Confused about Membership Rules--Vets Forum

[dleerl]

I would have posted this question there in that subforum but since the thread is closed I can't do that. I read the rules to try to understand the different types of memberships that I have seen under member names. I became very confused with one particular rule. I thought that you had to be a member for over one year and had more than 75 posts to be an ECF veteran member but that can't possibly be true as I see some people on this site with join dates that are less than a year that have that title under their member name. How is this so? Have you amended that rule recently and these people are grandfathered? I am a bit perplexed by this?

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[Sun Vaporer]

Dleerl--there is also a six months and x number of posts. I do not remember what is --either a 1000 posts or something like that. I am sure someone who remembers will chime in.

Anyway that is what you are seeing.


Sun

 

[beckah54]

The 6 month/1000 post to obtain Veteran status was done away with in December. Now you must be a member for one year.

 

[dleerl]

Sun,

I don't see anything listed for six months in the membership status.

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/announcements-rules/64025-membership-status.html

Thanks though.

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[Sun Vaporer]

Ok Strike that. There is no longer any post count and one year--so those people that you see where grandfathered in.

Guess I am a Vet--do I get any VA benefits?


Sun

 

[dleerl]

Thanks Beckah. Now I understand.

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To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
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[beckah54]

No problem, dleerl. Some six month members with over 1000 posts had already been given veteran status before the rule changed.

 

[dleerl]

Guess I am a Vet--do I get any VA benefits?

You'll have to apply. Hope you do better here than at Veteran's Services. LOL

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[Sun Vaporer]

You'll have to apply. Hope you do better here than at Veteran's Services. LOL

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To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
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LOL--I did not think so, but I might just add the title if it did not make me feel so old!!!


Sun

 

[AJMoore]

Ok Strike that. There is no longer any post count and one year--so those people that you see where grandfathered in.

Guess I am a Vet--do I get any VA benefits?


Sun

Yes, but are you sure you want them?

 

[Sun Vaporer]

Yes, but are you sure you want them?

I do not know--are they bad news or what?

 

[AJMoore]

Not always, but better go for the key to the executives washroom.

By the way, thanks to you and other moderators for what you do. You all deserve much gratitude.

 

[strok4brok]

Don't feel to bad about it.I registered several days ago and, although I can log in, I can't even start a new thread.All I get is denials.
Paul

 

[Sun Vaporer]

Don't feel to bad about it.I registered several days ago and, although I can log in, I can't even start a new thread.All I get is denials.
Paul

St--you need 15 posts before you can start a thread.


Sun!!

 

[tribalmasters]

Ahh the memories! I can't even remember what I did write on post 0 to 15! Something like "what supplier" and "I can't wait for my white penstlye from TECC to arrive!"

 

[AngusATAT]

Members with less than 15 posts can only start threads in the New Members Forum. They can reply to posts made by others pretty much everywhere else, though.

 

[JerryRM]

I do not know--are they bad news or what?

Sun, I haven't used the VA yet, so I don't have any personal experience, but I know veterans who swear by them and some who swear at them!!

Not always, but better go for the key to the executives washroom.

I lobbied hard for the key to the executive washroom, all I got was a tree behind the ECF building and that was full of termites!! 8-o

 

[JerryRM]

I just have to make this comparison, even though I may be comparing apples to oranges, but coming from an Amateur Radio background, I think that they are pretty easy going on the rankings in this forum. If this was Amateur Radio, every last one of us here would be "noobs". It takes five years of being a licensed "ham", before one qualifies for being an "Official Observer", ham radio's equivalent of a "Moderator". Also around five years to be considered a "Veteran" and if you want to be an "Old Timer", well.....that comes about after 25 years of being licensed.

Sun, I was an Army Veteran at the ripe old age of 21, so being a veteran, doesn't necessarily mean you are old.

 

[AngusATAT]

Sun, I haven't used the VA yet, so I don't have any personal experience, but I know veterans who swear by them and some who swear at them!!

I'm one of the guys that swear at them.

 

[JerryRM]

I'm one of the guys that swear at them.

Angus, I guess it depends on where you go and who you see, but overall they don't seem to have a good reputation.

BTW, I see you are in GA, I was stationed at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, for nine months, back in '69 -'70.