[Chris]

Note that we've allowed guests to post at this board, so even if you're not registered you're welcome to post here.


Fan Forum FAQ

What is Fan Forum? Who owns it?
Fan Forum is a group of message boards created by Goldenboy. Goldenboy is the owner.

Registering
Registration is required if you plan to post new topics or reply to existing topics. Joining Fan Forum consists of just 3 simple pages of steps:
Page 1- asks for your date of birth
Page 2- States Fan Forum rules and asks you to agree to them
Page 3- asks for a username, password, your e-mail, and your time zone.
Your e-mail is also kept absolutely confidential and will never be given out for soliciting purposes. To join- please go HERE.

Affliates / Affliates Team
Affliates are websites associated with Fan Forum. Please read the FAQ to learn more. For more information please contact one of the team members listed HERE.


Avatars: What are they, and how can I add a custom one?
Avatars are the images under a member's username in their posts. The size limit for an avatar is 100 X 100 and a maximum of 40,000 bytes. You need to have made 101 posts in order to add a custom made avatar. Once you have reached 101 posts, an option to upload a custom avatar from your computer will be added (it may take up to 24 hours for this to start) in your UserCP page in the edit avatar section. When you upload a new avatar, it can take up to an hour for you or others to be able to see it. It's because custom avatars are only uploaded to one server initially and it takes time for it to be copied to the other server (whenever you connect to Fan Forum - TV Shows, Music, Movies, Female Celebrities, Male Celebrities, Spoilers, & More... now, you can end up on either of the two servers). If you would like to learn how to make your own avatar, or help making a custom avatar, please visit the Fan Art Board.


Buddy / Ignore Lists
You can put someone on your Buddy list by viewing the member's profile and clicking on the "add to buddy list" link or typing in their username in the Buddy/Ignore list section in your UserCP page.

Ignore lists apply to private messages only. When a member is on your ignore list, that person cannot send you a private message. You can put someone on your ignore list by viewing the member's profile and clicking on the "add to ignore list" link or typing in their username in the Buddy/Ignore list section in your UserCP page. Forum leaders will not be ignored even if they are on your list.


Censoring Posts
The message board administrators have the power to censor certain words that may be posted. This censoring is not an exact science, however, so certain words may be censored out of context. Please realize that the censoring, if any censoring is being performed, it is being done by a computer based on the words that are being screened. Words that are censored are replaced with asterisks. It is against the rules to alter a curse/censored word to deliberately avoid Fan Forum's censor filters.

Changing Info In Your Profile
You may easily change any info stored in your registration profile, using the "UserCP" link located near the top of each page. You must be logged in in order to update your profile.

Cookies
This bulletin board uses cookies to store the following information: the last time you logged in, your login identification, and your preferred "topic view." These cookies are stored on your browser. Cookies are not used to track your movement or perform any function other than to enhance your use of the message board. If your browser does not support cookies, or you have not enabled cookies on your browser, many of these time saving features will not work properly and you will not be able to post new messages.

Clearing Cookies
If you ever experience login problems, you may have a problem with the cookies that have been set in your browser. If this happens, you can try clearing all cookies set on this message board by clicking on the Clear All Forum Cookies button in your member profile and logging into your account again.

Editing Your Posts
You may edit your own posts at any time. Look for the "Edit Message" feature under your post to be edited. No one else can edit your post, except for the forum Moderator(s), Managers (all forums), or the Message Board Administrator. A note is generated at the bottom of each post that is edited so that everyone knows when a post has been edited.

Editing A Thread Title
Members that start a thread may edit the title of a thread up to two weeks after it was started. After this grace period, only the Moderators of the board the thread was started on can edit a thread title. If you need a thread title changed after the two week grace period, please send one of the moderators of that board a Private Message.

Attaching Files
For security reasons, you may not attach files to any posts. You may cut and paste text into your post, however, or use vB Code to provide hyperlinks to outside documents.

