Old forum FAQ/user title discussion

[Mervi]

I'm trying to compile a FAQ list of sorts here. Feel free to make suggestions or ask questions!

User titles
This board includes a system of user titles that are based on the number of posts made. The titles are currently the following:

* nameless the dog-boy (Minimum Posts: 0)
* newboy (Minimum Posts: 1)
* fitz (Minimum Posts: 50)
* changer (Minimum Posts: 100)
* catalyst (Minimum Posts: 250)
* beloved (Minimum Posts: 750)

wikifying links (currently not working, sorry!)
You can link to articles in <a href="https://www.theplenty.net/wiki/">the PlentyWiki</a> simply by using [ [ and ] ] around the appropriate article name within your message text like you would in the wiki itself. For example: <i>I really like [[Burrich]] but I do feel for poor [[Fitz]] whenever he's being too strict with him</i>.

spoilers

If you're mentioning something that you think might spoil the plot (for example you compare [[Fitz]] and Nevare in a topic that is not in a Soldier Son-related thread) you can use the spoiler tag.

You can either write

Code:

[spoiler]Nevare's last name is Burvelle[/spoiler]

which will create

Spoiler

Nevare's last name is Burvelle

...
or you can write

Code:

[spoiler=WARNING! CONTAINS HIGH LEVELS OF ELFBARK]Keep an eye on Rosemary[/spoiler]

which will result in

WARNING! CONTAINS HIGH LEVELS OF ELFBARK

Keep an eye on Rosemary

tagging users
You can draw a user's attention to a discussion by tagging them. This works by adding the @-symbol in front of their username (for example: @Mervi - please note that there is no space!). PLEASE DO NOT ABUSE THIS FEATURE or it will be disabled entirely. When you tag someone, it sends them a private message (and additionally, depending on their settings, an email). You can disable emails about PMs in your profile settings or you can choose to only accept them from people in your buddy list. It has been reported that tagging doesn't necessarily work with usernames that contain spaces.

[Liquid Ice]

lol, wow 750 posts for beloved.
Should add more titles >.<

[Mervi]

Oh, it looks like I had forgotten to update the list, it wasn't the same the system actually uses. There's now a title for reaching 100 posts as well!

[Farseer]

  One way to quote points from another person.doc (Size: 409 KB / Downloads: 11) Maybe this attachment will help with learning how to use quotes when replying to someone else's post, especially with the screen shots? I am specifically thinking of Rendezvous but others may also benefit? Of course, this is how I do the 'box thing' but someone else may have a different approach!

[Rendezvous]

Maybe this attachment will help with learning how to use quotes when replying to someone else's post, especially with the screen shots? I am specifically thinking of Rendezvous but others may also benefit? Of course, this is how I do the 'box thing' but someone else may have a different approach!

Thanks Farseer!

[Farseer]

You're most welcome, Rendezvous - glad to see you've got the hang of it now !

[Farseer]

Just bumping this thread as it may prove helpful for some of our newer members.

It's possibly time to start thinking about a nickname for those who reach 1000 posts also?

[FoolishGirl]

It's possibly time to start thinking about a nickname for those who reach 1000 posts also?

...such as "farseer"?
What WOULD be the next fitz-y moniker, chronologically after "beloved" (I think of this name being "owned" by Fitz *Fool's Fate spoiler*

Spoiler

in the glade with the Fool, during FF, with the rooster crown, etc.).

So...what's next?
fitzchivalry (has he "claimed" this identity)?
keppet (is this who he would have been w/o all the intervening mess)?

[joost]

It's possibly time to start thinking about a nickname for those who reach 1000 posts also?

"obsessed"?

Slightly more serious: Sacrifice

[Farseer]

Keppet...nice! Farseer could work also? Given that *Farseer/TM spoiler*

Spoiler

Fool did say that he would see that Fitz would live up to his name and, although he'd had his name from the first day at Moonseye, it was only through the unfolding of all of the events of the story eg the awakening of the city, ensuring an heir to the throne, the release of Icefyre, peace with the Outislanders etc that he had truly proven himself a 'Far-seer' and the cornerstone of the House of Farseer?

I added a spoiler tag for you also Foolish, just in case someone new to the forum comes into the thread having only read LST and RWC or something (as sometimes happens), but I'm not sure if I covered enough?

Everyone, please feel free to tell me if you think I'm over-doing this spoiler thingy (!), especially as we no doubt do have spoilers all over the place already. Also, if you see one that makes you go , let me know and I can fix it.

"obsessed"?

Most likely!

Slightly more serious: Sacrifice

Sacrifice? Oh, yes. Yes. *nods* I do like that.

What do you all think? Do we need only one to acknowledge 1000 or should it continue beyond that eg say, Farseer for 1000, Keppet for 1250, Sacrifice for 1500 (though not necessarily with those names or in that order)? Just thinking as Nuytsia has already reached 1008.

I'll PM Mervi about it, though she is really busy at present. As far as I can tell, I have the ability to change someone's nickname but only through tweaking a user's individual profile eg I could go into Nuytsia's profile and change it but that's about it.