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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: retired on June 04, 2009, 08:33:09 AM
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Have great fun on this site, learn alot but because I have just bought a Prado and want to deck it out to do our big trip thought Prado Point would also be helpful. Mentioned recently that I registered with them and was waiting to be activated and after 3 days was still not activated I had a few replies on this site stating that they were getting lots of registration requests so be patient. I was also informed both on the site and a few replies on this site that I could still post questions or equally contact an administrator I now find I cant do either of these things, maybe call me stupid I dont know, its been a week. My Swag had me up and running in seconds seems to be very well done Prado Point is making me feel unloved. Any suggesions. :'(
Ian
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Trade it on Cruiser and join LCOOL? :laugh:
Sorry Retired, i'm not involved in Prado Point so no ideas. I saw that Kevin offered you a suggestion on this in a separate thread (cracked chassis) a couple of days ago delayed approvals (http://www.pradopoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5964&view=#p83578).
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Have great fun on this site, learn alot but because I have just bought a Prado and want to deck it out to do our big trip thought Prado Point would also be helpful. Mentioned recently that I registered with them and was waiting to be activated and after 3 days was still not activated I had a few replies on this site stating that they were getting lots of registration requests so be patient. I was also informed both on the site and a few replies on this site that I could still post questions or equally contact an administrator I now find I cant do either of these things, maybe call me stupid I dont know, its been a week. My Swag had me up and running in seconds seems to be very well done Prado Point is making me feel unloved. Any suggesions. :'(
Ian
Ian, what username did you use to register on PradoPoint? Let me know by PM on here and I will get it actioned for you.
Cheers
Mav
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Hi Mav,
The user name I used was Lyonsy, and thanks for that.
Ian
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Hi bigjules,
I knew I had a response to that question somewhere but couldnt remember where it was posted, see what getting old does to you. Thanks for the memory jog.
Ian
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Hi Mav,
The user name I used was Lyonsy, and thanks for that.
Ian
Stay tuned, I have emailed the man to get it done as we are good mates, he is a shift worker at the mines in the HUnter Valley so it may take a day to get a response depending on where he is in his shift cycle.
Cheers
Mav
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Good on you Mav I enjoy getting on this site and talk about camper trailer stuff.Hopefully PP will be fun with the Prado.
Ian
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Hopefully PP will be fun with the Prado.
It definitely will be - Pradopoint.com is very good!
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Hi ntpryce,
Just noticed your from NT. Where abouts, I'm in Sydney at the moment but from the NT. Just curious if you are nearby
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Good on you Mav I enjoy getting on this site and talk about camper trailer stuff.Hopefully PP will be fun with the Prado.
Ian
Your good to go on PradoPoint Ian, just heard from the man that all has been done to get you on the forum.
Cheers
Mav
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Thanks Mav,
I will now go and give it a try now.
Much appreciated.
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Just noticed your from NT. Where abouts, I'm in Sydney at the moment but from the NT. Just curious if you are nearby
Darwin City - but only 10 days away from a 5 week journey to Central Australia, Oodnadatta Track, Flinders Ranges and then back.
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18 months on and pradopoint are worse at registering people, I still haven't heard from them and I registered over a month ago.
It's pathetic, I even sent an email asking what was going on and noone bothed replying.
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18 months on and pradopoint are worse at registering people, I still haven't heard from them and I registered over a month ago.
It's pathetic, I even sent an email asking what was going on and noone bothed replying.
Most people who register for Pradopoint are accepted within a day, if you haven't been you have most likely been rejected for one of several reasons.
1. you failed to answer the Rules agreement and Spam questions correctly
2. you failed to put a location in
3. your user name may have been deemed inappropriate.
Some days I check over 200 applications and a lot of those are spammers, if you did all the above correctly I can only guess that you somehow slipped through the cracks. If you care to resubmit I am sure you will get on. Let me know what user name and I will keep an eye out for it.
Oh and by the way there are multiple approvers, so if I sometimes do 200 in a day and so do the others it may give you some idea how many applications we sometimes get.
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I registered about a week ago and got the email saying the registration was in the queue and haven't heard anything since, but since I don't own a Prado and only wanted to look at the Dig-Options gps threads I don't particularly care, I've since tracked them down in the Google cache and read them that way.
I will add though, the 1st rule of using spammer protection on a forum is to make sure you aren't stopping legitimate users from registering, from my experience with managing forums in days gone by, you'd be lucky if 1 in 10 people will bother going any further with trying to register once they are initially ignored. Just some food for thought.
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I will add though, the 1st rule of using spammer protection on a forum is to make sure you aren't stopping legitimate users from registering, from my experience with managing forums in days gone by, you'd be lucky if 1 in 10 people will bother going any further with trying to register once they are initially ignored. Just some food for thought.
That's true Dave but I have also seen the opposite happen when a Forum has become so over run with spammers that it has died. It is a risk either way. I believe Pradpoint will be having a major upgrade soon, so I am not sure what that will bring.
