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Thread: My wish regarding all the old members who are not Guests

Started 2 months ago by KlondikeGeoff
I understand why so many choose not to renew their paid subscription. They are then demoted to Guests. What I really miss with these old-timers is the number of posts racked up, and their location. Is it at all feasible to restore those for old members who slumped to pitiful guests?
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don't ask replied 2 months ago
I think this is wrong. In fact for the disloyalty that they have shown by letting their subscription lapse they should suffer additional degradations of service. For a start their usernames should be replaced with random character strings and their IDs be up for grabs. This could lead to some amusing misunderstandings when someone latches onto a former nutcase's ID and starts posting.

don't ask replied 2 months ago
Oh, and a really shit search function for them too. Make them wait ages between searches or something.

TubaDiva replied 2 months ago
Quote: Originally Posted by KlondikeGeoff I understand why so many choose not to renew their paid subscription. They are then demoted to Guests. What I really miss with these old-timers is the number of posts racked up, and their location. Is it at all feasible to restore those for old members who slumped to pitiful guests?...

Rico replied 2 months ago
Geoff , click on the guest's name, then "View Public Profile." The information is still there.

Spectre of Pithecanthropus replied 2 months ago
This just happened, didn't it? It seems to me only a day or two ago that I still saw my lifetime post count. I hope there's some kind of warning if they decide to take away the join date too.

glee replied 2 months ago
Quote: Originally Posted by Rico Geoff , click on the guest's name, then "View Public Profile." The information is still there. This is a helpful response. (I can confirm I have lots of posts!)

KlondikeGeoff replied 2 months ago
Quote: Originally Posted by Rico Geoff , click on the guest's name, then "View Public Profile." The information is still there. I knew that. Or I used to. Thanks for the reminder.

Patty O'Furniture replied 2 months ago
Yes sadly there is nothing that can be done about that. Us former charter members who are now guests really have no good way to show our join date, location and post count.

Yookeroo replied 2 months ago
The people in charge here seem to think that hiding this info from paying members will prompt people to pay. Seriously. Really, I'm not joking.

NineToTheSky replied 2 months ago
This, and variants thereof, has been rehashed many times. I know nothing can be done, but I'm an old sentimentalist, and I do think it's sad that the characteristics of long time posters aren't readily visible - even if it's their fault for either choosing not to re-up, or missing the deadline.

 

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RaftPeople
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Published (2009-11-13 15:33:00)
Quote: Originally Posted by Lanzy No, that would be me saying that. Just so I'm clear then, your logic is this: "I Lanzy don't think it's important, therefore nobody should think it's important"
Patty O'Furniture
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LouisB
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Published (2009-11-13 14:07:00)
Quote: Originally Posted by Dewey Finn Here is a post in which TubaDiva explained in detail why once a charter membership is gone, it can't be easily restored. And as for this, I assume that you know that you could pay fifteen bucks (i.e., twice the original rate) and become a regular member. It would be some recognition. I could and I probably will. If my smart mouth doesn't get me banned before hand.
NineToTheSky
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Published (2009-11-13 04:21:00)
Quote: Originally Posted by LouisB I don't understand this. I paid the price to be a charter member for a long time and then got careless and missed the window. Why couldn't we have a new category named "window missing morons" or some such? Or what if we paid double or even triple the old rate? I hate being a guest. I want some recognition. Not being a charter member, I'm not directly involved in this, but...
don't ask
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Published (2009-10-30 19:09:00)
Oh, and a really shit search function for them too. Make them wait ages between searches or something.
KlondikeGeoff
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Published (2009-10-31 17:30:00)
Quote: Originally Posted by Rico Geoff , click on the guest's name, then "View Public Profile." The information is still there. I knew that. Or I used to. Thanks for the reminder.
Yookeroo
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Published (2009-11-07 02:36:00)
Quote: Originally Posted by Patty O'Furniture Yookeroo 's point is that it's the paid members, just as much as the guests, who benefit from being able to see guests' join date, location and post count. In other words, why should I pay for a membership if I still won't be able to see the join date, location and post count of all the guests? Right. Being able to display the info isn't much incentive to pay up....
elucidator
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Published (2009-11-08 13:15:00)
I wholeheartedly endorse your blubbering adoration of the Luminous Ones, who sit at the right hand of The Cecil and embody all that is wise and good.
Liberal
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6,981 · 2 310359 -1 is prime. So that's pretty cool.
Fetchund
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Published (2009-11-12 11:16:00)
Whoa there. Why do you think I am making any sort of judgement about KlondikeGeoff ? That is certainly NOT my intention. My point was closer to: If the only way to see posts is if we all pay up, it isn't important enough for me to join. AND that I believed the main selling point for paying up was that you don't see the ads. That point seems to be missing in this thread.

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