cruel dope’ post recently.
was’ the deal?