I understand that the PCGS forum is active and I had signed up a few days ago but for some reason I can't post at all. I registered on 11/5 and soon after received notification that I became a "member" however the option to post is not there. Ironically, if I sign out I do see the button to post but when I click it I have to sign in and then it says I don't have permission to do so. I actually called PCGS and spoke to a person who said I would get a call back but no one ever did. Is the forum only for paying members or is there some step I'm missing. When I go into my profile I see my role listed as "Applicant" so I'm not sure if there is some additional process that needs to occur.
I know I am not paying for the privilege of providing them content. On my profile page, next to “Roles” I am listed as “Member”. I agree with Larry - your membership is probably percolating through their system, probably to make sure you aren’t a previously banned member trying to sneak back in. Or, some bot that would flood their system with spam.
They’re verifying your application. As part of that process an action called “server-side validation” occurs. During this process, all of the new data is propagated across all relevant servers for a variety of reasons, most importantly is the safety and security of their network. Usually this takes less than a day, with most updates to the system processed on an overnight schedule, but because this is the weekend and an upcoming national holiday there may be additional delays to what is normally an automatic and seamless event.
@dragonwalker Question for you. You have been a member on this forum since May of 2011 and only have 11 messages .. Seriously, What's up with that?
They may be getting extra careful with the approval process after some members ID's were hijacked and used for false sales on their BST forum.
