Thank you for clarifying.

Yes, thank you, that was something I wasn’t a 100% sure about as well!

That's good to know thanks.

I'm interpreting it differently, probably too literally (i.e. "Only CoS Members may post" = "Only CoS Members may create threads and reply to them"). I've asked Magister Ventrue for clarification.

Yeah same here you guys. I was the one that replied and had LKRice make this post.

I told the other posters to let this guy continue to speak of his new "discovery" or a different path or something.

I told them that it would be amusing since alot of people who enter topics about finding their new enlightment in demonic incarnation or finding some ancient path of some kind.

I sent her a private message asking her to excuse me and that I wouldn't post there anymore.

Probably wise. I sort of assumed if it's in public, the restriction is just to prevent nonmembers from using it as a promotional platform.

However I got in trouble for responding...

No biggie. I sure don't want to break any rules so it's a good thing to ask Magister Ventrue.

If you look at the irony here like I am, you're probably laughing right now.

However I won't be a victim to Solipsism. I thought it was funny at least if nobody else thinks it is.

If you know of some written document that spells it all out, feel free to point it out. Also, any moderator able to moderate that forum has precedence over me and their judgement comes first.

So what was the conclusion?

Informal conclusion is that responding to posts as a nonmember is acceptable. At the very least, until/unless Magister Ventrue says otherwise, I do not think there is any danger of receiving a warning for responding to posts in that forum.

I almost replied to a post on that section once. Normally, I do not use the Active Topics option, never click there, usually I just go straight to the section I want, just click on General Satanism for instance, but once I was checking out the Active Topics option, clicked on it to see how it works, so a page with a list of all active topics opened up, a list of active topics from all different sections, all listed together on the same page, so I had forgotten I got to the post I was replying to through Active Topics, and didn't realise the post was from the CoS questions section, until just before I hit submit, so I didn't hit submit, but I can see how many could make that mistake this way.

Again.....

We all make mistakes, right? Its what we do about it, and how fast that provides further insight.