“You are not currently authorized to add a place to RateBeer. You will need to verify your email address in order to enable this feature. Please contact Services on the forum if you are having issues or believe you should be verified.”
@services can you please verify me? I’ve been on the site since 2014.
Did you check your profile to see if you have an email association with your account? In most cases that is the problem. RB has put this in as a layer to prevent all the spam place adders that have been running rampant lately.
@YantarCoast I’ve updated your account to add your email address back. It’s also verified. You will however need to logout and then log back in again so it can get the details that you are verified.
Let me know how that goes and if you’re still having issues after logging out and logging back in again.
@wheresthepath your email address is already verified, however you will need to log out then log back in again and then the correct permissions will be on your account.
I’ll actually look into this, from what we’ve seen, the spammers are just adding places and not generally rating beers and places. So I’ll see what I can do about auto-verifying those users who aren’t verified by have beer and place ratings.
Majority of people are verified, they just need to log out and login so the correct data is stored in their cookies to allow the correct permissions.
Sorry this has happened, could you log out and log back in? You’re still marked as verified. I just wonder if there are some old cookies on your browser?
@services - same issue here. I would of definitely verified my email 8 years ago as have added places many times before. I can also see my email address is still there in my profile.
I just put all the information in the fields for the new place to then get to the bottom to see the message I am not authorised to add a place - feedback wise maybe a good idea to put the message at the top so we don’t waste our time if not able to add places
I’ll look at implementing your feedback on the notification. I’ve looked into your account and it’s definitely verified. You just might need to log out and then log back in to ensure the system knows you’re verified.