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A Guide for New Members?
« on: June 15, 2010, 02:02:49 pm »
I was just thinking that a guide for new members might be useful (I know I would, at the very least!).
Like some sort of FAQ, with answers to questions like "How do edit my profile information?", "Why can't I answer PMs?", that sort of thing.
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Re: A Guide for New Members?
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2010, 03:17:22 pm »
Quote from: holmes221b on June 15, 2010, 02:02:49 pm
"Why can't I answer PMs?"
Oops, sorry I should have warned you on that.  You need at least 5 posts to send PMs (spam protection),  Sorry.
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Re: A Guide for New Members?
« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2010, 03:24:39 pm »
In MISC->Forum Usage Help, you should have most stuff you need. However, it assumes the board is set to default system settings so it won't warn about PMs. We disabled PMs for people under 5 posts because of spambots. For the profile info, you need one post, because upon registering, all spambots put links to porn websites in their signatures. Our apologies about that.

Also this is something we do not state obviously on the forums in help files or the like, because then spambot creators will find out easier and edit their bot to bypass minimum post limits.

Also the Intro/Randomness forums have post counting disabled, since it can get rather spammish
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Re: A Guide for New Members?
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2010, 04:06:46 am »
Our anti bots measures would be a good addition if it wasn't also good for bots makers.
Is there any CAPTCHA during registration?

Maybe we can send a PM to new users saying that any doubt, they can ask in the forums or something like this.
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Re: A Guide for New Members?
« Reply #4 on: June 16, 2010, 04:16:45 am »
Yeah there is a captcha. For the PM I could maybe install something automatic at one point, but if it's not possible I'm not really gonna PM 100 members a month warning them they need 5 posts to edit their profile :P
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Re: A Guide for New Members?
« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2010, 04:21:15 am »
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on June 16, 2010, 04:16:45 am
Yeah there is a captcha. For the PM I could maybe install something automatic at one point, but if it's not possible I'm not really gonna PM 100 members a month warning them they need 5 posts to edit their profile :P
Right, use automatic PMs. I forgot to mention explicitly that part.


The introduction could be a easy place for acquiring 1 post at least. But it gets spamish because of peanuts and things like that. :D And sometimes people abuse a little bit the place for posting, too.
There is no simple solution for this. New users just have to go find solutions.
« Last Edit: June 16, 2010, 04:22:38 am by Galandros »
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Re: A Guide for New Members?
« Reply #6 on: June 16, 2010, 04:22:36 am »
Yeah due to the spam post count was disabled in the intro section (like last Summer).
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Re: A Guide for New Members?
« Reply #7 on: June 16, 2010, 11:45:01 am »
What about the arcade? Why does it require a minimum of 50 cumulative posts?
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Re: A Guide for New Members?
« Reply #8 on: June 16, 2010, 11:52:44 am »
trust me, the games are kinda shabby there. most could be written fairly easily in VB. i don't know why it's 50 posts but you aren't missing out on much.
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Re: A Guide for New Members?
« Reply #9 on: June 16, 2010, 12:48:39 pm »
The arcade was set to 50 posts to prevent a flood of members with absolutely no interest towards calcs who sign up on the forums just to play the arcade. I personally don't really feel like having an additional 800 members on the site with zero posts and potential random trollish users such arcade can attract (you should have seen the old arcade, which was not tied to the forum database. People kept spamming the shoutbox and someone was posting random anti-religion quote). A lot of the games were on the old arcade and can be found elsewhere online. The only reason why it's there is because people kept bugging me so I put the arcade back up.

I admit the Starcraft game is very cool, though ;D
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Re: A Guide for New Members?
« Reply #10 on: June 16, 2010, 04:15:01 pm »
On the start of this reincarnation of Omnimaga forums you saw many of the users battling a bit for the medals, though. Like necro, DJ, etc..
I like some games like Hexxagon. I competed for some for a few time. :P I still have one.
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Re: A Guide for New Members?
« Reply #11 on: June 16, 2010, 04:48:23 pm »
Why don't we create a post in introduction topic for the FAQ and lock it, and sticky note it?
Usually people will go to introduction section first
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1. ROMANCE MATHEMATICS
Smart man + smart woman = romance
Smart man + dumb woman = affair
Dumb man + smart woman = marriage
Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy
2. OFFICE ARITHMETIC
Smart boss + smart employee = profit
Smart boss + dumb employee = production
Dumb boss + smart employee = promotion
Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime
3. SHOPPING MATH
A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need.
4. GENERAL EQUATIONS & STATISTICS
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
5. HAPPINESS
To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
6. LONGEVITY
Married men live longer than single men do, but married men are a lot more willing to die.
7. PROPENSITY TO CHANGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and she does.
8. DISCUSSION TECHNIQUE
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

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Girls = Money squared (So, girls are money squared)
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Girls = sqrt(Evil) squared (So, girls are the root of all evil squared)
Girls = Evil (Thus, girls are evil)
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Re: A Guide for New Members?
« Reply #12 on: June 16, 2010, 07:06:42 pm »
Quote from: jsj795 on June 16, 2010, 04:48:23 pm
Why don't we create a post in introduction topic for the FAQ and lock it, and sticky note it?
Usually people will go to introduction section first
That's a good idea.  Who wants to write it? :D
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Re: A Guide for New Members?
« Reply #13 on: June 16, 2010, 07:28:02 pm »
if people can provide questions, I'll try to answer it in my best ability. Or it could be group effort
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Spoiler For funny life mathematics:
1. ROMANCE MATHEMATICS
Smart man + smart woman = romance
Smart man + dumb woman = affair
Dumb man + smart woman = marriage
Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy
2. OFFICE ARITHMETIC
Smart boss + smart employee = profit
Smart boss + dumb employee = production
Dumb boss + smart employee = promotion
Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime
3. SHOPPING MATH
A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need.
4. GENERAL EQUATIONS & STATISTICS
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
5. HAPPINESS
To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
6. LONGEVITY
Married men live longer than single men do, but married men are a lot more willing to die.
7. PROPENSITY TO CHANGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and she does.
8. DISCUSSION TECHNIQUE
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

Girls = Time * Money (Girls are a combination of time and money)
Time = Money (Time is money)
Girls = Money squared (So, girls are money squared)
Money = sqrt(Evil) (Money is also the root of all evil)
Girls = sqrt(Evil) squared (So, girls are the root of all evil squared)
Girls = Evil (Thus, girls are evil)
*Girls=Evil credit goes to Compynerd255*

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Re: A Guide for New Members?
« Reply #14 on: June 16, 2010, 11:10:20 pm »
Ya, I can do it too if someone just give's me a group of questions to answer. I can try to think of some of my own too.
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