<VV> New SCG website members elevated to Contributor status

Sat May 7 23:08:01 EDT 2011

To al of you (22 so far) who have registered for the new SCG website in the past 2 days, thank you for your support.  I have promoted all of you to Contributor status which now allows you to see the additional content available to this user level, as well as grants you the ability to submit posts on the main site (held for approval), plus the ability to post freely on the SCG forum site

Please refer to the Help pages on the site and on the forum site for more details about posting.

I will routinely review all future new subscribers as often as possible (usually at least daily) and elevate all apparently legitimate CORSA members to Contributor status, so please check the site a day or so after you have registered to see if your user status has been changed (you will be able to see the Members Area on the menu bar).  If you don't see this after 24 hours please e-mail SCG_officers at Corvair.org for help. 

After SCG members have gained experience using the new site (please submit posts, if only to practice), we will eventually elevate them (SCG members only) to Author status, which allows posting without moderation and should open up additional content.

Thanks!

Bill Hubbell
SCG president

On May 6, 2011, at 8:36 AM, "William Hubbell" <whubbell at verizon.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> 
> 
> Kent Sullivan, Marissa Andolino, and I have been hard at work getting the
> new SCG WordPress <http://wordpress.org/>  site and Forum up and running. We
> are launching it with the publishing of the May Communique  to coincide with
> an article Kent wrote about Corvair powertrain jacks and cradles which
> invites people to the new site to post info on their own equipment.
> 
> 
> 
> You can start by going to the site, http://stock.corvair.org/, and looking
> at the site before you register. See what you are able to do in this
> state-it shouldn't be much - just a home page and some information about SCG
> and links to various Corvair sites of interest to General and Stock Corvairs
> .  This is the public face of SCG.  If you have any ideas or suggestions for
> spicing this page up, please send me suggestions.  
> 
> 
> 
> We would like this site to become a central point for all things related to
> Stock Corvairs.  I know that there are many other people who have been
> actively working on various Stock research projects, and I have made an
> initial attempt to link to as many of them as I can, but I am certain that
> there are many, many more that I have not identified.  So please, look over
> the site and if you have or know of a project that should be listed, or of a
> web page that should be linked to, etc., notify me and I will add it to the
> site.
> 
> 
> 
> Next, register for an account.  You will be sent an e-mail giving you a
> password to get into the site and you will be granted Subscriber status,
> which again should not let you do much (to protect against spammers) other
> than read content.  Check the Help File located on the blue menu bar to read
> more about this user level.  Subscriber status will also allow you to enter
> the new SCG Forum where at this level you have read-only access
> 
> 
> 
> After you have registered as a Subscriber, one of the three of us will then
> approve you for Contributor status which will grant you access to the
> Members Area with a whole lot of additional content and give you the ability
> to write posts or comments, but they must be approved by an editor before
> posting.  Once you are elevated to this status you will be able to read help
> information about writing posts and uploading media content.  You will also
> be elevated to Member status in the Forum where you will be able to post,
> upload media, and respond to posts.
> 
> 
> 
> There is a bit of a learning curve to the site, so we want you to play
> around in this level for a little while - get used to making posts,
> uploading media, etc., while we continue to monitor and help you.  After a
> bit, we will elevate SCG members to Author status and they will be able to
> write and publish their own posts and comments without Editor approval.
> Non-SCG members will be kept in Contributor status; Membership in SCG has
> its privilages.
> 
> 
> 
> SCG officers and serious researchers will be elevated to Editor Status when
> they are ready.  Editors have considerable Admin control over the site, so
> we must restrict this level to only the few who require it.
> 
> 
> 
> Marissa will remain as the site's sole Administrator and has full control,
> for safety and security reasons
> 
> 
> 
> There is a method to all this madness, as we are trying hard to make a site
> that will be useful for our group seriously interested in Stock Corvairs
> while still keeping the spammers under control and preventing inadvertent
> damage to the site.
> 
> 
> 
> The site is being hosted on the CORSA server, and we have implemented (and
> tested) secure backup procedures, having learned our lesson the hard way.
> 
> 
> 
> The site still has some bugs and there are features we are continuing to
> develop, but with the imminent publication of Kent's article, it is time to
> open it up to all SCG and CORSA members. Please feel free to post comments
> or concerns about the site.
> 
> 
> 
> I hope you will enjoy it and find it useful.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Bill Hubbell
> 
> SCG President
> 
> 
> 
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