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R/F.com Updates => Ask the Admin => Topic started by: wvdoug1963 on July 20, 2014, 09:43:42 PM

Title: User account problem
Post by: wvdoug1963 on July 20, 2014, 09:43:42 PM
Actually it is a friend of mine that is having trouble getting his account activated.  He asked me to join to see if I could contact an admin for him to get his account working.

He never got the second email saying his account was approved and when he tries to log on he gets

"Sorry, this account has not yet been approved. If you need to change your email address please click here."

Can an admin help him?  I can provide his user name in a PM.

Thanks
Title: Re: User account problem
Post by: wvdoug1963 on July 22, 2014, 08:56:47 AM
Is there a moderator or admin that can help with this?
Title: Re: User account problem
Post by: Trillium on July 22, 2014, 12:09:06 PM
Unfortunately only one of the admins can help with that. Hopefully one of them will stop in soon!
Title: Re: User account problem
Post by: wvdoug1963 on July 22, 2014, 01:45:14 PM
Thanks, he's been waiting for over a month for his activation email.  It's strange because I got mine for this account almost immediately and he hasn't gotten his second email yet.
Title: Re: User account problem
Post by: Merlin the Elder on July 22, 2014, 06:25:29 PM
Being an administrator of another forum, it very may well be that either his name or his IP address is being caught in a spam-trap, in which case he may never see his activation email (if it hasn't already arrived, it's not going to).  It is also possible that the return email got caught in his own ISP's spam trap.   I can tell you from experience, forum spamming is a huge problem, and the remedies do sometimes catch an innocent.

Another issue I have run into is that the registrant's eddress (email address) was entered incorrectly, and the confirmation email ended up in cyberspace. He could always try re-registering under a different name.

The primary Admin is DeadBishop if you wish to PM him.
Title: Re: User account problem
Post by: wvdoug1963 on July 24, 2014, 11:54:51 PM
Sent DeadBishop a PM but he hasn't been online in over a month.  Is he the only person that can help with this?

I talked to my friend and he can use his gmail but wants the same user name.  He is starting a Renaissance Themed dinner theater restaurant called Leonardo's and he wants the user name Leonardo for that reason. 

Again thanks, and if anyone else can help or knows how to contact DeadBishop that would be fantastic :)
Title: Re: User account problem
Post by: Gauwyn of Bracknell on July 25, 2014, 05:49:55 AM
I have sent him a message on the book of faces
Title: Re: User account problem
Post by: Trillium on July 25, 2014, 09:58:45 AM
Tom is another of the admins, he may be able to help
Title: Re: User account problem
Post by: DeadBishop on July 25, 2014, 11:03:11 AM
All taken care of!  Your friend should be able to log in now.  It was lost in several thousand accounts flagged as spam.
Title: Re: User account problem
Post by: Leonardo on July 25, 2014, 01:10:18 PM
Thank you kind Sirs!

As you can see I am on now!

Thanks again DeadBishop :)