I am trying to create a page that is kinda complicated. First, you need to be referred. So the first page is just a blank log in portal. You would use the referral code to log in. Each member gets their own referral code so that we can track how many members they are referring.Once you get through the referral password portal it will take you to a place to make an account. Then after you have created a password-protected account, you will be to get approval from the admin. After you're approved you can see the content and you are given your own referral code. Is this doable??? Thanks so much!
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I am trying to create a page that is kinda complicated. First, you need to be referred. So the first page is just a blank log in portal. You would use the referral code to log in. Each member gets their own referral code so that we can track how many members they are referring.Once you get through the referral password portal it will take you to a place to make an account. Then after you have created a password-protected account, you will be to get approval from the admin. After you're approved you can see the content and you are given your own referral code. Is this doable??? Thanks so much!
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When a user signs up , their username is something along the lines of "user########"  Granted, in the welcome email it does say something along the lines of "Head over to your user account page to chose a display name!", however only a few people actually read that email.  I'm not saying we should restrict people from changing their display name again in the future - Everyone would still be able to do so. It's just that when you sign up you choose an initial display name that will be what your first display name is instead of "user########".
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I was just reading the , and noticed something:  You must be at least 13 years old to access or use the Network or Services, including without limitation to complete a Stack Overflow account registration. By accessing or using the Services or the Network in any manner, you represent and warrant that you are at least 13 years of age. If you are under 13 years old, you may not, under any circumstances or for any reason, access or use the Services or Network in any manner, and may not provide any personal information to or on the Services or Network (including, for example, a name, address, telephone number or email address). If you are located within the European Union, you must be at least 16 years old to access or use the Network or Services, including without limitation to complete a Stack Overflow Account Registration.  I signed up for Stack Overflow when I was around 11 or 12 and I did provide my email address. Are you saying that my use of Stack Overflow was not legal? I'm 16 now (so I'm in the clear), but that just seems a little harsh. Is that possibly related to the age limit for accepting a binding contract/agreement (although I thought that was 18 in the U.S.)? Is there a way for users under the age of 13, or for users from the European Union who are under the age of 16, to use the site legally?
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My Facebook account was opened as a fanpage/business account (not a fanpage as a child from a personal account). Now I want to create an app. The link  gets redirected to my fanpage.   Does that mean I can't create an app with this account?
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As a new user, I find it impossible to contribute to the community or to even begin contributing. I know why the reputation system is in place and I respect it, but at the same time it is too hard on new users.  It started with me wanting to upvote a question...     "Vote Up requires 15 reputation"   Just to appreciate a good question that helped me I need 15 rep? OK..., so I find out how I can get reputation points. More or less, I need to ask a question for +5 and add an answer for +10. I don't have any questions at the moment and I don't want to spam a random question, but I did happen to have a slightly different answer to the earlier question that I wanted to upvote. So I try to answer...     This question is protected to prevent "thanks!", "me too!", or spam answers by new users. To answer it, you must have earned at least 10 reputation on this site.   Now... I know this doesn't apply to every question, but at the same time, this means I'm forced to answer yet another question, and I don't want to go around looking for random questions and spam irrelevant answers...  Now I'm stuck. So I try to talk to some other users in the chat rooms about how to go about getting reputation points and how they first started. I entered into a "casual chat room".     You must have 20 reputation on Meta Stack Overflow to talk here.   Yes... I can understand why this is enforced, because we don't want new users to spam chat rooms, but all I wanted to do was ask for help. So I can't even talk to anyone about my newbie problems. So okay, I'll just settle for upvoting comments in the question that helped me. I don't see an upvote hover-over button so I can't even do that.    So now I'm stuck at 1 reputation point, unable to cross that 15 rep barrier, and even after posting this question I'll only have 6 rep points and still unable to do anything, and I'll be forced to look for questions to answer. Yes, I should be contributing to the community, but I shouldn't need to begin answering or making questions to upvote questions and answers. This only spurs more spam/irrelevant answers if anything.   Very, very, very new-user unfriendly.
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Are there any pages/dashboards showing cross-site statistics indicating new enrollments, how many users become active on multiple sites, perhaps broken down to show the first website that new users joined?  For example, I first joined  and then got hooked to the QA format and joined several other SE sites.
