Thanks for bringing up the question, Maje. It's actually a potential issue for the site staff, as well, in that the CF rules forbid having more than one account. The logic behind that
rule, however, is to prevent a
single individual from "talking" to himself in a thread, playing good cop / bad cop to stir up trouble.
When a couple creates two separate accounts from the same computer, the site
software will catch this and the site staff will need to sort it out. In the case of a couple doing that, we understand. We even have a pair of members in
Australia who share the same computer but who take turns working on ships while the other stays home. One of the pair is in something of a running battle with another Australian
member and delights in winding him up.
That
member, of course, is convinced that the two are, in fact, one person with a split personality and two accounts, and wants them (him? her?) banned from the Forum. In spite of our exhaustive
research to prove to our satisfaction that that is not true, he refuses to believe it.
When a
single individual does have more than one account, we delete the secondary account(s) and assign all posts to the single surviving account, giving the person his / her choice in deciding which account survives.
You can see the potential embarrassment that a member may feel when posts that he / she would prefer weren't associated with him / her are consolidated under a single account.
It's something members might want to thing about before registering a second (or more) account.
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