Board Graphics / Graphics Team
If you have any questions about graphics for a board, or would like to join the Graphics Team please PM the Graphics Team Manager. A list of Graphics Team members can be found HERE.

Lost Login ID and/or Password
Retrieving your login ID and password is simple. All of the pages that require you to identify yourself with your username and password carry a "lost password" link that you can use to have your username and password emailed instantly to your email address of record. Please make sure that your email address listed in your profile is kept up to date, and that you can access it to recover your password. If you have further problems, please post your request on the Old Username/Password Problems thread located on this board.

How do I add a message board?
We have a board to handle Requests HERE. You need 500 posts to request a board, and you need 50 posts to vote for a requested board. Please make sure to read the Request board guidelines HERE.

Moderators / How do I become one?
Please see the details on the Moderator Application thread on this board.

MST (Moderator Support Team)
The MST consists of some of our most experienced moderators. They temporarily moderate new boards, fill in for the regular moderators of the permanent boards when the regular moderators are away, or temporarily moderate a board when a moderator has resigned and the board either doesn’t have a moderator to cover it or the remaining moderator needs help. All of their assignments are temporary and they won’t be appointed as the permanent moderators for any of these boards. A list of who is on the MST can be found HERE.

Private Messages
A private message is not email. Private messages are one-to-one communications that can only be read by the recipient. You can read private messages in your profile section. You can also elect to be notified by email whenever someone sends you a private message (you can set this in your profile). You can also prevent anyone from sending you a private message (also configurable in your profile) by adding them to your ignore list. Only registered members may send private messages. To send someone a private message, click on a members profile to click on the link to send them a PM, or go to your UserCP section, click on Send New Message, and enter the username of the person you want to send a private message to. The maximum amount of characters in PM's is 8,000. Your private message box is limited to 150 messages total (inbox and outbox combined). Once it is full you will need to delete messages before you can receive any more.

Adding Signatures
You may use a signature (commonly used in email messages) on your posts. You may set your signature in your UserCP in the Edit Signature section. Once you have a signature stored, you can choose to not include it with any post you make by unchecking the "Show your signature" box when you create your post. Please note: only up to four Fan Forum smilies are allowed, and images/banners aren't allowed in a signature. Please make sure that your signature and signature length does not break the rules of this website by reading the Fan Forum Rules Announcement found HERE.


Searching For Specific Posts
The search feature is currently turned off. You can try using Google to search for threads/posts, adding site:fanforum.com to your search: site:fanforum.com - Google Search That way you only get search results from FF.

Subscribing To Threads
Inside a thread, you'll find Subscribe to this Thread listed at the bottom of the page. When you subscribe to a thread, those threads will be listed in your UserCP and will show if a new post has been made in those threads. You can also choose to be notified by email if new posts are made there. This feature is useful to keep track of where you regularly post.


Using vB Code
You may use vB Code in your posts. vB Code is similar to HTML, but offers just a few basic functions, such as hyper linking, image display, bolding and italicizing. Complete details on vB Code are listed HERE.

New Forum Polls / Requests board
You need 50 posts to be able to vote in the polls for adding new forums. To request a subject be added to the polls, you need to have 500 posts. More information about the Requests system is available here.

Can you change your user name?
Our software does not allow members to change their user names. User names can only be changed once a year by Jerry D, the Administrator of Fan Forum, if you're a Moderator, an Affiliates Team Member, a Graphics Team Member, or if you have over 100,000 posts. If you meet one of these requirements, please feel free to send a Private Message to Jerry D, and if the new user name you want isn't already taken, he'll change your user name for you.

