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Hi,
Our Postal Code-Metro Area function doesn't read all zip codes, so when you add yours it will trigger the nearest city or town in the system, and this will govern the results of searches for "Members Near Me." If your specific location isn't reflected I recommend adding it to the text of your profile so members who view you will know where you're located.
Kat Brennan
Community Guide

This is the latest from TeeBeeDee engineer, GregSherwin:
Apologies for the confusing interface for the time being. When we first launched Group alerts, people who joined a group received alerts not only for new discussions and comments in their chosen discussions, but also for every comment made within any discussion in the same group (wasn't designed that way, which is another story, but that's what came out). A number of users complained loudly that they were overwhelmed by the volume of alerts and that they felt a bit "spammed" by it all.

As we currently have it implemented, the software that supports alerts for non-group discussions currently also runs on the group discussions - and for ALL the discussions in a group. So we had to make a quick decision until we can make and verify the right change. Because the current software leaves it sort of as an all-or-nothing proposition, we decided to temporarily appease the members who felt they were getting too many alerts from groups. Therefore alerts in groups now are only for new discussions, and when you start a discussion, and we know that the current Web site leaves the false impression that you can subscribe to comment alerts within a single group discussion.

This means those who want alerts on comments in groups won't receive them until we come up with a better product solution and some additional software changes. It is definitely a broken user experience, but we opted to error on the side of not overloading users' inboxes. Even if the current language in the group discussions for subscribing to alerts now leaves the wrong impression. We'll definitely be cleaning that up in a future release.

In the meantime, non-group discussion alerts still message on new comments.

Hi TeeBeeDee members,
New folks will no longer be awarded Founding Member status in the near future, but for the time being the status is awarded when you complete your profile, add a photo or other identifying image, and answer a minimum of five of the TeeBeeDee "Quickees."
Cheers!
Kat Brennan
TeeBeeDee Community Guide – Kat Brennan, on July 23, 2008 22:29

Hi,
Sorry you're having trouble registering. We're aware of the bug and are working on resolving it. Thanks for your patience!
Kat Brennan
TeeBeeDee Community Guide
8:47PM PDT

To use the "Quote" feature in a discussion:
- Click on "Comment" under the post you want to reply to.
- Click on the "Quote" box. The member's entire post will appear. You can edit this if you don't want all of the text to appear.
- Type your response in the box that says "Enter your comment here."
- Click on "Submit."
To edit the comment you've posted just click on "Edit," make your changes, and click on "Submit."

Hi Judy,
Welcome to TeeBeeDee. Get Satisfaction is a tool to help our members with questions about the site, e.g., how to change a user name, how to add friends to your profile, how to upload photos, etc. You want to post personal comments such as yours on TeeBeeDee's main interface. I would recommend you post these comments at our "Welcome Lounge," a group for folks new to TeeBeeDee. Here's a link: http://www.tbd.com/group/50/view
And feel free to drop me a private message if you have any questions.
Best,
Kat Brennan (akabukowski)
TeeBeeDee Community Guide

On Firefox:
Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> Private Data -> Settings
Check everything except “Saved Passwords.” This will clear more than your cache and cookies, but it should clear up the problem. If you only want to clear cache and cookies specifically, you can just check those.

On Internet Explorer
Tools -> Internet Options -> Browsing History -> Delete... -> Delete Files, Delete Cookies, Delete History, Delete Forms

To view your profile as others see it, log out of TeeBeeDee, type your username into the Search box, and click on your profile at the bottom of the search results page.

Log in to TeeBeeDee, and click on the little envelope in the upper right hand column of any page. This takes you to the Message Center, where you can read and reply to your personal messages.

Go to a free utility like http://www.shrinkpictures.com/
Follow the instructions on that page. At step 2, "Select New Maximum Image Dimension," select 350.

Ignore steps 3 and 4.

Click “Resize” and save your new photo to your hard drive. Try uploading this new photo. That should work!

Anything you'd like! TeeBeeDee is a place for you to exchange experience and express your interests on anything from hobbies, to issues, to life challenges, and social groups. What do you want to talk about?

Go to any Interest page (e.g., Work, or Relationships). You'll see a link that says "Start a Group" on the bottom left side of the page. Click that and you will be prompted to fill in a few fields. This will create your Group.

You'll notice a button on the left side of a main Group page that says "join this Group." Just click it, and you'll become a member of that Group.

Want to join us? Check out our Jobs page.

TeeBeeDee is an advertising-supported site.

Log in and go to the Profile link located at the top of every page. Click on the Edit Profile link next to your user name, and then the Newsletter link located on the left hand side of the page to change your newsletter settings.

The Friend Finder is a service that helps you easily locate friends who are already TeeBeeDee Members, as well as invite your webmail contacts who aren't on TeeBeeDee yet.
Here's how it works: When you enter your Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, or Gmail address and password (which we won't store), TBD compares your address book with registered email addresses on the site. If there is a match, you will be able to see their profile and add them as a friend with just one click. You can also easily invite the webmail contacts who aren't members of TeeBeeDee.
Note: We respect our members' privacy! We will not send any communication to your friends without your permission. Those members who set their email addresses to "private" will not show up in the Friend Finder. The default privacy setting is "Members can find me with this email address." You can always adjust your privacy settings in your Profile.
When the Friend Finder goes live on January 17th, only new registrants will be able to use it during the sign-up process. However, in the coming months you'll be able to use this tool for any groups that you've started or are a member of. It will also be available on the Friends page of your profile. We hope it makes networking a whole lot easier.
Please note that our Privacy Policy has been updated to describe our new Friend Finder feature.
If you have any questions, please send an email to friendfinder@tbd.com.

To cancel your TeeBeeDee membership, just send an email to memberservices@TeeBeeDee.com with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line. So we may authenticate you, make sure that your email request originates from the email address you used to create your TeeBeeDee membership. You'll receive a cancellation notice from someone on the TeeBeeDee Team.
If you don't mind telling us, we'd love to hear why you want to leave. While TeeBeeDee is in development, getting your feedback makes a big difference. If there's something you hoped to find at TeeBeeDee but didn't, tell us what it is. If something's bugging you, let us know and we'll do our best to fix it.

TeeBeeDee is so much better when people you know are here. Simply use our "Invite a Friend" feature on the home page to send messages to your contacts. When an invitation is accepted, that person is automatically linked to you as a "friend" on your TeeBeeDee profile.