The IRC room that was set up was originally done by a chap who used to post here regularly, then it was set up on IRC, then it got moved to Yahoo, then back to IRC again after Yahoo proved how sucky it was by not letting people join the room. After that, we had a couple of people wading in and causing all sorts of stress, which caused Debaser to set up a room properly with all sorts of goodies to stop it being such a stress for everyone.

It does seem to be extraordinarily difficult for newer people to get access to it these days, which I think is kinda sad - the bad apples have spoiled the experience for everyone (myself included, cos I'd have liked new people to chat with as well.)

You guys can always set up another chat room of some sort, so ya can all talk to each other.

Excellent idea. I'll set up a poll and see what people think. Then if all goes well I can just set up a quakenet room.

I've been wondering this forever, because even though I work at another IPB forum, I never bothered to figure this one out:

I've seen a lot of people with scrolling sigs, both vertically and horizonatally. How do you do that?
Can't believe I never bothrered to ask....

I used something called a marquee. If you go to Lissaexplains.com, and then go under the section "fun stuff" ( beware - you may go blind from all the bright extreme neon-ish colors in there, so grab some sunglasses... ) there's a whole section on how to do them. She can probably explain them better than I ever could. ;;

I'm a just an ickle nOOb. How'd ya put a pic on?

How do you get the "from" stuff under your name? From: far away and the like. I've looked all over my controls, but it's hiding. And what post number do you have to have to customize your member level??

You don't need many posts for a custom member title. I believe the current number is 10 or something around there. As for your other question, I'm not quite sure what you're asking about. If it's location, that's under My Controls > Personal Profile > Edit Personal Profile. It should be about the 8th thing down. Hope that helps!

Thanks for the info, all of it wroked. I guess I was scrolling around too fast on my profile and missed the location bar. My profile is nice now, so thanks!

Whats with all the different pics beside posts and rooms?? Its confusing a poor Newbie

How many posts until we can start own threads? I'm dying to make a comment :/

Thanks for the help, btw ^^

You can start your own threads right away.

I thought you couldn't since Mata put in place the Established Members bit. He was trying to let noobs participate in already started threads before making their own.

I think it's somewhere about 20 posts before you can start a thread, but I'm not completely sure.

I'm pretty sure that you can start threads right away in Introductions, Personal Concerns, and Creations, but you have to wait until... maybe 20 or 25 posts before you can start threads anywhere else.

Thanks. It was something concerning the animations, but I squeezed it inside the "suggestions" topic, since it was borderlining the subject.

OH! I forgot all about the Established Members thing. That was pretty recent. I think Ast is right about the forums you can post new topics in, and the basic number when you can start doing that. Glad you got to post your comment.

It's 40 posts, and I'm about to make a new thread about it in here.

[i][u]Im Tall kid and i have one problem and i realy like this girl but she wont go out with me till i lose wait so can some one give some tips on loosing wait fast

Tall Kid: You'd be better off asking about this in the Personal Concerns forum.

For now though, I'd say that a good diet and regular exercise is the only healthy way to lose weight.

Yeah i agree, if you start doing a little exercise every day you will notice a big difference eg walking to school and back.
But should you really be losing weight for this girl? Surely if she liked you she would go out with you whatever you looked like. Sounds a tad superficial to me.

1) Is this forum very active at all? Like lets say I make an interesting and thought provoking thread, how many replies would I get in one day?

2)(curious) Are most people on this forum european?



P.S. I'm loving Mr. Snaffleburger.

Hi there

Depending on the subject of your thread, it may well get half a dozen replies in one day, significantly more if there are two or more people online who disagree about your topic.

And probably the biggest nationality on here is British, followed by American, and a scattering of others. No regular Aussie posters though, which I've always thought was a bit odd.

However, even if you're looking for more replies than that, please don't deprive us of your interesting and thought-provoking thread. There are some very intelligent and articulate people on here who would love to discuss it, whatever the subject is.

Thank you for the response.

We do have at least one regular Australian member that I can think of. We have a few different nationalities, but the regular posting members are usually from the UK and the US. I'm not sure what the balance is precisely, but, like CM says, I'm fairly sure the UK is more heavily represented.

