Originally Posted by whisperwolf I understand the requirement to sign up is to reduce spam entries, but why couldn't it work with either a forum account or if you didn't want a forum account signing up to the newsletter. I don't grasp why I now need two accounts to access stuff on one site, seems a tiny bit backwards.
It's to do with how the site is coded - the forum (vB) db is kept entirely separately to the newsletter one. I don't know, something for security and legality - I wasn't paying attention when it was explained. We could have done what other sites did and just spammed the newsletter to everyone that signed up to the forums, but figured that was not cool.
On the contrary, not everyone wants a forum account if they sign up to just the newsletter either.
Well, sucks to be you tbh. I signed up for the newsletter when the first one came out and tbh I find it very useful as it basically just lists all the articles/news/interesting stuff that's been published on the bit-tech site that week. I'm pretty damn sure I've had no more (and no less, tbh) spam come through on my emails.
I don't really see what the huge problem is.. it's not rocket science and you won't be put on an MI5 hitlist or anything.
Four hours left and two pairs of mods have IDENTICAL vote counts, two more pairs are within two votes of each other and another three are within 4 and 5 votes so it's still ALL to play for :D:D:D
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It's to do with how the site is coded - the forum (vB) db is kept entirely separately to the newsletter one. I don't know, something for security and legality - I wasn't paying attention when it was explained. We could have done what other sites did and just spammed the newsletter to everyone that signed up to the forums, but figured that was not cool.
On the contrary, not everyone wants a forum account if they sign up to just the newsletter either.
I don't really see what the huge problem is.. it's not rocket science and you won't be put on an MI5 hitlist or anything.
I might have less than a snowflake's chance yet...
I'm also posting the 3rd winner (already chosen earlier today) in about 30 mins after I've done the pictures for the news post :)