Allowing people to modify the database directly requires trust and exposes me and visitors to potential risk. Registering with a throwaway email account in order to discard emails that I try to send you about volunteer actions is inconsistent with trust. If you don’t trust me, don’t volunteer.<\/p>\n
Now when you volunteer, your status will become “volunteer pending”. You won’t get an email when you submit your request. At some point down the road (maybe a few days later), I may manually send you an email to make sure this is a valid email account and you do actually read things sent to it longer than the 5 minutes after you applied. No answer within a day or so will revert your account to normal status.<\/p>\n
I’ve also changed the way things are tracked – now each time you access a page, a last visit timestamp is updated (previously it only updated when you logged in). If you’re a volunteer – but weeks go by before you visit the web site again, there is a good chance you won’t be a volunteer when you return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Allowing people to modify the database directly requires trust and exposes me and visitors to potential risk. Registering with a throwaway email account in order to discard emails that I try to send you about volunteer actions is inconsistent with … Continue reading