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Dec 31, 2011, 12:09pm, InsertBrainHere wrote:
Thank you. I hope we will soon have a place to get all our questions answered. I remember the CW site had a thread which wasn't a sticky but it kept getting bumped periodically.

Dec 31, 2011, 12:16pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
I moved your posts from the new member welcome thread to here.

Dec 31, 2011, 12:17pm, InsertBrainHere wrote:
Oh, thanks.

Dec 31, 2011, 12:45pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
there ARE some posts on the main forum about how to do things, but I don't think those particular two are included. It's a good idea, and I'm sure we'll do it. Thanks for the idea!

Member agreement and formal warnings
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Your Mods and You - how to yank our chains
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Polls and some general stuff
Threat detected!
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Gender Choices in Profile
Feedback on Proboards App
Why can some members only see a white screen?
Welcome To Our New Twitter Site & Twitter Goddess!
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How to do Invisotext & Scrolling Messages Here
Anybody Here Know HTML?
Why We Are Like FIREFLY
Our Awesome New Masthead!
Being considerate of others
What to do if a video isn't working
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Jan 24, 2012, 8:07pm, TinkerToyArchitect wrote:

Member Agreement for The Evicted

Evicted, and still having to follow the rules…sheesh!

The Evicted is under the authority of ProBoards, and they have some terms of service that we are all obligated to follow. Were we to fail in this obligation, we would run the risk of having our beloved Home deleted entirely. No one wants that! In addition, there are some things that should be, and are expected of both Staff and Members of any thriving online community. We just want to make sure that everyone is aware of what they are.
The following guidelines are taken directly out of the ProBoards Terms Of Service. Please visit these pages, for the complete Terms and Guidelines. ProBoards TOS: www.proboards.com/tos ProBoards Community Guidelines: www.proboards.com/community_guidelines

1. By registering at The Evicted, you are confirming that you are at least 13 years of age.

2. You may have noticed that The Evicted is basically an English-speaking Board.

3. Those pesky commercials:
(a) Staff and Member use of The Evicted is limited to non-commercial purposes. You may not use the Board to advertise goods, services, or to solicit any money whatsoever, for any person or group. You may not use the Board or any information contained within it to generate income of any kind. These prohibitions, include any information that may be posted onto The Evicted, as well as any that may be copied from it.
(b) ProBoards does not allow the use of "ad blocking" software. The Evicted is already ad-free, thanks to donations by Staff and Members, so ad-blocking software isn't needed, anyway - such cool Members we have!

4. The following actions/materials are strictly prohibited:
(a) Written, photo, or video material that is libelous, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harassing. You can’t tell lies about individuals or groups, and you can’t abuse, threaten or harass. In addition, you may not encourage or incite others to act in such a way. In addition, if another member requests that you not contact them – do not continue to do so. What we are talking about here, is mean-spirited, unwelcome, dishonesty/harassment; you are all still free as birds to annoy, bait, razz, cajole, rile, call out, persecute, heckle, irk, and generally harsh on your pals.
(b) Written, photo, or video material that promotes or glorifies racial or religious intolerance, uses hate and/or racist terms, or signifies intolerance or hate towards any person or group of people. Be respectful of all races, religions, social groups, or nationalities. For that matter, be respectful...period.
(c) Written, photo, or video material that glamorizes the use of hard core illegal substances. There is a key word here – glamorizes. Certainly, it isn’t necessary to pretend as if drugs don’t exist; substance use issues may even be a feature of some the shows we love. Don’t, however, promote that it is cool to do line after line of coke. Come to think of it...don’t do line after line of coke.
(d) Written, photo, or video material that constitutes child pornography, or solicits any personal information from or exploits in a sexual or violent manner anyone under the age of 18. Don’t mess with kids - ever.
(e) Written, photo, or video material that advocates the violent overthrow of the government of the United States or other conduct that could constitute a fraud or other criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national, or foreign law or regulation. You can dislike Obama, or Gingrich, or even that guy who runs Congress, but you can’t plot a coup – well, not here, anyway.
(f) Written, photo, or video material that promotes gambling or casinos. Or promotes the buying, selling, or trading of firearms or other weapons. The key here is promotes. If you manage a casino, and want to increase business, or want to sell some grenades, this probably isn’t the place to do so.
(g) Written, photo, or video material that is generally offensive, in bad taste, excessively violent obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, or pornographic. The goal here is to keep the Board PG-13. Excessive swearing, or violence are no-no’s. Sexualized violence is definitely prohibited. Sexual content is the grayest area, and the area most likely to get the entire Board into trouble. Detailed depictions of sex acts should be avoided, and the use of swear, thinly disguised, or other “naughty” words are especially problematic in this area. Awesome as it is, no nudity is allowed, even if it is artistic. You can paste Sam’s/Damon’s/Superman’s head onto Michelangelo’s David, but you can’t post it here. Just to make it painfully clear: nudity is boobies, butts, and man-junk or woman-junk. If you are in doubt about the appropriateness, or if you wouldn’t show it to a kid, then don’t post it. Another good test is whether or not your favorite TV shows would be able to broadcast it – if not, use caution. Note...If your favorite show is True Blood, you cannot use this test.
(h) Written, photo, or video material that has been “hot-linked” from another website. These materials can be saved onto your computer, and then shared with an online host like Photobucket or Tinypic If you are unsure how to do this, Mods and Admins can be very helpful – even other Members will show you the ropes. The exception to this rule is YouTube, which is fundamentally designed to be hot-linked, and doesn’t mind if you do it.
The most important feature of this rule, is that every Member post, must contain a photo, not hot-linked, of a small monkey, preferably a cute, small monkey. The photo itself may be of any size, and may be located anywhere in the post, but if it isn’t there, your karma will suffer.

5. From time to time, posts may run afoul some of these guidelines – this is generally due to on oversight by the poster, and not any improper intent. Such posts may be modified, or “modded” in a variety of ways – words, photos, or videos may altered or removed, an entire post may be removed, or an entire thread may be removed. At times, staff may remove a post or thread to discuss how best to handle it. In such a case, the material may be returned as-is, altered and returned, or removed permanently. In none of these events, are members permitted to re-edit, or repost what was modded. Members may certainly request information about modding, but the appropriate place to do so is PM.

Things may change and evolve as ProBoards changes, or should updates become otherwise needed; any modifications will certainly be posted. Overall we want our Members to have fun, and feel very free to express themselves, and we want this wonderful place to be around for a long, long time. Extra credit to any Member who mentions the “Monkey Clause” (which is totally a joke, by the way). But it would be nice to know that this little tome is actually being read. Team Evicted!

Feb 7, 2012, 10:53pm, MissNiChloe wrote:

Formal Warnings

Ok Refugees, so here is the situation…Moon visited a Psychic recently – the old school gypsy kind – and what with all of his BattleStarWarsEnterpriseFireflyDragonDungeon stuff, she told him that next time, he would need to bring her a "science fiction translator" in order for her to help be able to him. Well, he screwed it all up and ended up with a scientific calculator, instead…you know the fancy kind that can navigate the space shuttle? Well, he’s been fiddling with it ever since, and that has a lot to do with the percentages you see below…something about T minus X, to the power of Y, over the inverse of 9669…
The following is the Warning System that we will be using. It is a way for everyone to know exactly where they stand, should they get sideways with the rules. I imagine it will be used infrequently, but it was this, or having us call your Mom. My Mom thinks I get paid for this, and therefore actually have a job, so she still lets me live in the basement. No way, I am risking a phone call to her. Anyway…I’m off topic. Please bear in mind that this is only a rough guideline! If you do not like it rough, let someone on Staff know, and we will see what we can do – perhaps add some fabric softener, or sew in a silky lining. Depending on the severity of the offense, and the number of times it has occured, the Formal Warnings may skip some levels. Furthermore, accounts that are created for no purpose other than Trolling, may be dealt with swiftly and harshly. Ogre-ing, and Fairy-ing will be addressed on a case-by-case basis.

08% - Level 1 Warning
16% - Level 2 Warning
25% - Three Day Ban
33% - Level 3 Warning
41% - Level 4 Warning
50% - One Week Ban
58% - Level 5 Warning
66% - Level 6 Warning
75% - One Month Ban
83% - Level 7 Warning
91% - Level 8 Warning
100% - Perma-Ban

If you receive a Formal Warning, it will display in your miniprofile (the thingy to the left of all of your posts, where you probably display a photo and some clever, pithy, remarks. It will display as a red bar, the length of which represents your current Warning Level. It is visible to you and Staff only. You will always receive a PM, as well. The Warning Bar has nothing at all to do with Karma. FYI, telling me you think I am witty, certainly does affect Karma; doing so publicly is worth extra-credit.

If you find yourself with a Warning Bar, then 1 time in every every 30 day period, you may request that it be reduced or removed. Bar-reduction, and Bar-ectomy surgeries are at the discretion of Staff, and are definitely based on the…errr…size of the bar, as well as recent and/or related conduct. To request a reduction of a Warning Level, please send a PM to an Administrator. It is exclusively up to YOU to request Bar-reduction surgery, or a Bar-ectomy. It will not happen automatically. Note, if you live in Canada, or Europe, your health coverage will likely cover the procedure…if you live in the US…well, you know damn well it won’t, why would you even wonder?

A Warning Bar that is lowered or removed, is not a license to resume inappropriate behavior. The Warning System keeps records and notes, and has told us (in a creepily calm and soothing voice) that his name is Hal. If your Warning Bar is reduced, you should not assume that you then “have room” to act out again, without risk of sanction. Rapid or flagrant return to rule-breaking, could result in instant suspension, depending on the nature and severity. Lastly, Hal has a thing for small, cute monkeys, but doesn’t like the computer smash smiley Overuse of this smiley can result in instant suspension. (If you can figure out how to deprogram Hal, you can have a job on Staff…for god’s sake, HELP us!)

Note: This will also be added to the rules thread for future reference.

Feb 8, 2012, 11:23pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Gives a warning to himself so you can see what it looks like. Yep, I'm on perma-ban now.

However, if you should get one it will only be visible to you and staff. Not in a big display of things like me.

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Jan 24, 2012, 8:34pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Many thanks to TinkerToyArchitect and MissNiChloe who spent hours going through all of the ProBoards rules and guidelines and translated them into an entertaining read. Don't believe me? Just go through it and you'll see.

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Ad blocking:

Jan 25, 2012, 4:00pm, KyleEl wrote:
I'm confused about one thing. I don't have ad-blockers at home (despite being told numerous times on a web site that gives computer advice that I should have one), and the libraries I go to don't use them either. Though one did at one time. That would of course be permitted, right? At a library you couldn't just turn that off yourself.

Jan 25, 2012, 4:23pm, TinkerToyArchitect wrote:
You don't really need to worry about the ad blocking issue...our Board doesn't have any ads to block thanks to generous donations that make our little Home ad-free.

Jan 25, 2012, 4:41pm, KyleEl wrote:
Wow, I didn't know that could be done.

Of course, I always justify my free use of web sites by saying I see the ads. At least the ones not blocked by pop-up blockers, which don't do that good a job.

Then again, one of the newspapers I read has started charging for reading too many articles. Going to enough libraries helps, and at those libraries there are ways to see at least some of the articles free.

Hey, now my post doesn't make sense! At the very least they could keep the specifics so we would know what it means.

Jan 25, 2012, 4:43pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Here's what ProBoards Support says on the issue:
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May 1, 2010, 9:37pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
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May 1, 2010, 9:19pm, bigballofyarn wrote: I suppose what I'm asking is - if my members are using Ad-blocking software, will that be a reason my forum could get deleted?


Your forum will not be removed due to your members using ad blocking software.
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May 1, 2010, 9:20pm, heiglman wrote:
Due to the aggressive nature of some websites with regards to advertising the use of ad blockers is pretty common, especially to block pop-ups and pop-unders.

Considering that many moving/flashing adverts can pose a risk to those with photosensitive epilepsy, such ad blocking software is in some cases a necessity rather than a choice.

What will happen to users who attempt to view a forum using such in built browser software? will it be viewable? will they be banned? blocked?
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We do not permit our advertisers to run those types of ads on our site. This is a free service because of the advertising that pays for it. Using an ad blocker while using our service is essentially stealing.

In the event that we do detect ad blocker software, ProBoards will make it's own determination of what to do about it at that point in time (e.g. we may opt to message the user requesting they disable the ad blocker so as to bring them into compliance with our TOS, or in cases where the user refuses we may remove their account).

Patrick
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Plus, if you're logged into your account here, we pay for ad-free status, so that's not even an issue.

Jan 25, 2012, 4:52pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Two more clarifications: you can use AdBlock (1) if you make an exemption in the software for ProBoards, or (2) if you are able to use it only to block forum images (banner, wallpaper, etc.) or forum addons (video players) but not the ads. Both of those are ok.

