•	Registration

•	Member Status

•	Change Your Profile Information

•	Change Your Email Address

•	Change Your Member Name

•	Change Your Password

•	Lost or Forgotten Password

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Signature

•	Buddy and Ignore Lists

•	Ignore Feature Explained

•	My Private Notes and Member Name Mouse Over Value

•	PM Display and Usage Errors

•	Use of Cookies on the Site

•	Clear Your Cookies

•	I cannot log out of RunRyder

Becoming a RR member is a simple process that allows you to utilize all features of this forum, including:

• Posting new topics
• Replying to topics
• Editing your posts
• Receiving email notification of replies to posts and topics you specify
• Sending private messages to other members
• Entering events in the forum event list
• Setting up a 'buddy-list' to quickly see which of your friends are currently online.

Registration is free and starts by clicking the REGISTER link which is located at the top of each page.

Next, choose a username, enter in your email address, password, location and time zone. Read the Site Usage Rules and when finished, click the SUBMIT and AGREE TO RULES button. Please note, that entering your email address will not leave you open to spam. Your email address will always remain hidden. Any email messages sent to you by members will not reveal your address.

To activate your account, check your email and confirm your registration by clicking on the RunRyder Confirmation Email link that is given to you. If the RunRyder Confirmation Email was blocked or not received within 5 minutes, please check if you correctly entered your email address. If you need to reenter your email, go to myHome and click Edit Profile. Change your email address and Submit Modifications.

Once you have responded to the confirmation email, RunRyder moderators will be notified of your registration. Please note that registrations are manually processed by RunRyder moderators, so you may experience a short delay in account activation. Once your registration is approved by a moderator, your member account will be activated and you will be able to fully use all the features on RunRyder.

If you have reviewed this FAQ and still have problems registering or activating your account, please pmRR.

Please note: All information gathered from the registration form is used by RunRyder for internal purposes only. Your email address will remain secure and hidden from all users of this website and forum. It cannot be used for spam.

Status is based on post count. Off Topic and Classified posts do not count.

• New Heliman (less than 30 posts and registered less than 180 days)
  
• Heliman (30 posts or registered 180 days or more)
• Senior Heliman (100 posts)
  
• Veteran (500 posts)
  
• Key Veteran (1000 posts)
  
• Elite Veteran (2000 posts)
  
• rrProfessor (5000 posts)
  
• rrMaster (10000 posts)

Edit your profile by going to myHOME – Edit Profile.

It is your responsibility to keep your email address and profile current. All profile fields may be edited by you except for your member name. Read how to change your member name here.

You can change your email at myHOME, Edit Profile. After you change your email address, click Submit Modifications at the bottom of the screen. Changing your email will not affect your RunRyder member account.

First, go to the MEMBERS list (link is located in the top header of every RunRyder page) and search for the new member name you would like to use. If the name is already in use, select and search for another name. If the name in not in use, pmRR with the requested name change.
Once the change is made, all of your existing posts and content will show your new member name.

Go to myHOME - Change Password

If you lost or forget your password, you can click on the Password Recovery link on any page that requires you to fill in your password. Enter your registered email address and your password will immediately be emailed to you.

• Signatures are limited to 100 characters. For line breaks use: <br>. No other code is allowed.
• Signatures may include: name, heli affiliations or light humor.
• NO commercial links or advertising are allowed.
• NO political or religious statements.
• NO personal opinions.
• NO comments directed toward RunRyder or other RunRyder members.

Your signature is a piece of text that is inserted at the end of all your posts. Signatures are limited to 100 characters with no formatting expect <br>. If you have specified a signature, then the forum will automatically append your signature to any messages you post. You can disable signatures on a per-post basis by un-checking the Show Signature Option when you compose your message.

You can set your signature by editing your profile.

To add another RR member to either your buddy or ignore list, click on the member's name to display their profile page. At the bottom of their profile page next to the Member Name mouse over: field, there are two check boxes labeled Buddy and Ignore. Checking one of the boxes and clicking Submit Modifications will add the member to your buddy or ignore list.

You can view and edit your buddy and ignore lists at myHOME. Your Buddy List is shown at the top, displaying which of your buddies or online versus offline, followed by your Ignore List. Click the X next to the member's name to remove them from the list.

If you add a member to your Ignore List:

• You will not see the ignored member's post content in topic view.
• You cannot PM or email the ignored member.

If you have been added to another member's Ignore List:

• Except for classifieds, you cannot post reply to the ignorer’s topics.
• You cannot PM or email the ignorer.

Review how to manage your buddy or ignore lists here.

In every member profile page, you can save private notes pertaining to that individual and assign a Member Name Mouse Over Value to help you identify the individual. Use the corresponding fields at the bottom of each member's profile page to add the information.

A • symbol will be displayed in front of their member name to notify you that you have Private Notes and/or a Member Name Mouse Over Value for this individual. For Example:

As a logged in member, the Private Notes you create are only seen by you. Also, if you do not assign a Member Name Mouse Over value, the member's join date and location will display when you mouse over their name.

If your browser is displaying incorrect or out of date data, or you received an email notification that you have a new PM, but the new PM does not display in your Private Messaging area, you probably have a Cache Display Problem.

First, try a "View Refresh" by pressing Crtl-R or F5. If the error still persists, try deleting your temporary internet files (cache) and off line content: How to Clear Your Cache.

Your ISP could also cause problems by caching RR’s pages.

Also see Automatic Page Display to resolve this problem.

The RunRyder system requires the use of a cookie for members to participate and for guests to have the ability to View New Posts. The cookie keeps track of user name, password and last visit time. This cookie is managed by your internet browser and is stored on your local hard disk.

If your browser blocks the RunRyder cookie (privacy settings too high) you will not be able to login.

Clear your cookies by following the steps for your browser here.

Once you complete the process above, restart your computer.

The RR logout link is located on the homepage top (left of your name) displayed as an X and also on the bottom right. Find it in myHOME too.

To fix logout problems you need to search for and delete all RunRyder cookies (How to Delete Cookies). After you locate your cookie directory(s), delete all cookie files with names that contain "runryder".

After deleting all RR cookies, reboot your computer.