Post by MCDemuth on May 11, 2015 1:08:23 GMT -5
EFFECTIVE: May 11, 2015.
This is a REMINDER, UPDATE & EXPANSION to our Previous Publications.
You may read those publications HERE:
mjrmstsrepaints.proboards.com/thread/745/almr-website-access-rules-read
(I appologize if any of this seems a little blunt or harsh, but my only intention here is not to "sugar coat" things, as that can be confusing to some...Including myself. LOL!)
FIRST:
There has been a lot of time vested in our products and as creators we expect there to be some kind of established protection for those products and to keep track of what is going on with them. Due to some security issues we have had in the past, all of our product Downloads are now being hosted at our "Distribution Center" which is on a second and secure forum: almr.proboards.com/.
SECOND:
If you wish to be able to access our "Distribution Center"...You must meet some critera as a member of our "Moose Interchange Rail Company" Forum...FIRST! WHY? Well...We feel that many of our "Members" who are looking to join us, are only here to access our Downloads and then never intend on coming back. That is NOT what our forum is all about, and those folks are not who we are doing our creations for either. ALL Members wishing to access our "Distribution Center" must make at least TWO "Significant" Post, that contributes something of themselves, BEFORE a new account registration at our "Distribution Center" will be approved. What does "Signficant" mean?
Responses such as "Hi" or "That Looks nice" or "I want to be able to run your repaints" or "I want someone to do some repaints for me", ETC. are NOT qualifying posts that will grant you forum approval to our "Distribution Center". Several of these posts in a row will not qualify either. We ask that all of our members contribute something of themselves to our forum.
Some Examples Like These, contribute "something from our members", and Qualify For Access:
Try helping another member find some helpful and useful information that they need.
Share some repainting or model building, ETC. knowledge.
Try submitting a (NEW) Product of your own. (Contact one of the Admins if you wish to do so.)
Share some recent "Breaking" news involving the railroading world.
There are many other examples of these types of suggestions that would Qualify For Access, but a very simple one, would be for you to...
Share some Screen Shots of some trains that you like to run in the SIM.
TWO POSTS LIKE THAT...is all that it takes! It may sound like a bit much to ask our new members to do this, but many of our long time members had to go through many other methods of approval, to get access, such as: like making 10 posts & getting pass codes, just to name a couple... Requiring no criteria now, wouldn't not be fair to those members who worked so hard in the past to get access.
Heck, some other forums require large numbers of posts just to acquire some levels of access, and others charge membership fees. One post really isn't that much to ask.
THIRD:
When you have made that TWO "Significant" Post... THEN AND ONLY THEN ...you will need to register for an account over at our "Distribution Center": almr.proboards.com/. We will need to verify your TWO "Significant" Post before your Membership Request is approved, so you will need to properly register at our "Distribution Center" by using the exact same account information that you used when you joined our "Moose Interchange Rail Company" Forum.
Use the same Username, Nickname, E-mail, & Password, ETC.
(Example):
"Moose Interchange Rail Company" membership name: XYZ123
"Distribution Center" registration name: XYZ123
NOTE: IF you have been a member our "Moose Interchange Rail Company" for a while, and then some information like: your E-mail has changed, then you decide to register at our "Distribution Center", PM one of the Admins and let them know about the change, or your account approval may be delayed! your E-mail Account may be used to verify who you are!
Once you have been approved to our "Distribution Center", you will be able to download ALL of our product at that point for FREE.
One last reminder...Members will no longer be approved that have NOT made any posts in our "Moose Interchange Rail Company" Forum.
FOURTH:
Multiple Membership Accounts Will Not Be Allowed, at either of our "Moose Interchange Rail Company" and "Distribution Center" Forums!
We don't require our members to visit our "Moose Interchange Rail Company" forum on a regular basis, but we would like to see them do so.
We expect our members to know & remember...
- They have account memberships with us.
