Usage notes
Sun, 03/18/2007 - 2:40pm — Steven Norton
We'll post some details about how to use the AAPFS web site and forum system here.
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Registered users are free to post comments
In the interest of encouraging discussion, we're changing our system so that registered users on our site are free to post comments, in discussions and on stories, without waiting for moderator approval.
Please remember that all postings on this site are subject to the standards that were spelled out on the registration form, and the administrators reserve the right to edit or remove postings which violate our community conduct standards without advance notice. And it should go without saying that comments of a commercial nature which are not credibly and closely connected to a discussion on this site will be dealt with mercilessly, as will the poster.
We hope this makes the AAPFS site more useful for all of us!
Single sign on: One login, many sites
As of this weekend (8 April), we've changed our login machinery so that when you register and login at any MIPFS-affiliated site, you can use the same credentials to login to other MIPFS sites. This is most useful for those of us who would like to be registered both with the statewide site and with the Ann Arbor site. One login, one password.
However, your email notification settings are stored separately on each site. To receive email notifications of new content on both your local and the statewide site, you need to access your account from inside each site (see "My account" under Navigation), visit the "My notification settings" tab, and turn it on for each site. Likewise, you can receive notices about only one site, or have different settings for notices from different sites.
This change will also allow us at MIPFS to keep a consolidated database of interested parents and supporters, and reduce some of the duplication that resulted from having the sites totally separate.
If you have any questions, please contact us at info (at) miparentsforschools.org.
Question about web site
I wrote a note on one of the message boards, but I can't find it unless I'm logged in. Can other people see what I wrote?
(I am a taxpayer, voter, teacher, parent, and alumnus.)
Contributions are moderated
We strongly encourage interested parents and citizens to contribute to the discussions on our site, and to comment on postings that we make on behalf of the organization. But we do moderate public postings -- that is, they are held for approval by one of the site moderators. We try to check for new content as often as possible, but sometimes there is a bit of a lag. (You're able to see your own contributions when you're logged in, even if they are not "published." Once a moderator approves them, they become visible to all site visitors, including anonymous visitors.)
Sorry for any confusion, and I hope this explains our system. Thanks again for your post!
Steve Norton
MIPFS
Login with email
We've changed the site login system so that you can now use either your user name or your email address to log in. (This does mean that your username can't be the same as your email address, but that's not a good idea anyway.)
At the moment, we still require new members to respond to an email before they can fully log in and do things allowed only to authenticated users. This is primarily to ensure that new members really want to participate rather than spam our forums.
If you have other questions about how the site works, please feel free to post them!