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The Great Big Guide to Everything
The Great Big Guide to Everything
Well, everything forum related that is. Here’s where to come when you’re having trouble figuring out how to put spoiler tags into a post, or how to join a user group. Even seasoned forum members may learn something from this. Let's Go Guide to this guide Guide to BB Code Guide to Signatures and Avatars Guide to the User CP Guide to Posting
Guide to Miscellaneous Things
==========[ Back to Top ]========== Guide to BB Code All BB Code is enclosed by brackets [] and have an opening tag []and a closing tag [/]. Listed below are the common BBCode tags used for marking up your text in these forums. To use these tags, simply remove the asterisk* in the opening tag (* inserted so you can see how the full code looks). You can also use more than one tag for a word, just make sure to close the tags in the reverse order you opened them. General Formatting and Colored Text Bold = [*b]Bold[/b] Italic = [*i]Italic[/i] Underline = [*u]Underline[/u] Bold Italic = [*b][ *i]Bold Italic[/i][/b] Underlined Bold Italic = [*u][ *b][ *i]Underlined Bold Italic[/i][/b][/u] Colored Text = [*Color="Red"]Colored Text[/Color]. The full list of Colors is below. Simply put the Color name (as written, no spaces) in the quotes to use. PLEASE NOTE – this forum has multiple colored skins for users to choose from. Not all colors are readable on all skins, so use colored text sparingly. This is Black text, Fonts are available in 7 sizes and can be combined with the already listed forms of BB Code: 1 = [*size="1"]1[/size] 2 = [*size="2"]2[/size] - Default size 3 = [*size="3"]3[/size] 4 = [*size="4"]4[/size] 5 = [*size="5"]5[/size] 6 = [*size="6"]6[/size] 7 = [*size="7"]7[/size] Images First, before you can link an image to show in posts or in your signature area, you need to have it hosted somewhere. There are plenty of free hosting sites that allow you to upload an image and link it for use in a forum - Photobucket and Imageshack are two of the biggest. Unless you have permission, it's not polite to link an image from someone else's site though. Once your image is hosted, you need the URL (direct link address) to put in the BB Code.  = [*img]http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s320/Silver_rain15987/Naruto-1.jpg[/img]You can use the same code to place images in posts and in signatures. Please make sure to follow the Signature Rules before creating or updating your sig. Links You can post links a few different ways. The first is to simply type out the full URL, the forums will automatically create a link: http://www.onemanga.com Second, you can enclose the link in tags if you want: www.onemanga.com = [*url=http://www.onemanga.com]www.onemanga.com[/url] Third, you can create a link using a description: Check out this awesome site! = [*url=http://www.onemanga.com]Check out this awesome site![/url] Spoiler Tags The spoiler tag can be used to hide images and text behind a button so that they aren’t immediately visible. This way people won’t have to look at something unless they choose to be spoiled. You can also add a description to your spoiler tags by adding it to the opening tag as in the example Spoiler for This is an example:
= [*spoiler=This is an example] This is how you create the spoiler tag to hide text and images.[ /spoiler] The full reply screen also has a Word-like menubar with buttons for all available markup options. There is also a list of smilies that can be used in your posts. Click the "More" link to view the full list of smilies available.   ==========[ Back to Top ]========== Guide to Signatures and Avatars Signature Rules Full Signature and Avatar rules can be found here. PLEASE NOTE - The forums have a mod installed that only displays a signature once per page. If your posts show up multiple times on the same page, then only your first post will show the signature. This is not an error or bug. Adding a Signature: Go to your User CP and under the Settings & Controls there are several options. Select Edit Signature. The text box that opens is exactly like the normal reply window. Any BB Code can be entered here, just as with usual posts, provided it follows the Signature Rules above. Please see the BB Code section above for information about hosting images. Adding an Avatar: An avatar is a small image below or next to your username that appears on all posts. Avatars are limited to 100x100 pixels and/or 19.5kb, whichever is smaller. To upload an avatar, goto your User CP, under Settings & Controls select Edit Avatar. You can choose to link an avatar from another site (please remember to ask permission before linking to someone else's site first) or upload the image from your computer. Viewing Signatures and Avatars: Signatures and Avatars are viewable by default for all visitors (with the exception noted above for signatures displaying only once per page). If you do not wish to view other people's signatures or avatars, you can turn them off in the User CP. Under Settings & Controls, select Edit Options and scroll down to Thread Display Options. Uncheck Show Signatures, Show Avatars and/or Show Images to have these items hidden when you read the forums. Unchecking Show Images means that you will not see any images in posts at all. ==========[ Back to Top ]========== Guide to the User CP Overview of the Control Panel under User CP.  