Applies to: Ministry Members ONLY. (Associate members can only post using their Real Name)
You can use either your Real Name, your Screen Name or be anonymous when posting in the Forums.
Real Name or Screen Name
The authors of the original post and any replies are shown to in the left column and will display Real Name or Screen Name as chosen by the person posting each contribution.
Real Name: use this when you don’t need privacy/confidentiality within the Forums.
Screen Name: we encourage you to use this when you need privacy/confidentiality within the Forums.
Anonymous
Please only post anonymously when you need complete privacy/confidentiality and don’t want your post in one thread in the Forums to be able to be linked to other posts you have made. (Note: Hub Administrators are able to discover the identity of anonymous posters)
If you start a new thread using ‘anonymous’ then you will appear as ‘anonymous OP‘ in that thread (OP = original poster), including any follow-up posts.
If you post an anonymous reply (or replies) in a particular thread, you will appear as ‘anonymous’ followed by a number (e.g. anonymous 1, anonymous 2, etc). Each user posting anonymously in that thread will have a different number. This helps follow contributions within a forum thread if there are multiple anonymous posts from different users.
The anonymous numbering restarts from 1 again for each thread where there are anonymous replies.