This F.A.Q. is for general help. If you can't find what you're looking for here, check out
the proboard help section:
proboards8.com/help/Other questions not covered in the proboard help section can be found here. The topics covered are:
-WHAT IS KARMA?
-USING PRIVATE MESSAGES
-EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR SIGNATURE AND AVATAR
-DISPLAYING AVATARS AND IMAGES
-UPLOADING IMAGES
-WHY ARE MY PICTURES SO BIG?
-WHAT IS A MODERATOR? AND HOW DO I BECOME ONE?
-WHY SHOULD I NOT STRETCH THE PAGE?
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KARMAKarma is a measure of how good a member is. If a member posts properly and is kind and respectful and nice you can exalt (+) or smite(-) so if you have alot you are a good member. You may only give or take karma once per hour to prevent cheating. I encourage everyone to give/take karma to other members.
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USING PERSONAL MESSAGES A. How to Read Your Personal Messages In the upper right hand corner of your screen you will see the words: Hey, (your name) you have (your number of messages) (how many messages are new). To read any of your messages (new or otherwise), click on your number of messages. You can differentiate the new messages from the old by the envelope icon near the right edge of your screen. If the envelope is open , then it has been previously read. If the envelope is closed, then the message is new. If the envelope is open and has an arrow on it , you have already read the message and have sent a reply to the person who sent it to you.
B. How to Send a Personal Message There are three ways to send a Personal Message:
1. This is the easiest way to send a Personal Message. Find a post by the member you want to send a message to. Under the member’s avatar and personal text there is this picture . Click on that picture and you will be sent to what looks like the screen you use when you are replying to a topic or making a new topic. Type in a subject, and then type your message. Press the word “Send” near the bottom of your screen and the Personal Message will be instantaneously sent to your recipient.
2. The second way is relatively easy, although it is a longer process. Find a post by the person you want to send a Personal Message to. Click on their username and you will be sent to their profile. At the top of the profile screen there is a link that says "send this member a Personal Message" click that, and then send the message.
3. The third and final way to send a Personal Message requires that you know the original username of the recipient. Go to your Personal Message inbox and click on , compose a message and enter the original username of the recipient into the “To” box.
C. Everything Else About Personal Messages 1. How to Use Your Outbox
Your outbox is the place that contains copy of all the messages you’ve sent. Your outbox can be reached when you press this button .
2. Deleting Your Personal Messages
There are two ways to delete your Personal Messages:
a. In your in- or outboxes to the right of the icons that tell you if you have read a message or not there is a box. To delete a message go to its box and click it. That should create a check in the box. After you check the box go to either the top of the screen or the bottom of the screen and in the right hand corner you will see a button with the word delete on it. Click that button to get rid of your message/s.
b. Click on the “Delete All” icon, and click “Okay” in the confirmation box.
3. Your Preferences
To see your preferences click on this button .
a. The Ignore List
To put any member/s on you ignore list, just type their original username into the box provided.
b. Notification
To get notified by email when you receive a new Personal Message, click the box to put a check in it.
c. Saving
After making any changes to your preferences, click the save preferences button near the bottom of the screen.
4. Backing Up Your Personal Messages
To receive a zipped file containing back-ups of your Personal Messages, click on “Backup Messages” and follow the instructions there.
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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR SIGNATURE AND AVATAR A. Your Signature Your signature is one of the numerous ways to express yourself. It is important that you use your signature to show something about you that makes you unique. For example, you may use a poem to express your creativity or a banner to show your drawing or internet related skills. You may simply put a quote you find interesting, a link to your webpage, or just some information about yourself. Make sure if you use anything created by someone other than yourself you get permission from said person.
1. Your signature can be found by pressing this button , and then selecting “Modify Profile.” Go to the bottom of the page and you will see this: Signature:
Signatures are displayed at the bottom of each post or instant message. UBBC code may be used in your signature.
2. When using a banner in your signature use UBBC code. Such as:
Code:
Banner URL Goes Here[/img]
3. Don’t forget that you can only have 300 characters in your signature.
B. Your Avatar An avatar can be just about anything. You can use a number of things to show personality with your own avatar.
1. Click the profile button just as you would when you are going to change your signature but right before you get to your signature you’ll see this:
Personal Text:
Personalized Picture:
Select one or specify a web path (example:
www.image.com/picture.gif) to your own image. Please note that your image must be gif or jpg and that it will be resized.
Avatar:
Avatar URL:
Custom Avatar Width:
Custom Avatar Height:
For your personal text write a message that will appear underneath your avatar. Personalized Picture is the same thing as an avatar. There is a selection of different avatars to choose from under the “Avatar” drop-down menu, or you may also use a picture of your own.
2. If you want to use a custom picture right-click the picture and go to Properties on the drop down menu. In properties you will see the dimensions and the URL both essential for a custom picture. Put this URL in the “Avatar URL” box and fill in the width and height. However, a picture cannot be larger than 100x100, so you may need to scale the dimensions down.
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DISPLAYING IMAGESImages: To put an image in your post, click on the little grey button in the post page which looks like this: . Click that and then replace the “IMAGE” text with the URL of your picture. To put them in your signature when you don’t have the grey button, just type out
[img]Picture URL here[/img]
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[u][b]UPLOADING IMAGES [/b][/u]
To upload pictures you first need to save the image on your computer.
Then you find a place to upload.
Imageshack
Photobucket
Imageshack is one of the best free image-hosting sites. With Photobucket, you can register your account and then upload your images to your own private gallery.
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[u][b]WHY ARE MY PICTURES SO BIG? [/b][/u]
So now you know how to upload and display images, but for some reason, when you display your images they are either very large or very small, or just not what you planned at all.
If you want to change the size of your image, you must modify the original file on your computer, and upload again.
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[u][b]WHAT IS A MODERATOR? AND HOW DO I BECOME ONE?[/b][/u]
A moderator is someone appointed by the admin (The admin is the person who created this forum and is the one in charge).
The moderator's duties include but are not limited to moving threads to the proper section, deleting offtopic and/or rude posts and to help answer/assist any members who have forum related questions/problems.
If you'd like to become a moderator keep an eye out for any annoucements. When the admin would like another moderator the admin will post an annoucement in order to alert interested parties.
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HOW DO I ACCESS THE TOP TWENTY MEMBER LIST? All related member list information.
If you'd like to access the entire list of our members please click here.
http://snicket91.proboards70.com/index.cgi?action=members&view=all
If you'd like to access the top twenty member list (the members with the highest post count) then please click here.
http://snicket91.proboards70.com/index.cgi?action=members&view=top
If you'd like a list of all the moderators please click here.
http://snicket91.proboards70.com/index.cgi?action=members&view=staff
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[b][u]WHY SHOULD I NOT STRETCH THE PAGE?[/u][/b]
You should not stretch the page horizontally because it's incredibly hard to read when one does so, and it disturbs the entire forum's reading experience.