Private Messages aka PMs PMs are messages sent between users through the forum (instead of using email or IMs, for example). You can send another use a PM by clicking their username in a post. This will open a box like the one in the image below, giving you several options.  You select "Send a private message" from here and the reply window will open up. If you want to send the same message to multiple people at once (maximum of 5 people) separate the user names with a ';' (semicolon). You can also send PMs from someone's profile page under Contact Info. The third option is through your User CP, under Private Message and select Send a Message. You will need to manually enter the usernames into the To field. New PMs  If you get a PM, it will have a bolded number on your PM tag next to Unread. To read it, you can click on Private Messages to go to your inbox and read any new messages there. The forum only allows you to have 50 messages total in your mailbox, which includes sent and received messages. ==========[ Back to Top ]========== Guide to Posting Editing and Deleting To delete your own post, click the edit button at the bottom right of it, then press delete. Threads can only be deleted by the thread creator if there are no replies. Once someone has replied to a post/thread, only moderators can delete the thread. To edit a post, click the edit button. It’s better to edit a post rather than double post, unless there has been at least 15 minutes between posts. Quoting and Multi-Quoting (in detail)  To quote someone else's post, click the quote button. This will open a reply window with the quoted post in the text box. You are also able to edit out portions of the text if you wish to only reply to a part of the post. To multi-quote someone else's post, click the button that has the quote symbol and a plus sign on it (multi-quote is when you wish to reply to more than one person at a time and wish to quote more than one post). Click the + button on all the posts you wish to reply to, in the order you want to reply in, and then hit the reply button to open the text box. Simply reply to posts as you wish (inserting your text between the different quotes) and then post normally. Double Posting If you do double-post, it isn't the end of the world as long as they're two separate thoughts or separated by a significant period of time (longer than 15 minutes). If you wish to respond to multiple posts though, you can also use the multi-quote button and/or edit your post. Closed Threads If a thread hits 20 pages in length (at the default settings of 10 posts per page), a mod or admin will close it, and usually make another of the same name. This is to prevent overly long threads from getting out of hand and taking up too many board resources. Reporting Posts Since the forum staff is (mostly) human, we can't get everything. However, you can help by reporting any questionable post by pressing on the 'Report this Post' button on the top right of the post that looks like a white triangle, outlined in red, with an explanation point in it. Post Count Post count increases in all threads and forums except Forum Games, General Chit Chat and the RP OOC sub-Forum. Posts do increase in the Art Forum and the Debate Forum. Seeing Post Counts Under Members List, click on the Posts column. You should see an arrow pointing downward next to the word posts now. The first member has the most, the last on the list has the least. Clicking posts again will reverse the list, showing the fewest posts first and the most posts last. User Ranks/Titles There are no user ranks. Everyone becomes a Member when they join the forum. There are currently 9 open groups you can join which allow you to change the title under your username. These groups can be accessed under the User CP, Miscellaneous, Group Memberships. Only admins can set up groups at this time. ==========[ Back to Top ]========== Guide to Miscellaneous Things Becoming a Forum Staff member In general, asking lowers your chances. Don't call us, we'll call you. When there is a need for new staff members, there will be a post made requesting applications or staff will discuss internally and recommend someone for a position. Forum Etiquette: This is very simple.
Helping to Improve this Guide If anything is missing or needs to be updated, PM Rhyssa and she'll get it added. ==========[ Back to Top ]========== Last edited by RhyssaFireheart; 08-28-2009 at 05:50 PM. |
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