admin Posted August 12, 2023 Report Share Posted August 12, 2023 To ALL SCFLIER SportCruiser forum members I frequently get new SCFLIER SportCruiser forum members having trouble logging in to the SCFLIER SportCruiser forum. This is typically due to a new member using the wrong password, or, sometimes a new user enters their email address instead of their “Display Name” that they set during “SignUp”. Email addresses are not used during SCFLIER sign in. If you know of a new Member having trouble logging in to the SCFLIER Forum, please let them know: I, the SCFLIER SportCruiser Forum Admin, do NOT get automatic notifications of failed password entry attempts. I am NOT Automatically notified when you have been LOCKED OUT of the SCFLIER Forum. Automatic Notifications of Failed Password Attempts while logging in is not available to me at the ~ $ 100 per month I pay for the SCFLIER Forum Website. Any Changes to our forum website software is done by PAYING the Website Maintenance Company a stiff fee and then waiting in a long que for potential action. Obviously, this “Pay for a new Feature” path is taken VERY RARELY. The good news is that our SCFLIER Forum website works well for most SCFLIER Forum users. With over 650 SCFLIER members worldwide , password entry failures are common. DAILY. There is NO automatic password reset system. The “system” will imply that an individual SCFLIER Forum member can set a new password by themselves, but this does not function. Only I, as your Lucky SCFLIER ADMIN, can change SCFLIER user passwords. If you someday get locked out, Please Tell me !!! - via my Admin email what NEW password you want and I will manually enter it for you and get you going again. Please write down your password. I get it. I have lots of passwords also. Please write down your SCFLIER Password. And, ANYTIME that you or a friend - an SCFLIER SportCruiser forum member - is having trouble with SCFLIER, PLEASE send me an email to my ADMIN Email address. I respond quickly to emails sent to scflieradm@yahoo.com My Admin email address is right on top of the main SCFLIER Forum website page ! Thanks ! Dave SCFLIER ADMIN Finally, if you know someone - perhaps a potential new member attempting to GET ACTIVATED by me with a new SCFLIER Forum Membership, tell them three important facts : Make sure that my Admin email address, scflieradm@yahoo.com, is NOT in their SPAM folder. Please Put my Admin email address contact info into your known, GOOD List of email addresses. Potential New SCFLIER Members must respond to a simple email sent from ME, the Lucky SCFLIER ADMIN, with four easy questions. There are no WRONG Answers ! 1) How did you learn about us ? 2) Where are you located ? 3) What airport (code) do you fly out of ? 4) Are you a SportCruiser / PiperSport / PS-28 CRUZ aircraft owner / Pilot ? There are a very FEW parts of the SCFLIER SportCruiser forum that CAN be accessed by folks that DO NOT have an Activated SCFLIER account. The picture below shows one of these SCFLIER Forum areas that one can access without logging in - ie, NON Members can access these particular posts in this area ONLY. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admin Posted September 5, 2023 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2023 Troubling ? statistics ? 1) About 30 % of people that “Sign Up” to join the SCFLIER SportCruiser forum never complete the process, and never actually get Activated on the SCFLIER SportCruiser forum. 2) Of those people that actually complete the EASY process of me ACTIVATING their SCFLIER SportCruiser forum membership, at least 95 % of those that are activated members with a valid Display Name and a valid Activated Password NEVER post a thing on the forum. Why ? 1) On the people who “sign up”, But never get Activated, I, as the SCFLIER Forum Admin, do require ALL Members to provide me with a valid email address, so that I can contact everyone with Admin answers if an SCFLIER member is having trouble on the forum…. and ALL new SCFLIER members must provide me an email answer to these four simple questions, that I will NEVER give out to any other SCFLIER Forum Members: 1) How did you learn about us ? 2) Where are you located ? 3) What airport (code) do you fly out of ? 