As for 'active': yes, the forums do have regular posts, and it seems to be picking up again lately. Really it depends on what's happening in the world or our lives. Naturally, if a topic is started in a way that prompts discussion then it will get more responses than one that doesn't. For example: 'my dog is great' wouldn't get much feedback, 'I love my dog, and he always likes drying himself on the sofa after it rains. Does anyone else have a dog with an annoying/cute habit?' would get a lot more.

Welcome to my forums!

We do have at least one regular Australian member that I can think of. We have a few different nationalities, but the regular posting members are usually from the UK and the US. I'm not sure what the balance is precisely, but, like CM says, I'm fairly sure the UK is more heavily represented.

As for 'active': yes, the forums do have regular posts, and it seems to be picking up again lately. Really it depends on what's happening in the world or our lives. Naturally, if a topic is started in a way that prompts discussion then it will get more responses than one that doesn't. For example: 'my dog is great' wouldn't get much feedback, 'I love my dog, and he always likes drying himself on the sofa after it rains. Does anyone else have a dog with an annoying/cute habit?' would get a lot more.

Welcome to my forums!

Woah... time loop, Mata.

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GAA!! I am so confuzzled by all the minion/anti-minion stuff!

I have found a way for people to get any colour writing you can possibly have. First you have to get the HTML cade of the colour you want and then instead of typing a colour use the HTML. Example:

Text Coulour Test

There are many ways to get HTML codes for colours, such as looking at their properties, and also on some website and programs it will give you the 6 digited code when you are selecting a colour.

Kasbah.

You maaaaaaaaaaaaaaay want to check your html, love, 'cause it's not coming through.

While this is probably hardly news to any of the more experienced internet-type people, it is true.

It doesn't work with every single colour you can find a hexadecimal code for, there used to be a thread about this actually, finding a weird hex-code and giving the colour a suitable name... we were easily amused.

If you want a guide, click here.

I think if you look closely, it did work actually. Just by typing a random 6 digit code rather than a colour.

Plus I know it isn't a surprise to explerienced people, it's for noobs, if the know how to use the html.

Good point, just two thinks. Firstly, it's not html, secondly, it hadn't worked because I checked the post and there was no hex-code, you'd written descriptive words in the colour field.

I know, I changed it because you couldn't see it without looking to see the code, because I put discriptive words instead it didn't change the colour and you couldn't see what I was trying to show.

I couldn't be bothered explaining it, but it is HTML. If it wasn't then it would just show the code you tried to put in instead of changing the colour.

Nah, it's BBCode. The forum doesn't allow you to use actual HTML.

You keep correcting me, I'm happy that you're teaching me stuff, but angry at the same time because I keep loking stupid! But one day, you will teach me all you know, then I will learn one more thing and then I will officially know more than you!

Kasbah.

Good one! A Silogism, but a good catch phrase, nonetheless.

Well I do try.

But now that it has been appreciated I copyright it.

Just a point I'd like to raise:

Necroposting

Don't.do.it.

And a point I'd like to raise:

Keeping a 'necroposted' thread alive by posting the fact that they are necroposting and should not do so.

Don't do it.

Should I have made a new thread?

Or, you know, you could try either contributing to the thread or *gasp* ignoring it.

What a concept

If the thread's dead there's nothing to contribute, if it get's ignored it'll keep happening. I don't see how that's preferable.

I have to admit... SPS is right. If it is ignored it will fester and grow, better to get it now than let that happen...

Threads don't die if people have things to contribute. that's the point. If they were spamming it, fine, but they had valid opinions on the subject.

And if it really bothers you that much, you can post in a "live" thread.

Not to mention the fact that the Noob thread should never "die," considering we get more members each day.

This wasn't the thread I was referring to, it's pinned so it doesn't die, which is why I posted here. Perhaps you could've followed the three links cunningly hidden with in my post? You quoted it, you must've seen them.

I did see them, but my original point still stands.

Okay kids, let's bury our heads in the sand, let the random people spam the forums we know and love.

Psst... don't speak your mind, it's not allowed

some times necroposting is not a bad thing. Think of a novice who looks around, and finds an old, but interesting topic, and reads it, and have a different view, should he not be allowed to express his opinion based solely in the fact that it have been dead for a while?

Im my forums we admins necropost intentionally some posts when we see a significant number of new people have joined in the forum, so they can see what already have been discussed.

I just thought I'd say hi! I'm new at this - so am just going to take a little look around to get acquainted with what's what. See you ! All the best J.B. www.banana-meinhoff.co.uk

Thanks for that help!