**Don’t change your email to an invalid address. SO **don’t register with an invalid email address. If you have accidentally done this, then please contact a moderator and ask to have your privileges restored. If that email address was invalid, guess what? You just locked yourself out of the SDMB. You will be locked out of the system until you respond to that confirmation email. If you do not find the confirmation email in the spam trap, contact When you change your password or email address, the system will AUTOMATICALLY send you a confirmation email about the change and will move your registration to the security holding queue pending your handling of the confirmation email. If you do not receive your confirmation email within an hour or so, check your spam filter often the confirmation email gets stuck there. Then check the new e-mail address for the confirmation message that will be automatically sent to you. Make any other profile changes you like and hit the Save Changes button. You will see your current email address type in your new email address TWICE: once to change, once again to confirm. If you do not find the confirmation email in the spam trap, contact How do I change my email address?Ī: Click on User CP in the upper left corner of any SDMB page, then on Edit email & password in the choices on the left. You will need to receive, open, and trigger the url inside a confirmation email after you do this. Q: I forgot/lost my password! What do I do?įollow the prompts. Type your new password TWICE: once to change, once again to confirm. Management reserves the right of final approval on all names.Ī: Click on User CP in the upper left corner of any SDMB page, then on Edit Email & Password from the choices on the left. Remember that names have meaning and power here. We have many names already on the board and since we don’t recycle, you may have chosen a name currently in the database. It’s quickest if you provide two or three new names you would like, ranked in the order that you like them. Multiple screen names may cause you to lose privileges under ANY name, as spelled out in the registration agreement. NOTE: Do not simply re-register on your own. Remember that names are subject to approval by management. We do not “recycle” screen names once registered to the board, that name cannot be used again. You must use the email address under which you are registered. See the details here.Ī: Email SDMB Administrator, TubaDiva at: and request a change. For a small fee, you can change your title to almost anything (but not Moderator, Administrator, SDSAB, or any of the other standard titles). There are a few other titles, like Cecil Adams’ title “Perfect Master,” but these are rare.Ĭustom Titles are also available. SDSAB stands for the “Straight Dope Science Advisory Board,” people who write Staff Reports (see the Archives.) The SDSAB play no role in the running of the Straight Dope Message Boards their opinions are their own. Moderators are the ones who help enforce the rules. Our goal is to build community, and to have reasonably polite discourse and debate. Moderators are people that are in charge of reviewing the posts in a certain forum to make sure they meet forum guidelines. This is a system effect that we have no control over.) (NOTE: Failure to pay on time can result in loss of the “Charter” title. Charter Members are people who were posting before we went on a fee basis, who paid their fees in the first months of change and have remained with us on a fee-paying basis ever since. Members do NOT see the banner ads, as one convenience of membership. Members are people that pay an annual subscription fee and post at the SDMB. Guests can read and write to the board and have a few similar privileges. Q: What’s the difference between Guest, Member, and Moderator? And what’s SDSAB?Ī: Guests are people who don’t pay.
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