What are the different ranks on the forum?
Regular members have gold stars, the graphics team members have diamonds, moderators have crowns, and the management team have lightening bolts. The stars are permanent and their color can't be changed. The ranks look like this:

[Chris]

From previous thread:

Originally Posted by Aikaterini (View Post) Originally Posted by Courtz_BV (View Post) Why does this happen everytime I click to go in a thread? That "db1" keeps showing up? The same thing is happening to me, but I never mentioned it, since I thought it would be some leftovers from the move and everything. Though it's still happening to me whenever I change my icon or signature. Whenever I change something in my User CP and save it and decide to go back to my board, I click either on the dropdown menu and go there or use a link from the subscribed threads. But when I directly click on the logo, it brings me to the main page - without the db1.fanforum.com address and everything loads smoothly. It can be a bit annoying though to go all the way from there to my board. Another problem that just popped up: Norton InternetSecurity told me that was recognized as a suspicious website and sent the URL to Symantec. It did that automatically, so there was nothing I could do. I'm not even sure what happened. I just clicked on the link for the QaF board in my favorites, the board loaded and suddenly the warning popped up. Maybe it was some of those ads there?!

Originally Posted by *~*Rach*~* (View Post) Originally Posted by Raonaild (View Post) Instead of pressing "Go", you can press the "Fan Forum" link that is still at the bottom of the page. That will also take you to the main page. Similarly, you can press the "Top" link to jump back to the top of the page, if you still want to use the forum dropdown. That goes to the FF main page, though. With the dropdown, the forum you're in is auto highlighted so you can just click "go" and it goes back to the main page of that specific forum. The "top" link or even pressing the home key is still very awkward compared to having the link right there under where you'd just finished posting, like it always was before! If generating the dropdown uses a lot of resources, would it not be possible to duplicate the "you are here" row that sits at the top? Then if I were in, say, the HIMYM forum, I would have a link back to the HIMYM forum at the bottom without having to go back to the top of the page, which is now an extra click/button press away.

[Scythe]

Great! So I can PM you with specific questions then? Thank you!

Sure thing

[Just Peachy.]

I'm still having problems with FF at home. I've deleted my cookies and FF still won't load for me on my dialup connection. I tried for an hour and a half last night and 1 page load and then it just went to the ..."can't display"... page. I'm not sure if I'm accessing FF at a busy time, but this has been happening for nearly 2 weeks.

[JamieScott]

Originally Posted by Scythe (View Post) Sure thing

Thanks!

Anyone else who would be able to help me out with creating my fan site, please PM me!

[n e r b l e]

Just Peachy. - try this. go to the start menu and click on run. type in cmd. hit enter. type in ping fanforum.com does it give you reply froms or time out? or say cannot find host fanforum.com?

[Just Peachy.]

Originally Posted by n e r b l e (View Post) Just Peachy. - try this. go to the start menu and click on run. type in cmd. hit enter. type in ping fanforum.com does it give you reply froms or time out? or say cannot find host fanforum.com?

Thanks I'm at work, but I'll try that when I get home (I'll be online in about 9 hours time).

[Ms_Melika]

Thanks for the new thread!

[Yellow Mustang Girl]

Chris Thanks for the new thread :thumbns_up: For some reason, the pictures are showing for me though

[Chris]

hmm ... I'll have to get Johnnie's help.

[Merlin_Bodhi]

Hey

So I came in here today and I went to use the scrolling menu to find the forum I wanted and it wasnt there.
But when I logged on, it was there.
Has there been a change in the format recently??

[Raonaild]

Originally Posted by Merlin_Bodhi (View Post) Hey So I came in here today and I went to use the scrolling menu to find the forum I wanted and it wasnt there. But when I logged on, it was there. Has there been a change in the format recently??

You only get that dropdown menu if you are logged in. It has been that way for a while now.

[n e r b l e]

also it's only at the top now to make the site load faster.

[Merlin_Bodhi]

ok thats a good idea

[vivizanessafan]

Hi, everyone!!
I have a problem. Since yesterday, everytime I click on the smilies...the quote tags and the rest....nothing happens.....it's like they are disabled.
I don't know what to do!! Do you know how to fix them??

thanks in advance