4) Are you a SportCruiser / PiperSport / PS-28 CRUZ aircraft owner / Pilot ? There are No WRONG ANSWERS to my four “New SCFLIER Member Activation” questions. These are not particularly hard questions, and I never publicly reveal any SCFLIER Member’s answers or your email address to ANYONE on the forum. However, I highly recommend and everyone should know that Each SCFLIER SportCruiser forum member can individually choose to post about their airplane (airplane pictures and flying adventures are great !, even if your airplane is NOT a SportCruiser / PS-28), a member can choose to post about their airport, their location or area of their country, whether they may or may not own a SportCruiser / PS-28 airplane, and if they may (or may not) be a licensed Pilot. We have MANY Student Pilots who want to someday OWN a SportCruiser / PS-28 airplane ! The SCFLIER SportCruiser forum does NOT require SportCruiser aircraft ownership, flying a SportCruiser, being a Pilot, or owning a Rotax engine. EVERYONE that likes and is interested in airplanes can join ! Sometimes, just learning more about a Bristell or Tecnam or RV-12 LSA, or even a Lycoming powered RV-6A is helpful to all ! We have some SCFLIER Members who are NOT Pilots, some that own OTHER Brand airplanes, some members just want to learn more about ROTAX engines, some members are CFI / CFII instructors of SportCruiser S-LSA, some are DAR’s, some are from the UK, Portugal, Spain, Brazil, South Africa, Peru, France, Canada, the USA, the Netherlands, Ireland, …the more the merrier ! And, some possibilities ? On the folks that “sign up”, but never respond to my “two way communication” Admin email, I Don’t know if my “Member Activation” email sometimes gets caught in people’s email SPAM folder, or if they just don’t want to join when they learn it is not a “Totally anonymous” Forum … IMPORTANT - although an individual members’ personal email address and answers to the four easy questions above are KNOWN to me, the Admin, I NEVER “announce” anyone’s email address or their real name or airport location, …, on the forum - I take everyone’s privacy very seriously ! or MAYBE, IF people just really weren’t that interested in joining, and they give up when I ask them to answer the four simple questions for my Admin data (ONLY), but about 30 % of folks that “sign up” to get their SCFLIER Membership Activated never complete the process. Bottom Line I am simply trying to help people JOIN the SCFLIER FORUM, to establish two way communication between me the admin and the new SCFLIER Member, and hoping that EVERYONE would Post some more pics or comments about their SportCruiser, their Flying adventures, and their Rotax engine questions or comments… signed Dave your friendly SCFLIER SportCruiser forum Admin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Lee Posted September 6, 2023 Report Share Posted September 6, 2023 We had this very issue with the ctflier.com forum. It's an Invision software issue. I changed the hchat security settings and it went away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admin Posted September 6, 2023 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2023 Roger Lee Thanks for the ideas, but no, sorry, that’s not it. We have all the correct software and Admin settings. There is NO Automatic Activation of new Members on the SCFLIER SportCruiser forum. When a person “signs up”, 1) I get a notification of a new SCFLIER Member needing Activation 2) I send the potential new Member an email from scflieradm@yahoo.com. That is my SCFLIER ADMIN Email. In this email, I ask the four easy questions in my post above. Also Copied below at the bottom. 3) when (IF) the potential new SCFLIER Member responds, assuming they aren’t a salesman, a rabble rousing SPAMMER, or obviously not interested in airplanes* or Rotax engines*, I will manually ACTIVATE their new SCFLIER SportCruiser forum Membership. One button click from me Activates all new SCFLIER Members A Manual operation By me. That’s it. If the new, potential SCFLIER Member does NOT respond to my admin email, they don’t get activated by me. Dave * It is rare, but there are a VERY few “pure salespeople” types that just want to sell stuff. They don’t give a flip about SportCruisers, or Rotax engines. And, There are also a VERY VERY few obvious SPAMMER type folks that just want to spread “their rants” about