Regarding the Help Section

[SOCAdmin]

Please, everyone, if someone has a question about how to find their way around here or how to do something, and you think you have the answer, please help them out. If you have something you'd like to ask me about without posting it in a public thread, feel fee to bring me into a conversation or you can email me. I do have a admin(at)seniorsonly.club address now.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

It looks like we are already getting spam members, so maybe making the registration say it is for seniors and having to add their age and use a first/last name like we did before will stop some of those kind of people/bots.

 

[SOCAdmin]

All of that takes time, but if you tell me who the spammers are, I'll take care of it. Looking at the list of members thus far, I think I can guess who it is, though. I have toggled the 50 year requirement, which wasn't the default, and I will be setting the forum to require manual approval rather than automated approval via email, which was the default. I left that set because I knew we were going to be on the road and I didn't want you guys to have to wait for me. Once, I'm settled, I'll toggle that, and will be replacing automatic registration with the Q&A CAPTCHA that we used on the old forum. That takes time to set up though, in writing questions and every imaginable correct answer to them, so that it confounds the bots without confounding genuine registrants.

 

[Hedi Mitchell]

Not sure where to put this,, but Thank You @John Brunner, Ken and who ever else helped get me back on the Forum!

 

[Tony Nathanson]

A guy in a bookstore asked an employee where the self-help section was.
The employee said, "If I tell you, it would defeat the purpose."

Well, somebody had to say it.........

 

[Paul Couillard]

I have a question, and I'm not sure where to go for an answer. When I did my introduction message (which I can't find now), I was told that discussing American politics was not allowed on this forum, this website. Yet I see discussions of American politics in the forums. Could someone clear this up for me?

 

[Beth Gallagher]

I have a question, and I'm not sure where to go for an answer. When I did my introduction message (which I can't find now), I was told that discussing American politics was not allowed on this forum, this website. Yet I see discussions of American politics in the forums. Could someone clear this up for me?

Maybe you're confusing Seniors Only with "the other senior forum." They don't allow politics.

 

[John Brunner]

I have a question, and I'm not sure where to go for an answer. When I did my introduction message (which I can't find now), I was told that discussing American politics was not allowed on this forum, this website. Yet I see discussions of American politics in the forums. Could someone clear this up for me?

You've not posted an Introduction here, Paul. You DID post some info about yourself on your Personal Profile. Perhaps that's what you're thinking of.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

I have a question, and I'm not sure where to go for an answer. When I did my introduction message (which I can't find now), I was told that discussing American politics was not allowed on this forum, this website. Yet I see discussions of American politics in the forums. Could someone clear this up for me?

It looks like you posted an introduction on the other seniors forum back in August, and have not posted anything there since that first day. As John Brunner said, you have not posted an introduction on SOC at this time.

We allow just about any discussions on this forum, but do not allow personal attacks, just discussion of ideas, thoughts, and issues politically.
Welcome to the SOC forum, @Paul Couillard , and if you need help, just ask the greeters, or just ask, and anyone who has an answer will try to help you figure things out here.

 

[Paul Couillard]

Maybe you're confusing Seniors Only with "the other senior forum." They don't allow politics.

Thanks for your assistance. I got my "senior forums" confused.

 

[Paul Couillard]

It looks like you posted an introduction on the other seniors forum back in August, and have not posted anything there since that first day. As John Brunner said, you have not posted an introduction on SOC at this time.

We allow just about any discussions on this forum, but do not allow personal attacks, just discussion of ideas, thoughts, and issues politically.
Welcome to the SOC forum, @Paul Couillard , and if you need help, just ask the greeters, or just ask, and anyone who has an answer will try to help you figure things out here.

Thanks for your assistance.

 

[Paul Couillard]

You've not posted an Introduction here, Paul. You DID post some info about yourself on your Personal Profile. Perhaps that's what you're thinking of.

Thanks for your assistance.

 

[John Brunner]

Thanks for your assistance. I got my "senior forums" confused.

This made me chuckle.

 

[April Vee]

Maybe you're confusing Seniors Only with "the other senior forum." They don't allow politics.

I still dont know what the other one is,I only know this one Beth and its good

 

[Ken Anderson]

I have a question, and I'm not sure where to go for an answer. When I did my introduction message (which I can't find now), I was told that discussing American politics was not allowed on this forum, this website. Yet I see discussions of American politics in the forums. Could someone clear this up for me?

Politics is fair game here, and we're even allowed to disagree as long as we don't become too disagreeable. It's hard to do sometimes, and I sometimes fail as well, but it's best to discuss the issues we disagree with rather than the people we disagree with. In other words, personal attacks against other forum members are discouraged, but insulting political figures who are not members here is okay.