Changes and Paid Membership Options

Posted: 06/20/06 10:44 PM by BeoR

For so long iSTORYA.NET has been Cebu’s largest online community and it is still growing. Along the way, we introduced the Buy / Sell boards which contributed to an even faster growth. Sadly, along came crappers and scammers who only registered to crap threads or post bogus deals. This had to be dealt with to maintain the integrity of the community as a whole. Below are the list of new changes which partly addresses these concerns and more:

- New mainpage theme
- Consumer Electronics has been broken down into 5 child-boards
- “Report to moderator” now visible on all forums
- Newbies are no longer allowed to post topics under buy / sell
- Buy / Sell Child Boards are visible to everyone (including “Guests”)
- Lowered required number of post to promote “Newbie” – “Junior Member” from 50 to 30 (this can change if abused)

While these changes can help limit these so called “crappers” and “scammers”, it isn’t 100%. If they continue to abound, we will scrap all their access rights to the said boards to make them value their access.

Here comes “paid” membership options for serious forumers and buyers / sellers. When you avail of these, you will be verified thus boosting your trust rating. Other members won’t be scared to deal with you when they see you as a Premium Member or a Platinum Member. Along these lines, you are also helping fund our outreach activities since 10% of what you pay goes straight to our outreach funds… and lastly, when we generate enough funds, we will upgrade our existing server and hopefully, with even more funds, get Server #2.

More info can be found here.

19 Comments »

1 Comment by Harry — 06/21/06 @ 11:59 pm

Administrator.

Sir . what the hell happen to my account. I cant access my user name and password?

Harry

2 Comment by BeoR — 06/22/06 @ 2:44 am

Harry, you probably must have meant your “forum” account. Kindly click on the forums link at the top and login from there. I still have a lot of stuff to fix here… ^_^

3 Comment by Chronnus — 06/23/06 @ 11:02 am

Master Beor, what’s your email again ? PM it to me lang niya, was supposed to PM you but I’ve somehow reached the limit. :) What are the PM limits to non-premium users?

4 Comment by antoniojen — 06/23/06 @ 2:01 pm

MASTER BEORIFIC… need ur help.. dunno what happened.. cant log-in and cant even find my album in the gallery.. is there somethin wrong or am i just being ignorant.. geez.. whats goin on?!

5 Comment by big_solid_snake — 06/26/06 @ 6:20 pm

i just want to call your attention coz i dont know how to deal with people nga mu thred crap sa akong ge post…. i did not do any harm to him but nikalit lang jud ni cya ug post ug derigatory comment sa akong thread… i just dont know on how to deal with this kind of people.. i have been observing rules sa akong pag ka membro diri sa istorya… i jsut want to let u know the story maam.. heres the thread sir..

http://www.istorya.net/forums/index.php?topic=90964.0

i hope every istoryans will be treated with utmost respect….
i hope to hear from u soon regarding this matter maam….
i know this are situations beyond my control as a member..

6 Comment by baal — 07/7/06 @ 10:24 pm

how can i open an account?

7 Comment by stealth — 07/13/06 @ 9:57 am

Sir,

I can no longer login to my account.

Please advise.

Thank you very much.

8 Comment by BeoR — 07/13/06 @ 3:26 pm

big_solid_snake, for post related issues, please report them by clicking on the “Report to Moderator” link.

baal / stealth, please click on the “Forums” link at the top nav bar.

9 Comment by stealth — 07/14/06 @ 10:13 am

Sir,

I tried loging in to my account in the forum link above and I could not login using my current password.

Please advise.

Thanks

10 Comment by BeoR — 07/14/06 @ 4:23 pm

stealth, there is an issue with the new version of SMF. You need to login twice for it to go through… and login thru http://www.istorya.net/forums/index.php?action=login

Best Regards

11 Comment by israel sardido — 07/20/06 @ 10:37 am

sir. I just could not open my forum just now, why? pls. advise thanks!

12 Comment by karljadon — 07/20/06 @ 10:59 am

Sir, beor the same problem I had on my account that I can’t log in. If that concerning the payment, Iam willing to pay for a membership.

How can I pay my membership?
or Any advice how to activate my account…

thanks

13 Comment by BeoR — 07/20/06 @ 11:10 am

The forums is still undergoing optimization. It will be back online after a few hours.

14 Comment by jojo santianez — 07/30/06 @ 1:56 am

Sir,

I just got back from a long vacation in this site but to my surprise everytime i try to click on the buy/sell/trade it only appears blank… I hope i can surf to that section again bcoz im planning of buying something… TY…

15 Comment by sureline — 09/27/06 @ 10:04 am

Sir im new please teach me how to post new topics just email it at irving_lim@yahoo.com. thank you

16 Comment by dlanyer — 10/3/06 @ 7:04 pm

Boss how do I post a new topic? What the requirements in order for me to post new topics in buy/sell section?

17 Comment by dlanyer — 10/3/06 @ 7:05 pm

Boss how do I post a new topic? What will be the requirements in order for me to post new topics in buy/sell section?

18 Comment by dlanyer — 10/4/06 @ 8:35 am

ngano man ni ako post always man 10? kadaghan naman ko ni post. fake man ang query sa inyo database sir. e fine-tune daw ning inyo gamit nga SQL statement nga nag count sa post. ug dili system developer dili ni mahalata pero like me nga developer mura napangitan man ko sa result kay dili man sakto ang output nga gi retrieve sa inyo nga query. if busy mo e send sa ako ang script kay ako mo fine-tune free of charge. no offense ha. i just want to correct the logical error that your system is having right now.

19 Comment by bolshoi — 10/19/06 @ 6:09 am

Good day sir beor, have a problem here. My account used by my friend posting on the buy and sell thread asking pirated cd’s. I have no idea bout the situation and for that i got warned on the first offense and moderated. I cant post new items nor reply for my previous items posted.

Please help me on my concern and back my authority to post and reply on all thread. Thank you in advance and more power on your site, mabuhay ang pinoy!!!….

Senior Member,
Bolshoi

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