Dangerousdave26
February 28th, 2019, 09:09
It has been a while since this has been explained but here is a breakdown of membership levels at SOH and why we have them.
User Group
Tier Level
Purpose
Users Awaiting Email Confirmation
Built in Forum Account
Spam and Bot control. You must activate your account through the activation email that was sent out to be automatically promoted to Member. Note that some email providers block our activation emails so you may need to use the contact us form to request activation.*
Member/Registered
Built in Forum Account
Can download files, Cannot Post, PM, leave visitor messages, or upload files. You must ask for posting permissions.
Member +
Membership Level 1
Can download, upload, Post, PM and leave Visitor messages. All levels higher than level 1 have these privileges.
Charter Member
Membership Level 2
Members who have donated are so named Charter Member. If you have not donated in the last 4 Donation drives you will be listed in this level. If you have donated in any one year you will always be listed as a minimum of Charter Member.
Charter Member 2022
Membership Level 3
Charter Member 2016 members who have donated in 2022. Names are displayed in Blue.
Charter Member 2023
Membership Level 3
Charter Member 2017 members who have donated in 2023. Names are displayed in Red.
Charter Member 2024
Membership Level 4
Charter Member 2018 members who have donated in 2024. Names are displayed in Red.
Member Allowances
We were clearly overly generous with our download rate (bytes/sec) in the past. We have scaled back to keep the server running at acceptable levels when unusually high numbers of members are downloading.
User Group
Files Count
Download Bytes
Days
Rate (bytes/sec)
Upload Bytes
Attachment Limits
Users Awaiting Email Confirmation
Cannot upload or download files
0 MB
Member
50
1024M
1
56K
None
0MB
Member+
100
2048M
1
256K
5120M
40 MB
Charter Member
200
3072M
1
768K
10G
80 MB
Charter Member 2016
225
5120M
1
768K
10G
80 MB
Charter Member 2017
250
5120M
1
768K
10G
80 MB
Charter Member 2018
250
5120M
1
1024K
10G
80 MB
Charter Member 2019
250
5120M
1
1024K
10G
80 MB
User Group
Tier Level
Purpose
Users Awaiting Email Confirmation
Built in Forum Account
Spam and Bot control. You must activate your account through the activation email that was sent out to be automatically promoted to Member. Note that some email providers block our activation emails so you may need to use the contact us form to request activation.*
Member/Registered
Built in Forum Account
Can download files, Cannot Post, PM, leave visitor messages, or upload files. You must ask for posting permissions.
Member +
Membership Level 1
Can download, upload, Post, PM and leave Visitor messages. All levels higher than level 1 have these privileges.
Charter Member
Membership Level 2
Members who have donated are so named Charter Member. If you have not donated in the last 4 Donation drives you will be listed in this level. If you have donated in any one year you will always be listed as a minimum of Charter Member.
Charter Member 2022
Membership Level 3
Charter Member 2016 members who have donated in 2022. Names are displayed in Blue.
Charter Member 2023
Membership Level 3
Charter Member 2017 members who have donated in 2023. Names are displayed in Red.
Charter Member 2024
Membership Level 4
Charter Member 2018 members who have donated in 2024. Names are displayed in Red.
Member Allowances
We were clearly overly generous with our download rate (bytes/sec) in the past. We have scaled back to keep the server running at acceptable levels when unusually high numbers of members are downloading.
User Group
Files Count
Download Bytes
Days
Rate (bytes/sec)
Upload Bytes
Attachment Limits
Users Awaiting Email Confirmation
Cannot upload or download files
0 MB
Member
50
1024M
1
56K
None
0MB
Member+
100
2048M
1
256K
5120M
40 MB
Charter Member
200
3072M
1
768K
10G
80 MB
Charter Member 2016
225
5120M
1
768K
10G
80 MB
Charter Member 2017
250
5120M
1
768K
10G
80 MB
Charter Member 2018
250
5120M
1
1024K
10G
80 MB
Charter Member 2019
250
5120M
1
1024K
10G
80 MB