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Hopefully irritated isn't a spammer. Seems a bit suss when they registered at 8:45 today, bagged Prado Point and then left.
Hopefully not true but bells do ring........
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Hopefully irritated isn't a spammer. Seems a bit suss when they registered at 8:45 today, bagged Prado Point and then left.
Hopefully not true but bells do ring........
It is not an isolated incident
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first and foremost I am certainly not a spammer, when I found someone here that had the same problem (with pradopoint) I thought that by putting in a reply that I might get some info, how that seems suss is beyond me...each to their own, I guess.
two+four,
thanks for the reply, I'm pretty sure I did everything correct the only thing I could think of is that my password contained a part of the username so maybe that was the drama. Anyway I have just registered again with 'tttfog' as my username. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I have owned a new prado for a short while and just before I bought it I was able to at least see prado point posts which appeared very helpful. So I thought now that I have the vehicle in my possession that I'd have another look. But when I went back to the site recently I found I had to register to see anything and so far the registration got me nowhere.
There should be more sites like these congratulations to their creators.
Cheers
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Hi Irritated,
I have just approved you, if that application is exactly the same as last time I suspect you were at the end of a long list of applications and whoever rejected you did so because you did not state which state you live in. The application does ask for town and state. Most of us let it ride but sometimes we do get grumpy and feed up, we are only human after all.
Neil
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Neil,
I'm in.........You are an absolute legend, thanks very much.
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Hi Irritated,
I have just approved you, if that application is exactly the same as last time I suspect you were at the end of a long list of applications and whoever rejected you did so because you did not state which state you live in. The application does ask for town and state. Most of us let it ride but sometimes we do get grumpy and feed up, we are only human after all.
Neil
Hello this is My Swag not Prado point
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Hello this is My Swag not Prado point
Yeah it is a lot less anal around here :)
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the more info the better if you ask me. If someones experience, good or bad, helps another whether they are on this site or any of the other 1000 or so similar sites.............its all good. As for pradopoint.......try searching for prado specifics and you'll soon find that there is not much out there other than that on pradopoint.
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Yeah it is a lot less anal around here :)
What do you expect, It's full of Prado drivers
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Yeah it is a lot less anal around here :)
X2
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the more info the better if you ask me. If someones experience, good or bad, helps another whether they are on this site or any of the other 1000 or so similar sites.............its all good. As for pradopoint.......try searching for prado specifics and you'll soon find that there is not much out there other than that on pradopoint.
who really cares about Prado point
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Hello this is My Swag not Prado point
well spotted and it was here that he mentioned his problem and it was here that we solved it :D
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who really cares about Prado point
If it wasn't for Pradopoint, i wouldn't have found Myswag :cheers:
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A lot of people don't find this forum because of its name.
People are looking for a camper trailer forum and get thrown by the name myswag unfortunately.
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No need for anyone to be bagging another forum.
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A lot of people don't find this forum because of its name.
People are looking for a camper trailer forum and get thrown by the name myswag unfortunately.
Doesn't seem to have held Myswag back in recent times. A few well placed articles in camper trailer magazines has seen the membership go through the roof, and now the bigger it gets, and the more varied the topics discussed, the more Google brings it up in searches.
Two+four, the job of moderator on any forum would be a delicate balancing act, between keeping all the members happy, and keeping the forum on track and heading in the direction intended. My hat goes off to anyone who takes up a position as moderator, as it would be a thankless job at times, and rewarding at others.
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Doesn't seem to have held Myswag back in recent times. A few well placed articles in camper trailer magazines has seen the membership go through the roof, and now the bigger it gets, and the more varied the topics discussed, the more Google brings it up in searches.
Two+four, the job of moderator on any forum would be a delicate balancing act, between keeping all the members happy, and keeping the forum on track and heading in the direction intended. My hat goes off to anyone who takes up a position as moderator, as it would be a thankless job at times, and rewarding at others.
x2 Well said Gaz :cheers:
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Hi all, I have been on Pradopoint for some time now (different user name) I must say i have found it to be a very good community to be involved with. Hope to find something similar here. I am sure all of you PPers would know who i am if i posted my user name from over there, might keep that a secret though and see how long it takes a few of you to put 2 and 2 together. ;D
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Hi all, I have been on Pradopoint for some time now (different user name) I must say i have found it to be a very good community to be involved with. Hope to find something similar here. I am sure all of you PPers would know who i am if i posted my user name from over there, might keep that a secret though and see how long it takes a few of you to put 2 and 2 together. ;D
where is the fun in that!
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I'm going AJ :)
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I'm going AJ :)
Apparantly i am the only South Ozy on PP? 12,000 members to pick from and you needed one guess ???
Was going to post a pic of the Prado and CT here but haven't worked that out yet. got a pick up in my gallery, can't get the image to a post yet.
Cheers Andrew
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What do I win :)
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Apparantly i am the only South Ozy on PP? 12,000 members to pick from and you needed one guess ???
