# "Unregistered"? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 13, 2002, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unregistered/128242 "2002-09-13T07:51:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unregistered/128242/1 "2002-09-13T07:51:59Z")
I was just looking at a thread where it said “unregistered” had posted last. When I went in the thread, the only person to have posted was **I am Sparticus**. I then went to the forum and the next thread down said it had also been posted in by **I am Sparticus**. But the original thread still said it was posted by “unregistered”. I then clicked on “unregistered’s” profile, and it took me to **I am Sparticus** ’ profile. Hmm. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unregistered/128242/2 "2002-09-13T08:09:14Z")
Have a look here, from the FAQ: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1996510#post1996510](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1996510#post1996510) In another thread, **Coldfire** explained it thusly: > [@](#): > > Happened to me yesterday. Specifically, it happens when you use the quick reply box, hit “Submit”, and the boards have somehow logged you out in the meantime. You log in, the post is submitted, and the forum index lists you as “Unregistered”. ---
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unregistered/128242/3 "2002-09-13T08:29:51Z")
Ahh. Okay. I thought something sinister had happened to him. 😃 ---
**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 13, 2002, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unregistered/128242/4 "2002-09-13T19:14:55Z")
BWAHAHAHAHA! Sorry. your humble TubaDiva It didn’t happen and you didn’t read this. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unregistered/128242/5 "2002-09-13T22:00:23Z")
:giggles: ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2002, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unregistered/128242/6 "2002-10-13T04:31:34Z")
For the longest time I though there was a poster named Unregistered. I thought this until just now, when this happened to one of my posts. Boy am I glad I searched ATMB and found this thread, instead of making a fool of myself and asking. What a minute. . . . ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2002, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unregistered/128242/7 "2002-10-13T05:01:10Z")
And when it logs me out before I hit “Submit,” it just loses my post entirely. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2002, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unregistered/128242/8 "2002-10-13T05:20:41Z")
Actually what happened was I posted in quick reply and got the “you are not registered” message. I logged on from there then hit back a few times, posted that and Voila! Unregistered. ---
**Author:** ![Melandry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Melandry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melandry)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unregistered/128242/9 "2002-10-21T02:22:48Z")
What exactly is going on in the Pit, though, where the front page says the last post in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=140335) was made by “Unregistered by name, unregistered by nature. I am” but then in the thread itself, it was made by **savoir vivrette**? Completely odd, and annoying, too, as it has messed with the formatting of the Pit’s front page. ---
**Author:** ![Melandry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Melandry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melandry)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unregistered/128242/10 "2002-10-21T02:24:02Z")
I just refreshed and it’s gone now, but have a screenshot, somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unregistered/128242/11 "2002-10-21T02:48:19Z")
**Melandry** , I just saw that. And when I clicked on the username, it said **RTFirefly**. I also sent him an email, thinking he’d been hacked or something. That just flipped me right the h-e-double toothpick out. If I shouldn’t have emailed him, I apologize, but man, I was really not expecting to see a longtime user’s profile there. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unregistered/128242/12 "2002-10-21T02:49:35Z")
Same thing happened to me when I hit “view new posts”. Hopefully someone will kindly request **Unregistered by name/nature** to please shorten his/her name. hmmmm? ---
**Author:** ![Melandry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Melandry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melandry)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unregistered/128242/13 "2002-10-21T02:50:57Z")
It stopped doing it to me when RTFirefly posted, **SilkyThreat**. [Here’s](http://people.bu.edu/drh/unregistered_screenshot.jpg) the screenshot, if anyone cares. ---
**Author:** ![Melandry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Melandry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melandry)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unregistered/128242/14 "2002-10-21T02:52:56Z")
Oh, and when I clicked on the username, it linked me to **savoir vivrette** ’s profile. ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unregistered/128242/15 "2002-10-21T02:59:23Z")
Well, I feel like an idiot, but it really rattled me. I wouldn’t even have checked the name at all if it had just said, “Unregistered”, because I knew that happens sometimes. But it was under a real username when I pulled up **RT** ’s profile. Coincidence, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unregistered/128242/16 "2002-10-21T15:12:24Z")
Isn’t there a user called “Unregistered”? ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unregistered/128242/17 "2002-10-21T18:33:07Z")
Sometimes the last poster shown for the thread on the main forum page is not the same as the last poster that actually posted in the thread. It’s explained in the “technical issues” FAQ which I encourage everyone to read. ---
**Author:** ![PhiloVance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@PhiloVance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhiloVance)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2002, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unregistered/128242/18 "2002-10-22T07:46:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Libertarian \* > \*\*Isn’t there a user called “Unregistered”? \*\* If there isn’t, there should be. That’s a great name. 😃 🆒 [sub]…but it’s probably a ‘reserved word’[/sub]