Comments/Ratings for a Single Item

That description is entered when you first go to Post Your Game, in the "Short description" field.  Presently a user cannot update this field (editing the index information instead just allows you to enter "What's New" text).  Similarly we only (presently) give users options for posting Games, external Links, ZoG files, and GC presets through the form.

If you want to send me descriptions for your games, I can insert them using the editor forms.  If you want to post a page of a type other than those above, you can submit it as a Game and let us know that it should be changed to something else.

[It shouldn't be hard to change the scripts to allow users more flexibility.  While it is probably preferable to not have game descriptions change too often, I don't think it would be bad to allow users to change them.  The page Types, on the other hand, are a bit unclear, and I wouldn't advocate for full access for users.  Perhaps they should be cleaned up anyway, and have this done before any changes to the user experience.]

To Ben Reiniger

Thank you for your reply regarding Missing descriptions

I would much appreciate four being added - they are very straightforward descriptions but three of the games are not yet posted as they are awaiting review by a site editor - the games are:

LancerChess (this game has been posted)  - can you add the description - a basic Western chess game

QiPlacements (this is awaiting review) - can you add the description - a basic Chinese chess game

Arabella (this is awaiting review) - can you add the description  - a basic Arabian chess game

Storm (this is awaiting review) - can you add the description - a basic Capablanca chess game

Thank you for your help

Shaye Nicholls pp Glenn Nicholls

There are messages when I sign in:

"For citational purposes, we keep records on anyone who contributes content to this site. Since Glenn Nicholls has contributed content to this site, our database listing on GlennNicholls needs to stay up. But if this person is dead or no longer interested in remaining active on this site, let us know, and this account can be made inactive".

This messsage seems to be because my email has changed to [email protected] but I cannot seem to edit my existing no longer used (and by now probably dormant or deleted) email to change it to this current and live one.

I would then ask that one of the editors kindly updates my email link address and is aware that I am certainly interested in remaining active on this site - indeed I have been keeping up with comments in the past few days and my latest contribution was this year.

Thank you for the help I am sure you will give.

SAE Nicholls

That message does not mention email and in fact has nothing to do with your email, though there is another message on the page about your email address. Look for the "Change Email" link near the bottom of that page when you are signed in.

Thank you for your quick reply

I have tried what you say but this did not seem to work - I'll try again though

At what stage in the process did the script for changing your email not work? Did it fail to send an email? Or did you fail to receive the email it sent? Or did the link in the email not work?

I can only say I did not receive any confirmation email and I've used the 'Change Email' link now and no confirmation email is coming through.

There is no way for me to know why the site is not sending an automatic confirmation email or, if it is, why I am not receiving it since I have other emails sent here without any problem.

The link in the email says a confirmation email will be sent and so does not report a problem.

Did it tell you that it sent an email, or did it tell you that it didn't send an email? If it says it sent it, the problem is with the delivery of the email.

I've just tried again and here is what it says:

"Mail was sent from [email protected] to [email protected].

A confirmation request has been sent to [email protected], the email address you wish to change to. When you get the message, click on the link, make sure you're signed in, then click on the Confirm button."

But no email has been received by me and this is at least the third time I've tried this.



Email sometimes take a while to arrive, but these days, some email services have been cracking down on spam in ways that screen out lots of legitimate email. I have previously fixed a problem with delivering to hotmail and was able to send email to a test hotmail account. At present, I have not gotten any message from hotmail that the email to you couldn't be delivered. You may just have to wait a while for it. In case it would help, make sure that email from this site is whitelisted in your account.

Fergus

It's late in the UK now where I live so I'll turn in.

Perhaps the easiest way is for yourself, as an editor, to simply change this email link (if this is possible for an editor) on the basis of the comments I've made and without needing any other confirmation.

I've whitelisted the change email address from the CVP.

Thank-you

SAE Nicholls

The point of the script is to make sure you're registered with an email address that will actually receive email from us. If you don't care about that, then you can stay with the address that's already associated with your account. If you do care about it, you can try again with a different email address.

OK, I've tried again with a different email address (still a hotmail one though) with the CVP address whitelisted.  I'll wait a while and see if anything is received.

SAE Nicholls

The new email address seems to have worked and I would much appreciate the following messages be taken off when I sign in:

"Since this person's email address has been returning email, it has been marked as dead in the database to prevent more email from being sent to it. It may still work, but if you want to continue receiving email from us, you should change the email you have on record with us."

"For citational purposes, we keep records on anyone who contributes content to this site. Since Glenn Nicholls has contributed content to this site, our database listing on GlennNicholls needs to stay up. But if this person is dead or no longer interested in remaining active on this site, let us know, and this account can be made inactive."

Thank-you for your help

SAE Nicholls

The former was removed when you successfully changed your email address. The latter has nothing to do with email, and it is standard for all registered users.

Sorry to persist but I'm puzzled here - I've signed out and then back in but the former message is still showing even though the new email address has received mail from the CVP.

The message shows under person information.

Okay, it looks like I still had to do that by hand. When I saw your email captcha, I assumed the message wasn't there, since at one time, it showed only one or the other. Then I changed that and forgot I did. I just updated the change email script to set deadEmail to 0 when it successfully changes an email address.

I just changed email now for CVPage, noticing Glenn's commenting on this subject.  I had the same two

paragraphs he records, and with successful new email, one of the two paragraphs is removed but not the other 

one.   Please check if the other paragraph can be removed now that it appears emails from CVP will be sent to new

address. Thanks. Everything else is fine about membership info: Favorites, Invented Games, Old Comments, and so on.

George

This other paragraph seems to appear on everyone's person information page, even editors it seems - it's just a way of making sure what persons are or are not active I suppose.

Shaye (pp Glenn) Nicholls