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Profiles How To?
(Please read Help about Seek Discipline! before
asking questions or reporting problems)
This page is about the profile features of Seek Discipline!
- things like joining the site and verifying your email address,
and some solutions to problems with signing-in. There is another
Registration How To? page for questions about
SLRNs and certificates.
There are two ways to join SD!: with a registration
number or with a profile name. Either way, joining is free
and will remain so.
The Join SD! page has a form which
lets you choose a profile name and join the site. The profile name must be
at least 6 characters, consist only of letters, numbers and underscores
("_"), and not be in use already by someone else.
Alternatively, you can use the
Register in The Slave Register page
which allows slaves and submissives who want a
registration number to
join The Slave Register
and Seek Discipline! at the same time.
(The Registration How To? page covers the features
which are specific to registration and
Slave Registration Numbers.)
Both forms require you to choose a password, which must be at least
6 characters long. If you supply values
that violate the above rules, the system will ask you to try again.
When giving the email address, only put the email address
itself:
that is aaaa@bbbb.cccc with no spaces, real name etc. (So not
"AAAA" <aaaa@bbbb.cccc> if you're familiar with that
extended form.) Be very careful to get these details right at this
stage. In particular, if you give the wrong email address, you won't
be able to get the confirmation mail and activate your registration.
Once you've joined or registered, you can
indicate your orientation to
convert your standard profile into a
membership (for owners, masters, dominants etc) or
subscription (for submissives and slaves).
If you have an active
registration number, your profile is automatically a subscription.
To stop people giving false email addresses or signing-up other
people maliciously or as a joke, we automatically send you a
confirmation email when you sign-up. Keep a copy of this email.
This contains a unique, random Activation
Code which you must re-enter into
Seek Discipline! to activate your profile
so you can start using it. The email is sent immediately, and unless
your email server is slow (Yahoo!) or unreliable (Hotmail!), you
should get it within minutes. The email contains instructions about
how to use the code: just try to sign-in using the link at the top
left of any page using the profile name or 9-digit registration number
(like 123-456-781) and password, and the system
will then ask for your activation code.
If you don't use the code within 7 days of
signing-up, the pending profile is deleted. If that happens,
just sign-up again and you will be sent a new verification email.
SD! won't sell your email address to other organisations, or spam
you with our own adverts.
If you decide to use the register
page to join, the system chooses a registration number for you
at random. It is included in the email address verification mail you
are then sent. If you don't activate your registration within 7 days,
then the pending registration expires and you should sign-up again.
To sign-in, just use the link at the top left of any page. You enter
your profile name or number and the password you chose into the form, and then
you can use your SD! profile, with all the additional options that gives.
When you are signed-in successfully, the message
"You are XXXXXX" (profile name) or
"You are XXX-YYY-ZZZ" (registration number)
will appear just under the date on the top left of
every page.
This can happen if you've given the correct profile name and password
but your web browser is not giving Seek Discipline!
the "cookies" we
use for authentication: when you sign-in, your browser gets a cookie
containing a code proving it's really you, which it gives back to
Seek Discipline! when you look at other pages. This
allows us to show you extra options relevant to your profile.
You need to make sure your browser is not blocking cookies.
For recent versions of Internet Explorer (IE),
check that you've not set IE to block all
cookies. (It should work ok even if you set the Privacy setting to
High.) If this still doesn't help, even after restarting IE and
trying to sign-in again, you can clear your browser's cache of
cookies by going to Tools > Internet Options > General >
Delete Cookies.
For recent versions of Firefox, Mozilla etc, make sure that Edit >
Preferences > Privacy > Cookies > is set to
"Enable Cookies"
or "Enable Cookies for the originating website only." The
"Manage Stored Cookies" button on that tab also has an
option to remove cookies if you still have problems.
Clearing out your cookies and restarting your browser, as described
above, seems to fix a lot of "no obvious problem"
situations.
You can use the password reminder
page to get a reminder of your password emailed to you.
There's no technical reason why you can't do this: signing-in with
one removes the previous sign-in with the other, and you can switch
back by just signing-in with the first again.
We don't mind multiple people who share the same computers from
signing-up with different profiles, or people maintaining an
additional profile for their business or event. However, you
must acknowledge the profiles you own at the top of your profile
descriptions.
When you're signed-in, there is a sign-out link near the top left
of every page.
Signing-out stops anyone else from using your SD! identity from that
computer (by overwriting the authentication code cookie in your
browser.)
When you sign-in, you have the option of choosing how long to stay
signed-in for. If you tick "Remember me on this computer"
you will stay signed-in until you sign-out or sign-in from another
computer. With that choice, exiting your web browser or even
rebooting your computer makes no difference: you'll still be signed in.
If you are signed-in on one computer but then sign-in again with
another (or with a different browser on the same computer), the
first authentication code stored in the browser stops being valid.
(ie it gets overwritten inside The Slave Register
system by the new code.)
This means you cannot be signed-in on two computers at the same
time. One use of this, is that if you use Seek Discipline!
from someone else's
computer or in an internet cafe, as soon as you sign-in
somewhere else, the previous sign-in doesn't work any more. (This is
extremely useful if you forget to sign-out on a public machine!)
Go to Your Settings, then to "Physical description" and
enter your birth year.
SD! will never display your birth year, only your age. The calculation
treats everyone as having 31st of December as their birthday. For most
people,
this underestimates their age. If this bothers you, you should reduce your
birthyear by 1 for the part of the year after your birthday.
The first step is to upload a picture using the Manage Pictures
page in Your Settings. Once the picture has been approved, find it
again via Manage Pictures and look at the full size version of it,
on it's own page (keep clicking on the picture to get to that page.)
If you're signed-in, there will be a button under the picture to
make it your main profile picture. If you change your mind, either
make another picture your profile picture, or go back to the
picture's own page and use the button there to turn it off.
Ownership Icons can be displayed on your
web board posts, and on your network
connections. You can choose which icon to display by going
Your Settings, then "Profile settings". The
"Gender:" option plus the "Ownership status:" you select
determine which icon is shown, but
you must have "Ownership icon:" set to "Shown"
for the icon to be displayed.
There are three classes of profile on SD!: standard which is the default;
subscriptions for submissives and slaves (including registrations); and
memberships for owners, masters, dominants etc. If you have an active
registration number or set your ownership type to submissive or slave, then
the "Profile type" line on your profile will appear as
"Subscription". If you set your ownership type to master, dominant
etc then the profile type will be "Membership". The ownership type
is set by going Your Settings, then "Profile settings".
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