Josieb1313
New member
Hello, I am trying to leave a positive feedback for the breeder that I bought my snakes from and it says I do not have permission to do that. What do I have to do to be able to leave feedback for him?
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Trying to leave feedback
- Thread starter Josieb1313
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brd7666
Well-known member
You need to be a contributing member to leave feedback.
Shadera
Wayward Python Wet Nurse
You could always leave some positive feedback on the BOI for them. Just because you can't leave a trader rating doesn't mean you can't leave anything at all to let other folks know how your deal went.
OR...you could become a contributing member 
Josieb1313
New member
OR...you could become a contributing member
I just checked that out....thinking I'm going to do that
Maybe the default message should be 'you must be a contributing member' instead of just saying 'you don't have permission'?
I left a trader rating for someone, they went to do the same back to me got that message, asked webslave who responded something along the lines of 'check the forums this has been discussed repeatedly' so the person still didn't know the answer. Their only posts had been the one ad in the classifieds and they aren't familiar with this site, I asked them to please give the site a chance and there were a lot of good things on the site but they seemed off-put by what they thought was a curt reply with no direct answer.
I know it gets annoying to always answer the same question over and over especially after webslave just had dealt with someone asking for special permission to post trader ratings even though they didn't want to pay, so I understand the reason for the 'short' reply, but maybe the canned 'you must be a contributing member' alert would help alleviate this issue of people asking all the time?
just an idea...
-April
I left a trader rating for someone, they went to do the same back to me got that message, asked webslave who responded something along the lines of 'check the forums this has been discussed repeatedly' so the person still didn't know the answer. Their only posts had been the one ad in the classifieds and they aren't familiar with this site, I asked them to please give the site a chance and there were a lot of good things on the site but they seemed off-put by what they thought was a curt reply with no direct answer.
I know it gets annoying to always answer the same question over and over especially after webslave just had dealt with someone asking for special permission to post trader ratings even though they didn't want to pay, so I understand the reason for the 'short' reply, but maybe the canned 'you must be a contributing member' alert would help alleviate this issue of people asking all the time?
just an idea...
-April
Well, it's a generic error message that covers several possible reasons why someone cannot access a particular page. The error detection code isn't smart enough to be context sensitive to know exactly what is being attempted and therefore select the most appropriate and accurate response to give.
For instance, someone who is just not registered here may attempt to post a reply to a thread, get a message saying "You must be a paid contributor member to post in this forum", and think that only PAID members can post ANYWHERE on this site. Which would likely turn away quite a few potential members as a result.
You would be amazed at how often people simply jump to conclusions by skimming the directions and not READING what they say. Heck, I had to take the words "Do NOT use your phone number!" out of the registration prompt for the location field because apparently a LOT of people were just skimming the sentences and wound up using the phone number, not even seeing the admonition "NOT". Since removing that statement, I haven't had a single registration making that mistake....
For instance, someone who is just not registered here may attempt to post a reply to a thread, get a message saying "You must be a paid contributor member to post in this forum", and think that only PAID members can post ANYWHERE on this site. Which would likely turn away quite a few potential members as a result.
You would be amazed at how often people simply jump to conclusions by skimming the directions and not READING what they say. Heck, I had to take the words "Do NOT use your phone number!" out of the registration prompt for the location field because apparently a LOT of people were just skimming the sentences and wound up using the phone number, not even seeing the admonition "NOT". Since removing that statement, I haven't had a single registration making that mistake....