- Their usernames, e-mail addresses, & passwords. (We hope that you have picked ones that you will remember.)
- We have NOT removed any "In Good Standing" membership accounts from our "Distribution Center".
- We have NOT removed any membership accounts from our "Moose Interchange Rail Company" Forum, involving "sporadic" visiting members, that has at least ONE Post!
(...and if you frequently visit us, it may help you to do remember these things.)
Please remember to keep your E-mail address with our Forum(s) up to date. That will solve MOST issues.
If any Multiple Membership Accounts found...BY THE ADMIN TEAM...at our "Moose Interchange Rail Company" forum, the NEWEST one will be deleted.
If, for whatever reason, you needed to create a new Membership Account at our "Moose Interchange Rail Company" forum, please check right away to make sure that your old one doesn't still exist. If it does, let us know IMMEDIATELY about your multiple accounts, and which one you wish to keep, and we'll remove the ones you don't wish to use.
If you encounter any membership registration or access issues, that should not be happening, please PM one of our Admin Staff Team Members and ask for assistance. Make sure to let us know about any of the user names & E-mail Addresses that you may have used at our Forum(s) in the past, and we will work with you to sort out the problems...
FIFTH:
The products that we have uploaded for the community should already be top notch and in good working order, so there should be no need to alter, edit, or even upgrade any of them. If you feel the need to do, please PM the owner of the work via a PM or email, and ask for permission to do so. Most of our creators will usually grant it, as long as you give us credit for what WE have done. Otherwise, please make sure to read our documentation that is included with our works, and be sure to follow our EULAs as so forth.
SIXTH:
No discussions will be allowed to be made at our "Distribution Center", regarding our products, as well as, any other topics. That is our "File Download Library" only forum. Our "Moose Interchange Rail Company" Forum is the place to discuss those things. We do ask that you please be specific when giving feed back.
We want to continue having our members enjoy what we have created for the Simulation World, and with these simple rules for our downloads it is possible to do these things.
Please enjoy our Products, and...
Thank You,
The Admin Team.
This is a REMINDER, UPDATE & EXPANSION to our Previous Publications.
You may read those publications HERE:
mjrmstsrepaints.proboards.com/thread/745/almr-website-access-rules-read
To All Members Wishing To Access Our our "Distribution Center":
(I appologize if any of this seems a little blunt or harsh, but my only intention here is not to "sugar coat" things, as that can be confusing to some...Including myself. LOL!)
FIRST:
There has been a lot of time vested in our products and as creators we expect there to be some kind of established protection for those products and to keep track of what is going on with them. Due to some security issues we have had in the past, all of our product Downloads are now being hosted at our "Distribution Center" which is on a second and secure forum: almr.proboards.com/.
SECOND:
If you wish to be able to access our "Distribution Center"...You must meet some critera as a member of our "Moose Interchange Rail Company" Forum...FIRST! WHY? Well...We feel that many of our "Members" who are looking to join us, are only here to access our Downloads and then never intend on coming back. That is NOT what our forum is all about, and those folks are not who we are doing our creations for either. ALL Members wishing to access our "Distribution Center" must make at least TWO "Significant" Post, that contributes something of themselves, BEFORE a new account registration at our "Distribution Center" will be approved. What does "Signficant" mean?
Responses such as "Hi" or "That Looks nice" or "I want to be able to run your repaints" or "I want someone to do some repaints for me", ETC. are NOT qualifying posts that will grant you forum approval to our "Distribution Center". Several of these posts in a row will not qualify either. We ask that all of our members contribute something of themselves to our forum.
Some Examples Like These, contribute "something from our members", and Qualify For Access:
Try helping another member find some helpful and useful information that they need.
Share some repainting or model building, ETC. knowledge.
Try submitting a (NEW) Product of your own. (Contact one of the Admins if you wish to do so.)
Share some recent "Breaking" news involving the railroading world.
There are many other examples of these types of suggestions that would Qualify For Access, but a very simple one, would be for you to...
