# Quick Reply Login **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 13, 2003, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-reply-login/154738 "2003-02-13T02:37:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-reply-login/154738/1 "2003-02-13T02:37:19Z")
Hiya folks, I’ve often used the login thing under the quick reply, just punching the letter ‘w’ into every field and hitting “Reply”. It’s never actually posted anything, because it never worked right; it’d just lead to another page where you can punch your username in and log on and have it actually log you in. Anyway, if that wasn’t too convoluted, in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=157740&pagenumber=5) it worked for the first time ever. Was this feature recently fixed, or did I manage to make it work through some odd browser quirk of resubmittal on the back button? ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-reply-login/154738/2 "2003-02-13T02:38:56Z")
Sorry, nope. Just tested it on this thread, and it failed as usual. Must have been a fluke. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-reply-login/154738/3 "2003-02-13T04:33:35Z")
w I’m already logged in, but I wanted to do that anyway. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-reply-login/154738/4 "2003-02-13T11:47:43Z")
From [FAQ - technical issues - please read this BEFORE posting a question](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?&threadid=103503): > [@](#): > > Q: Why doesn’t it work when I try to log in at the quick reply box? > A: I don’t know. It doesn’t appear to work at other boards that have the quick reply either. If someone figures out a fix, we’ll implement it. I could remove all the login info altogether, but we thought that it would be useful to show the poster’s name by the reply window, to hopefully cut down on people sharing computers posting under the wrong username. > Do **not** use the Quick Reply box unless your username appears as the logged in user under the reply field. ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-reply-login/154738/5 "2003-02-13T21:27:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mangetout \* > \*\*From [FAQ - technical issues - please read this BEFORE posting a question](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?&threadid=103503): \*\* “Thanks”, **Mangetout** , I have read it. And I beleive the ‘Do not use’ is there because it will lose your post if you’re not logged in, not because it will cause some harm. I was just saying that it always had lost my posts as I wanted it too, and was just a convenient way of logging in, except that time where it didn’t lose my post. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-reply-login/154738/6 "2003-02-13T22:54:43Z")
The way I usually do it is to open the **Straight Dope Message Board** link (at the top of the page) in a new window, log in, then everything should be tickety-boo; rather too often I have clicked on the ‘back’ button to find that my browser decides to reload the page, discarding my carefully-crafted post. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-reply-login/154738/7 "2003-02-13T23:27:26Z")
Is it possible that your username and password both begin with a “w”, and Windows (or whatever you use) remember the previous entries, filled them out, and as a consequence you logged on effectively? ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-reply-login/154738/8 "2003-02-13T23:27:46Z")
I subscribe to threads. I often access the Dope from computer labs, so I’m always logged out. If I open a thread from the link in an e-mail, it doesn’t know I’m me, and if I just closed the window afterward it wouldn’t send me a new e-mail when new posts were made. So reading the thread, I’m already at the bottom of the page, and would then punch ‘w’ into the fields and hit submit, and it’d then give me the login page. It always discarded my carefully crafted ‘w’; I was depending on that. When it didn’t, I was curious if it had finally been fixed. I wasn’t asking for help, just curious if something had changed.The second post in this thread proved that it hadn’t. Despite having a seventh as many posts as you, I assure you that I am capable of using the board. ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-reply-login/154738/9 "2003-02-13T23:30:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > **Is it possible that your username and password both begin with a “w”, and Windows (or whatever you use) remember the previous entries, filled them out, and as a consequence you logged on effectively?** No, don’t use windows, dont’t use autofill, and my password doesn’t start with w. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-reply-login/154738/10 "2003-02-13T23:36:21Z")
All right. So much for _my_ expertise. You’ll have to wait until **Winkelried** comes home from his job as a rocket scientist. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-reply-login/154738/11 "2003-02-13T23:51:11Z")
As far as I’m concerned, it’s already resolved. The second post proved that it wasn’t fixed, so it must have just been a browser burble. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-reply-login/154738/12 "2003-02-14T00:31:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wikkit \* > \*\*I assure you that I am capable of using the board. \*\* If I implied otherwise, it was entirely unintentional; my apologies. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-reply-login/154738/13 "2003-02-14T01:30:18Z")
I find that Mozilla (and I assume Netscape) doesn’t erase my posts if I have to log in from the quick-reply box. If I get logged out unexpectedly while browsing the boards, and I go to post something, I’ll get the login page, then the “no thread specified”, and I am still able to hit “back” and get my post, ready to submit. I have never been able to do this with IE.