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Your Mods and You - how to yank our chains:

Jan 3, 2012, 4:18pm, TinkerToyArchitect wrote:
Need to get someone's attention with a question, problem, or TMI personal story? This is how:
Pretty much all Admins and Mods are happy and eager to help with technical problems or questions. We figured things out as we went along too, so we are pleased to share anything we learned, or try to find a solution to a new issue.
Obviously, we want to know if you are having a problem within a thread...that is what the Report to Mod button is for.
If you have any interpersonal issue with another poster, please contact the mods in a PM and explain the issue you are having and the names of those involved. Please remember that some issues may require input from all of the mods not just one of them.
If you see a particular Admin/Mod online, you can ask a question directly within a thread, or via PM.
Often, even if you don't see anyone online, sending a PM will ping that there is a question, and we can come running to the rescue...or to muck things up further - that one can go either way.
In short, we are a pretty hands on group, interested in having fun with all of ya'll, and making this Board the perfect haven. Let us know how we can make that happen!

Edit: The link below has some really helpful information on Private Messages. Also, let one of us know if you ever have problems with your PM's, which given that scenario, I suppose you would have to do somewhere within a thread...


displacedcwloungefan.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=181

Jan 4, 2012, 8:16pm, TinkerToyArchitect wrote:
I added this information to the original post too, just so folks would see it no matter...

The link below has some really helpful information on Private Messages. Also, let one of us know if you ever have problems with your PM's, which given that scenario, I suppose you would have to do somewhere within a thread...

displacedcwloungefan.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=181

Jan 1, 2012, 9:02pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
It's avp60685! And actually, she should have my job. She's been here even longer than me, back to the original WB days. She goes forth in the footsteps of SusieQ and Maxine, so she's got big slippers to fill, but we know she's up to the job.

"In brightest day, in blackest night, Some evil shall escape my sight. But let those who saw evil's might, Beware my power… The SuperMod's light! ..."

Welcome aboard AVP!

Jan 2, 2012, 8:36am, MissNiChloe wrote:
I already said this but congratulations on being our first supermod. I know you'll do great!

Jan 3, 2012, 11:15am, avp60685 wrote:
Thank you everyone for this high honor, i will do my best to live up to your expecations and i will make sure i will make you all so very proud!

Feb 2, 2012, 11:40am, MariaARIS3 wrote:
I have to report some unfair behaviors in this forum... OK, what's so special about this Kyle guy and he hasn't been Bieber'd yet??? 227 posts without an avatar and he gets away with it? What's going on here mods?

Feb 6, 2012, 11:51pm, Ohleesa wrote:
Important Update!!! This Kyle guy is not naked anymore. He has an avatar. He barely escaped

Feb 7, 2012, 2:04pm, MariaARIS3 wrote:
Barely escaped my [...] You have Bieber'd posters who had just logged in and had only two posts and you let this guy running free without an avatar I don't even know for how long... Boooo...

Feb 7, 2012, 2:31pm, Ohleesa wrote:
Maria if you'd like to make a formal complaint against unfair behavior of staff members please use the orange complaint button.

Feb 7, 2012, 2:41pm, MariaARIS3 wrote:
Is this some kind of a trap? Will I explode sth by pressing it

Feb 7, 2012, 3:40pm, Ohleesa wrote:
You'll never know until you push the orange glowy complaint button!

Feb 22, 2012, 5:25pm, ashley wrote:
can i sick mods on people

Feb 22, 2012, 5:31pm, MissNiChloe wrote:
You can report an offensive post and we (the mods) will do something about it if something needs to be done.

Feb 22, 2012, 5:52pm, ashley wrote:
its more like a jerk that doest realize hes being a jerk

Feb 22, 2012, 5:57pm, MissNiChloe wrote:
Oh, I see. Well, if it's not a specific post then yeah, PM a mod... then we'll handle it from there as best we can.

It's explained here: displacedcwloungefan.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=224&page=1



Feb 23, 2012, 1:20am, Mistermoonlight wrote:
We've been working on teaching them to attack on command, but we're having to start slowly, with the basics. You know, "lie down", "sit", "shake", that kind of thing.

And that is, of course, when we can coax them out of the break room over on Mod Island where they spend an inordinate amount of time drinking pina colodas with XCWModGramps.

Feb 25, 2012, 8:32pm, Aeryn wrote:
As most of you know, we've already lost Ohleesa and Puppy. I'm not sure if Purpledragon and lostcause are still here, so...whatever.

Who's going next? Vote!

Feb 25, 2012, 8:36pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
You left out XCWModGramps, that scoundrel

And anicat.

But personally, I'm voting for me.

Feb 25, 2012, 8:44pm, Aeryn wrote:
I think Gramps is already gone.

Hey, do me a favor and add Anicat...and yourself too, I suppose.

Feb 25, 2012, 8:57pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
In spite of our mighty powers, we still can't change polls.

And by the way, we didn't 'lose' the admins you refer to, they decided to leave after it came to light that they were conducting a hidden vendetta against another admin, something which runs completely counter to the spirit under which this board was founded.

That said, we're sorry to see anyone go, and we always hope that they will return home to us someday. That goes for everyone who ever posted on the original WB boards, the CW Lounge, the second version of the WB boards, and here. We're still looking for a lot of them. And we won't stop looking till we find them all and give them an invitation to join us.

And we'd love nothing better than to get SusieQ and Maxine here with us one day too.

Mar 8, 2012, 9:58am, dainbramage wrote:
So I have a question.

If Mistermoonlight started this site, why doesn't he get a title higher than administrator, like Jimbo Wales of Wikipedia?

At that site there are the lowly editors like me who write and edit the articles, any of whom can edit anyone else as long as we're following the rules. Administrators can take action against those who violate rules, and there are even people above them, and finally Jimbo. It is said they can take away his rights if he goes on a rampage--which Moon could theoretically do.

Mar 8, 2012, 6:51pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Hi DainBramage, glad you found us! I remember your name from the CW Lounge. Congrats, it looks like one of our mods or admins got you Mettalica'd before you could be 'Biebered' for not choosing an avatar. A most unholy fate. But one we relish. [image]

How did you find us?

I agree. The term 'administrator' just sucks. One of our admins once said I was the 'global admin' since I have a few more powers than the rest of them.

We decided to rename our global mods 'Supermods' since that's in keeping with the titles we know from the WB forum and the CW Lounge. Perhaps one day we'll come up with something as slick for the admins.

Going on a rampage sounds incredibly romantic. Sadly I've never been on one. But I AM a Godzilla fan, if that makes any difference. I'd have to make sure it was a full-fledged rampage, and not just a hissy fit, you know?

The thing that, unfortunately, keeps that from happening are, as Abraham Lincoln once more eloquently said, my 'higher angels.' They are the mods and admins and members here, some of whom I've known for eons, some for only a short time. They have no hesitation to let me know when they think I'm screwing up (I don't think I've screwed down yet, but I'm hoping some day.)

Much like Wikipedia we all make up this site. We create it every day. That's not my idea. It's the wisdom of SusieQ and Maxine, our original SuperMods at the WB site and the CW Lounge who knew how much community mattered.

We're glad to have you here. Welcome home.

Mar 8, 2012, 7:08pm, MissNiChloe wrote:
Hi DainBromage, welcome to the site! [image]

I don't know how long you and mistermoonlight have known each other, but I can say that I've known him for a long time on the CW, mostly in the SFSF thread in the Smallville forum. I would say he is very much like SusieQ and Maxine. They are our mentors, they've set an example and we try to follow that example here. During the spam attacks at the CW, saw that he had always tried to contact the mods there... he (and we) care about this community. We are all a family, one BIG family!

I'd be very surprised if Mistermoonlight decided to go on a rampage! The chances of that happening is like, practically non-existant! Now, unintentionally make a huge mistake, that's another story... But you can be rest-assured that Mistermoonlight of all people is not gonna go on a rampage.

Mar 8, 2012, 7:34pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Oh Chloe, you know I'd love to go on a rampage sometime.

But the closest we've ever come is when we served Red Kryptonite milkshakes in the Shipper-Free Smallville Forum.

Mar 8, 2012, 7:53pm, avp60685 wrote:
he acted even crazier at the Smallville Prom we had on the WB boards if memory serves me correctly!

Mar 10, 2012, 5:37pm, Mistemoonlight wrote:
I may be wrong, but I don't think it was a Smallville Prom. I think it was just one of our crazy nights on Red K Milkshakes. Are you thinking about the one where I woke up with Monkeychic4's panties on my head? Or was it the one where Firefly01 jumped ship and I went swimming after her?

Anyway, I've been looking up the rules for going on a rampage, and apparently there are none. That's sad, because I always like to have a plan. Again, if I were to ever sucessfully go on a rampage I'd have to follow the lead of my hero, Godzilla. I think he's done it before.

(from the topic "When The [...] Did Anti Become A Mod?")

Mar 10, 2012, at 8:00pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
You know, it's funny. All I can remember is we woke up one day and she was one.

And, continued from another topic:

Apr 12, 2012, 3:08am, Jeff96 wrote:
Oh I see, BTW How many admins are there?

Apr 12, 2012, 3:13am, MissNiChloe wrote:
There are 5 administrators total.

Apr 12, 2012, 3:16am, Kimba116 wrote:
I posted them a few min ago.

There's only 5 admins? It seems like more than that.

Apr 12, 2012, 3:19am, MissNiChloe wrote:
Then we must be doing something right.

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Private messages:

Dec 30, 2011, 9:11am, Ohleesa wrote:
We want to showcase our gorgeous Masthead so we moved the PMs. They are now located on the menu bar besides the logout button. Some members that are blocking colors on their browser may not be able to click the button. In that case you can find PMs by clicking Home-then going to the Forum Statistics area. See pic!
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Dec 30, 2011, 9:31am, Ohleesa wrote:
I also find it helpful to click the option that alerts you to new PMs

It's located in your pm box-preferences-below the box asking if you want to be notified by email.
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Jan 2, 2012, 9:55am, Ohleesa wrote:
If your looking for a thread to help you with your PMS this is not it.

This is about your private messages. If any of you belong to other fan forums you know that your PMs are usually located next to the logo following a "Hey so and so" message. We thought it was ugly there so we moved it to the menu bar. It's not very noticeable there. If you go to your inbox then hit preferences you will have an option to be alerted when you receive new PMs. This is what I use and it works great. I never have to look for PMs because it automatically alerts me.

Jan 2, 2012, 1:01pm, Ohleesa wrote:
I found another cool feature. You can backup up your messages and download to your computer. I know some of you like to save them



This is the message you get when you click "backup messages" in your PM box.

From this page you can download a backup of all of your personal messages. You may only use this feature once every 30 days for your account.

Here is the process for downloading a backup of your personal messages:


Click the button at the bottom of this page labeled "Backup Personal Messages."
Your account will be added to a queue for processing. The average time for backups being completed is 2 minutes.
When your personal messages are done being backed up, you will receive a Personal Message in your inbox stating that your messages are ready for downloading.
You have up to one (1) week to download your backup before it is removed from the server.
Our records show that you have not backed up your Personal Messages within the last month, and therefore you may proceed.

Apr 15, 2012, 6:07pm, Kimba116 wrote:
Do we have a limit to how many pm's we can have? [image] I'm now up to 45 and i remember on the green goo our limit was 50.

Apr 15, 2012, 6:13pm, HarleyQuinn wrote:
Well I can tell you we can have more than 100 because that's what I have so far [image] [image]

Apr 15, 2012, 6:19pm, Kimba116 wrote:
[image] I was only counting my inbox so technically it should be twice that.
It must be unlimited like back in the day at the WB. [image]

Apr 15, 2012, 7:33pm, AntiArbitrator wrote:
I think you are right about the "unlimited", but it is suggested you back up your PMs once in a while.

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Image sizes:

Jan 3, 2012, 12:18pm, lostcause wrote:
Ok, so images and signatures have on occation blown up a screen or two.

To spare the lower connections and people logging on through phones, we've set a max size.

Is anyone having "huge" images and/or signature banners still?

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Avatars:

Dec 31, 2011, 12:00pm, InsertBrainHere wrote:
Isn't there a thread that tells us how to get avatars and change our profile and stuff?

Dec 31, 2011, 12:04pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Under the masthead, go to 'profile', then choose 'modify profile' and you can do all that.

Also, when posting avatars or other images, remember to store them in your own online account, such as PhotoBucket. Hot-linking them from someone else's website is a no-no.

Jan 16, 2012, 7:35pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
We've updated our profile avatars list with new stuff from Smallville and Supernatural, as well as added 'The Evicted' avatar.

PLUS, there's now a gallery where you can view them. Just Go to 'profile', 'modify profile', then scroll down to 'Personal Information'.

Just under the 'avatar' dropdown list you'll see a little category called 'gallery.' Click on it and it will bring up the avatars you have to choose from. We'll be adding lots of new ones each day!

