I noticed that, on this forum's software the carriage return produces a line and a half of space. Like so:

… with text starting up here again. Thus, the standard double carriage return, the standard used these days for paragraphs, if used here, looks like this:

… which is a lot of white space. Is this spacing intentional? Perhaps with the idea for people to be using a single carriage return to save space? If that's the case, I'm going to be tempted to indent. Which would look something like:

     This here. Otherwise, where I've seen only the single carriage return, it doesn't seem to demarcate paragraphs well enough. Could just be me, though. 

On another topic, is there a way to make subscribing to the threads the default, instead of something that has to be done each time? And, I understand the reason for the math step, but if this is going to be a heavily moderated venue, couldn't you just approve registrations instead? Sure, that's work for the moderators, but it means one less annoying step each and every post. Or is that simply not possible with this software? 

Thanks,

Mike