PM me and I will change your username for you, no worries.
Like pretty much every forum, RYL does allow search engines to spider threads and many people have found RYL or been helped by it after finding their questions answered in a post here. Of course every post has whatever name you choose on it, so will show up.
This being the internet, I would never advise that anyone uses their real name or put anything they would not be happy strangers knowing about.
A vast number of people who join RYL do so after 'lurking' for a while, often not ready or scared to join and start posting.
So while there are disadvantages in the fact you have to use an alias on RYL (as on any other site) rather than your real name, having RYL open to all, members or not is really the only way it can work - especially when RYL is free and easy to join anyway.
Certain forums, such as the events and picture forums are not viewable by guests, or even brand new members to protect the identities and privacy of members, but unfortunately shutting RYL up to members read only would be very unfair to a lot of people, and mean many people would lose out on help they might really need.
Hope that explains :)
Harley
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