Jan 17, 2012, 12:25am, TinkerToyArchitect wrote:
You are in danger of being Biebered, as well...we will be patient as it sounds like you are trying, but do not delay
It was suggested to me that I should always use the url from either under the image, or over on the right hand side of the page depending on which page you are on, labled "IMG Code". Try that...soon...dun, dun, duuuunnn...

Jan 16, 2012, 11:12pm, melissa197833 wrote:
The only problems I'm having is I chose my own Avatar copied it from photobucket and placed it in the line on my profile page, but its not showing and sometimes there is a bit of Delay before my post posts....But nothing really major.

Jan 17, 2012, 8:01am, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Underneath the photo on Photobucket, when you move your cursor over it, you'll see a choice that says 'direct link'. If you click on it, that will copy the url to your clipboard. Then go to profile, modify profile, click on the Avatar URL space, then hit Ctrl-V, and it will copy the url into the space.

Right now there's nothing in that space on your profile. Alternatively, just above that, you can click on gallery and just click on one of the ones stored there to add it.

Jan 17, 2012, 9:01pm, melissa197833 wrote:
I think may have gotten it now. It says avatar under my name..... so I assume its there even though all I see is the word avatar under my name lol.

Jan 17, 2012, 9:39pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
You can't see your avatar? I can.

Are you seeing any of the other images on these pages?

Jan 17, 2012, 9:43pm, melissa197833 wrote:
Yes I can see them, I first could not but than I figure how to fix that and I did.I'm glad I finally got it it was tough.I had to reset my password at photobucket because it had been a few years since I last used it, and I forgot the password.




Feb 6, 2012, 3:53pm, evilsquirre1 wrote:
I'm having an avatar related issue. He looks strange. Anyway to fix him?
Here is the original picture.

Feb 6, 2012, 3:59pm, Ohleesa wrote:
I stretched the width and shortened the height. Does it look any better on your end? I think having it a perfect square squished the Fake and recently decesed Sammy too much,

[ArchivEl]

And if you don't want to see avatars, and other advice:

Dec 31, 2011, 12:11pm, InsertBrainHere wrote:
I don't care to look at people's avatars (The CW let us block this), and I'd like to see 40 posts per page like I did on the CW site.

Dec 31, 2011, 12:19pm, purpledragon1229 wrote:
InsertBrainHere, Welcome!

You can turn off people's avatars in the Modify Profile section. I'm not sure about the post count. We'll look into that and one of us will get back to you.

Dec 31, 2011, 12:26pm, InsertBrainHere wrote:
Thanks. I missed that one. For some odd reason I had selecting my own on my mind and there weren't any I wanted.

Dec 31, 2011, 1:26pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
We found that the default setting for ProBoards is 15 posts per page, but, that we could change it to a maximum of 30, so we just now did that.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Jan 1, 2012, 4:17pm, InsertBrainHere wrote:
Well, 30 is fine. I go to another site where it's 10 and they don't let you change it. I thought the pages seemd awfully short, but 30 is surely enough to keep me from having to turn pages constantly.

Now, why can't we merely click on the next page's number or the previous page's number, just like at The CW?

Jan 1, 2012, 4:19pm, Ohleesa wrote:
That would be a nice feature! Proboards will be upgrading to a new version soon so hopefully we'll get more features.

Jan 1, 2012, 4:21pm, InsertBrainHere wrote:
Actually, we have it. I was looking at the page number and thinking about how it might be done, and then I realized there are arrows which, if you click on them, take you to the previous page or the next page.

Jan 1, 2012, 4:22pm, Ohleesa wrote:
Cool! I thought you wanted numbered pages to click like 1,2,3,4,5,6, etc.

Jan 1, 2012, 4:23pm, InsertBrainHere wrote:
That would be better, but I'll take this too.

[ArchivEl]

Suggestions:
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CW threads automatically scrolled down:

Jan 18, 2012, 11:27am, ArchivEl wrote:
When you posted, so you could see what you posted.

On any thread where I post historical information from The WB or The CW, this could be a valuable feature. I'm guessing proboards doesn't have it or it would work here.

Jan 18, 2012, 11:52am, MissNiChloe wrote:
I think we all agree with you. But proboards does not seem to have that option, so you're probably right about that.

Jan 18, 2012, 12:14pm, ArchivEl wrote:
So I'll have to figure something else out, because it could get frustrating for everyone if I try to make really posts on here--unless they're the last posts on a page.

Jan 18, 2012, 12:21pm, MissNiChloe wrote:
Well, no one else seems to have complained much, so I would say just post whatever you want to post.

Jan 19, 2012, 2:15pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Hi ArchiveEl, not sure exactly what you're talking about, but we've been checking out a coding upgrade on our test board for about a week now that takes you to the last post when you click on the thread title. We installed it today. Is that by chance what you were hoping for?

Only difference is that if you're posting to a thread with new posts it instead takes you to the first of the unread posts.

Jan 30, 2012, 1:19pm, pentadactyl wrote:
When there's multiple pages listed for a thread in the thread menu and I click on one of the page numbers, it doesn't reliably take me to that page. Is that intentional?

Also copying and pasting text from posts is really hard. Unless there's some trick I haven't figured out, that makes quoting from multiple posts really hard. Is there some reason it is the way it is or some way to change it?

In case it matters, the browser I'm using is Chrome.

ETA: Never mind about the quoting complaint. I just tried it now and it was fine. Either you guys have fixed it since or there was just something wrong with my comp/browser/mind the day I tried it before. It's perfectly fine now.

Jan 30, 2012, 1:19pm, pentadactyl wrote: When there's multiple pages listed for a thread in the thread menu and I click on one of the page numbers, it doesn't reliably take me to that page. Is that intentional?

Also copying and pasting text from posts is really hard. Unless there's some trick I haven't figured out, that makes quoting from multiple posts really hard. Is there some reason it is the way it is or some way to change it?

In case it matters, the browser I'm using is Chrome.

ETA: Never mind about the quoting complaint. I just tried it now and it was fine. Either you guys have fixed it since or there was just something wrong with my comp/browser/mind the day I tried it before. It's perfectly fine now.

Jan 30, 2012, 2:34pm, ohleesa wrote:
The page thing happens to me as well. I can click on a certain page and it doesn't go there. I can click on the thread title and it randomly takes me to the first or last page.

We'll try to find out why this is happening. I use IE or my Android phone and it happens on both.

Jan 30, 2012, 5:51pm, TinkerToyArchitect wrote:
I cannot be absolutely certain, but I believe you are being taken to the last post you actually read, so if there are three pages, but the last post you viewed is on page 2, clicking 3, re-routs you to 2. I have noticed this, too, and am pretty sure that is the reason.

Jan 30, 2012, 6:07pm, TinkerToyArchitect wrote:
I'm pretty sure I have noticed it when signed in, but I haven't actually put it to the test...I will try to figure it out.

Jan 30, 2012, 8:31pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
That's as it should be. The ProBoards default is to take you to the first page of a thread. Once you've logged in, our code update takes you to the last unread post in a thread. Nothing we do as far as coding affects you if you're viewing as a guest and haven't logged in.
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Sub-forums don't have links:

Apr 7, 2012, 6:36pm, Kimba116 wrote:
What about the glitch that happens after you click on a show board and then get taken to that list again?

Such as clicking on 90210 and then instead of going there, i then get sent here:
displacedcwloungefan.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=ocws

Apr 7, 2012, 6:40pm, MissNiChloe wrote:
It's not a glitch. The forum is 'Other CW Shows' and that list is a list of sub-forums. There is a sub-forum for each show.

Apr 7, 2012, 6:43pm, Kimba116 wrote:
Yes.
But shouldn't i just be able to click on the show that i want instead of being shown a list and having to click it again?
I'm saying from the main show board. If i click on any show on the "Other CW Shows" i'm sent back to the list of shows.

*edit

Then i have to click the show i want to go to that board.
My 1st example was 90210 but it could be any of them.

Apr 7, 2012, 6:51pm, MissNiChloe wrote:
Oh, I see what you mean now. I honestly don't know why they don't automatically become links to the actual forum. Hopefully that will change when the next version comes out.
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Reason for edit:

Apr 17, 2012, 6:22am, Kimba116 wrote:
I'd like to see an edit option like how the CW had.
Just a box to put the reason why we edited will do.
As long as it's there i will find it.

Apr 19, 2012, 1:02pm, avp60685 wrote:
we only have the modify button only though kim

Apr 19, 2012, 1:55pm, Kimba116 wrote:
I know.
There was a reason to edit box included on the CW. Don't you remember it? We need that option back.

Same goes for the ability to post threads and let the members view who voted for what on the poll option.

Apr 19, 2012, 3:20pm, AntiArbitrator wrote:
I recall the "reason for edit" option. I add the reason right in the post, i.e.,

Edit: changed to avoid being banned

Apr 19, 2012, 3:27pm, Kimba116 wrote:
Yup.
Or reason to edit: Spelling

Apr 19, 2012, 3:35pm, avp60685 wrote:
there was also a reason for deleting a post as well

[ArchivEl]

On a related topic, you end up on the first page of a thread:

Jan 30, 2012 at 1:19pm, pentadactyl wrote:
When there's multiple pages listed for a thread in the thread menu and I click on one of the page numbers, it doesn't reliably take me to that page. Is that intentional?

Also copying and pasting text from posts is really hard. Unless there's some trick I haven't figured out, that makes quoting from multiple posts really hard. Is there some reason it is the way it is or some way to change it?

In case it matters, the browser I'm using is Chrome.

ETA: Never mind about the quoting complaint. I just tried it now and it was fine. Either you guys have fixed it since or there was just something wrong with my comp/browser/mind the day I tried it before. It's perfectly fine now.

Jan 30, 2012 at 2:34pm, Ohleesa wrote:
The page thing happens to me as well. I can click on a certain page and it doesn't go there. I can click on the thread title and it randomly takes me to the first or last page.

We'll try to find out why this is happening. I use IE or my Android phone and it happens on both.

Jan 30, 2012 at 5:08pm, KyleEl wrote:
I've been having the problem too, with IE9.

Jan 30, 2012 at 5:51pm, TinkerToyArchitect wrote:
I cannot be absolutely certain, but I believe you are being taken to the last post you actually read, so if there are three pages, but the last post you viewed is on page 2, clicking 3, re-routs you to 2. I have noticed this, too, and am pretty sure that is the reason.

Jan 30, 2012 at 5:57pm, Ohleesa wrote:
Is this when you're logged in and logged out? That may be why pages never match up. Some of us read while not logged in to decrease page views. What happens is if I click page 10 of a thread sometimes it takes me to 10 but it mostly takes me to 1.

If I click the thread title itself sometimes it takes me to the last page but usually it takes me to the 1st page. It doesn't seem to take me to the last page I read.

Sent from my SPH-D710 using ProBoards

Jan 30, 2012 at 6:07pm, TinkerToyArchitect wrote:
I'm pretty sure I have noticed it when signed in, but I haven't actually put it to the test...I will try to figure it out.

Jan 30, 2012 at 6:35pm, Ohleesa wrote:
Ok when logged out no matter what page I click it takes me to the 1st page. When logged in it mostly takes me to the last page.

Jan 30, 2012 at 8:31pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
That's as it should be. The ProBoards default is to take you to the first page of a thread. Once you've logged in, our code update takes you to the last unread post in a thread. Nothing we do as far as coding affects you if you're viewing as a guest and haven't logged in.

[ArchivEl]

Can't see links at the top of the screen?


Jan 6, 2012, 3:00pm, KyleEl wrote:
When I'm not signed in I can clearly see the "Home", "New Topic" and other links at the top of the page, but when I'm signed in the background for these is light gray and the white words are hard to read.

I tried the various looks and concluded Leesa is the one I like, except for that.

Jan 9, 2012, 5:05pm, KyleEl wrote:
Home, New Topic, Help, etc.

They have white on a light gray background. This is not true when I am not signed in. Can anyone change that? I just want the site to look like it does when I'm not signed in. I thought I had chosen that option.

Jan 9, 2012, 5:56pm, TinkerToyArchitect wrote:
Gosh Kyle, I don't know what the issue is...mine look exactly the same whether I am signed in or not. I have the "Lessa" skin - from what you have described, don't you use that as well?

Jan 9, 2012, 6:02pm, KyleEl wrote:
Yes. And I tried other skins but didn't like them, and had the same problem with the links.

Jan 9, 2012, 6:07pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
I just logged out and logged back in, and they both look the same to me. I'm using Internet Explorer. What browser do you use? And are you on a computer or a mobile app?

Jan 9, 2012, 6:11pm, KyleEl wrote:
IE9. I've never had a cell phone or even a landline without a cord.

I've stayed on longer than usual. I'm going to the church to take down Christmas decorations. If I wasn't doing that I would have signed off long ago.

