old3eyes: I notice when I post something my flag says Australia however my profile says NZ.

Thanx 

Edit.  Just looked at this post.  It's back to Ozz again. 

freitasm: It looks at which IP address you are posting from on that particular post.

freitasm: It looks at which IP address you are posting from on that particular post.

Lets check this reply from work (Xtra) 

edit.  Says NZ so I guess Orcon (home)  must have a Ozz range of IP addresses..

The flag is just an amusing thing - only logged in users can see it and it's a "reference". For example if you see someone posting with a German flag asking about Vodafone you'd expect people to know it's Vodafone Germany - and so on.

For moderators it is only one of the tools (we also provide IP lookup, WHOIS but only to moderators) that help us determine if the user is intentionally spamming the forum. There is a much higher chance of a post being deleted if coming from certain countries because of the high rate of spam from there).

So, in other words, I wouldn't worry about the flag. By the way, this post is coming with n American flag, but I am in a motel in Napier...