Pardon me, BooMan. I like this site. I am glad that for the first time, I had a recommended diary anywhere right here.
But I cannot, for the life of me, join the blog membership of Liberal Streetfighter.
Why?
I have tried and tried to register but the software keeps bugging out and refusing to recognize me. That’s right. They don’t recognize my handle or my password.
Is this some sort of private membership club? That people only join if they are recommended?
Seems like one of the big time literary competitions that lay out who they are and how much they give to the winner and then say, “Please no outside queries or submissions. We draw up our own list and then award the winner.”
I have tried to contact Theoria, the proud proprietor of this blog. I have tried to contact Marisacat for assistance; she’s said good things about my posts before. In every instance, I am thrown out by the software on my rear end.
Sometimes it is just not politics. It is the damn software. I must be some dangerous lady.
I use Mozilla Firefox, so that may be the reason why it doesn’t recognize me. I hate MSN and may simply get rid of it; I prefer GMail and Firefox.
That’s right. I am an enemy of the Microsoft Empire run by the Emperor Gates.
But that’s no reason to discriminate.
I would rather have waited for a free thread to lay out my concerns. But it is now about 10 a.m EST and I have other work to do stemming from my move to Wisconsin in early July.
So, let me know what I should do, short of prostrating on my knees and groveling to the blog gods. Because I don’t lay down like that for just anyone.
I’ll send a link to this diary to Kid Oakland and see if he can solve the problem.
Meanwhile, why not join this fledgling online community, where prostration is actively discouraged?
By the way, you should indeed dump MSM – apart from being a useless program it’s a major security hole. However, it’s easier said then done. I don’t remember the command sequence you need to enter into ‘run’ in order to get rid of it, but you can find it by googling ‘delete MSM’ or some such.
but I just joined liberalStreetfighter – took 30 seconds, and I am using Firefox.
Need more info to figure out your problem – when you say it “bugs out” what do you mean ?
It tells me that the system does not recognize my name or password.
Hi Blksista… I replied lower down on the thread… and I just sent you an email to the gmail acct….
-Marisacat…
To be more direct:
When I try to register, I get:
“You are not authorized to perform this action.”
When I try to log in, I get:
“The username you submitted was not found in the database.”
Blksista, is it possible that you have cookies turned off in Firefox? (I know this is an obvious thing you have probably already checked, but I just thought I’ve asked.)
Another possibility is that your IP address or IP number family is being blocked — not because of you, but perhaps because the webmaster may have had a prior troll problem and is trying to block someone else, and forgot to turn off the block? (just a speculation)
Hmmmm, I’ve got to check the cookies, but they are usually on.
I think the webmaster probably is blocking someone other than myself or just me. Troll I am not. Shit disturber I am.
Thanks.
Blksistah,
I’ll email a link to this diary and your email addy to some folks over there. They’re good people and I’m sure they would love to hear what you have to say. (And, as a regular reader of that blog, so would I)
Wisconsin or Liberal Streetfighter?
Any connections would be fine. 🙂
Liberal Street Fighter. I’m pretty sure I want to avoid Wisconsin; I still haven’t forgiven them for Tommie Thompson. 🙂
Well, too late now, I’m moving to Madison in early July.
Madison, supposedly an island of sanity in a state full of wingers. Midwest wingers at that. Hoo-boy.
Madison and Milwaukee, that’s about it … get ready for the school-choice nuts and the anti-sex nuts. WI is full of both. I’ve been here for nearly two years, and it’s taken some getting used to.
Well, I’ll give yall a shoutout when I get settled. I need to keep from going nuts. Where yat?
Oh and, in our overwhelming desire to be helpful I think at least 50% of the FP posters are now aware of your dilemma. So you may be getting a lot of email. Such an entrance:)
A BMT poster (colleen, the colleen at blarg.net) emailed me this post, so I am responding to the diary…
Hello Blksista…
I forwarded this post to the theoria (Don) and to Fast Pete…
Sorry for whatever has happened, and for whatever difficulties have been encountered in emailing people….
Unsure what email you used, I am at Marisacat@aol.com… we did have a swarm of spam sent thru our liberalstreetfighter email system recently, and I am unsure of its present status (if indeed you used that system, I am unsure).
Again, sorry for any difficulties…
Hope all is resolved by those less technologically challenged than I am….
-Marisacat
Well, if you scroll up, you’ll see what kind of error messages I’ve been getting.
Let’s see what develops later.
Thanks for your help, Marisacat!