Jan 9, 2012, 6:16pm, TinkerToyArchitect wrote:
Yeah, I prefer the Lessa Skin, too. Hmm, well I don't know what it might be, because like I said, mine looks exactly the same no matter.
I wonder if it has to do with your graphics/display settings. I don't know much about this stuff, but phrases like "true color", "high color", and "color management" come to mind. Also, have you tried to reduce the brightness, and up the contrast a little?
Let me know...

Jan 10, 2012, 1:37pm, EasterBunny wrote:
I was seeing the links before I selected my bunny avatar. Now, they're nearly invisible.

Yes, I'm here. I told Energizer Bunny about this place before I came here myself, after being told by Santa Claus.

I had a really hard time getting in. It knows I'm a bunny. It said I needed to verify I was human, which I'm not. So I saw a red X when I was supposed to see a CAPTCHA. After clicking on enough buttons, I fooled it.

Jan 10, 2012, 3:20pm, lostcause wrote:
As it appears only you have this issue, maybe it's a problem in your own settings or the browser you use.

Try logging in with another browser?

Jan 11, 2012, 1:23pm, KyleEl wrote:
I don't intend to change from Internet Explorer. I would like very much to get rid of IE9 and go back to IE8, but that isn't going to happen. I'm really getting tired of people telling me to change from internet Explorer because most versions of it work fine.


Jan 11, 2012, 1:32pm, tanmi wrote:
Kyle, lostcause was trying to be helpful.

You don't have to lose Internet Explorer to try out another browser to see if it works.

I have IE9 and I don't have the issue you are speaking of. Actually, it's not really an issue...

Jan 11, 2012, 1:36pm, MissNiChloe wrote:
here is no reason to reply like that. We are only trying to help you. We had no way of knowing that you don't intend to change from Internet Explorer until you said so. That said, I see the links fine with IE. So, I don't see where the problem is. We are simply trying to find a solution.
Report to Mod - Link to Post - Back to Top IP: Logged

Jan 11, 2012, 3:14pm, KyleEl wrote:
Sorry, I'm in the habit of ranting when I go on web sites and the whole world wants to tell me to get rid of Internet Explorer.

Jan 11, 2012, 6:33pm, TinkerToyArchitect wrote:
I think we have all experienced the frustration that can so often come with using computers There is a reason this little smiley exists, and goodness knows I have been there;)
Do let us know if you would like us to look into the issue further, Kyle. There might be ideas that other members or staff haven't tried yet.

Jan 12, 2012, 8:56am, KyleEl wrote:
I'm on Firefox right now and the problem is the same. Except somehow I can read the links. I can't even see them at home and have to guess what's there and where, and can confirm only when the mouse is over the link.

[There was also a rant which is not necessary to understanding the problem]

Jan 12, 2012, 10:51am, TinkerToyArchitect wrote:
Certainly Kyle. Like I said, we have all been there in frustration with computers, and fury over jerky tech-support-snobs. The fact that it is slightly improved compared to your home computer suggests to me that it may be something to do with your monitor settings. Are you familiar with those enough to feel comfortable adjusting them? Upping the contrast, and/or dropping the brightness may help. Keep me posted
BTW, I use IE9, and basically like it, too.

Jan 13, 2012, 2:13pm, KyleEl wrote:
We could give brightness and stuff a try. I have no idea how that works.

I should add: when I'm signed out, at least here, the "No PMs" message can't be read easiy.

Jan 13, 2012, 3:10pm, TinkerToyArchitect wrote:
Ok, do you know what operating system you have (Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista, or somthing similar)? I can probably help you find the display settings...I'll give it a try anyway...

Jan 13, 2012, 4:08pm, KyleEl wrote:
I have Vista.

Sorry I missed this. I was following the Main Forum.

Jan 13, 2012, 5:58pm, TinkerToyArchitect wrote:
No need to apologize...let me do a little research, and I will get back to you!

Jan 14, 2012, 5:14pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Hi Kyle, we've figured out what the problem is (MissNiChloe did, actually.)

Each of those buttons up there has an image in it. So, when you disable images, what's left of the text becomes hard to see. That's probably also why the 'new pms' button looks washed out.

We'll look to the support forum and see if anyone else has figured out an answer to that problem.

[ArchivEl]

Karma:

Dec 26, 2011, 9:39pm, merr wrote:
What's up with the Karma? How do I earn it and what is the point? Anyone know?

Dec 26, 2011, 9:58pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
It seems to be a 'like' or 'dislike' choice. If someone likes what you post they exalt you. If they don't, they smite you.

I think, if I remember right, you can do it once an hour.

Jan 5, 2012, 7:01pm, SoCal wrote:
What's the story on the "exalt/smite" tabs? Are those for administrators only? What are they for?

Jan 5, 2012, 7:05pm, lostcause wrote:
It's a rating system. It gives either plus 1 karma or minus 1.

The higher the karma the better your posts.

You can smite/exalt once per hour.

*checks my karma*

Yeah erh..I'm very misunderstood!

Jan 18, 2012, 2:12pm, purpledragon1229 wrote:
Glad to see you're in on the joke irish! Karma for you! [image]

Jan 18, 2012, 2:54pm, irish wrote:
Ha! Thanks pd!

I have absoloutely no idea what a karma is......but I feel as though it deserves some sort of gratitude!

Jan 18, 2012, 3:19pm, avp60685 wrote:
that's sorta what it is irish

Jan 19, 2012, 11:11am, irish wrote:
Still not sure what it is.

........um, what is it??

Jan 19, 2012, 11:19am, MissNiChloe wrote:
Karma is... Hmm... How do I explain it?

Karma is like the saying, what goes around comes around. Like if you do something bad, then you get something bad done to you. If you do something good, then you get something good done to you in return

Now, on this forum, you'll see over to the left where your avatar and post counts and stuff are. You'll also see karma, which displays how much karma you have. You'll also see the exhalt/smite options. If you exhalt someone, that gives them karma and that's good. If you smite, then that takes away karma, and that's bad.

Do you understand now?

Jan 20, 2012, 12:22pm, irish wrote:
Yes, it was a perfectly good explanation but....

....this karma, who has control of awarding it??

Jan 20, 2012, 12:26pm, MissNiChloe wrote:
Anyone can give of take away karma from someone.

Jan 20, 2012, 1:33pm, irish wrote:
Yep! I think so. Clear as mud! [image]

I still don't know how to give or remove karma.....

......but y'know what? It's ok. I'm happy enough posting without worrying about my 'karma-rating'

Jan 20, 2012, 1:38pm, MissNiChloe wrote:
Mud isn't very clear...

Oh well, maybe someone can explain it better than I can... You still get a karma point for trying though.

Jan 20, 2012, 2:20pm, TinkerToyArchitect wrote:
Hello there, Irish! If you want to give someone Karma, you just click the "Exalt" button over on the left under their Avatar, Gender, Post Count, and Location. If you want to take one away (which plenty of us do just for funzies, yes Chloe, I am thinking of you ), you click their Smite button. You can only to it once per hour, and you can to it to anyone but yourself. Enjoy!

Feb 2, 2012, 2:10pm, Ohleesa wrote:
Another little change to add. Well it's really just an option added to your profile. We added a karma "opt out" button for those who don't want it. I opted out because I like my mini profile less cluttered. If you choose to opt out you can opt back in at anytime and your current karma points will return.

Feb 3, 2012, 12:15pm, antiarbitrator wrote:
This change breaks my heart. Karma is my most, best, absolutely favorite feature on the entire forum. My biological clock is set to every 60 minutes so that I can smite exalt someone. With exception of the two deranged members, it probably shortens arguments because we can smite and move on. In addition, I notice some people crave positive karma so they play nice for that reason. I just hope not too many people opt out. We are having fun with that option.

Feb 3, 2012, 12:21pm, Ohleesa wrote:
I don't believe many will opt out. I only did it to remove it from my mini profile. If it were up to me I would only allow our names, avatars, and post count. It's a clutter thing for me..

Feb 3, 2012, 12:24pm, puppydreams wrote:
If you opt out, then you can't participate in it either. Even those who don't care about their own number, tend to like to exalt/smite others.

Feb 3, 2012, 12:58pm, antiarbitrator wrote:
Riiight. It would be awesome to opt out and smite everyone else. Thanks for the responses.

Feb 3, 2012, 1:07pm, Ohleesa wrote:
shhhh. I opted out an can still exalt and smite

[ArchivEl]

Can anyone read your private messages?

Jan 14, 2012, 11:48am, irish wrote:
When you send a PM, who has access to that?

Jan 14, 2012, 9:32pm, purpledragon1229 wrote:
You and the person you send it to. No one else! Moon can't even see it and he's the 'owner' of the board.

Is there a specific reason you ask, Irish?

Jan 14, 2012, 9:53pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
I keep telling Scotty down in The Evicted engine room 'I need more power! So I can read IMs.' And he keeps saying 'I canna do it, Captain!

To be more precise, no one here associated with the board can read your IMs. Only the ProBoards admins can do that, should they wish.

So make it good and colorful.

Jan 16, 2012, 4:10pm, irish wrote:
Aw thanks for answering, purpledragon.

I just want to share some private details, (name and address) with a few of my pals and just wondered how many people would have access to my information.

Jan 16, 2012, 7:12pm, purpledragon1229 wrote:
You're welcome but unfortunately I will be unable to stalk you since I can't see the info

Jan 17, 2012, 3:38pm, avp60685 wrote:
not everyone wants their personal info revealed to the rest of us!

Jan 18, 2012, 11:34am, irish wrote:
Yes! That's exactly why I asked purple dragon!!

Some of you posters who claim that you are lovely friendly Americans who bake apple pie and live in condos in sunny tree-lined avenues....
....could possibly be...

quite the opposite!!

[ArchivEl]

Some content is too naughty even for here:

Jan 20, 2012, 3:30pm, Aeryn wrote:
I made a thread on the Supernatural board to showcase a poem about Misha Collins.

However, it has been moved to the Mod forum. Can someone please tell me why?

Jan 20, 2012, 4:13pm, avp60685 wrote:
us mods and admins needed to move it so we could discuss what we were going to do with it

Jan 21, 2012, 1:44am, Aeryn wrote:
I want my poem back since I didn't make a copy of it.

Jan 21, 2012, 7:04pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
You got it. We'll send it to you. Unfortunately it was too sexual to fit into the ProBoards TOS and Community Guidelines.

Otherwise, very well done!

[ArchivEl]

Polls and some general stuff:

Jan 19, 2012, 4:27pm, evilsquirre1 wrote:
I'm having an Idjit moment. How do I start a thread with a poll attached? Thanks for your help.

Jan 19, 2012, 4:28pm, avp60685 wrote:
go where it says create a thread and i believe you add a poll that way with the options

Jan 19, 2012, 5:08pm, evilsquirre1 wrote:
Oopps I got losted and posted a Supernatural thingy on the main page. Special thanks to MissNiChloe for moving my thread. You rock.

Jan 19, 2012, 5:15pm, MissNiChloe wrote:
It's no problem, We're all always happy to help.

Feb 6, 2012, 4:59pm, evilsquirre1 wrote:
Well [...] I screwed up a poll choice on my squash poll. Answer 8 should say:
EvilSquirrel seek help you have issues!
Instead it of
EvilSquirre1 seek you have issues!
Which makes no sense at all. I can't edit the poll choices. Can a Mod help me with this?

Feb 6, 2012, 5:10pm, Ohleesa wrote:
Unfortunately we can't edit the poll either. If you want to make a new one we can then delete your old one.

[ArchivEl]

Threat detected!

Jan 9, 2012, 9:02pm, cahtie wrote:
So, avast keeps warning me as I'm combing this forum that its detecting a threat, and it's blocking it. I'm not sure if its an image post or somthing from one of the members here, but its happening frequently... Anyone else getting this problem? [image]

Its labeling it as 'dark-flower wallpaper.jpg', saying that's the threat...

Jan 9, 2012, 9:09pm, lostcause wrote:
When do you get this? Right when you come to the site? And if so, do you need to log in everytime, or are you having the site remember you?

Wondering if it's adds (shows for guests) you are picking up, or something on the board itself.

Jan 9, 2012, 9:11pm, cahtie wrote:
NOt when I'm on the main spn forum, but any thread I go into I'm getting it. It says its in the html:frame-inf or something like that, and it's doing it for every single thread I'm going into it seems. I'm currently logged in and it stays logged in, I think I have it set for the site to remember me. It wasn't giving me this problem yesturday.

Jan 9, 2012, 9:13pm, purpledragon1229 wrote:
Same thing is happening to me. I've only seen it twice though. I have AVG and I'm running Opera.

Jan 9, 2012, 9:21pm, lostcause wrote:
Hmm ok not the ads then.

Could you try and update your Avast/AVG?

I looked at the proboards support forums and don't see any mention of a virus since start of december, and that was a glitch.

