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Peachy · Member Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 4

We have a group who use forumup as a means of communicating information to our members.

The administrator who normally gives access to the "members only" section has been missing for over a month so we have no one to give permission to the new members.

I have no means of communicating with him.

I searched for half an hour but could not find any info here on how to deal with this situation. What's the next step?

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PirateScoobs · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:02 am Post subject:

You can do nothing, it is the makers forum. Try e-mailing him.

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Edward · Member Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Posts: 85

Peachy wrote:

What's the next step?

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Start your own forum. Invite the current members to your new place.

Blam! Problem solved.
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BabyFidgette · Member Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 1003 Location: USA

There is nothing you can do if you are not the owner. Sorry.

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Peachy · Member Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 4

Thanks for the advise guys. We have a huge database of posts there that would interest the new members. I'll have to copy the info out I suppose.

Ales · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 1:18 pm Post subject:

Yes. But I would try emailing the admin first - maybe he's just busy! And btw, isn't there another "group admin" than the real forum admin? If not, you should contact the owner of the forum with the question if he can make you/another active forummember the group admin.

You can not enter the admin panel then, do not have any more rights, but you can let in people to the "members only" area.

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PirateScoobs · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 3:58 pm Post subject:

Ales wrote:

Yes. But I would try emailing the admin first - maybe he's just busy! And btw, isn't there another "group admin" than the real forum admin? If not, you should contact the owner of the forum with the question if he can make you/another active forummember the group admin.

You can not enter the admin panel then, do not have any more rights, but you can let in people to the "members only" area.

Moderator? Very Happy

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Edward · Member Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Posts: 85

Peachy wrote:

Thanks for the advise guys. We have a huge database of posts there that would interest the new members. I'll have to copy the info out I suppose.

According to the forum ticker, you have a little over 1000 posts.

I would not consider that a "huge database".

Seems like a perfect time to start over if the Admin is actually AWOL.

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Ales · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:33 pm Post subject:

PirateScoobs wrote:

Ales wrote:

Yes. But I would try emailing the admin first - maybe he's just busy! And btw, isn't there another "group admin" than the real forum admin? If not, you should contact the owner of the forum with the question if he can make you/another active forummember the group admin.

You can not enter the admin panel then, do not have any more rights, but you can let in people to the "members only" area.

Moderator? Very Happy

Ah yes - that's what I meant. Smile

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Peachy · Member Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 4

Edward wrote:

According to the forum ticker, you have a little over 1000 posts.

I would not consider that a "huge database".

Depends on the quality of the data. Wink

Thanks again everyone. No admins left, no moderators and no email addresses. There's a warning for all forums... always have two admins. Smile

Ales · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:47 am Post subject:

No email address? What about using the email function on the forum?

There's this button at the bottom of every post saying "Email", have you tried that?

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gg'ssimon · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 2:50 pm Post subject:

Ales wrote:

No email address? What about using the email function on the forum?

There's this button at the bottom of every post saying "Email", have you tried that?

That button won't show if the person selected it not to, from their profile.

Peachy wrote:

There's a warning for all forums... always have two admins. Smile

Well, not really a good thing. We get so many cases of where the admins have a quarrel, and the one who is NOT the forum owner has banned or had taken away the admin rights of the forum owner.

It is advised, though, for the admin to make sure the moderators have his/her email address.

Hopefully that forum owner will show up again. I hope he is ok.

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Ales · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 4:03 pm Post subject:

^ Oh well, there's a 2nd option in that case. It is really easy to find the administrators email. Wink

So, Peachy - please tell me if the email function works (or not), because if not I'll send you the admins email by PM. Smile

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Peachy · Member Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 4

I had an idea to PM one of the admins who stopped logging in some time last year. He responded and will work something out for me! I don't know why I didn't think of it earlier. I guess I just thought he was no longer available with it being so long. Desperation huh? Very Happy

Thanks to everyone for trying to help. It's been really great of you!

Ales · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 11:02 am Post subject:

^ That's good news! Smile

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