Share some Screen Shots of some trains that you like to run in the SIM.
TWO POSTS LIKE THAT...is all that it takes! It may sound like a bit much to ask our new members to do this, but many of our long time members had to go through many other methods of approval, to get access, such as: like making 10 posts & getting pass codes, just to name a couple... Requiring no criteria now, wouldn't not be fair to those members who worked so hard in the past to get access.
Heck, some other forums require large numbers of posts just to acquire some levels of access, and others charge membership fees. One post really isn't that much to ask.
THIRD:
When you have made that TWO "Significant" Post... THEN AND ONLY THEN ...you will need to register for an account over at our "Distribution Center": almr.proboards.com/. We will need to verify your TWO "Significant" Post before your Membership Request is approved, so you will need to properly register at our "Distribution Center" by using the exact same account information that you used when you joined our "Moose Interchange Rail Company" Forum.
Use the same Username, Nickname, E-mail, & Password, ETC.
(Example):
"Moose Interchange Rail Company" membership name: XYZ123
"Distribution Center" registration name: XYZ123
NOTE: IF you have been a member our "Moose Interchange Rail Company" for a while, and then some information like: your E-mail has changed, then you decide to register at our "Distribution Center", PM one of the Admins and let them know about the change, or your account approval may be delayed! your E-mail Account may be used to verify who you are!
Once you have been approved to our "Distribution Center", you will be able to download ALL of our product at that point for FREE.
One last reminder...Members will no longer be approved that have NOT made any posts in our "Moose Interchange Rail Company" Forum.
FOURTH:
Multiple Membership Accounts Will Not Be Allowed, at either of our "Moose Interchange Rail Company" and "Distribution Center" Forums!
We don't require our members to visit our "Moose Interchange Rail Company" forum on a regular basis, but we would like to see them do so.
We expect our members to know & remember...
- They have account memberships with us.
- Their usernames, e-mail addresses, & passwords. (We hope that you have picked ones that you will remember.)
- We have NOT removed any "In Good Standing" membership accounts from our "Distribution Center".
- We have NOT removed any membership accounts from our "Moose Interchange Rail Company" Forum, involving "sporadic" visiting members, that has at least ONE Post!
(...and if you frequently visit us, it may help you to do remember these things.)
Please remember to keep your E-mail address with our Forum(s) up to date. That will solve MOST issues.
If any Multiple Membership Accounts found...BY THE ADMIN TEAM...at our "Moose Interchange Rail Company" forum, the NEWEST one will be deleted.
If, for whatever reason, you needed to create a new Membership Account at our "Moose Interchange Rail Company" forum, please check right away to make sure that your old one doesn't still exist. If it does, let us know IMMEDIATELY about your multiple accounts, and which one you wish to keep, and we'll remove the ones you don't wish to use.
If you encounter any membership registration or access issues, that should not be happening, please PM one of our Admin Staff Team Members and ask for assistance. Make sure to let us know about any of the user names & E-mail Addresses that you may have used at our Forum(s) in the past, and we will work with you to sort out the problems...
FIFTH:
The products that we have uploaded for the community should already be top notch and in good working order, so there should be no need to alter, edit, or even upgrade any of them. If you feel the need to do, please PM the owner of the work via a PM or email, and ask for permission to do so. Most of our creators will usually grant it, as long as you give us credit for what WE have done. Otherwise, please make sure to read our documentation that is included with our works, and be sure to follow our EULAs as so forth.
SIXTH:
No discussions will be allowed to be made at our "Distribution Center", regarding our products, as well as, any other topics. That is our "File Download Library" only forum. Our "Moose Interchange Rail Company" Forum is the place to discuss those things. We do ask that you please be specific when giving feed back.
We want to continue having our members enjoy what we have created for the Simulation World, and with these simple rules for our downloads it is possible to do these things.
Please enjoy our Products, and...
Thank You,
The Admin Team.