A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Nope, but some are never activated.
And some appear to spontaneously deactivate. I have no idea if this is user error or a bug in the activation routine. Although it occurs to me that most of the reports of this occurred with new users who registered when we were getting the error messages. What happens when you try to activate the account, and you run out of connections? It seemed like the system would let them in anyway, but not activate the account. Then the next time they tried to get in, it wouldn't let them.
The "deactivation" seems to happen when a new user logs in for the first time and changes their password from the system generated one. We've gotten a bunch of emails from users about this.
t on edit
Actually, I wonder if the new user is
ever
active. Maybe clicking on the activation URL and immediately changing your password messes with the initial activation?
t /grasping-at-straws
Ah, thanks for the explanation.
FOAMY! FOAMY! FOAMY!
I have a mumblemumble dictionary cap I got from one of erinaceous's coworkers, and I shall wear it with especial pride from here on in, even if it *doesn't* work with my hair.
Misha, didn't he at least get you the mumblemumble t-shirt?
I heard back from one of the organizers who said that an email assent for inclusion should be fine, and he's getting me exact wording.
Yeah, Misha's friend sounds mumblemumble cheap.
Would the e-mail assent work for folks like me, whose RL name is not their board name? Come to think of it, how to I prove that I am, indeed, Sophis Brooks....
Would the e-mail assent work for folks like me, whose RL name is not their board name?
Not many have board names that are their RL names -- but everyone has a valid email address that they used to register their usernames. I'd think that an opt-in from that email address should suffice.
What amych said. Thank you, amych!
Well, aren't we going to set up a system like the voting? That way there's no question that the person validating their inclusion is the board member in question. That's what I thought.