Jan 9, 2012, 9:27pm, TinkerToyArchitect wrote:
For what it's worth, my Norton did a full system scan earlier today while I was logged on, and didn't hit on anything. I am not savy enough to know whether or not that is even relevant, but...

Jan 9, 2012, 9:30pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
I have AVAST too, and I haven't gotten any warnings. But then, I only have the free version, too.

It's definitely an image post. However, I checked and there are several by that name out there on the net. Does Avast give you any info as to where to find the file on the board?

Jan 9, 2012, 9:45pm, purpledragon1229 wrote:
Today is the first time I've seen it. I just ran a scan and all is well. Mine is blocking the threat; just letting me know it's been detected.

Jan 9, 2012, 9:53pm, cahtie wrote:
Yeah, its saying html-frame inf. Its definitely only on this forum, i'm surfing the web just fine. And yeah, like purple, its blocking the threat, not installing it. Which means anyone who doesn't have proper protection might be getting a virus or something strange from this forum and not even know it. I have the paid version of avast for what it's worth.

Jan 9, 2012, 9:54pm, cahtie wrote:
I think its one poster whose posting in different forums, like the cfc, and the discussion on last week's episodes, and stuff, cause I'm not getting it on this thread. Its either their avatar, or sig pic is my guess.

Jan 9, 2012, 9:58pm, TinkerToyArchitect wrote:
In the CFC, there is a siggy for DeanandSam that isn't working...could that be it?

Jan 9, 2012, 10:03pm, TinkerToyArchitect wrote:
That's it...when I right click it and look at properties, it is indeed called "dark-flower" I don't think I have the power to do anything about it, though...

Jan 9, 2012, 10:04pm, cahtie wrote:
Yep, just checked the threads Deanandsam's posted in, that's it. Whatever it is, I hope it's not spreading a virus or causing some sort of problems for people here without them even realizing it. Deanandsam! Change your sig!

Jan 9, 2012, 10:05pm, TinkerToyArchitect wrote:
I am pretty sure one of the Admins can pull it...

Jan 9, 2012, 10:05pm, Ohleesa wrote:
Let me check it out.

Jan 9, 2012, 10:24pm, Ohleesa wrote:
cahtie I've temporarilty removed the signature. Has anything changed on your end?

Jan 9, 2012, 10:25pm, cahtie wrote:
Yep, now I can view threads where deanandsam's posted and no longer get a warning. THat was definitely it.

Jan 9, 2012, 10:37pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Cahtie, thank you so much! It finally showed up on my Avast system and I got the same warnings as you. Thanks to your alert we were able to track it down to a user's signature, which produced no image, but was a direct link to the threat website. It has been deleted everywhere on this board now, and we've sent a PM to the person who had it, informing them.

Thanks again!

Jan 9, 2012, 10:41pm, cahtie wrote:
No problem, glad I could help!

Jan 9, 2012, 10:47pm, puppydreams wrote:
Yes, thanks for alerting us, and then staying with the probem, Cahtie.

We are contacting DeanandSam to let her know that we changed her information, and why.

Jan 10, 2012, 5:29am, lostcause wrote:
Nice detective work all!

Jan 10, 2012, 9:04am, DeanandSam wrote:
I apologize that I caused concern for many posters in that they may have gotten a virus from a picture with flowers I found on google. I had no idea. So I apologize again. But nice detective work!

Jan 10, 2012, 10:29am, Ohleesa wrote:
No problem Deanandsam . You gave us a mini training session. We can give you a Bieber banner if you'd like.

Jan 10, 2012, 11:13am, SarahG6 wrote:
Great job all around. Good detective work from cahtie, and good work by mods to stop it. No worries, SamandDean. If it were me, I'd be glad to know. As I said, KUDOS all around!

Mar 21, 2012, 8:13am, kimba116 wrote:
Since there's so many Smallvillians (Yes, that's a shout-out to Lisa) here i thought i would suggest this for TPTB:

Isn't there a way to use this site to connect it to other similar MBs? Like, if we send them ppl, they can return the favor sorta thing?

KryptonSite is just one example... But that way we can find other missing WB/CW members and help both sites.
I am registered over there but every time i go to their main site, i get a Trojan (They try to give me one haha) and i end up leaving.

Mar 21, 2012, 9:45am, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Good idea, Kimba, and it's actually one that the staff has discussed a bit, but haven't agreed upon or acted on yet.

There is a process known as 'afiliation' where two websites exchange clickable banners on each other's sites in the hope that they will mutually benefit from greater exposoure. You may see a list of one site's 'favorite sites' or 'sister sites', for example.

We'll continue to work on that.

I'd been meaning to drop by Kryptonsite myself just to see if there are any names I recognize from our WB and CW Lounge boards, and finally did the other day, and the same thing happened to me. It seems that one of their photos on the home page is connected to a virus site. We had something similar happen here with a person's avatar photo once, but we figured it out and fixed it right away. Hope they do too.

Mar 21, 2012, 6:06pm, smolderhalder67 wrote:
Hi Kim! I saw this title and mistakenly thought that Craig was on here! :lol:

Wait how are you guys getting viruses on Kryptonsite? I've been a member since 2005 and have never had that issue.

Mar 21, 2012, 10:32pm, kimba116 wrote:
Johnny.

*wonders who Craig is*

I wouldn't say that i get a virus, but i get a warning message from my virus scanner that it's trying to give me one. I don't think that happens when i click on the MB but it def does anytime i click on the main site.

Mar 22, 2012, 12:03am, smolderhalder67 wrote:
Craig is the creator of Kryptonsite Oh that's super odd! The only issue I've had was a lot of popups but that was on IE.

Mar 22, 2012, 12:54pm, kimba116 wrote:
Yup.
That's why i don't use IE anymore. It's too vulnerable.

Mar 25, 2012, 10:26am, wrestlingfan2012 wrote:
popups bug me on there but I never got a virus on Kryptonsite don't go there much now since smallville over.

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Click Here To Make This Forum Ad-Free!

Dec 24, 2011, 8:10pm, Ohleesa wrote:
There is a link at the botton of the page that says Click Here To Make Ad-Free.

So I haven't seen any ads on this forum. Does that mean they're coming soon? What's the deal??

Dec 24, 2011, 8:12pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Yes, they're coming. The first two weeks are ad-free. It costs about $7 per month to make the board ad-free.

Dec 24, 2011, 8:16pm, Ohleesa wrote:
First month is my treat. Let me know when the ads are supposed to start. I can't deal with ads.

Dec 24, 2011, 8:18pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
maybe we can take turns at it.

Dec 24, 2011, 8:19pm, Ohleesa wrote:
Cool. $84/per year for a nice virtual home doesn't seem too bad to me.

What day did you create the forum?

Dec 24, 2011, 8:31pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
First post was on Dec. 19th, so that would mean the two week period is up Monday, Jan 2nd.

Dec 24, 2011, 11:24pm, mercurytheatre wrote:
I want to keep this place ad-free......where do I pay?

Dec 25, 2011, 9:30am, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Just click on that bar mentioned in the headline to this thread. It's at the bottom of the board. It will take you to a secure server where you can do it.

Dec 25, 2011, 10:39pm,HarleyQuinn wrote:
I'll pay too. I really LOATHE ads!!!

Just let me know when I need to pay

Dec 27, 2011, 2:26am, puppydreams wrote:
My firefox browser has adware protection. You never see it.


Dec 27, 2011, 3:48pm, Ohleesa wrote:
They're offereing us a free service. The catch is that they either push ads on us or we chuck up $7/per month to opt out of ads. I don't think that's a bad deal for the service they provide.

Jan 2, 2012, 6:58am, lostcause wrote:
So how does it work, does it have a queue service, as in if we all chunk in 7$ now, we get X amount of months add free, or do we have to just wait for the current to run out then repay?

I'm up for a months payment too.

Jan 2, 2012, 8:32pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Anybody who'd like to pay for our first month, we have ads now.

One month ad-free is $7, however, you can pay in any amount from $1 on up.

Jan 2, 2012, 8:34pm, lostcause wrote:
Sure I'm on it.

1 note: Ad-Free
Our ad-free service is a monthly service offered at $7.00 per 50,000 pageviews per month. If you have not read full details about our ad-free plan, we encourage you to read all the details (takes about 2 minutes to read).


So if we start seeing adds before the month is up, that would be why

ow and to answer my own quetsion above, no we can't buy several months in advance, after 1 month is up, any saved credit is forfeit.

Jan 2, 2012, 8:37pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
The ads have begun. If you'd like to help out, $7 pays for one month ad-free. You can make contributions from $1 up to $7 (and beyond) by clicking the 'click here to make this board ad-free' thread at the bottom of the page.

Jan 2, 2012, 8:41pm, lostcause wrote:
I've paid, they should be gone as soon as the payment is registered.

Jan 2, 2012, 8:43pm, TinkerToyArchitect wrote:
I am happy to do it, but wanted to put it out there so that I am not jumping on top of someone else. Sounds like they would be happy to have dozens of us paying the $7, and the credits will not roll over to the next month, so only one needs to do it. Any objections to it being me?

Jan 2, 2012, 8:43pm, purpledragon1229 wrote:
Thanks LC!! Did you do the $7?

Jan 2, 2012, 8:45pm, lostcause wrote:
Yep I did, I think Mr Moonlight has to do some admin stuff though.

"As soon as your payment is accepted we will add the ad-free credits to your forum. This typically takes 15-20 minutes. To activate your ad-free, please log in to your forum and navigate to Admin -> Ad-Free. On this screen you may select which month you wish to make ad-free."

I get this, but I don't have permission to enter that area it says when I click the link.

Jan 2, 2012, 8:55pm, Ohleesa wrote:
I just paid $7 before I saw this. I think we overpaid
d

Anyway-hope ads disappear soon!

Jan 2, 2012, 8:59pm, lostcause wrote:
Haha well with our activity, I wouldn't put it past us to reach 100.000 page views by the end of the month anyway [image]

Liv can you reach the ad-free admin section to select months? If so yay! Otherwise I'll PM Moon.

Jan 7, 2012, 8:20pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
You know how we were wondering why we suddenly had ads again today, less than a week after purchasing credits for 50,000 ad-free views?

It's because, Friday, with the launch of our Twitter site, the 'watch with us' promotions we did that night, and the debut of a new episode of SPN, we had . . . like I said, get ready for it . . . 16,029 page views. That's sixteen THOUSAND.

And the most visitors we've ever had in one day: 199.

We've got something going on here, ya know?Jan 7, 2012, 8:26pm, HarleyQuinn wrote:
Wow that is amazing!! Just proves the hard work that Moon and his cohorts have put in for us has made this THE BEST FORUM EVER!!

Jan 7, 2012, 8:52pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Thanks Dee!

The original Gang of Seven who created things are:

Ohleesa
PurpleDragon1229
PuppyDreams
Lostcause
MissNiChloe
Anicat

and some guy with a dog for an avatar.

But they did most of the heavy lifting, working out how to bend the laws of physics to our will, and so forth.

Oh, and of course, all the great suggestions we've gotten here on the board from members shaped things, too!

Jan 7, 2012, 8:56pm, amnesiavictim wrote:
A cast of seven....that did the work equal to a cast of thousands


We salute you all.

Jan 7, 2012, 9:17pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
In all honesty, this board was created by more than just the 100 of us here.

It sprang from the power of fans connecting with one another on the original WB site, the CW Lounge, and the second WB site, forming bonds, becoming a family. Relationships forged that go back years and years.


Everyone who ever posted in one of those forums played a part, and I often hear the voices of those who are not with us yet, but remembered and missed, whispering something simultaneously outrageous, shocking, and funny in my ear . . . and making me grin.

Jan 8, 2012, 12:50pm, irish wrote:
But where the heck are all these members?
If they simply join up and disappear that'll not help the morale about this lovely, friendly place.

I really love this new board....but I'm beginning to talk to myself!

Jan 8, 2012, 5:38pm, puppydreams wrote:
We are still growing. There are many, many posters that have yet to learn about this forum. Our Twitter and Facebook activities should help us connect with fans, but most of our current members have joined because of other members. We need everyone's help to find former CWL posters, as well as new fans.

I have gotten to know some really amazing folks through posting, and I would like that to continue.

Jan 8, 2012, 1:29pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Well, over here in the USA it's 12:23PM on Sunday--the lunch hour--right now.

To put things in perspective, in the past 24 hours we've had half of our members here, plus 143 guests. That's not bad at all.


Jan 9, 2012, 11:53am, irish wrote:
Aw okay that's reasonable, moon.
Everyone should stop for lunch!

Aye....that's pretty good member numbers for a new board.

Jan 9, 2012, 7:38pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Right now we're doing an experiment to see if we can bring our ad-free pageviews down while retaining our guest numbers, so we've made ad-free viewing available only to registered members. We should have enough data to make a decision by Wed. at 12 noon CST in the U.S.

