New Subscribers Can't Edit Their Profiles

[Accountable]

http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/sh...5&postcount=16

[Tombstone]

Originally Posted by Accountable

http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/sh...5&postcount=16

We'll be opening this up again in a week or two - in a limited fashion.

[MicahLorain]

Originally Posted by Accountable

http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/sh...5&postcount=16

It is quite ridiculous to block newer members and those with lower incomes from even editing their own profiles!! Not even send PM's?? Can't help but wonder what you all are thinking with these restrictions.

[Tombstone]

Originally Posted by MicahLorain

It is quite ridiculous to block newer members and those with lower incomes from even editing their own profiles!! Not even send PM's?? Can't help but wonder what you all are thinking with these restrictions.

ahem. think about it, read our previous announcements, and see what is going on at the other forums.

[Pearl Harbor]

Originally Posted by MicahLorain

It is quite ridiculous to block newer members and those with lower incomes from even editing their own profiles!! Not even send PM's?? Can't help but wonder what you all are thinking with these restrictions.

Quit complaining! I understand the lower incomes argument, but I see that you have enough money for a computer and an Internet account. Do you own a car? Do you eat at McDonald's, order pizza, or ever go out to the movies? It's priorities. Choose your forum or your cheese pizza.

[Tombstone]

Originally Posted by MicahLorain

It is quite ridiculous to block newer members and those with lower incomes from even editing their own profiles!! Not even send PM's?? Can't help but wonder what you all are thinking with these restrictions.

The editing of profiles and sending PM's for regular registered members should be working now. ForumGarden reserves the right, however, to block these functions again if we encounter the same issues we had in the past.

[anastrophe]

Originally Posted by Pearl Harbor

Quit complaining! I understand the lower incomes argument, but I see that you have enough money for a computer and an Internet account. Do you own a car? Do you eat at McDonald's, order pizza, or ever go out to the movies? It's priorities. Choose your forum or your cheese pizza.

curiously enough, i *don't* understand the lower incomes argument. What does it have to do with anything? Are there special programs out there for lower income individuals who want to drive Ferraris? How about lower income programs for people who want to vacation on the riviera?

i mean, if what we were providing here was a basic staple of existence - you know, food, water, clothing - and if we were run by the government, or had government funding, then i could understand the argument. we'd have an obligation to provide access to 'lower income individuals'.

all i see is a red herring. boo-hoo - poor people can't log in to forumgarden to chat. oh - wait....they CAN! they just can't do things like have custom avatars. doodads like that. well, gee, again - boo hoo. if you can afford to be reading this conversation, with your computer and internet connection, then you clearly have some disposable income.

next up, the argument that there are people who don't have computers and internet connections - they go to the library to log in. well - boo hoo yet again. i see they have some means of *getting to* the library. i see they apparently have the free time to go to the library and indulge in utterly meaningless activities, like reading and posting on FG. why aren't they reading books? why aren't they out looking for a job?

next up, the argument that there are some poor poor individuals who receive forumgarden through the fillings in their teeth. and these poor, homeless souls are stuck - damned if you will - to being limited only to being able to read and post to forumgarden, but NO CUSTOM AVATARS! NO PM's! o the humanity!!

i guess the forumgarden operators are doomed to a fiery afterlife for their churlishness and meanspiritedness towards the downtrodden.

you bring the buns, i'll bring the burgers.

[Dizz]

I just tried it and can't do it. I don't care about not having a sig or a avatar (much), but I don't like that I can't change my settings in case I want to change my display/password/whatever.

surely not 'utterly'?

[Tombstone]

Originally Posted by Dizz

I just tried it and can't do it. I don't care about not having a sig or a avatar (much), but I don't like that I can't change my settings in case I want to change my display/password/whatever.

Hi Dizz,

Agreed. I just tested these functions using my regular account - and all works well. Still having this problem? (Be sure you are not looking at cached pages.)