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    Question Whats up with FPN? Inactive Group?

    Prior to finding FPGeeks I tried joining FPN, both the web forum and the FB page.

    The web forum requires sending a request, which I did twice and got no response. The FB page asks some really easy challenge questions when signing up and then it requires approval of an admin, which never happened.

    Are these dead groups?

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    Default Re: Whats up with FPN? Inactive Group?

    I don’t know about Facebook because i’m not on it, but the FPN web forum is active. Apparently less active when it comes to admitting new folks...

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    Default Re: Whats up with FPN? Inactive Group?

    It's alive but the registration process seems to be a pain...

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    Default Re: Whats up with FPN? Inactive Group?

    It's alive. It thought I was dead!

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    Default Re: Whats up with FPN? Inactive Group?

    Quote Originally Posted by Chemyst View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by SManZ View Post
    The web forum requires sending a request, which I did twice and got no response.

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    Are these dead groups?
    Smash that blue “Support FPN” button on the bottom of any forum page. Fifty euros often wakes up the owner enough for him to check for messages from the same email address.
    Psh, I don't need to get in that bad I'd have a hard time justifying a donation to a group that can't even manage new member registrations under the guise of too much spam.

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    Default Re: Whats up with FPN? Inactive Group?

    If I remember correctly, it took about a week from the time I applied until they finally let me in.

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    Default Re: Whats up with FPN? Inactive Group?

    Been waiting over 2 months now...like this forum better anyway

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    Default Re: Whats up with FPN? Inactive Group?

    Anyone know what AWAY means in Group on FPN? it looks like they cannot post.

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    Default Re: Whats up with FPN? Inactive Group?

    Away group means that they have been banned.

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    Default Re: Whats up with FPN? Inactive Group?

    How the hell do you get banned from a pen forum?

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    Default Re: Whats up with FPN? Inactive Group?

    Quote Originally Posted by RobJohnson View Post
    How the hell do you get banned from a pen forum?
    Insist that bic makes the greatest pens?

    Intolerable people come in all varieties. There's bound to be a few that like pens :P

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    Default Re: Whats up with FPN? Inactive Group?

    Quote Originally Posted by RobJohnson View Post
    How the hell do you get banned from a pen forum?
    There is a long thread about this subject somewhere in this forum. Some of the FPG's best contributors have been banned from FPN. Go figure.

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    Default Re: Whats up with FPN? Inactive Group?

    Quote Originally Posted by SManZ View Post

    Are these dead groups?
    Far from it. FPN is far more active than this forum.



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    Default Re: Whats up with FPN? Inactive Group?

    FPN'rs came here instead and they mostly just want to sell stuff.
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    Default Re: Whats up with FPN? Inactive Group?

    Last fall, it took me about two months to get into FPN. In December when I was approved, there were a slew of "introduce yourself" posts. The admins must have done several months worth of people. LOL

    It just takes patience.

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    Default Re: Whats up with FPN? Inactive Group?

    Quote Originally Posted by sharmon202 View Post
    FPN'rs came here instead and they mostly just want to sell stuff.
    There are so many sellers here that do not participate. That said there are so many of us that came over from FPN and do not fill up the for sale thread.
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    Default Re: Whats up with FPN? Inactive Group?

    Anyone who posts here strictly to sell, i ignore

    The situation at fpn is so bad even FPN has a thread about it:
    http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/fo.../#entry4344459

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    Default Re: Whats up with FPN? Inactive Group?

    Quote Originally Posted by dfo View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by sharmon202 View Post
    FPN'rs came here instead and they mostly just want to sell stuff.
    There are so many sellers here that do not participate. That said there are so many of us that came over from FPN and do not fill up the for sale thread.
    We also have less threads with the same question: "Is my Montblanc real?"

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