We blew through 50.000 ad-free pageviews in less than a week last week.

It's funny, when I did some research last week on reducing pageviews, every one else out there is trying to increase them!

Jan 10, 2012, 8:17pm, percysowner wrote:
I can pick up next month. Somebody poke me if I forget.

Jan 10, 2012, 8:51pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Thanks Percy! When we first started this site I said 'we'll never blow though 50,000 pageviews in a month.' We're averaging about 5000 per day now, and last Friday night for the SPN midseason debut we hit 16,000!

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Gender Choices in Profile:

Feb 2, 2012, 9:27pm, snapple wrote:
But what if you're transgender? Or bigender? Or don't see yourself as being male or female.

Feb 2, 2012, 10:34pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
That is an excellent question. And I believe I've seen something about it over in the support forum. Let me look.

Feb 2, 2012, 10:51pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Blue, I'm moving your question into a separate thread about this, so it can be discussed on its own.

Feb 2, 2012, 10:59pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
I've found a code in the support forum that would allow us to change this and give more selections. So let's open it up to discussion. What choices would you suggest, folks?

We'll try the code over on our test forum and see how it does.

Feb 3, 2012, 12:08am, hammies revenge wrote:
"Hamster juggler."

Feb 3, 2012, 2:40am, davidhayes1956 wrote:
How painful would it be to change gender in your profile?

Feb 7, 2012, 6:01pm, snapple wrote:
That's wild how you can do that. I thought once a post was made, it was stuck in that thread!

There should be bi-gender, MTF, FTM, no gender, transgender.

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Feedback on Proboards App:

Dec 28, 2011, 8:02pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
We are available on iPhone, iPad, iTouch, and Android. Info here: www.proboards.com/mobile

Dec 28, 2011, 8:20pm, tanmi wrote:
I was using my phone to access the site. I finally figured out what was wrong with my laptop today.

The old cranky CW site didn't allow us to use our phones...

Dec 28, 2011, 8:26pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
I'm glad you got the laptop up and running again.

You know, when I was posting this thread I was thinking 'do I sound too much like the CW Lounge in this post?' But you're right, they didn't.

I think they did do something with phones, but it was only sending out ads.

Jan 29, 2012, 10:47am, Ohleesa wrote:
I know a few of us have tried this app so I thought we could share feedback.

I'm using the Android app on my Galaxy II phone. I like that the forums load fast and I can have the 3 Proboards forums I use in one spot. I love that I don't have to sign in to the forums.

I don't like that you can't use the custom emoticons. I don't know if you can but I haven't figured out how to create a new thread. The PM feature constantly gets hung up for me.

So far I don't feel the app is worth the price tag.

What do you guys think of the app and let us know if you're using an Apple or Android phone!

Jan 29, 2012, 11:12am, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Ah. So that's why using the apps don't count against our ad-free page views. I was wondering how that worked.

Feb 2, 2012, 7:56pm, antiarbitrator wrote:
This is good, yes?

Feb 2, 2012, 8:03pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
This is very good, yes!

Feb 1, 2012, 10:24pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Coincidentally, I just got a PM from ProBoards about their app. You can take it with however many grains of salt you wish:

Hey everyone!

ProBoards (the host of this forum) now offers a mobile app that can let you browse this forum using your mobile phone! If you want to stay up to date with our forum you should definitely check out the ProBoards Mobile App.

With the app you can check in on our forum to see who's online, read topics, make posts, send personal messages and even upload images...all from your mobile phone.

Go download the ProBoards app so that you can stay connected to our forum!

Feb 2, 2012, 7:56pm, antiarbitrator wrote:
I have been using the app for iPhone for three days now. I like it because it accomplishes what I want to do.
Quick response to the silly games we play.
I can dictate my responses instead of typing.
Several ProBoards in one place and can quickly switch between them.
I can see other people's emoticons, but I don't see an option to insert one in my posts. So I just need to word the posts clearly and use acronyms like "LMAO" or something.

I had requested an app at the CWL. I guess the fact that the forum was being closed had something to do with our not getting one. Funny thing though, we were told they were looking into it instead of just telling us "not this year".

Feb 3, 2012, 4:50pm, Ohleesa wrote:
Hey will you take a screenshot and post it here so I can see what it looks like on the Iphone. I'll show you what it looks like on an Android device.

I'll show you mine if you show me yours [image]

Does your app let you make new threads?? I can't find that anywhere on mine.

Feb 3, 2012, 9:00pm, antiarbitrator wrote:
Under profile I see an option to view the threads that I have already created but I do not see an option to actually create a thread. Will post a question on the app site. Another screenshot

Feb 3, 2012, 9:26pm, spaceman wrote:
I was wondering the same thing last night. How to create threads?

Feb 3, 2012, 10:32pm, antiarbitrator wrote:
To create a new topic:
Tap your name
Tap "forum" at bottom of the screen
"by category" should be at top of page
Select your category
Tap the arrow in the upper right corner
There is an option for new topic
Type the subject and the message
Press send

I tested this and it does work

Feb 4, 2012, 7:45am, Ohleesa wrote:
Great Anti! And thanks! I gave you a few karma because you're clearly the expert now.

Feb 4, 2012, 7:51am, Ohleesa wrote:
Here's what my app looks like.

I just found the spot to remove or add a custom signature.

Feb 4, 2012, 9:39am, antiarbitrator wrote:
for the karma. First thing I noticed when I logged in and I went "Oooh, someone gave me karma."

I like the way your app looks. Shows more info. And is very crisp and clear.

BTW, I should have mentioned I am using the iPhone 4S which has different features from the previous iPhone.

Feb 4, 2012, 1:23pm, antiarbitrator wrote:
I would love to know how to add a custom signature. Please share.

Also, if anyone knows a way to add emoticons, it would add to the fun.

Feb 4, 2012, 6:35pm, spaceman wrote:
When I view peoples messages, the animated emoticons appear really oversized. Is this true with you guys?

Feb 4, 2012, 7:04pm, antiarbitrator wrote:
See my second screenshot above with "changes coming" in the heading. That's how all the emoticons look on my phone. The emoticon is normal size but the box it is enclosed in is large. And when there are multiple emoticons, they are enclosed in separate boxes. None actually show animation. They need to tweak that.

Feb 4, 2012, 7:08pm, Ohleesa wrote:
I guess by custom it's just text input. No pics but it's better than the default
You can also choose no sig.

Feb 4, 2012, 7:10pm, Ohleesa wrote:
Here's how emoticons look to me. So far I can only use the stock ones and I have to manually enter them. For instance : laugh : (no spaces between colon)= [image]

Feb 4, 2012, 7:28pm, antiarbitrator wrote:
Thanks. I think I can get used to that.

Your reply #17 clearly shows the signature option but I do not see that option under settings on my phone.

Feb 4, 2012, 7:31pm, Ohleesa wrote:
I don't see it in your settings either. It was in my settings on my Android.

Feb 5, 2012, 11:23am, Ohleesa wrote:
Have you noticed our smiley gets converted to the pink one from CWL. Take a look.

Feb 5, 2012, 11:27am, antiarbitrator wrote:
I had not noticed that. Bizarro.

I typed exactly what you told me. and it worked.

Sorry. It put the image instead of what I typed. colon banana colon.

Feb 5, 2012, 11:29am, Ohleesa wrote:
Let me try. Honestly I didn't think it would work on the custom smilies.

Yippee

Feb 5, 2012, 11:34am, puppydreams wrote:
I defined the custom ones (except the last ones), but the original ones were coded in by Proboards. It looks like your app has a different emoticon defined for that one.

Feb 7, 2012, 8:07am, antiarbitrator wrote:
My daughter has an Android (I think Galaxy is part of the name) and she was wondeing if someone could tell her how to take a screen shot because she does not have a button at the top like the iPhone does.

Feb 7, 2012, 8:07am, antiarbitrator wrote: My daughter has an Android (I think Galaxy is part of the name) and she was wondeing if someone could tell her how to take a screen shot because she does not have a button at the top like the iPhone does.

Feb 7, 2012, 8:25am, Ohleesa wrote:
Yes I can. It's the same phone I have. She holds the home button at the bottom and the button on the top right side of phone at the same time!

Feb 10, 2012, 7:33pm, jensenRick wrote:
I downloaded the proboards app several days ago, tried it each day, and every day after I type in the whole name of the forum, it says "the forum you are visiting is temporarily closed, please try again later"

When I search by "evicted", it says "can't find your forum? Please contact your forum admin to activate ProBoards."

So this is me - contacting the forum admin.

Any one else having this problem, or better yet- knows how to fix it?

Feb 10, 2012, 7:39pm, Ohleesa wrote:
I use the app for android. Antiarbitrater uses it for iphone. I bet she can help

Feb 12, 2012, 9:26pm, jensenRick wrote:
Should I PM her directly?

Feb 13, 2012, 5:25am, Ohleesa wrote:
Yeah I would suggest that. I haven't seen her around in a few days.

Feb 13, 2012, 11:30am, spaceman wrote:
tap on *my forums*
then tap *add forum*
then type "displacedcwloungefan"

Feb 14, 2012, at 9:35pm, antiarbitrator wrote:
Has the problem been resolved?

Feb 16, 2012, 12:20am, jensenRick wrote:
Unfortunately not. I tried Spaceman's suggestion (thought maybe the "s" on the end of "fans" was the problem), but I still get the "sorry, temporarily closed" message.
And I'm able to access other Proboards forum, so I know that part works- I just can't seem to access this one.

Feb 16, 2012, 2:34pm, antiarbitrator wrote:
Even though you have tried this before, let's try again.

Forums
Tap plus sign in upper right corner
Type full name of forum:
displacedcwloungefan.proboards.com

Feb 17, 2012, 10:38am, jensenRick wrote:
I'm in! Thank you

Feb 17, 2012, 10:40am, antiarbitrator wrote:
You are welcome. Please note I sent this from my iPhone.

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Why can some members only see a white screen?

Dec 23, 2011, 3:01pm, Ohleesa wrote:
What is causing this? Some can only see a white background & images are blocked. Is it the browser?

Dec 23, 2011, 3:41pm, Ohleesa wrote:
Do you think you could try Google Chrome and see if that helps Puppy?

Dec 23, 2011, 5:35pm, Ohleesa wrote:
This is what the forum looks like to some people.


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Dec 23, 2011, 5:47pm, Ohleesa wrote:
This is what it looks like to me on my phone and home computer.


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Dec 23, 2011, 6:20pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Well, those are different pages, for one thing. The home area doesn't have as much color as the forums do on my computer either. But I can see images and stuff just fine. Maybe if you put up two shots of the very same page we could see the difference more easily?

Dec 23, 2011, 6:24pm, Ohleesa wrote:
Hold on let me get you another pic. Sarah and Puppy both said they see no color at all.

Dec 23, 2011, 6:28pm, Ohleesa wrote:
Do you see what I mean? I must admit-it's ugly!

We may have to instruct people to upgrade browsers if this is what they're looking at.




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Dec 23, 2011, 6:49pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Well, from that photo, it looks like it's only half the page.

Oops, sorry, Ohleesa, I meant to quote your post and ended up editing it by mistake, but I put all right again.

Dec 23, 2011, 6:52pm, Ohleesa wrote:
Yeah I have to crop because of size restrictions. I'll email the photos to you.

Dec 23, 2011, 7:00pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Ok, heading to the Bat-Cave to do forensic examination of possible crime-scene photos.



Sorry, I just wanted to say that phrase once in my life.


Dec 24, 2011, 12:36am, SarahG6 wrote:
The background is white or light grey. I do see the blue line up and a green Displaced CW lounge Fans. I see 6 worlds in shades of grey and red. Does this help?

Dec 24, 2011, 1:03am, Ohleesa wrote:
Do you see everything but this background??


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Dec 24, 2011, 7:33am, SarahG6 wrote:
Yes.

Dec 24, 2011, 7:48am, Ohleesa wrote:
Ok I changed it to white. Moon would you mind trying a background
Pick a color/image you like & paste it in the Background Image URL spot. It's similar to how you set up your avatar. Maybe the problem is on my end.


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Dec 24, 2011, 7:54am, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Ok, sure. Will do. Give me a few minutes to get familiar with it.

Dec 24, 2011, 8:10am, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Well, I thought I'd done it, but nothing is showing up. I modified the blue skin with a logo url on my account at Photobucket and changed the background color, but I'm not seeing anything.

Dec 24, 2011, 8:13am, Ohleesa wrote:
Can you pm link & I'll try to upload.

Dec 24, 2011, 8:19am, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Ok, just sent it.

Dec 24, 2011, 8:20am, Mistermoonlight wrote:
it suddenly appeared

Dec 24, 2011, 8:20am, Ohleesa wrote:
Worked fine for me.
;D

Dec 24, 2011, 8:22am, Mistermoonlight wrote:
don't know what I was doing wrong, but I'll eventually figure it out.

