From Psychcentral's terms of use: "Member" means any person who accesses PsychCentral.com or the Psych Central Network, or establishes an account ("Account") for access to and use of any of the websites contained within the Psych Central Network. The Psych Central Network includes PsychCentral.com, the Psych Central communities (including the Forums at Psych Central and NeuroTalk), the Psych Central Blogs, Psych Central Answers, and other websites that carry the Psych Central designation and are owned by Liviant LLC."

Does this really mean that a random person who clicks on or reads anything on Psychcentral is a member without opening an account, and is subject to the same terms of use as me, an account holder?

Wanting to go nderstanding. Not very good with understanding legal stuff. Thanks in advance.

Wanting to bump this up in the hope that I can get a better understanding of what it actually means.

[lizardlady]

Hopefully someone in admin will answer your question, but I thought people had to join (open and account) in order to view posts. If that's true, they would have to be a member to view posts.

If you don't get an answer to your question here, how about PMing admin?

Originally Posted by lizardlady

Hopefully someone in admin will answer your question, but I thought people had to join (open and account) in order to view posts. If that's true, they would have to be a member to view posts.

If you don't get an answer to your question here, how about PMing admin?

And letting us know the answer. I'm curious too.

Originally Posted by lizardlady

Hopefully someone in admin will answer your question, but I thought people had to join (open and account) in order to view posts. If that's true, they would have to be a member to view posts.

If you don't get an answer to your question here, how about PMing admin?

And no, you can view posts without an account. I think you can even post without an account, then it'll show as Anonymous#.

[sabby]

One can only read certain areas of the forums without an account. No one without an account can post and no one without an account has access to member profiles, pm's or private forums.

The Anonymous accounts that you see are members who asked for their accounts to be deleted. This is how they show up after deletion.

I don't believe that anyone who clicks onto the Psych Central Site is a member, one has to create an account to become a member. But I am not the legal eagle here and probably shouldn't answer this question of yours.

[DocJohn]

Terms of use is a legal agreement and we use terms in there that are necessary to differentiate a user of the website versus one who has an account. We use the term "member" there instead of "user" as it was just a word preference choice.

I know it's confusing, but it's not the same thing as what we consider members of the community (anyone who registers an account with us).

We will work on making this less confusing in some future version. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

DocJohn