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It is just me or is anyone else confused about the name situation on the site. On the gallery people use their actual names. Then some use a different name on the forum and then go and use yet another different name if they have a blog!
My poor addled brain can't cope with all these aliases. I just call myself 'Thea' on all areas of the site, because that's my name. Seems obvious to me but others clearly think differently.
I think it would be a great deal simpler if everyone just used their proper name and then you could link together the gallery, forum and blog as belonging to one person.
But what is the reasoning behind all these monikers?
P S I often can't tell from the aliases if people are men or women either? All very confusing.