Dec 24, 2011, 8:23am, Ohleesa wrote:
At the bottom of the page you have to click "modify skin". Did you do that?

Sarah can you see a background now?

Dec 24, 2011, 8:28am, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Ok, I figured it out. I was modifying the blue skin instead of the default skin. Worked for me this time.

Dec 24, 2011, 8:36am, Ohleesa wrote:
That blue skin I attempted is horrible. If you can figure out how to delete please do!!

Dec 24, 2011, 9:03am, Mistermoonlight wrote:
No, I can't, because it's been set as the default skin, and for some reason there's no longer a choice between the default and the blue skin. At least that's the way it seems to me.

Can someone reset our background to something better than that outer space thing I was trying out?

Dec 24, 2011, 9:46am, Ohleesa wrote:
Looks like we have 2 skins going! When I log in I see this.


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Dec 24, 2011, 9:47am, Ohleesa wrote:
When I log out I see this!


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Dec 24, 2011, 9:58am, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Yeah, I just tried it and I do too. Obviously we've got a bit more figuring out to do. D'oh!

Dec 24, 2011, 10:02am, Mistermoonlight wrote:
it seems that the blue skin is being used for logout viewing and the default is being used when you log in. For now I'm just going to change them both to be the same. Then we'll figure the rest out.

Dec 24, 2011, 10:11am, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Ok, fixed now. We'll still have to figure out why one skin is being used for logout and another for login at some point.

Dec 26, 2011, 11:42am, SarahG6 wrote:
I changed a check mark in my internet optons to allow web page colors to come through. Wala, I see the forum as it was meant to be seen! Just uncheck "hide web page colors." The change in what I see is awesome. I thought it looked good before, but woohoo!!!

Dec 26, 2011, 11:54am, Ohleesa wrote:
Great Sarah!!

Now I just added back the script that makes the rows beveled (more rounded) instead of flat. Can you see that effect now as well?

Dec 26, 2011, 12:02pm, Ohleesa wrote:
Also-I highlighted the home, new topic, help buttons in grey-can you see that effect now as well?

Dec 26, 2011, 12:52pm, SarahG6 wrote:
Yes, I see it. The whole forum is much cooler.

Dec 26, 2011, 3:18pm, purpledragon1229 wrote:
I made several new Skins this evening.

They are accessible via Profile-->Modify Profile scroll down to Account Preferences and you will see "Skin" as your 8th choice.

I am open for more suggestions, please let me know if there are any you would like.

*Better Goo-A green scheme reminiscent of the CW only better
*Zen-Muted browns and soft greys
*I'm Blue-Various shades of blue
*North & South-A blue and grey scheme (Gone With the Wind is watched regularly in this house)
*OMG Purple-Various shades of purple (I don't believe this scheme will be conducive to purple text unfortunately)

The harlot in me insisted on:
*Red Light-Various shades of Red
*Pink Lipstick-Various shades of pink

Dec 26, 2011, 4:25pm, SarahG6 wrote:
Sorry Purpledragon, though I love purple and your name, I don't think I could do the bright colors for long. Maybe the strong colors should be borders only. My eyes reacted violently even to the red writing Oleesa had. Maybe the strong colors could be in the banner? Sorry Im not more helpful.

Dec 26, 2011, 4:43pm, purpledragon1229 wrote:
Sarah, It's all good! And that is helpful because I can tinker with the colors then.

Try the Zen, Better Goo, or North & South for more muted tones.

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Welcome To Our New Twitter Site & Twitter Goddess!

Jan 5, 2012, 9:27pm, isitfridayyet:
We had this back at the CW Lounge so I figured I'd share it here. IF you don't mind sharing your twitter info so people can follow you/know who you are when you follow them, feel free to list it here and I'll update the list. I will NOT post anyone's twitter handle on here unless they ask me to on this thread.

Jan. 5, 2012, 10:47pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
We're happy to announce the launch of our new Twitter site: twitter.com/#!/TheEvicted1

Please follow us there and help get out the word to all our missing family members, in all fandoms, about where to find us here on the board!

And please welcome our new Twitter Goddess, KristinPhoenix, who will be running the site!

Please don't hesitate to contact her for anything regarding The Evicted Twitter site.

Coming in the near future, we will have the latest Twitter feeds for you right here on the board.

Now let's go out there and do better than the CW at this, and bring our people home!

Jan 5, 2012, 10:57pm, TinkerToyArchitect wrote:
Welcome, indeed, KP I remember you from the *ahem* other place Thanks for doing the Twitter stuff for us...I confess, I have absolutely no idea about anything Twitter. I may have to ask you some questions about it. I see also, you are a Mod...very cool!

Jan 5, 2012, 11:20pm, Ohleesa wrote:
Welcome KP. You've already been a great asset to our community even before your promotion to Twitter Goddess!

Jan 6, 2012, 12:13am, puppydreams wrote:
Great job tonight!

Jan 6, 2012, 3:22am, geordiegirl1967 wrote:
I'm following. I have same name as here on twitter btw.

Jan 6, 2012, 4:29am, KristinPhoenix wrote:
Thanks guys, you all make me feel so welcome! I hope I can learn to be a good Mod.

Jan 6, 2012, 5:49am, lostcause wrote:
Welcome KP! Awesome I feel we're semi professional now that we have an official twitter account now.

Jan 6, 2012, 6:04am, anicat wrote:
Congratulations, KP! All hail our new Twitter Goddess.

I had thought of another title, "Commander in Tweet" for you...

Yes, I do so love my little plays on words. ;D

Jan 6, 2012, 10:38am, maryliz wrote:
Is the Twitter account linked to the Supernatural board or all the CW shows? I'm only interested in following the Supernatural board.

Jan 6, 2012, 10:49am, avp60685 wrote:
The twitter account is for all shows and for the forums

Jan 6, 2012, 6:50pm, KristinPhoenix wrote:
I just followed ALOT of SPN people, so hopefully we get alot of follows back.

Jan 6, 2012, 6:55pm, TinkerToyArchitect wrote:
Sweet KP! I really am going to have to ask you at some point how the whole Twitter thing works...

Jan 6, 2012, 7:01pm, KristinPhoenix wrote:
Yeah I just followed 374 SPN people

Twitter's easy once you get the hang of it, it's like MSN instant message only with a character limit.

You can follow whoever you want, I'm gonna go follow the SPN stars next.

Jan 6, 2012, 7:09pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
I saw! Awesome work! And we've got 47 followers now!

Jan 6, 2012, 7:55pm, KristinPhoenix wrote:
Just followed the TVD celebrities too!

Next up, Gossip Girl.

Jan 6, 2012, 9:22pm Ohleesa wrote;
And that's why you were the first person we thought of to be the Twitter Goddess/Manager

Seriously you're great at it and you know who to follow I dare you to ask Mistermoonlight what a #FF is.

Jan 6, 2012, 11:12pm, avp60685 wrote:
I apologize for logging into twitter and using the account i wasn't clear on what moon wanted me to do

Jan 7, 2012, 1:49am, KristinPhoenix wrote:
No, that's fine! Whoever else was on the Twitter this evening, did a great job!

Jan 7, 2012, 2:54am, lostcause wrote:
I have no clue about #FFs, lists, favourites and trends.

I just nod and keep reading that new's reel I have on my front page.

Jan 7, 2012, 4:48am, anicat wrote:
Can someone check something for me please? It looked to my eyes like the word "Evicted" in the twitter name was misspelled....but then I've been on the computer all night, doing art stuff, plus all the tweeting...

My eyes are crossing!

Jan 7, 2012, 9:15pm, SarahG6 wrote:
Did you know you are tweeting a dead link to the evicted forums. Was going to retweet, but noticed the link was dead.

Jan 7, 2012, 9:20pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
If you'll look carefully, you'll see my mistake. I didn't put a space between the exclamation mark at the end of the sentence and the board URL.

D'oh!

Jan 31, 2012, 9:08pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Hey folks, we've got some great new changes coming over the next few days, and the first is that you can now see our Twitter feed at the bottom of each page!

If you haven't visited yet, our Twitter page is at: twitter.com/#!/TheEvicted1

Follow us! Become our willing thralls and live eternally!

Feb 9, 2012, 11:52am, avp60685 wrote:
that is pretty sweet that you can see the tweets down below

Feb 12, 2012, 4:12pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
We're looking for people with all kinds of interests and talents to help us put together support teams to work on our social media sites at Twitter and FaceBook. There has already been phenomenal work there on an individual basis. Now we're ready to put together teams from our members to help get the word out.

If you'd like to be considered, please post in this thread. We'll be looking for help in all areas: graphic design, outreach, you name it. Help us take The Evicted to the next level.

You'll get access to the newly formed support forum for FaceBook and Twitter here on the site, where you can brainstorm, interact with our mods and admins, and put your ideas into action. So come join the team!

Feb 12, 2012, 5:19pm, Cinca wrote:
I can offer art and whatever help needed.

Feb 12, 2012, 5:40pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Thanks Cinca. We'll put your name on the list. Are you interested in one team, the other, or both?

Feb 12, 2012, 5:47pm, Cinca wrote:
Twitter team. I prettied my twitter up before. *g*

Feb 15, 2012, 8:59pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Oh, as a member of this team you will also have access to post on our Twitter and/or Facebook sites!

Feb 15, 2012, 1:53pm, avp60685 wrote:
i can help with finding fun pictures to post from google
and i can help in making sure the account is only gets access by members and fans only

Feb 16, 2012, 9:43am, avp60685 wrote:
i think i am a member of both right moon?

Feb 17, 2012, 11:12pm, animalpragmatism wrote:
well im known as the info girl i can find info on anything thru the net i can do research pretty well

Feb 24, 2012, 8:42pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Ok, awesome AnimalPragmatism. Which team are you interested in, or both?

And yes, AVP, as a SuperMod you're able to to interact on those boards and be a part of the teams as well. You're also an admin at the FaceBook site, and if you need the Twitter site log-in info, just let me know via PM.

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What Do We Want in a Board?

Dec 21, 2011, 7:54pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Here's what I'd like:

1. The freedom to use language as we'd like. On this particular board I can set the word censor myself. I'd encourage everyone to read the TOS at all the boards we're exploring to see what restrictions there are on all aspects, not just this one.

2. The ability to post offsite links.

3. The ability to add smileys.

4. The ability to post jpegs with our post.

5. A support forum that's easy to access for admins

6. A good bit of flexibility in the ability to add graphics and personalize our site so that it looks individual.

7. User-friendly for both casual users and admins

I'm sure that I'm leaving some things out, but this is just to get the conversation started. And of course, some things that are important to me may or may not be important to you.

Difference of opinion and arguments for and against various aspects are welcomed here!

Dec 21, 2011, 9:49pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
To those of us who remember the original boards on the WB, as well as the first days at the CW, where SuperModsSusieQ and Maxine moderated, as well as those all too short days we enjoyed at the 'new' WB site with no mods . . .

I'd like to echo what someone once said about those days, 'you had to have broad shoulders to survive.' What that essentially meant was that if you were outrageously funny, like SpoonieLuv, DuckduckGooseBud, AeryRocks, HiredAssasin,Dislekseeyuh, or any of a host of others, that carried a lot of weight. You could make fun of others, or even fight, if it was done with finesse and you'd often find the mods on your side. If it was done simply or stupidly you'd find yourself in trouble.

I have zero interest in a board where everyone has to be nice all the time. I want them to be outrageous and funny. I think it has to be done on a case by case basis, and I'd argue for doing things as SusieQ and Maxxine did. Sometimes they banned, when need be, but some of those they banned were also their favorite members.

What can I say, it's complex, but there is a certain vibrant quality that you don't want to lose by making the rules too strict. And a lot of stuff we'll figure out as we go on.

Dec 21, 2011, 8:10pm, Ohleesa wrote:
I would love a custom avatar but I dislike banners.

What do others think of banners. I find them distracting.

Dec 21, 2011, 8:13pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Is a banner a picture that appears at the bottom of each person's post?

Oh, let me add another function I'd like: threads with new posts get automatically bumped up to the top, like the former boards we were on.

Oh, I see that this one does that.

Dec 21, 2011, 8:48pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Thanks for the example. That's what I was thinking it was.

Personally I don't mind it, but I'll go with whatever the group consensus is on the issue.

Dec 22, 2011, 9:05am, purpledragon1229 wrote:
I agree. It's hard to read the board when thay have 2 &3 pictures in their signatures. And while the black is sharp looking it hurts my eyes after awhile.

Dec 22, 2011, 5:46pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Yay, I finally got a custom avatar going. Just had to resize it correctly.

Such a shame to have to crop this beautiful cover of Krypto flying over the Kent farm:

So I switched to Shelby. Nice to see that GIF's work here.

