We are seeing situations where people have for one reason or another let their subscriptions expire, or they didn’t subscribe the first time around, and then they wish to return to the board now.
If this is you, great, we’re happy you came on back. Here’s the right way to do it:
Don’t re-register, don’t start another user name. Sign in under the old one.
If you don’t remember your old password or email address, we’ll help you figure it out and get you restarted. Then you can subscribe.
If after we get you restarted and you subscribe you’d like to change your user name we can do that too, that’s not a problem.
But it needs to be one registration to a person and a continuity of postings under one name.
If you have somehow screwed up and you do have old user names you have abandoned, let us know; we’d prefer to merge everything into one user name. There’s no penalty to you for coming forward if you are a subscribing member.
On the other hand if we find someone who has abused the 30 day free trial with serial registrations, we ban that user in all names, that’s how this works. So paying up and coming clean is always the best policy.