Originally posted by PhotoDave219
Great first impression, be a total smartmouth to the moderator and host of this board. Smart move pal... Real Disneylike....
So I'm a smartmouth for directly pasting something off the subscription page in my post? How do you figure that? I carefully composed my first post to avoid any rudeness or insults, I've carefully reviewed it and am convinced I succeeded.
I live in California, so I'm a lot more familiar with DL than WDW. I regularly read Miceage and Mouseplant. Both sites take donations on the honor system, something I've done. Anytime I've asked ?s on the board at MP, I make sure to try to answer ?s for others as a way of giving back.
So, my family is planning a trip to WDW in a couple of years, and I've been looking at WDW sites, and found this one. It looked good, the audio and video clips seemed interesting enough to consider paying for, and there's alot of info on this board.
Then I saw someone on these boards asking for info about DL, and I felt I could help them. I wanted to give back, so I registered in order to be able to post. After doing so I got this message for any and every link I clicked:
"You are not logged in or you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:
You are not logged in. Fill in the form at the bottom of this page and try again.
You do not have permission to access the page that you were trying to. Are you trying to edit someone else's post or trying to access administrative features? Check that you are allowed to perform this action in the Forum Rules.
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation."
Now I guess I could have asked for help here on the boards....wait, no I couldn't, since I got the above message for EVERY link. (That BTW, is an example of smartmouth, as is this).
So the only thing I can do is send an email which I do. Then do again. To multiple addresses, from multiple addresses. Now I can't help but think that the average person would get a little irritated after a few months of this. After all, I just wanted to participate in a positive manner. Help when I can, get help when needed. I have no interest in typing arguments with anyone, insulting anyone that I disagree with, or jumping down someone's throat over puctuation, I was even willing to kick in a few dead presidents to help keep things going.
There was clearly a technical problem. The system recognizes my ID and PW, but in just now looking at the list of registered users, I notice that my original username was not on the list.
Now, understandably, I started feeling wary about subscribing. Some of the plans require a recurring automatic monthly payment. While I AM MOST DEFINITELY NOT SAYING SUCH IS THE CASE HERE, there are sites in cyberspace that make it very difficult to get out of situations like this. It seemed prudent to make sure I wouldn't be taking a risk; one does things like that after having the experience of finding a bill in the mailbox for a credit card in one's name that was opened by an unknown person who proceeded to buy $3,000 worth of computer equipment.
I also very well understand that the mod has to make sure his obligations are spelled out for legal reasons in his reply to me; but, after that, I thought there might be something like "Hey man, sorry it took so long, glad you got it sorted out, PayPal is safe, welcome to the community." Instead, I was basically told to get lost.
And, Disneylike? With all due respect, in DL "Disneylike" currently means cutting back more and more on safety and maintinence. I wonder what the family of Marcelo Torres thinks about the concept of Disneylike at this moment. But I digress.
I would like to thank Maria for a useful suggestion. I did register with my Yahoo account, and if it went into the junk mail box, I'd have never seen it.
I've also noticed that there's a "Forum Support" board which is probably where this should have been posted to begin with; my bad. Cheers.
NOBODY should be asking you for your credit card # !!!!
That's incorrect.
