Hi all! I’ve had an odd problem for a little while now that I wasn’t able to post about until it was fixed.
In short, I couldn’t be logged in on this Community site. {That sounds like poor grammar, but it’s actually the most accurate way to say what happened}
Symptoms: I could log into the overall GF site, including the pages for GF control, the shop, the general main page etc. But whenever I went into the Community, I only had access that you have when you’re not logged in, with the “login” button at the top right. If I clicked on that, it brought me to the GF configuration pages you see when you first unpack. if I linked to any other non-Community pages, I was still logged in. Back to Community:: Not logged in. So strange.
The result of this was I couldn’t Like stuff, Bookmark stuff, or post anything. It was like being shunned!! I wanted to ask all of you what I did to be shunned but you can’t ask people stuff when you’re shunned; that’s how shunning works.
It was very disconcerting and a little sad.
Anyway, I emailed Support, and Semhar did some kind of magic (Thanks Semhar!) and I’m back.
So this is resolved but I wanted to post about it in case it happens to anyone else to give hope that there’s a way out of being shunned.
One last odd thing: Right after accessing again, I was granted the Owner Badge. I’ve been an Owner since last year so this probably is tied to whatever underlying issue kept me from getting in. But doesn’t matter, I just became an Owner (again) so you may congratulate me now.
(And don’t feel alone…I just got logged out of the forum for some reason. Like literally five minutes ago. Never seen that happen before.) 
