A few newbie questions about using the forum

[Jennifer Murphy]

I'm a total newbie here. I came here for help converting an Access database to MySQL. I posted a question about that over in the migration section. Well doing that, I ran into a couple of questions that I couldn't find answers to.

Under the subject field, I found a Follow Topic checkbox. When I checked that, a second check box popped up for sending me e-mail notices. And there's a third check box for adding my signature to the message. In most of the many forums that I follow, these are settings in my profile so I don't have to remember to check them each time I post a message. But when I open my profile, I couldn't find those settings anywhere.

I also couldn't find anywhere to enter a signature.

For both of these messages I found a spam prevention step that required me to enter a code. Is this something that will go away after I have had a few posts here and the system believes I'm a real person?

Finally, most of the forums that I participate in have some way for me to see the threads that I'm following. Some of them call it a “Watched” list. Some of them have a “My Content” link. I couldn't find anything like that here.

Thanks for any help

Running Microsoft Office 365 on Windows 11