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Community Overview

Your Home

Your Homepage By clicking on "Your Home" at the top of any page you can access your Homepage. Here you will find links to a number of areas on in this community which relate specifically to you. These are Your Profile, Your Contacts, Your Personal Messages, Your Drafts and Posts, New Posts, Your Favourites, Your Subscriptions and Your Notes. Back to top

Your Profile When you register as a member of this community you create a profile for yourself. Your profile is where you store information about yourself - your username, real name, e-mail address, instant messaging details, etc, as well as information about who you are, where you live, what you do, and so on. Please keep the information here accurate and up to date. As well as your own information you can also edit various options in Your Profile, for example, whether you wish other users to be able to view your online status, whether you wish to allow other users to send you e-mail, whether you wish to receive e-mail notification when you recieve personal messages or replies to your posts, and so on, so it is well worth looking through these options. Back to top

Your Contacts You can add other registered users of this community to your contact list, making them buddies, preventing them from contacting you, or ignoring them completely. For more information about using your contact list, see the Contact FAQ. Back to top

Your Personal Messages This community has an inbuilt personal message system which you can use to send messages to and receive messages from other registered users. You will be notified of new private messages at the top of each page, and can also choose to recieve e-mail or popup notification by picking the appropriate options in Your Profile. For more help with your Personal Messages, see the main FAQ. Back to top

Your Drafts and Posts This page lists all the posts you have made to any forum, and also any draft posts that you have saved. For more information on posting messages and saving drafts, see the main FAQ. Back to top

New Posts This page shows all posts that have been made since your last visit. Note that this is not an unread posts page, so posts do not disappear from the list once you have read them. It will continue to list all posts made since your last visit (when you last logged on). Back to top

Your Favourites This page lists all topics which you have added to Your Favourites list. This is an easy way to keep track of topics in which you are interested in, and means you can find them all on one page rather than having to search through individual forums for them. Add and remove topics to and from this list using the links at the bottom of each topic. Back to top

Your Subscriptions You can subscribe to individual topics, or entire forums, which will mean that you will receive posts made to those topics/forums by e-mail. You can subscribe/unsubscribe by using the links at the bottom of each topic/forum. This page only lists individual topics to which you are subscribed, not forums. Back to top

Notes You have a private notepad which you can use to store notes to yourself. From the Notes page you can add, edit and delete notes to yourself. Notes can added into posts, by picking the note you wish to add from the dropdown list on the New Topic/Reply pages. Back to top

Frequently Asked Questions

Main FAQ The main FAQ lists answers to questions about a variety of topics, including Login and Registration issues, Preferences and Settings, Forum Subscription, Posting and Post Formatting, User Groups, Private Messaging, Multiple Accounts and Account Linking. Back to top

Forums

Forums The main feature of this community is the forums, where you can start and reply to topics of conversation. To return to the main forum index click on "Forums" on the menu to the left, or on "Forum Index" at the top of most pages. Forums or topics with unread posts will show up in yellow - you will need to refresh the page to see the latest new posts. Back to top

New Topics You can start a new topic in a forum by clicking on "New Topic" at the top of the forum page. Many forums have Acceptable Use announcements posted to them - please be sure you read these before posting, and please try to post your messages to the appropriate forum. Off topic messages may be moved, and messages which do not comply with the AUP may be deleted. Back to top

Replies You can reply to posts either using the quick reply form at the bottom of each topic, or by clicking on "Reply" to access the full reply page. Note that many advanced options, such as adding polls, saving messages as drafts, including notes, etc, are only available from the full reply page, and not from the quick reply form. Back to top

Drafts If you have started a post and not yet finished it you can save it as a draft, to be finished later. To do this click on "Save as Draft" under the New Topic/Reply form. You can view you drafts by clicking on "Your Drafts & Posts" at the top of each post. To edit and post or delete a draft, click on its title. Back to top

BBCode You can use Bulletin Board Code (BBCode) to add formatting such as bold, italic or coloured text, URLs, images, etc to your posts. For more information on how to do so, see the BBCode Guide. Back to top

Polls When you post a message to a forum you can add a poll to it - simply fill in the poll form below the post topic/reply form. You can give any question you wish, and add up to 50 possible option. Note that to add an option you must click on "Add Option" after typing it in - only options which say "Update/Delete" to the right of them will show on you poll, so don't forget to click on "Add Option" after typing your last option in. You can also choose whether voters can enter multiple choices or are restricted to one only, and whether the poll should be never ending or have a time limit. Then submit your post as normal, and the poll will appear above it. Back to top

Search You can search past messages to the Forums using the Search form, either by Keyword or Author. Back to top

Archive Old messages may be deleted from the forums in order to save space on our server. But fear not, they're not lost for good! They're being archived over on the Bladelands Chronicles Yahoo group, so if you can't find an old message here you can go there to look for it. Back to top

Options and Preferences You can change a number of options and preferences which relate to viewing and posting to the Forums in Your Profile. Back to top

Chat Room

Chat Room There is an IRC chat room available from this website. It is a place for people to meet up and have realitime discussions online. More information about the Chat Room can be found in the Chat FAQ. Back to top

Members and Groups

Members Although guests can read the forums and access some other pages of this community, you must be a member in order to post to any forum (except the Honesty Board), and to access many of the more advanced features of this Community. You can see a list of all members on the "Members" page. Back to top

Groups There are two main groups on this community, OOC (for out of character profiles) and IC (for in character profiles). We ask that you make each of your profiles a member of one or other of these groups, so that it is obvious to everyone whether it is a real person or a character! You can join one of these two groups when you register, and you can view, join and leave groups on the "Groups" page. There may be other groups available - see the Groups page for more info. Back to top

Who is Online You can see who is online at any time on the "Who's online" page. As well as the members currently online this page also lists guests who are visiting the community, and gives the location of each person who is online. Back to top

Posts on these forums reflect the views of the poster, and not necessarily the views of The Bladelands Chronicles.

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