To my expectancy, I was and am, vilified on the boards. For the most part, I have been blamed as if it was my fault. I must have done something wrong. I must not know how to clear cookies, change email addresses, exploit the system as well of those who have replied, etc.
Nevertheless, despite the literal pounding I have taken on the boards, I have received no less than 30 PM's agreeing with me. They have PM'ed me to avoid the pounding I have taken as well, and I cannot disagree with their decision.
You haven't been vilified or pounded here. A whole bunch of us have told you what has worked for us. Some of us have told you that we had problems before, found out what we were doing wrong, fixed what we were doing wrong, and then had a different experience.
Saying that there are things you have to do with your computer to get some things to credit isn't "blaming"
you; most of us have had to shift the way we work with our computers to get things to credit. I have a Mac and can't use the sad IE for Macs, so things that require IE, I will never get. Not my fault, just the way things are. If I hadn't figured that out, someone would have had to tell me, and it would have been useful information!
Janet gave you some good info about IP addresses and AOL. Perhaps your internet provider is doing to you what hers was doing to her. Simple fix, calling to request a static IP. I personally ONLY use wireless and have almost never had a problem with shopping crediting, but with her computer and connection, she does have a problem. Not her "fault", and if someone had to tell her the problem it wouldn't have been pounding her, just helping her.
That's all
I was doing, trying to help you. When we help each other, we can figure out how to get more things to credit for you. When more things credit for you, that makes you happier, and also gives SR more credits. When SR makes more b/c we make more, it helps SR continue to thrive. SR thriving then allows SR to be stronger, and helps us make MORE, and so the cycle continues.
No one wants someone just flailing away, getting no credits but sticking with SR just because. We all want to help each other.
If you want help, post what kind of computer you have (Mac or PC), what OS you're using, wireless or wired connection, do you know if your IP address fluctuates. What sort of security do you have on your computer (I have a Mac and I know that most viruses can't do much to Macs, so I have my security VERY low and haven't had a problem knock wood), have you made sure you have no firewalls? How often DO you clear cookies? Are you following the rules created in February for the Daily Surveys? Are you subscribed to the Daily Survey thread over there, so you can hear peoples' experiences with surveys that don't take you back to the SR site, that don't credit, and so on. After finishing a survey, do you go through as though to take a survey again, so that you can see if that one is likely to credit? When you shop, have you done all your price-shopping before, then clear cookies history and cache, click through, sign into your account with that site, fill your shopping cart/bag, and buy right then? Or do you dawdle, or worse, have your shopping cart/bag already full (a big huge bad thing)?
There are so many questions! Answering those questions can help us help you, if that's what you want.
And none of that is about *exploiting* the system, it's just using the system. No one is exploiting anyone. If you don't get credit, SR didn't get credit. Everyone wants everyone to "legally" (ha) get things to credit, b/c then everyone up the line is happier.
And if the 30 people who PMd you would write their problems out in public, then they could be helped, too!
But if you and others don't want help, then oh well.
