Hi guys, I would also like some help with understanding how a founder change is performed.
The tutorial on the utilities section detailing this process doesn't seem to be helping me, it appears straight forward enough but isn't completing the process, so I put it down to something I am not understanding.
This is a major downer for me so far as the whole forum for my team was my idea and someone offered to do the work setting up the website for me, only now they are the founder and I am left without total control of what was my idea and leaving me looking some what insignificant to the team I created. Add to the scenario that this person isn't present regularily is not helping things at all. For instance I used my paypal account to buy credits for the forum to remove the advertisments, only to find I couldn't apply those credits I paid for, this was extremely infuriating and was over a week before the founder was available to do so for me with my own credits. I would have liked a warning telling me that purchasing these credits as a non-founder does not allow me to apply them to the forum. The next issue is I want to change the skin, again, only the founder may do this.
So I have finally got to the point where the founder and myself were online at the same time and after searching and finding out how to achieve changing the founder name/status myself (current founder told me it was not possible to change founder at all by the way) and following the "Founder Tools" tutorial and changing the emails it has made no change to our forum what so ever.
In the Founder Tools section where it says you must delete all messages the old founder has posted does that even include replies to topics created by other users. The only other thing I could think of is does this person then have to remove themselves from the forum all together which was not what we wanted, I still wanted this member to be part of the admin team, just I need to be the founder. I really hope there is a way around this other than me having to build another page from the ground up and losing my team name.
Any help regarding this issue will be greatly appreciated. Thank You.
The tutorial on the utilities section detailing this process doesn't seem to be helping me, it appears straight forward enough but isn't completing the process, so I put it down to something I am not understanding.
This is a major downer for me so far as the whole forum for my team was my idea and someone offered to do the work setting up the website for me, only now they are the founder and I am left without total control of what was my idea and leaving me looking some what insignificant to the team I created. Add to the scenario that this person isn't present regularily is not helping things at all. For instance I used my paypal account to buy credits for the forum to remove the advertisments, only to find I couldn't apply those credits I paid for, this was extremely infuriating and was over a week before the founder was available to do so for me with my own credits. I would have liked a warning telling me that purchasing these credits as a non-founder does not allow me to apply them to the forum. The next issue is I want to change the skin, again, only the founder may do this.
So I have finally got to the point where the founder and myself were online at the same time and after searching and finding out how to achieve changing the founder name/status myself (current founder told me it was not possible to change founder at all by the way) and following the "Founder Tools" tutorial and changing the emails it has made no change to our forum what so ever.
In the Founder Tools section where it says you must delete all messages the old founder has posted does that even include replies to topics created by other users. The only other thing I could think of is does this person then have to remove themselves from the forum all together which was not what we wanted, I still wanted this member to be part of the admin team, just I need to be the founder. I really hope there is a way around this other than me having to build another page from the ground up and losing my team name.
Any help regarding this issue will be greatly appreciated. Thank You.