The old username has 0 post, but I can merge them if you want
Thx for the apology SourNois, and you don't need to worry about not wearing the tags, just wear em right
Obviously what added to the confusion was that Wongdai obviously seemed confused about what we meant by "Member" (As he vehemently stated that you were in fact, a member) it would seem he took it to mean "Registered Member", when in fact we meant "Full Member", which of course includes making the post, as you have done here
The dramas come from the large amount of people who smurf with TOG tags and cause problems and bring the TOG name into disrepute, this happens across all games, so we take the TOG tags pretty seriously.
As for having a different in-game name, you can go into "UserCP" (Top left) and go to "Edit Profile" and add your in-game tag to the "In-game Alts" field, which is then searchable, so if anyone thinks you are not a member, you can tell them to search your gamer tag in Membersearch>Advanced (To avoid any further issues

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Anyhoo, Welcome to TOG, go and say G'day in the 2142 forum