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Sapa
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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 Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 3:44 am Post subject: Why is it so hard to register on this damn website? |
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It took me god knows how many attempts to register on this korean forum, who knows why. Now it is impossible for me to register on the international forums. I have tried now from about 4 different email addresses and to try again I will have to get myself a new email as you cannot use one you have already attempted to use. All I want to do is ask a few questions. Its not as if I have put my username as babykiller, I have even replied to the email asking for your adddress and telephone number. Why they want this is also beyond me!
So why are these forums so difficult to join, I must have joined hundreds and they all just require you to click a validating link on an email, thats it. I only want to ask a few questions dammit.
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mistermasan
Joined: 20 Sep 2007
Location: 10+ yrs on Dave's ESL cafe
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| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:42 am Post subject: |
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| ask away. |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:52 am Post subject: |
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Yes but once you check in, you can never leave.  |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Just a warning-- once you do have an account, dooooooon't change the email address it's associated with. It'll automatically invalidate your account. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 2:30 am Post subject: |
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| But can anyone answer the original question? Why is it so hard to join? |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:24 am Post subject: |
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| But can anyone answer the original question? Why is it so hard to join? |
I"ve become a little up to speed regarding social networking websites (if you may call this one!) and this is my take.
1) Simple incompetence and not caring. Enough said.
2. No need, necessity to bother with this "invention" and leads to point 1.
The site runs from the number of visitors, NOT the number that post. There are enough already posting so just let the others sit on the fence. No need, thus we get calculated incompetence and so on. A vicious circle.
Same goes for the search engine. Why bother having tags, having a search engine that might benefit teachers? Help students? UGH>....... no bother because not having one simply keeps people posting over and over and over and also keeps from having to have new people register.
I could go on at how crappy this place is (and also how necessary). No videos, embedding, no proper linkage, no personal page, no widgets, no instant messaging, no uploading , no prof. development and caring about teachers needs professionally (other than how can I get a job and who's going to advertise theirs). This site is a dinosaur but a nice dinosaur.
DD
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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| Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:54 am Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| But can anyone answer the original question? Why is it so hard to join? |
You think there's a problem with trolls, socks, spammers, DOS attacks, and vicious fighting now, you should have seen the place before it took so long to get approved.
Short of going to the dozen long-term troublemaker's homes and smashing their fingers into pulp with a hammer, which I approve of, this problem won't go away, and it will continue to take a while to get approved. |
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jnj
Joined: 29 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Maybe it's extra important here since theoretically employers can view these forums, too? |
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mountainous
Joined: 04 Sep 2007
Location: Los Angeles
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| Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| But can anyone answer the original question? Why is it so hard to join? |
true, it's very hard to join any forum here....it may be that there are lots of ghostposters trying to register with false identities. Posting something that could cause a korean fraud to "lose face" might land the poster in jail. good luck |
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Bramble
Joined: 26 Jan 2007
Location: National treasures need homes
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| Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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| mountainous wrote: |
| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| But can anyone answer the original question? Why is it so hard to join? |
true, it's very hard to join any forum here....it may be that there are lots of ghostposters trying to register with false identities. Posting something that could cause a korean fraud to "lose face" might land the poster in jail. good luck |
Or a fraud of any other nationality. |
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anorakcity
Joined: 24 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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| but really is it any harder for a spammer to get on here? you just need a fake name and location, its not like dave is actually checking that anything is true. this site is definitely antiquated in a bad way. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:13 am Post subject: |
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| anorakcity wrote: |
| but really is it any harder for a spammer to get on here? you just need a fake name and location, its not like dave is actually checking that anything is true. this site is definitely antiquated in a bad way. |
Recently it has been much harder for spammers. Hell, what am I saying? There's only one spammer.
Anyone have friends in Louisiana? twg has the right idea. |
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