something not even remotely related to airplanes or Rotax engines. for these very few , I don’t Activate them. Simple. Since our SCFLIER SportCruiser forum has increased in membership from about 250 members years ago to now, over 650 members, on the 400 or more times that I DID get an email response from a potential new member, only 4 have NOT been activated, for the reasons discussed above. A person interested in airplanes and Rotax engines - the other ~ 396 or so new SCFLIER Members added, ALWAYS gets Activated by me. D My Admin “new member” two way communication email contains the following four easy questions:: 1) How did you learn about us ? 2) Where are you located ? 3) What airport (code) do you fly out of ? 4) Are you a SportCruiser / PiperSport / PS-28 CRUZ aircraft owner / Pilot ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavePilot Posted September 6, 2023 Report Share Posted September 6, 2023 A final note on the fact that some potential new SCFLIER SportCruiser forum members are NOT replying to my Admin email. WHY do I care ? Many of the new SCFLIER Forum members that I initially “met” via that simple two way email communication have become personal friends of mine. And we continue to communicate over the years on details about the SportCruiser aircraft and the Rotax engine. Meeting new people Interested in the SportCruiser / PS-28 aircraft and Rotax engines, and learning more is important to me. Fun and rewarding ! Dave your friendly SCFLIER Admin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admin Posted October 24, 2023 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2023 From Facebook, posted on the PS-2& SportCruiser / Cruiser Pilots forum: the complete response from me , your LUCKY SCFLIER SportCruiser forum ADMIN, replying to James Devoy on the PS-28 / SportCruiser / Cruiser Pilots Facebook forum : “James Devoy James. Thanks for the kind words. And yes, I am a volunteer, with a LIFE of my own, and a great SportCruiser to fly ! Sometimes I don’t respond as quick as some folks want, but there is only ONE of me the lucky SCFLIER Forum Admin. And a website like the SCFLIER SportCruiser forum is NOT free to me, your Admin. I spend upwards of $ 100 per month every month, all year long, to pay the website maintainer, and I “give” my personal time (worth upwards of $ 10 per hour - ha ha ha )- to the over 650 members FOR FREE because I enjoy doing the SCFLIER Forum thing, and I love my SportCruiser ! Being the Admin and tending to Activating new SCFLIER members, fixing locked out members with new passwords, …, can be a pain. But overall, since I became the second ADMIN of the SCFLIER SportCruiser forum way back in ~ 2018, the SCFLIER forum has grown from about 250 worldwide SCFLIER members to now climbing over 650 members. AND, the SCFLIER SportCruiser forum is FREE to All Members ! The SCFLIER SportCruiser forum is a great Internet forum, with lots of knowledgeable Pilots / CRUZ LSA Aircraft owners, who treat every member with RESPECT for varying opinions and ideas. The SCFLIER SportCruiser forum is Highly recommended as a resource for potential new ideas, cool airplane pics and flying adventures, and ideas for problems with your SportCruiser ! Use the SEARCH ICON (magnifying glass top right first page) to quickly navigate to “your” desired topic ! Just remember that if you have any SCFLIER problems, send me an email at scflieradm@yahoo.com and check your SPAM folder for responses from me ! Enjoy FLYING your SpirtCruiser / PS-28 ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admin Posted January 2 Author Report Share Posted January 2 On 8/12/2023 at 12:03 PM, admin said: To ALL SCFLIER SportCruiser forum members I frequently get new SCFLIER SportCruiser forum members having trouble logging in to the SCFLIER SportCruiser forum. This is typically due to a new member using the wrong password, or, sometimes a new user enters their email address instead of their “Display Name” that they set during “SignUp”. Email addresses are not used during SCFLIER sign in. If you know of a new Member having trouble logging in to the SCFLIER Forum, please let them know: I, the SCFLIER SportCruiser Forum Admin, do NOT get automatic notifications of failed password entry attempts. I am NOT Automatically notified when you have been