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I am suggesting a Mentor privilege at 7.5k. It would be on a per-user per-site opt in basis.  At some reputation level (perhaps 7.5k) there could be an opt in "mentor" privilege.  If someone opts in then when a new user signs up, they become their Mentor. The new user is the Mentee.  They will get notified of any posts or suggested edits they make, and can help and support them.  While this would by no means help everyone (I'm sure there are more new people signing up than there are 7.5k people willing to help them), it could help mitigate the "new user's bad posts" and such like.  By no means would being someone's mentor mean you are the only person who can edit and help them, and you aren't obliged to do so - but if you have opted in then you should help.  How would this work?   Any Mentor would have no more than 5 active Mentees at once. Once the Mentee gets to 125 rep, the downvote privilege (or any other level deemed sensible) they are no longer a Mentee. If they aren't active for a month, they are no longer a Mentee. If the Mentor has 5 Mentees (i.e. cannot mentor anyone else) then any Mentee not active for 2 weeks is no longer a Mentee. The Mentee can opt out at any time, the Mentor can opt out, but if they opt out a lot (say 5 people in 2 months) they are blocked from the privilege for 2 weeks. The Mentor gets no extra rep. They can still get rep from answering their Mentee's questions and similar. Once the new user gets 20 rep on the site, a chat room is created for them to talk. No user with the association bonus will become a Mentee. This would (maybe) be opt in for sites. For example, this might not be at all useful for this site, or for , but on  or  I imagine this could be quite good.    appears to be asking the same thing, based on the title, but that is asking about people who know each other offline mentoring each other.    Every single one of these suggestions (especially the numbers) is open to discussion. Maybe 125 is to low to stop being mentored, or maybe it's too high. What do you think?
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I just read . I found the explanation very clear and interesting, but I don't want to create an account on that site. So, I clicked Yes by "Was this post useful to you?"  Who will get that feedback?
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I want to give feedback to this page since I am missing something.    I have a login for this site, but since the page is immutable, I can't change it.  How can I give feedback if I am missing something an a wiki.ubuntu.com page?
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I am working on a custom sign up proces where a user first fills in his name and email, then receives an activation e-mail and then the sign up proces continues.   The e-mail contains an activation link with a reference. I need to save this reference in my new user so if the user clicks on the link I can retrieve back the user data.   But for some reason I cannot add my user meta data by inserting the new user.  So first I have my form handling where I get the POST values. And If they are true I start this code:  $ref = md5( get_bloginfo( 'name' ) . $reg_email ); $activation_url = get_bloginfo( 'wpurl' ) . '/search-company?ref=' . $ref;  // Create user $random_password = wp_generate_password( 12, true, false ); $user_id = username_exists( $email ); $userdata = array(   'user_login'  =&gt; $email,   'user_pass'   =&gt; $random_password,   'user_email'  =&gt; $email,   'first_name'  =&gt; $first_name,   'last_name'   =&gt; $surname,   'role'            =&gt; 'author', ); wp_insert_user( $userdata ); add_user_meta( $userdata, 'verification_ref', $ref );   And then I send my e-mail by wp_mail() with the activation link, this works fine, but I only need to save the verification reference in the user meta of the user.
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On Stack&nbsp;Overflow, I'm a pretty frequent contributor with over 3K in reputation. Almost all of which earned by answering real user questions about Windows programming and other topics.  Last night, somone posted a .  I knew the easiest thing to do would be to direct him to an appropriate documentation page on MSDN that I thought would help. And I literally did this:   Copied the URL directly into the post. Below the URL, copied two lines of content from that page that was relevant. Small code snippit below that.   Literally, this is what the answer looked like:           This warning is automatically promoted to an error. If you wish to   modify this behavior, use #pragma warning. For example, to make C4235   into a level 2 warning, use the following line of code  #pragma warning(2:4235)    I felt that by cutting and pasting a quote from the website, and attributing it with the URL was proper form. Such that it's not ambiguous where the answer originated from - both from a copyright perspective as well as a courteous to the content owner.  About an hour later, I observed two things:   One moderator downvoting the answer and flagging it because "Copy/pasting. Nice. Did you see "© 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved" at the bottom of that page" Another moderator deleted it with just a link to the FAQ - which says nothing about cut and paste or copyright rules.   Well that was disappoining. It wasn't like I was pasting a writeup without giving credit to the original author. Just a small quote from a well known reference site.  So here's my questions:   What is the policy around answers coming from other online reference sources? Is pasting a URL to a page with an answer OK? Is pasting content from the URL OK?  Even if it's attributed? Is there a proper way to attribute content when it originates from another site? Is there a proper way to attribute an answer if it originates elsewhere? Was I wrong to paste a snippet of content from MSDN, or was I wronged by aggressive moderators?   Now here's the real kicker - my day job is a software engineer at Microsoft. I am certain that my employer would not take issue at all with me helping the Windows development community by referencing pages they publish. So in some sense, the Stack&nbsp;Overflow communinity is just making it harder for the Windows experts to help the Windows community. It seems odd.