Was going to post a pic of the Prado and CT here but haven't worked that out yet. got a pick up in my gallery, can't get the image to a post yet.
Cheers Andrew
see if this thread helps.
http://myswag.org/forum/index.php?topic=13150.0
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Hi all, I have been on Pradopoint for some time now (different user name) I must say i have found it to be a very good community to be involved with. Hope to find something similar here. I am sure all of you PPers would know who i am if i posted my user name from over there, might keep that a secret though and see how long it takes a few of you to put 2 and 2 together. ;D
I will also keep my Pradopoint identity a secret from this forum as well,first I may have to change my user name
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I will also keep my Pradopoint identity a secret from this forum as well,first I may have to change my user name
are you worried somebody will think something different about you because you are a PP user?
i'm on both, i don't have any problems.. not sure i like the new forum over there at the moment, but it works ..
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I will also keep my Pradopoint identity a secret from this forum as well,first I may have to change my user name
Aye, but we know who you are. >:D
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Aye, but we know who you are. >:D
yes I cant hide from any one,it is true I am my grandfathers sons brothers sister inlaws son
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.. not sure i like the new forum over there at the moment, but it works ..
I am with you on that comment, I am not spending anywere near the amount of time on there as I used to. Spending a lot more time here though trawling through the old posts
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I am with you on that comment, I am not spending anywere near the amount of time on there as I used to. Spending a lot more time here though trawling through the old posts
it just seems cumbersome to post and find things and navigate my way around.. and i consider myself pretty savvy when it comes to these things..
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Let’s not dis the new layout as I am sure Piggy likes it. After all this is myswag not pradopoint which is the reason we’re here
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I havn't been able to log onto pradopoint since the upgrade.
my registered email address would be 5 years old and so about 4 years out of date.
I never seen a warning that there was going to be a upgrade- and that details should be up to date.....
Oh well......
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I havn't been able to log onto pradopoint since the upgrade.
my registered email address would be 5 years old and so about 4 years out of date.
I never seen a warning that there was going to be a upgrade- and that details should be up to date.....
Oh well......
Did you try doing this:
Click here to reset your password: http://www.pradopoint.com/login.php?do=lostpw
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yep and tried 3 or 4 email addresses that I have had over the years.
BTW- who thought up the stupid questions?
what sized rim does the Prado use- which model? 16 or 17 or 18????
what does prado mean in spanish????
anyway have sent a email to the admin around 3 days ago and still waiting- be interesting to see how many members return?
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yep and tried 3 or 4 email addresses that I have had over the years.
BTW- who thought up the stupid questions?
what sized rim does the Prado use- which model? 16 or 17 or 18????
what does prado mean in spanish????
anyway have sent a email to the admin around 3 days ago and still waiting- be interesting to see how many members return?
I would imagine there is a lot of emails to respond to I had a problem and sent Aaron a message and was fixed in 15 minutes but at the end of the day all there work is voluntary if you want send me a pm with your pradopoint user name and I will send Aaron a pm on your behalf
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Did somebody break it?
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Hi Irritated,
I have just approved you, if that application is exactly the same as last time I suspect you were at the end of a long list of applications and whoever rejected you did so because you did not state which state you live in. The application does ask for town and state. Most of us let it ride but sometimes we do get grumpy and feed up, we are only human after all.
Neil
Why not make those parts of the application form into a "required field". If they don't write what state they live in then the application won't even send and they get an error message. It would stop wasting everyones time.
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No go here either!! Now what am I going to do ??? No more spying on the opposition >:(
Dave
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No Tapatalk functionality on the new Prado Point has dropped my participation by about 90% I reckon. Apparently it's on the to do list but very frustrating as it's the easiest way to access the forum. I'm on it now!
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Ah it's the 'get new' link that is broken
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i haven't been on pp in weeks... it's just not nice to use any longer.. the function sucks.. myswag is taking up plenty of my time anyway
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The old mod crew would love to be able to help get thigs into shape but it also something that is on the "to do" list apparantly.
None of the mod crew have had their privs restored and it has been weeks now since the upgrade, we are getting the feeling that we may never have them restored. We have not had any communication from Aaron or Piggy about it so don't expect too much help with any problems if you have any as only Piggy is able to do any admin/mod work on there now.
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Its interesting that Aaron was able to reinstate Piggy with full privledges immediately, but non of the other mods can get reinstated. Must say that the new site is rather frustrating and whilst it has some new features, it has lost a few good ones as well.
I must say though i don't find this forum to be overly user fiendly either, keeping track of threads you have read and looking at threads you have previously posted in seems to be a difficult. But then again me and computers aren't the best of friends.
Cheers Andrew
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You know what they say, if it ain't broke, fix it anyway.... ::)
Shame, I found PP handy in the past, but over it now.
Cam
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A forum is a difficult beast to transform, so maybe cut them some slack.
Clearly there is some member dissatisfaction, they're not alone there, but let's not run it down here.