Hi Everyone - Need some help

[FootballKing]

hey everyone!  I'm struggling a little.  i've been a member for a year or 2, maybe more... I've made a good handful of posts and asked questions, but I can't seem to even message the admin.  I can't even view my own posts when i click my name even though i can create threads or post on active threads.

what am i doing wrong?

Ty!!

[Mad Max]

Footballking
I can go out on the forum and see ur posts.

Maybe another new member will see this and post here telling if they can see their own profile before 50 posts .

That Really should be the full issue.

Work on getting ur 50 posts only five a day . K ?

[Woodhouse]

hey everyone!  I'm struggling a little.  i've been a member for a year or 2, maybe more... I've made a good handful of posts and asked questions, but I can't seem to even message the admin.  I can't even view my own posts when i click my name even though i can create threads or post on active threads.

what am i doing wrong?

Ty!!

Yeah I don't believe you can see your own profile until over 50 posts. If you keep it to 5 posts a day you can be at 50 in about 6 days. Once you hit 50 you will be able to see your profile, previous posts and start using your buddy list as well as the private messaging system. 
I hope you stick with it!

[Richardg8092]

hey everyone!  I'm struggling a little.  i've been a member for a year or 2, maybe more... I've made a good handful of posts and asked questions, but I can't seem to even message the admin.  I can't even view my own posts when i click my name even though i can create threads or post on active threads.

what am i doing wrong?

Ty!!

Hi FootballKing.   I don't think you're doing anything wrong per se - it just that you haven't picked up the tricks that are available to us poor and terribly deprived Under 50's. 

Here's a few tips:

Goto the top left of screen, you'll see the blue IOLPlist.Org logo, under that "Welcome back, xxx, You last visited: xxx " and under that you'll see User CP.   
Click on User CP and you'll get to see your:-

Posts:  XX ( xx per day | xx percent of total posts)
Reputation: xx [Details are not available until after 50]
Email: your email address
Registration Date: 12-24-20XX, 01:26 PM
Primary User Group: Registered
Members Referred: 0

To view information on your own posts, browse the Menu down the left hand side of the page and click on 'Subscribed Threads'.
There you will see a list of every thread you've contributed to.
Unfortunately clicking on the individual threads wont escort you to your own personal first or last post - but that's not really a huge issue - unless it's buried somewhere inside something like MM's thread. (233 pages would take a long while to make your way through - but my, what you'd learn along the way!)
A hint to getting around having to read gigantic threads: Use the 'Search Thread' box function you'll find at the bottom of every page of every thread.
Search a specific query or topic. Enter your own username into the Search Thread box and you're likely to be very pleasantly surprised.
I'm sure there are more tricks that I haven't discovered, but as we're both so close to 50, we won't have to be concerned about that for much longer.

In regards to not being able to "message the admin" - I have pondered this very question myself.
However, it has become abundantly clear to me that virtually every post gets read and assessed by the Admins and Mods.
It appears that they never sleep, because nothing gets passed their eagle eyes.
So, on top of attending to every post, how many questions do you imagine they receive from Newbies like us?   
About 10,000 every 10 minutes, I reckon.  
Newbies like us need to be especially mindful about the stuff we casually drop into our posts.
I can't tell you how many times my butt has been saved by going back and rechecking the Rules before clicking on the Post Reply button.
I accept this as my responsibility - and I don't expect the Admins to have to waste time referring me back to the Rules.
It's so easy to proactively protect yourself and protect the site by revisiting The Rules every now and then.
If the answer to your question is really not there - then the sad fact is that you'll have to sit on it until you reach the Golden 50.

  There's also the other side to this coin. It's not about us trying to contact them - it's about ensuring that we never give them a reason to contact us!
I've seen what happens when members commit serious transgressions.  It often ends up looking like this: " banned " 
Yikes! No thanks! Not for me!

Hope this helps.

R.

[Charon]

bottom left of home page is the admin Contact us area. You may contact us by writing.

I got to say though, that when I do respond to desperate calls for my email, It is something already accomplished. Or something that could be easily figured out via reading a bit.

It does put one on my radar thereafter. And, the other members of staff.

But, if it is really really important, use the Contact Us feature on home page.

(We used to allow newbies to PM admin at will. And I am not the Newbie Whisperer. We do expect a member to read the rules. Read the forum. We do not spoon feed people here. And, no, I have no secret sources to share so don't ask.)

[FootballKing]

Footballking
I can go out on the forum and see ur posts.

Maybe another new member will see this and post here telling if they can see their own profile before 50 posts .

That Really should be the full issue.

Work on getting ur 50 posts only five a day . K ?

Thank you Mad Max and Charon!  I very much appreciate the guidance!

[Charon]

our goal is to get u speaking the way we do in public. u gotta trust our knowledge on this one. other forums would not be as strict, but they let vendors go down. we are not trying to make ur life miserable or ban u. promise.

thank u for being polite. we shall get there. thank u for working with us.

[FootballKing]

our goal is to get u speaking the way we do in public.  u gotta trust our knowledge on this one.  other forums would not be as strict, but they let vendors go down.  we are not trying to make ur life miserable or ban u.  promise.

thank u for being polite.  we shall get there.  thank u for working with us.

Very well said, Charon!  "speaking as the way we do in public."   Fantastic rule of thumb!

[Charon]

It will be fine. You have a good spirit about you. you are not threatening to kill me. always a good start.

seriously, tiny problems. a member with almost one hundred posts kept giving up payment info and packaging and a forbidden topic.

so, again, thank u for being so kind.

[Linville]

Yes Footballking

just find some off topic areas and post getting your feet on the ground and interact with the members some and you will be just fine.