Member Vs Guest Member

[guilty]

A simple question.....what is the difference between a member and a guest member?

Regards

Guilty

[Emerald Midi]

Hi Guilty, thank you for your question.

A members is simply someone who has made the required amount of posts required to become a full member of the forum.

Those below that amount are regarded as Guest members.

To clarify:

zero posts = Visitor.

1 - 10 = Guest Poster.

10 - 25 posts = Guest member.

25 posts and over = member.

Your status change yet again as your post count grows.

Hope this has helped.

[sixstringbing]

I was just wondering pat I,ve been a member for around a year DingaDong can vouch for this yet I am credited with only 15 posts says I have been a member from August 2006 any reason why This has happened ?

[Emerald Midi]

Sixstring

According to your profile you joined Aug 9, 2006, 3:04pm and with your first post showing as of Aug 14, I am at a loss as to how to respond to your question.

Nor do I see any record of posts made by you prior to the joining date in your profile and as an administrator of this forum I have access to ALL details of every post, edited or deleted or otherwise handled by either regular members or members anyone else involved in the forum.

So from this perspective I am having difficulty understanding how you could have made posts prior to your original registration with us.

If possible could you please tell me of any other posts you made prior to August 2006 and in what section of the forum they were placed and I'll check further.

[sixstringbing]

I remember one in particular it was a reply to Jazzcat as to what was the criteria for a good midi file and I remember writing it as it was pretty long question split into sections ,It,s not a big issue nor do I wish to make it one just wondering thats all, sorry for any hassle Thanks Pat.

[sixstringbing]

I also remember posting about various Midi keyboards and about using Cubase and about hoping to create my own Midi,s in the New Year I also wished everyone a Merry Christmas and recieved an personal e-mail from jimmythejanny

[Emerald Midi]

Thanks sixstringbing.

As you'll appreciate this is all rather perplexing, but hopefully we'll get to the bottom of it. Bare with me on this and I'll continue to do a few additional checks on the system.

In the meantime it would be helpful if you could give me an idea of how many posts over all you you made and were lost.

[sixstringbing]

Thanks Pat I dont think it was that many I think I joined round about oct/nov last year because I remember posting Xmas wishes to everyone and as I say recieving xmas reply from jimmy I can only guess but for some reason I think the posts were in their late 20 or 30,s sorry to be a pain Pat but I was giggin with Cubb last night and he remembers as well .Thanks could It possibly happened when the post stat bar was introduced and caused some sort of fault?

[dingadong04]

I Don,t remember any posts he keeps mentioning my name but i don,t even know him , the man is clearly deluded.ban him

[dingadong04]

LOL

[dingadong04]

i can also remember sixstring posting x mas greetings

[Steptoe]

Does it really matter how many posts you have made? Didn't realise it was a competition...........

[dingadong04]

Yes it does Steptoe it means the difference between being a member and not

[Emerald Midi]

steptoe said:

Does it really matter how many posts you have made? Didn't realise it was a competition...........

It isn't a competition.

Some posts have mysteriously disappeared and we are currently endeavouring to ascertain why this has occurred. If it was simply the case where they had been deleted, either by the person who made them or by a member of the moderating team, it would have shown up on the forum's security log. This log has been keeping records of all events that take place on the forum from the time it was set up to this current date. It will continue to keep such records for as long as the forum keeps going.

Thing is there is no record or explanation of why or how these posts have gone.

'Tis a mystery. One possible scenario is we might have encountered a few gremlins who messed up some posts, but if this was the case they would appear to have moved on.

EDIT:

I have brought Sixstring's post count up to compensate for those he lost.

[sixstringbing]

Thanks Pat sorry 4 hassle and Ta very much 4 resolving it and thanks for your support Steptoe "HAROLD"

[bri]

Hi all
To join in if I may. Yes, one of your own posts to me disappeared if you remember, Pat, on my first try at getting a song up and running. The date was Sept 22. You corrected my feeble attempts and then your post just vanished. It's not an issue; I just thought at the time that it was an odd occurence.
All day today, I've not been able to get onto the forum - don't know why, it just wouldn't open, but I've just come on now for six hours and it opened, no trouble. I even emailed Glenn earlier and asked if the forum had broken down or something. I think it's a probably a case of "These things are sent to try us." It's maddening though, when all the other sites work - even the midifiles section of this site - but you can't get onto the forum...it's my fix for the day.
Regards
Bri

[frankie]

Ive had log on problems myself sometimes.

[levi2]

A few months ago i had the opposite to bri i tried to log on with a spare pc i built and it would not let me onto forums page i tried for ages but my main pc was ok so what i did was changed the login time from 6 hours to always and it logged in ok. funny thing is it only happened on one pc my main pc and laptop logged in fine

Levi2

[Emerald Midi]

Sorry to hear about these problems.

What I am going to do here is lock this thread as it straying too far to another topic altogether.

As these problems are apparently worse than first thought I will start a thread where we can address the issues more directly and hopefully resolve all concerns to everyone's satisfaction.

Edit: Check out this link: midimart.proboards56.com/index.cgi?board=problems