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I know that in the end it, can't be done.  But, what are the options to:    &nbsp; a) limit the options for persons to create multiple accounts, &nbsp; b) increase the chance of detecting multiple accounts / person    for a blog-like web service? (people can sign up for their own blog)  Update: I think the 'limit the options' has been answered nicely. (there is no reliable method, but we can raise the bar) However, I would still like to know what other options there are to detect multiple accounts?
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UPDATE: This is now live on all Stack Exchange sites. You can access it at /help or by clicking the "help" link in the top nav or footer of any page.   We can all agree that Stack Exchange is a complicated beast that takes a while to understand. New users can be overwhelmed and confused by all of the rules, where to find them, and how to abide by them. Even though many established users leave comments linking to helpful resources, or answer questions posted to metas, it's a scattershot way to help users learn our rules and answer their questions.  And so, we're introducing a new Help Center, which you can now see here on MSO: .  Here's what we're hoping to achieve:   Consolidate important information that is currently scattered throughout a great many resources: MSO and child metas'  lists, each site's official FAQ page, blog posts, and miscellaneous other resources like our  pages and  /  guides. Any rules or explanations of basic site mechanics should be easily accessible in one place. Allow easy linking and easy navigation. Each topic is separated out onto its own page, with a unique URL to allow pointed linking to that page. Each article page also has sidebar navigation that shows other topics in the same category, as well as a list of other categories, for the rare user who is motivated to read more. Use comprehensible language that non-power users will be able to understand. A lot of our guidance, written by the community and by Stack Exchange itself, uses jargon that can be unclear to users learning our system for the first time. We want to make sure terminology is sufficiently explained and use plain language wherever possible.   This Help Center will (once we roll it out to all sites) replace the current FAQ pages. Each site will continue to have its own  tag on meta, but any policy that is essential to the functioning of the community will be rolled into the appropriate section of the new Help Center.  What's broken, and what are we missing?  We're already planning to add more features and articles to the Help Center in the coming weeks, but we wanted to show you all the core of it and get your feedback. There are additional articles that we plan to include here (especially in the "Reputation &amp; Privileges" category), but the articles currently included should cover everything that exists in the current FAQ and old /help page /contact page (which will be redesigned when the new Help Center is live everywhere).  This is live only on MSO right now. We want to get your opinions about the Help Center in general, fix any bugs or typos you might find, and add any crucial information that's missing. Once we've addressed all those things, the new Help Center will roll out network-wide.   A couple of implementation notes:   We will be adding a "search" feature to the /help landing page that will make it easier for users with a specific problem to find the relevant article(s). Site moderators will be able to edit the  page to include lists of what is on- and off-topic for each site, just as they can currently edit the "What can I ask here?" part of the current FAQ. You may notice that some article titles are preceded by a round bullet. The bullet is temporary while Jin designs an icon, but those articles are "featured" articles; they are meant to draw attention to the most important site policies or most frequently encountered issues. Fixed   So there you have it. A new, consolidated, Help Center to provide a single resource for users looking to understand how our network works.  We're still making some small changes to this feature. Please continue to post here on meta if you encounter any bugs / typos / broken links. If you want to suggest a new page, have an issue specific to one site, or have another major change, you can start a new meta post and tag it .
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I've been thinking how easily a user could create a fake account to upvote all his own questions/answers. I didn't think of doing it myself; I like to win my reputation the right way, but I'm sure there are a lot of people who would do that.  Does Stack Exchange prevent this in any way?
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I am allowing users to register an account on my site. They get a specific role using user_save().  When they log in for the first time, I have to verify the login credentials.   Is there a function to verify the login credentials? Is there a function to get the user roles?
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I have been on Stack Overflow for some time.  It is an AMAZING resource and don't know if I would've got through the past 18 months without it.  I love it!  Problem is that I have "1" reputation.  All of my questions have already been asked and answered.  My "new user restrictions" mean: - I can't vote up answers that were helpful. - I can't comment on answers.  I sometimes have a question to ask one of the users that answered someone else's question but I can't.  This is hard!  How do I get a break?  Do I have to troll for a couple of days/weeks/months to answer enough questions in the hope someone votes some of them up just so I can do some basic functions?  Perhaps the number of site visits and length of membership could count for something?
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I don't understand how the referral program works even after reading everything about it. Do I only get the 500 CC if the referred person subscribes within 14 days, or if I just refer the person? And do I get 500 CC for every month that referred person subscribes, or is it just one time?