(I am sorry, I wanted to ask this question on "meta" first, but it says there that I "can't post my question there because I don't have an OpenID")
Hello,
I am just a new user here and don't understand much. I asked my first question on stackoverflow and received a quick answer. I wanted to thank the answerer, so I responded to his answer saying my thanks, but he said that I should "mark the answer as correct rather than posting a new answer".
Not really knowing how to mark the answer as correct, I placed the cursor on the small up-pointing triangle above zero to the left of the answer main field. A small caption popped reading: "This answer is useful (click again to undo)". When I placed the cursor on the small down-pointing triangle below the zero, I got this caption: "This answer is not useful (click again to undo)". So, I figured that this was the tool for me to mark the answer as correct.
However, when I clicked on the upper triangle, an orange rectangular box popped up saying: "Please login or register to use voting". Since I was still an unregistered user, I decided to click on "register" to get registered.
When I did, I was taken to a page saying: "Register with OpenID". It's so strange! That's the first time ever I had to deal with such a new phenomenon to me as "Open ID" - before, whenever I had to register on any site, I just needed to come up with a new name (or a "nickname") and a password. I was ready to do the same thing now, but, instead, I bumped into a completely new concept to me, an OpenID.
Anyway, in this "Register with OpenID" page, under the line saying "Click your OpenID account provider:" I chose the logo of one of my e-mail account providers (the site, on which I have my free e-mail box) and I clicked on that logo.
I don't quite remember what I did next. Probably, a page opened asking me to click on "Agree" to sign into stackoverflow.com using my ID, and I must have clicked on "Agree", but I am not sure - there is still a good chance that I didn't. (I am sorry for being so irresponsible here - I really don't remember).
Now, when I click on my name, on my user page it says that I am still an "unregistered user" and under this line the following can be seen:
- to the right of the word "Name", my name is written;
- lower, to the right of the words "Member for", "today" is written;
- lower, to the right of the word "Seen", "20 minutes ago" is written;
- lower, to the word "OpenID", a very strange string of letters, numbers and hyphens follows!
It's really strange! I don't remember choosing this string of letters, numbers and hyphens as my OpenID. How can I change it?
Plus, even if I did chose this string as my OpenID (which I really doubt about), why does this page still say that I am an "unregistered user"?
Thank you in advance for your answer.