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You may login via the 'Login/Register' button at the top right of the window or the link from the home page.
Enter your user name and password. If these are recognised you will be logged in and relocated to the home page.
Once you are logged in the 'Login/Register' button will change to a 'Logout' button. Crazily enough you can use this to log out.
Along with changing any details given at registration (other than your user name), you can use your profile to set the following:
From the home page you can click on any board you would like to view.
If there are more than 60 threads to a board then a set of links will appear at the top of the page offering to show you the the board in 60 thread chunks. You will default to the the first 60 threads.
From the board page you can click on any thread you would like to view.
In a similar way to the boards, if there are more than 30 posts to a thread then a set of links will appear at the top of the page offering to show you the the thread in 30 post chunks. You will default to the the first 30 posts.
Threads and posts are displayed from oldest to newest.
The search page allows you to scour the forum according to boards, usernames, titles, post bodies and thread tags.
At the top and bottom of each board and thread page there is a link entitled 'Start New Thread' and 'Post to this Thread' respectively. When clicked the new thread/post window will appear. Only on a new thread will the option to enter a title and thread tag appear. This may be a maximum of 128 characters. There is no limit to the size of the post body.
You may decide whether you wish to display your signature, home page url, avatar (personal image) or email address with the post. All except for the signature are defaulted to on.
You may also set whether URLs in your post will be automatically converted to hyperlinks via the 'Links' checkbox.
Once you have composed or updated a message you can click the 'preview' button to view the post body as it will appear in the thread to check that images and links will display properly.
You may make anonymous posts by following the 'Make Anonymous Post' link from a thread. Also registered users who are not logged in are able to enter their username and password on the new post form to submit the post in their own name without logging in.
If you are logged in then every post you view will have a button labelled 'Quote' at the lower right side. When clicked, this will take you to the new post page with the text of the post you were viewing already inserted beginning with a note of who you are quoting and encased within the tags '[quote] and [/quote]. All text within these tags will be reformatted to distinguish it from the rest of the post.
If you are the author of a post or have administrator rights, a button marked 'Edit' will appear. This will open it for editing.
There is a set of custom tags for general posting usage. Note that these will not work in titles or personal messages or in the chatroom:
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[bold][b] Bold [/b][/bold] [italic][i] Italic [/i][/italic] [underline][u] Underline [/u][/underline] [large][big] Large/Big [/big][/large] [xlarge][xbig] XLarge/XBig [/xbig][/xlarge] [small] Small [/small] [xsmall] Extra-Small [/xsmall] |
[superscript] Superscript [/superscript] [subscript] Subscript [/subscript] [scroll] [/scroll]* [strike] [hidden] [[Hidden]] [/hidden] [url="http://www.thedaddy.org"]Check It Out![/url]** |
[red] Red [/red] [green] Green [/green] [blue] Blue [/blue] [purple] Purple [/purple] [aqua] Aqua [/aqua] [yellow] Yellow [/yellow] |
To post an image you simply need to add the tag '[img]' at the front of the link and '[/img]' at the end. e.g. [img]http://www.thedaddy.org/images/daddy.jpg[/img]
The 'Gold' board is an archive of particularly popular threads that are being stored for posterity.
Normal users are unable to start a new thread or post to a thread in this board.
Some threads will be highlighted in green and you will be unable to post to them or quote from them. These are 'stickies' and their purpose is to allow admin personnel to leave messages for general users without sparking a full blown conversation about whatever the subject may be. So if you see such a thread it may be some useful information about the forums and is probably worth a look.
Individual posts may also appear as stickys in which case they will be highlighted and you will be unable to quote from them. You will still be able to post to the thread.
At the bottom of each thread you'll see a set of buttons (0-5) allowing you to rate a thread. 5 being the best, 0 (or just not rating it) being the worst. All ratings made will immediately update the indicators on the board view page. However once you have rated a thread you will not be allowed to rate that same thread again for the next two weeks.
The chatroom is a live conversation which cn be entered by any registered members of the forum. This is laid out in a similar style to Microsoft Messenger and needs no explanation.
A list of the users currently within the chatroom will appear both on the home page and at the top of the chatroom window.
All html tags will be stripped out of chatroom conversations. However the standard smileys (see above) will be converted to images and URLs will become hyperlinks.
When the chatroom is in use the 'Chatroom' link on the menu bar will become blue.
The checkbox marked 'Bring window to front on new chat' does exactly what it says. When checked, any time a there is a further post to the conversation, the chatroom window will pop up in front of any other windows you have open.
An invisible sub-frame of the chatroom refreshes every eight seconds to check for further posts to the conversation. When it does this you may hear the Windows 'click'. To disable this do as follows:
Control Panel -> Sounds and Audio... -> Sounds
In the Program Events window, scroll to Windows Explorer (towards the bottom) and remove the noise that goes with 'Start Navigation'.
Your personal messages can be accessed via the link in the menu bar. If you have any unread private messages then your front page will display a message.
You can navigate through your messages using the 'Inbox/Outbox' on the left of the page or via the previous/next buttons. Messages are displayed most recent first.
You can reply, reply to all, delete or compose new message using the buttons provided. When composing a new message you must select your main recipient and CC recipients from the drop down list. When using the 'Reply' and 'Reply To All' functions the recipients will be selected automatically.
By clicking the 'PM' button on a post you can also compose a new message to that user.
Once you have 150 messages in your inbox it is regarded as full and, while you will still be able to receive new messages, you will not be able to send any more until you delete a sufficient number to take you below the limit.
If you have a custom title set then it will appear in place of your rating (calculated by number of posts). You can change anyone's custom title on their profile page unless they have locked it or you have been banned from changing custom titles. You may be banned for the violation of any of the forum rules.
You may lock out your custom title which means that no title will appear on you posts and there will be no edit box on your profile. However this will also prevent you from being able to edit anyone else's custom title.
The newsletter archive can be accessed via the link in the menu bar, initially this will show you the most recent newsletter. The archive can be navigated using the next and previous buttons.
When a newsletter is created it will be emailed to all users who have the option selected in their profiles.
Properly formatted URLs in posts, titles and signatures will be automatically parsed into links unless specifically turned off.
There are buttons at the top right of each thread page to take you to the bottom of the current page and to take you directly to the last post in the thread.
Birthdays will be announced in the Message Bar on the stated date of birth for any user that has logged in within the two months preceding the birthday.
All times are in GMT/BST.
All smileys courtesy of MySmilies.com and IronWorksForum.com