User Levels, Private Posts, and Password ProtectionPosted by Rick on March 29th, 2010
We’ve gotten to the point where we have some things we’d like to share, but not to the whole world. So we’re saying goodbye to stalkers, and reinstating privacy settings for our blog.
For those of you who previously had an account…well, most of them have been deleted since it’s been so long since we made a private post, and we have no idea who is reading our blog these days. We only kept the accounts of those we know are reading our blog. So if you try to log into your old account, it probably won’t work.
If we deleted your account, that doesn’t mean we don’t love you. We just want to know you’re there, so by all means, start a new account. You can do that by going to the META at the bottom of the sidebar, or by clicking here. We will not add anybody who does not give their name.
Let me explain a bit about the divisions. We will mostly be using “Private Posts,” which means the post is open to all registered users. We may, at times, use “user levels.” We choose a user level for all registered members, and user levels determines what level post you can see. Our closer friends will be at higher user levels, and if we post something above your user level, you won’t see it. But we probably won’t use that feature much. The final protection is password protection, and you’ll have to email us for the password to be able to read the post. I can’t imagine we’ll ever use it, but who knows?
So that’s my spiel. If you register, and I don’t approve you, just message me. I sometimes forget people are registering, and I apparently don’t have it set to tell me when people are registering. So I may forget you…feel free to message me.

March 29th, 2010 at 8:05 am
I registered. I don’t know what to do now. ha But I want to keep reading y’all’s blog.
March 29th, 2010 at 10:43 am
Now you just log in and make sure the computer remembers you/saves your password. That way, if the computer remembers you, you’ll automatically see any private posts.
March 29th, 2010 at 10:45 am
I’d also recommend that any husband/wife readers just get one username, so they can just stay logged in.
March 29th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
I logged in and now see two of every post. Not sure if that’s a glitch or what. Oh well, double the fun.
March 29th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
That’s a glitch. It’s doing it on our dashboard too. It’s been doing it since we revamped the blog after our hiatus. It’s some sort of extraneous code. You should be able to see where it says “(PRIVATE)” next to a private post. Are you seeing that?
March 29th, 2010 at 7:57 pm
Yes, we see your PRIVATES.
Also, when we log out, no posts are duplicated, but when we log in, non-private posts are duplicated and private posts are singular.
jon
March 29th, 2010 at 8:11 pm
That’s interesting. I hadn’t noticed that.