Like Your Commenter Name? Feed Us Your Email Address
If you want to keep access to your Consumerist commenter login, it's a good idea to update your profile with a valid email address. Sometime this fall we will transition to a new blogging platform and we will need to email everyone new passwords to migrate them over. So go into your Consumerist profile and make sure there's a working email in there. Just click "profile" at the top right of the page, then "edit my profile," plug your email address in, hit update, and you're done.
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Why is this on Consumerist?
Also, I'm assuming our screennames and our account names are still different...so just plain ol' "Smashville" would still be my log in?
How did you get 23 friends?
Sniff, I don't have any. :(
@katstermonster: I'm going rogue...
anticonsumerist.com featuring such great articles as "Cash4Gold Sticks It To Website", "Don't Fuck With Our Nazi T-Shirts", "How to Find Free Porn on Customer's Hard Drives", "Great Products: Cat Liquifiers" and "Zappos: Ruining It For the Rest of Us".
@FTWGeek: Also...if you click the little heart next to people...it adds them as followers...and thus, to your friends...such as I just did to you.
@Smashville_makes his own comments at home: Don't forget "Show Your Damn Receipt or Be Beaten."
(Too soon?)
Will we able to edit our posts? How about HTML buttons?
@Laura Northrup: Well aren't YOU special! One would think that Consumerist likes you better than us, to let you do that. Oh...wait.
@Laura Northrup: That's because you're part of the problem, Northrup...with your fancy passwords and editing privileges.
why not just migrate our pw over too.
we'll just change them back to what they are.
oh i get it, generate page views by having us respond to the pw change.
bad consumerist. bad.
seems like something a bank would do with overdraft fees.
@Smashville_makes his own comments at home: Also...will we be removing Carey from the "Consumerist Team"...it makes me sad when I see it. And doesn't seem fair to Alex, Laura, Lucy or Phil to get lower billing than our dearly departed Lord of Cats.
Ben, just one question. Where do I enter the size for my labcoat? I don't see a button/radio box for that.
@Ronin-Democrat: We'd love to be able to do that. However, the encryption code in place on the current platform doesn't give us access to the passwords. That's great for your privacy, though it does make it harder to migrate commenters to a new platform.
The process we're putting in place will allow all commenters who provide email addresses to keep their existing user names by sending them a one-time email with a temporary password that they can then reset. No one is required to follow this process to comment. You can re-register with a new user name if you'd prefer to do so.
The name I signed up with isn't the one I'm using - is there a way to permanently reserve my Pecan name?
@Cameraman: Editing posts is great... but what's even better is if the ORIGINAL text is still available somehow so people can see if you just fixed a typo... or had second thoughts about what you said. ;)
@AdvocatesDevil: The only thing I like about Gawker's new commenting system is that you can only edit your post for a short amount of time afterward. If Consumerist wasn't willing to do that, maybe they could treat it similar to a message board and have an actual quote button.
@Ronin-Democrat: "seems like something a bank would do with overdraft fees."
Right, except clicking on a page only helps a site that you like and can access for free and won't punish you with fees?
Thank you for encrypting the passwords. Seriously. Shows you actually have a sense of the idea of "security".
The only way that passwords should be migrate-able is if the two system speak the same encryption language, which is pretty rare between totally different systems.
Now, if only banks and other high-security places could figure this out. If you can tell your customers their password, yer doin' it rong.
@Laura Northrup: Don't you get it?!? You write your own articles. They should be yours! You shouldn't have to share them with stupid "readers". If they want information so badly, they can write their own damn articles, instead of freeloading off other peoples efforts. WAKE UP!!
I know Consumerist isn't with Gawker anymore, so I'm seriously hoping you're not transitioning to whatever new system they're using. The recent change makes the comments almost unreadable, they're so disorganized. Please tell us it's different than that system. :-)
@RandomHookup: Hahaha yeah. Though those are the people Ol' Ben is following. So I am guessing those are 23 very 1337 people.
There are 114 people following Ben... Which is STILL in the "only?" territory.
@shepd: Word to that. The password should basically be "unretrieveable". No matter what, no matter by whom. (by that i mean without attacking).
Best way to do it is to send out a "reset password" link when someone loses theirs.
@Ronin-Democrat: Also, even if every commenter went over and reset his password, that would only amount to a fraction of daily page views. Moreover it would only be a one time spike.
I don't think Consumerist has any shortage of readers to resort to such gimmicks.
@pecan 3.14159265: this is true for me, too. My username login and my display name are two different entities, and I'd like to keep my zombies in a row.
@floraposte: I want a Forever Kitten. You know.. a baby cat that stays a baby forever.. cute fuzzyness forever and ever.
@ryaninc: I think it will be.
Well, I really effing hope it will be. The Gawker stuff is terrible. I'm actually fond of the current platform.
Agreed. The current system in place is so much more awesomer than the crap on a plate that is Gawker's current commenting system, or even the unreadable-by-design system Engadget uses.
Seriously you guys, Engadget may as well not even have comments, amirite?
So just to be completely clear: the only email we'll get will be the new password one? I was afraid the idea was to spam us with CR ads and suchlike.
@FTWGeek: I'll join in. It can be a FriendsFest. :)
I'm not sure what the feature actually does, and it doesn't notify you that someone has friended you so only those who check their profile regularly even notice if someone new has friended them.
When is Consumerist going to merge with Facebook so we can log in just once? Think of all the friends you can have.
I looked at my profile under my e-mail and I thought it said ATM. I was trying to figure out how you were going to get the cash out of my computer.
will stars/friends/followers also migrate?