# Time to Unpin the Thread About Verifying Your Email
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-unpin-the-thread-about-verifying-your-email/913130
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**Created:** [June 26, 2020, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-unpin-the-thread-about-verifying-your-email/913130 "2020-06-26T05:19:13Z")
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### Author:  [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-unpin-the-thread-about-verifying-your-email/913130/1 "2020-06-26T05:19:13Z")
It’s probably time to unpin the thread titled “IMPORTANT: Go to UserCP and verify your email.”
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### Author:  [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-unpin-the-thread-about-verifying-your-email/913130/2 "2020-06-26T05:20:34Z")
LOL, I was thinking the same thing.
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### Author:  [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-unpin-the-thread-about-verifying-your-email/913130/3 "2020-06-26T07:06:22Z")
You can click the pin icon to unpin it yourself. Or go to the bottom of the post and change the status to ‘unpinned’.
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### Author:  [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-unpin-the-thread-about-verifying-your-email/913130/4 "2020-06-26T08:10:49Z")
Yep, with the new software you have individual control over what is pinned, so you can remove things yourself. I’ve also been unpinning most of the rules threads.
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### Author:  [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-unpin-the-thread-about-verifying-your-email/913130/5 "2020-06-26T14:14:23Z")
There are people who only check in with the board rarely, and there’s at least one regular poster who can only get online at a library, and the libraries in her area have been closed for months and are still closed.
Anybody can unpin the thread for themselves. I think it should stay pinned otherwise for at least several months, maybe longer.
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### Author:  [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-unpin-the-thread-about-verifying-your-email/913130/6 "2020-06-26T16:02:05Z")
> [@GreenWyvern](#):
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> You can click the pin icon to unpin it yourself. Or go to the bottom of the post and change the status to ‘unpinned’.
Cool. Thanks.
ETA: You have to unpin from each forum individually.
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### Author:  [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-unpin-the-thread-about-verifying-your-email/913130/7 "2020-06-26T18:53:30Z")
If you read the thread it unpins itself automatically.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-unpin-the-thread-about-verifying-your-email/913130/8 "2020-06-26T22:24:35Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#):
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> I think it should stay pinned otherwise for at least several months, maybe longer.
But, isn’t it no longer possible to “Go to UserCP”?
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### Author:  [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2020, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-unpin-the-thread-about-verifying-your-email/913130/9 "2020-06-27T00:18:08Z")
If it’s got the wrong instructions, then it ought to have the right instructions. But that’s different from unpinning it, which will rapidly lead to its disappearing for anybody who doesn’t already know how to hunt for it.
ETA: in any case, as long as it’s got ‘email TubaDiva here if you still can’t get in’, then people can get things straightened out eventually.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2020, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-unpin-the-thread-about-verifying-your-email/913130/10 "2020-06-27T01:25:28Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#):
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> If it’s got the wrong instructions, then it ought to have the right instructions. But that’s different from unpinning it, which will rapidly lead to its disappearing for anybody who doesn’t already know how to hunt for it.
I thought the whole point of that thread was to make sure everyone had an up-to-date email address before we migrated to Discourse.
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2020, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-unpin-the-thread-about-verifying-your-email/913130/11 "2020-06-27T01:38:16Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#):
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> I thought the whole point of that thread was to make sure everyone had an up-to-date email address before we migrated to Discourse.
Not everyone was online or on the board during that time frame, in particular people who rely on public libraries for their internet access.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2020, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-unpin-the-thread-about-verifying-your-email/913130/12 "2020-06-27T01:45:46Z")
> [@needscoffee](#):
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> Not everyone was online or on the board during that time frame, in particular people who rely on public libraries for their internet access.
One of us is really confused—not sure if it’s you or me.
My understanding: the point of the thread was that people would need to have an up-to-date email on file in order to log on to the new board. If they haven’t changed it by now, it’s too late, because now that we’re on the new board, they can’t log in if the email the board has for them is not correct.
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### Author:  [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2020, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-unpin-the-thread-about-verifying-your-email/913130/13 "2020-06-27T01:50:44Z")
OK. So what should be pinned there instead is instructions for getting on to the new board, including instructions for what to do if the email you were using for the board is no longer active.
But just unpinning the instructions and not replacing them with anything doesn’t seem like a good idea.
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### Author:  [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2020, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-unpin-the-thread-about-verifying-your-email/913130/14 "2020-06-27T01:51:27Z")
Testing Post 2
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2020, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-unpin-the-thread-about-verifying-your-email/913130/15 "2020-06-27T05:24:27Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#):
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> One of us is really confused—not sure if it’s you or me.
Probably me.