LOCKED OUT of the SCFLIER Forum. Automatic Notifications of Failed Password Attempts while logging in is not available to me at the ~ $ 100 per month I pay for the SCFLIER Forum Website. Any Changes to our forum website software is done by PAYING the Website Maintenance Company a stiff fee and then waiting in a long que for potential action. Obviously, this “Pay for a new Feature” path is taken VERY RARELY. The good news is that our SCFLIER Forum website works well for most SCFLIER Forum users. With over 650 SCFLIER members worldwide , password entry failures are common. DAILY. There is NO automatic password reset system. The “system” will imply that an individual SCFLIER Forum member can set a new password by themselves, but this does not function. Only I, as your Lucky SCFLIER ADMIN, can change SCFLIER user passwords. If you someday get locked out, Please Tell me !!! - via my Admin email what NEW password you want and I will manually enter it for you and get you going again. Please write down your password. I get it. I have lots of passwords also. Please write down your SCFLIER Password. And, ANYTIME that you or a friend - an SCFLIER SportCruiser forum member - is having trouble with SCFLIER, PLEASE send me an email to my ADMIN Email address. I respond quickly to emails sent to scflieradm@yahoo.com My Admin email address is right on top of the main SCFLIER Forum website page ! Thanks ! Dave SCFLIER ADMIN Finally, if you know someone - perhaps a potential new member attempting to GET ACTIVATED by me with a new SCFLIER Forum Membership, tell them three important facts : Make sure that my Admin email address, scflieradm@yahoo.com, is NOT in their SPAM folder. Please Put my Admin email address contact info into your known, GOOD List of email addresses. Potential New SCFLIER Members must respond to a simple email sent from ME, the Lucky SCFLIER ADMIN, with four easy questions. There are no WRONG Answers ! 1) How did you learn about us ? 2) Where are you located ? 3) What airport (code) do you fly out of ? 4) Are you a SportCruiser / PiperSport / PS-28 CRUZ aircraft owner / Pilot ? There are a very FEW parts of the SCFLIER SportCruiser forum that CAN be accessed by folks that DO NOT have an Activated SCFLIER account. The picture below shows one of these SCFLIER Forum areas that one can access without logging in - ie, NON Members can access these particular posts in this area ONLY. Do you know of a potential NEW SportCruiser SCFLIER Forum member that is having trouble getting access to our forum ? As the SCFLIER FORUM Admin, I require a simple TWO WAY E-mail communication from me to them and back to me, to that I know I have every new SCFLIER Member’s correct email address before ACTIVATING their new SCFLIER member request. WHY ? So that I can reach new Members (all SCFLIER Members) via email, And they know how to contact me, via my SCFLIER ADMIN email address, scflieradm@yahoo.com …if they have a password lockout scenario or a question for me. I NEVER reveal any SCFLIER member’s personal information, including their own email address, publicly on the forum. Just last week, a potential new member typed in THEIR EMAIL ADDRESS with an error, a typo, and so I was unable to reach them via email. On a hunch, I corrected what looked to me to be a typo in their email address sent to me, And I was able to contact them via email, And activate their new account quickly. And, FREQUENTLY, potential new SCFLIER Members request a new SCFLIER account, I send them my “two way email communication test “, and I NEVER HEAR FROM THEM AGAIN. I suspect my email to them, from scflieradm@yahoo.com got caught in their email’s SPAM Folder, And sometimes, when I check my own SPAM folder, I see new member’s responses to me caught in MY SPAM bucket there. Easy to move that “NOT SPAM” email to my admin email inbox. the Message - if you know of a potential new SCFLIER Forum member, tell them to check their own SPAM folder for my email sent to them ! SPAM Buckets work both ways … I am Trying to help new SCFLIER Members get activated quickly and to join in all the SCFLIER SPORTCRUISER Forum fun ! Dave SCFLIER SportCruiser forum Admin And, a frequent SPAM Folder email checker… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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