So my temporary guest membership has expired?

This is “newcrasher”. I tried to access my account and it will not let me post, saying something the effect that my temporary guest membership has expired. I did not get a renewal notice, or any notice that my membership was expiring. I did not have a “guest” membership anyway.

Do I need to review? Is there a technical issue? Certainly you would not just let my renewal date arrive without notice?..right?

Without posting priveleges I could not access the emails or PM functions to reach the Mods. Please delete this screen name once the issue is resolved. I am not trying to be in violation of the sock rule.

I appreciate your assistance.

I reported your post so you’d get a response more quickly.

GT

It is your responsibility to keep up with your subscription, which you can check at any time through the UserCP; click the UserCP hyperlink in the blue band at the top of the page, then click on “Paid Subscriptions” in the list on the left hand side of the page.

Yes, your subscription expired December 10.

You may resubscribe at any time.

In the meantime I am closing this extra screen name; it is a violation of board policy to have more than one screen name. This was not necessary; you could have looked at the “View Forum Leaders” page available here:

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showgroups.php?

Where all the administrator and moderator emails are listed.

If you continue to have problems, please let me know so I can help you. TubaDiva@aol.com

We don’t get reminders? I thought we did. There’s no way I’d remember to resubscribe every year, especially since my re-up date isn’t tied to any date I’d remember, like January 1, April 15, my birthday.

Really? There’s no reminder? How have I remembered to pony up?

Maybe the reminder is just the generic one I got before I signed up, which said something to the effect that either you never signed up, or your membership has expired, etc.

That is, a message box when you try to post, not an email.

I seem to remember getting an email reminding me that my membership was due to expire within a few weeks. It could just be that there is no e-mail reminder sent out for guest memberships, since they’re only good for 30 days.

But he said that he can’t e-mail or PM since he’s not a member.

So he still might not be able to e-mail anyone.

What does not being a member have to do with emailing someone? All you you have to do is send an email to the address listed. What am I missing?

Although it’s absolutely baffling to me that someone would not be able to find the e-mail of at least one of the Staff here (a quick Google found the e-mail in about 2 seconds, less time that it takes to create a new member account), that question could forever be put to rest of the e-mail of one contact was put in the footer.

Or maybe not. How many times do people ask about “the best of the worst” when it’s trivial to search for it? Maybe there really is no hope.

There’s a “webmaster@…” address in the footer (if footer means the text at the bottom of the page). I assume that goes to one or more staff members.

Good point, Una. I’d never think of googling to get a mod e-mail. Heck, I’d never think of going outside the site for anything related to the site.

What newscrasher did makes sense to me though. Plus, the responses and resolution might help others who encounter the same issue.