While browsing the forum, some of you might have come across posts / threads by Guests. For example as in here: http://www.indusladies.com/forums/singles-world/47766-is-this-my-end.html Immediately you must be wondering: How Guests are able to post in the forums? How Guests are having post count credit to their account? Is there any change in the permission for Guests recently so that they are able to post? Here are the answers to the above questions: During the routine cleanup activity, we found some users with invalid E-mail id so as a part of cleaning up, we changed their status to "Guest" so that only if they provide a valid E-mail id will they be able to participate in the forums further. Now coming to the answers: It is not the posts of the Guests, but the post that were made when they were Registered members of the forums. As mentioned the post count to their credit is because of their participation when their status was as active & registered members. No there is no recent change in the permission for Guests - they are not allowed to post or participate in the forums as ever. Once these members change their mailing id to a valid one, their status will also be reverted to "Registered Members".