jezzaz
Really Experienced
- Joined
- May 11, 2013
- Posts
- 266
So I've been trying to find a replacement editor because my usual one is turning her focus to her own writing (and rightly so, she is AWESOME).
However, finding a replacement is proving more than difficult.
I've tried posting an ad here, and while had one response, it's from someone who's not resident in the US, and that's not really going to work for me (although thank you immensely for offering!) - other than that, it's been crickets, and from looking at lots of the other posts here, it looks like quite a lot of people are in the same boat.
So I thought I'd be proactive and go looking through the volunteer list and try reaching out to some people.
However, it doesn't appear to work. Though there are lots of people listed, I've tried both sending a direct private message, but everyone has their PM's turned off (Why that's a default setting on creation of a new account is beyond me. Most people aren't aware they have to turn this on to receive PM's, so 90% of the people out there are uncontactable and have no idea that's the case), and I've tried using the web form to send them a message.
The web form _always_ returns an error message saying "Invalid username or password". It doesn't say if it's my username / password that's invalid (and it's not. I'm logged in now to post this) or if it's the person I am trying to contact.
I did consider that maybe this form is attempting to use the PM system to deliver my request, and if that's turned off, it's telling me there is an error but using the wrong message.
Either way, it's a problem. Everyone on that list is now un-contactable unless they have PM's turned on, and most do not.
What can we do about this?
I'm seriously at the point of saying "Please, let me fix this" - I'm a very experienced PHP programmer myself and hitting this kind of thing constantly is very grating. I do understand that we are getting what we pay for here, but still, the offer is there to help fix stuff like this?
Pretty please with sugar on top?
However, finding a replacement is proving more than difficult.
I've tried posting an ad here, and while had one response, it's from someone who's not resident in the US, and that's not really going to work for me (although thank you immensely for offering!) - other than that, it's been crickets, and from looking at lots of the other posts here, it looks like quite a lot of people are in the same boat.
So I thought I'd be proactive and go looking through the volunteer list and try reaching out to some people.
However, it doesn't appear to work. Though there are lots of people listed, I've tried both sending a direct private message, but everyone has their PM's turned off (Why that's a default setting on creation of a new account is beyond me. Most people aren't aware they have to turn this on to receive PM's, so 90% of the people out there are uncontactable and have no idea that's the case), and I've tried using the web form to send them a message.
The web form _always_ returns an error message saying "Invalid username or password". It doesn't say if it's my username / password that's invalid (and it's not. I'm logged in now to post this) or if it's the person I am trying to contact.
I did consider that maybe this form is attempting to use the PM system to deliver my request, and if that's turned off, it's telling me there is an error but using the wrong message.
Either way, it's a problem. Everyone on that list is now un-contactable unless they have PM's turned on, and most do not.
What can we do about this?
I'm seriously at the point of saying "Please, let me fix this" - I'm a very experienced PHP programmer myself and hitting this kind of thing constantly is very grating. I do understand that we are getting what we pay for here, but still, the offer is there to help fix stuff like this?
Pretty please with sugar on top?