Participation on the ACF Forum

[Bill Salot]

All,

Another player (the 3rd one) recently told me that he has unsuccessfully requested access to participate on this Forum.

Another player, presumably knowledgeable about ACF workings, said it is because we no longer have an active web master to admit new players to the Forum.

If this is true, it surely puts a damper on ACF communications and membership.

Shouldn't we be encouraging participation, rather than blocking it?

Does anyone know how to fix this ongoing problem?

Bill Salot

[Alex_Moiseyev]

Does anyone know how to fix this ongoing problem?

Yes, I know. Thanks for reporting. am

[clintolsen]

I don't think this is a webmaster responsibility. Jason Solan and Alan Milhone are the only site admins on the forum and I believe only those 2 can verify accounts. If I'm mistaken and someone knows how the account verification process happens, please let me know and I can help with this.

[rich beckwith]

I've written back-and forth with Alan about this, but didn't get a clear answer on the whole registration process. Alan has tried to reach out to for help about this, but Jason quit responding. Jason had been kindly helping out with the site part-time for many years, but we really need this void filled with someone new and fresh.

[John Acker]

Alan has accepted only twenty new forum registrations in the past five years. We are LONG overdue for a new policy, not to mention a new president!

[clintolsen]

OK, since I have access to the ACF Admin pages I did some investigating and was able to figure out how to make myself an administrator in the forums. I checked the inactive users list and there are approximately 10,000 "newly registered accounts". I can almost guarantee you that 99.9% of these are spammers / hackers, so I can see the difficulty in managing this. This weekend I will try and figure out how to set up up a role so that others can activate accounts as well.

The only name I recognized in the recently registered accounts was vadlapin who I have activated. if anyone knows of anyone else that is legitimately waiting to be activated, let me know the username and I will process those as well.

[tgf]

Its good, someone young and vigorous is finally in charge. Previously I had to raise hell here for someone to be admitted.

[tgf]

Once again I received a complain they register, wait for days for activation, write to Milhone, wait
.. who is in charge?

[rich beckwith]

With a few pointers from Clint, these forum activation requests have been coming to me in recent months, and some people are getting on fine now.
If the user ID is not a familiar checker player name to me, dropping me a brief note (to Beckwith24@msn.com) about your intentions to join wouldn't hurt, as most requests are spam.
Also, I don't have access to old passwords, old forum-user requests and the like (we really need a full time webmaster here), so regurgitating older user IDs and their linking e-mail addresses may not work, in case you get an error message about it already being in use.