Dec 22, 2011, 5:59pm, puppydreams wrote:
It is a judgement call. A lot of people like any opportunity to express themselves - most loving banners, and mutiple tags, etc. I find this all very distracting when looking at a page. Avatars are an individualistic choice as well, but are used by others primarily to differentiate between posts.

People should be able to express themselves visually, but too many things to look at can really interrupt the "flow" of a thread. I especially hate when there are no size restrictions for these photos. I have anti-ad software, because random ads/photos annoy me. Very large banners are like pop-ups that you can't get rid of.

Dec 23, 2011, 6:18am, anicat wrote;
Puppy!! *waves*

BWAHhahahahaha I "designed" (if you can call hacking away at board options until something worked designing) the interface for our Secret Cas Garrison II last August or thereabouts....and it's all black!!!!

EVERYTHING is all dark and electric looking. No white backgrounds or windows anywhere. Heeheehee I've always liked dark interfaces for the dramatic effect, and this time since I had the control I cranked up the darkness to an 11.

I also designed the masthead for us (print designer-speak for the title/logo area at the top of the page.) If you guys want a masthead designed for this forum, I'd be happy to give it a go too. Never could figure out exactly the size needed, there's no style sheet to go by. So I'll just make anything the same size as our Cas site's, and it will be good to go.

We got all our smilies working, one of our gals was able to add the smilies I had saved out before the CWL shut down: pirate, waving, laughing, blinking heart and angel. OF COURSE I saved blinking heart and angel....wherever Cas fans go, hearts and angels must follow.

And I do like the ability to add a pic/vid to the sig line...if only because every time I see Friday's "Misha middle finger" gif it makes me happy. ;D

Dec 23, 2011, 7:48am, puppydreams wrote:
Anicat! Welcome aboard! How goes it? I have been looking at the smilies. Did you guys just save the images, or all of the code that controls them? I have been trying to get a handle on the architecture here.

Edit: You PM or email me if it gets too geeky for everyone.

Dec 23, 2011, 8:08am, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Good morning Puppy!

And glad you're with us Anicat! Your admin status is functional now. I'm hoping you might have saved the Superman emblem smiley from the CW.

Dec 23, 2011, 6:39pm, anicat wrote:
Happy to be here! But alas, no...no Superman smilie. I only saved out the ones I really wanted but knew I didn't have available to me on Nutral Underground. And I just checked their smilie library, no Superman there either...well over a hundred to choose from and ya'd think there'd be one in there somewhere.

All I did was copy the gifs to my Photobucket account, IDK how our Cas board gal got them into the system from there.

"Code" is a 4-letter word, ya'll know that, right?

Dammit, Jim...I'm a designer, not a programmer!

Here's what I have, saved from the CWL and a couple I stole from NU. [image] ;D

Dec 23, 2011, 6:46pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Here's a question, and I'm not even sure what the answer is for me yet. I've learned my lesson about not getting things out there in time from our experience with the last WB board.

How long do we want to wait to make a decision as to which board we pick?

On the one hand, we'd want to get things right, and take our time, perhaps even without a deadline.

On the other, the longer we wait the harder it's going to be to reach people, who might have moved off to other things. Sometimes we work better and get more done with a deadline to meet.

Like I said, I don't know what the answer is even for me, but I think it's a good conversation to have.

What do you think?

Dec 23, 2011, 7:02pm, Ohleesa wrote:
I think it should be soon. People are busy now with the holidays but we should get them involved soon. Based on my Twitter feed-many of the Supernatural fans have been unhappy with their choices of forums.

We got the WB fairly active within a week. At first people were skeptical but they really liked it once they started interacting.

Dec 23, 2011, 7:04pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
It's amazing what we did there. 72 members by the last day. And in a short amount of time, as you say. And I have to say that the boards we're trying have a lot more freedom than we had even there.

Dec 23, 2011, 7:06pm, anicat wrote:
Have any of you visited Harley's site?

newsupernaturalplace.proboards.com

I see a lot of familiar faces there.

Dec 23, 2011, 7:09pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Oh, that's ProBoards too. Nice to see what you can do with it.

I don't think I know any of those folks, but that's because I posted mostly on the main forum and the one for Smallville.

Dec 23, 2011, 7:19pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
I think what I want is a site that brings all of our former members back together under one umbrella. Kinda like BattleStar Galactica, heading for home. (Lord knows, we've fought some Cylons along the way.)

Something more encompassing in scope than a site erected for just one show.

Boy, they have done some great things with that board, though.

Dec 23, 2011, 7:20pm, Ohleesa wrote:
I think there's a reason we had the WB forum active by the end. The TVD forum I belong to has 20 registered members and only about 10 active. I really think we should stick to a smililar setup as CW and WB if we can.

Dec 23, 2011, 7:24pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
You know what I want? First, for us to hit 343 members, the supposed number of members that were on the CW at all times ( ) at the last, then 666 members, the number they had before at all times, supposedly. Then I'll be happy.

Dec 23, 2011, 7:29pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
To get back to the question about how soon we're going to make a decision, I'll put up a poll thread. I need to learn how to do that anyway.

Dec 23, 2011, 7:40pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
I'm sure it's going to look different on a phone. Probably can't handle as much informationn

Dec 23, 2011, 7:45pm, Ohleesa wrote:
It looks 100x better on my phone. It doesn't block any images. These boards look horrible on computers where images are blocked. It really is something to consider. We may have to instruct members on upgrading browsers/removing adware. That makes it less user friendly.

Dec 23, 2011, 7:47pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
What do you think it is? I'm on the latest version of Internet Explorer and I'm not having any problems.

I may have to wade into the support forum and see if there's anything on this.

Dec 23, 2011, 7:52pm, Ohleesa wrote:
I'm not sure. I had no idea what Puppy or Sarah were talking about until I used a different computer. Hopefully it's just an outdated browser. I was hoping Puppy or Sarah could update their browser or adware and see if it fixes it!

Dec 23, 2011, 8:01pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
I'm not much of a techie, but I'm wondering if this post helps anyone who is?

support.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=dyparchive&action=display&thread=309692

Dec 24, 2011, 9:21am, Mistermoonlight wrote:
By the way, folks, I was just over on YouTube, and there are loads of tutorials there on how to do stuff in ProBoards.

Dec 24, 2011, 3:29pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
You know, after just a couple of days of us playing around here I'm willing to say that from the point of view of what you can do here that we couldn't do at the CW, this is infinitely better than the Lounge.

Dec 24, 2011, 5:16pm, puppydreams wrote:
Are we going to limit or censor words, links, or photos? (I'm pretty anti-censorship, but there are some things I would rather not read or see.)

Dec 24, 2011, 5:25pm, Ohleesa wrote:
There are things that can't be posted because it would violate the Terms of Service and Proboard could delete our forum.

Is #18 what you were thinking:

18. OBJECTIONABLE CONTENT

You represent and warrant that you shall not use the Website or Services to upload, post, transmit, display, perform or distribute any content, information or materials that: (a) are libelous, defamatory, abusive, or threatening, excessively violent, harassing, obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, or pornographic; (b) constitute child pornography; (c) solicit personal information from or exploit in a sexual or violent manner anyone under the age of 18; (d) incite, encourage or threaten physical harm against another; (e) promote or glorify racial intolerance, use hate and/or racist terms, or signify hate towards any person or group of people; (f) glamorize the use of hard core illegal substances and drugs; (g) advertise or otherwise solicit funds or constitute a solicitation for goods or services; (h) violate any provision of this Agreement or any other ProBoards agreement or policy, including without limitation ProBoards' Community Guidelines; or (i) is generally offensive or in bad taste, as determined by ProBoards (collectively, "Objectionable Content"). PROBOARDS DISCLAIMS ANY PERCEIVED, IMPLIED OR ACTUAL DUTY TO MONITOR THE CONTENTS OF THE WEBSITE AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR INFORMATION PROVIDED HEREON. Without limiting any of its other remedies, ProBoards reserves the right to terminate Your use of the Website and Services or Your uploading, posting, transmission, display, performance or distribution of Objectionable Content. ProBoards, in its sole discretion, may delete any Objectionable Content from its servers. ProBoards intends to cooperate fully with any law enforcement officials or agencies in the investigation of any violation of this Agreement or of any applicable laws.

Dec 24, 2011, 5:25pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
I'm very anti-censorship.

I'd say obviously we don't want any porn photos or links.

As far as words go, I'd be perfectly happy to deal with it on a case by case basis. Could be that we don't need to load a lot of words into the word censor at the beginning. If and when there's a problem we can easily modify posts and then discuss whether a word should be added or not amongst ourselves.

Dec 24, 2011, 5:32pm, puppydreams wrote:
Thank you!I didn't know that you already agreed to terms when you registered the board.

If we get too big, then we may have to reassess at that point.

Dec 24, 2011, 5:53pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Yes, you always have to agree to a TOS when creating boards on these free forums. Some are more restrictive, others less. This one's about middle of the road from what I can tell.

There was a fan community I know of that posted x-rated fan fiction on their free board--can't remember which one it was--and when somebody complained they just had them put up an age restriction for viewing it. You had to contact a mod or admin to be added to the list.

If you want to view things narrowly, a lot of the stuff said about the CW here and other places could be considered 'libelous.' My reply to Timmy about color choices. after he said "I won't go schizo, will I?' and I replied that he'd be seeing colors, so it was kind of like an LSD trip, could be read by some as promoting drugs, instead of a tongue-in-cheek comment.

I think we pretty well know what's what. One thing's for sure, we'll learn a lot more as we go on.

Dec 29, 2011, 1:25pm, merr wrote:
I thought there was a thread about Emoticons, but I'm not seeing it.

Could we get a better embarassed smilie? The one that we have looks more sad than embarassed. I like the one from the CW where it was all pink/red.

Dec 29, 2011, 1:28pm, tanmi wrote:
...and a vampire. Please.

Dec 29, 2011, 2:00pm, puppydreams wrote:
I am working on the emoticons for the time being. I'm trying to get the basic ones done first, but I'll see what's around. Thanks guys!

Dec 24, 2011, 12:56am, SarahG6 wrote:
I tried to vote for the January 7 option, but it wasn't working.

Mistermoonlight did I tell you I love your avatar?

Edit. It worked for me this morning.

Dec 24, 2011, 6:55am, amnesiavictim wrote:
Whatever you kind folks might choose.....i will follow.

Dec 24, 2011, 4:32pm, purpledragon1229 wrote:
I'm w/Timmy. I'll go wherever you guys do. I will also continue to help in any way I can.

Dec 24, 2011, 4:49pm, puppydreams wrote:
I don't think that anyone cares which board we decide to use. For me, it's all about fuctionality. having active threads move up on the list is more interactive, and so I like it.

The color scheme and images aren't really important to me. As long as it's not obnoxious/too distracting, then we'll all stop seeing it after we use it for awhile.

Dec 23, 2011, 7:38pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
What do you think?

We've been talking about this in the "What Are You Looking for in a Board thread."

Do we need to take more hostages first, or do we have enough?

Dec 24, 2011, 5:36pm, SarahG6 wrote:
I voted for 1/7 but I suppose if we want to get posters, it really should be sooner. The fist new SN is airing on 1/6 and some of the old board members are chomping at the bit. I think we can get a few to post. They may like it better than what they've found because they can see other discussions they may want to choose.

Dec 24, 2011, 5:38pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
That's good to know, about the airdate. Thanks for that info, Sarah!

Dec 26, 2011, 3:01pm, purpledragon1229:
I just attempted to edit the 'skin' on my forum and it's a big pain in the bum! If anyone else would like to attempt it let me know and I'll give you the password for the Editor account.

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Live Chat Now on Site!

Jan 12, 2012, 10:24pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Boards not fast enough for ya? We've gpt a solution! Scroll down to the bottom of any page and join in live chat at The Evicted!

Jan 12, 2012, 11:21pm, Aeryn wrote:
Oooh. Cool. There'd better be someone there!!!!

Jan 13, 2012, 12:16am, isitfridayyet wrote:
The chat thingy totally messed up the boards for me. Everything is way too big and spaced really far apart. o.O

Jan 13, 2012, 12:18am, TinkerToyArchitect wrote;
Yeah, you aren't the only one, I got a security warning, too...I let Moon know about it.

Jan 13, 2012, 8:12am, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Yep. Sorry about that. We're working on getting things fixed now.

Jan 13, 2012, 8:24am, 3sheets2thewind wrote:
So you did something and now the site is acting weird,
shame on you.


Jan 13, 2012, 8:43am, Mistermoonlight wrote:
All fixed now. I should never work on things when I'm sleepy.

Jan 13, 2012, 8:46am, purpledragon1229 wrote:
Please read my signature. If we figure that out, no one will be sleepy ever again!

Jan 13, 2012, 10:46am, MissNiChloe wrote:
Where did you get that quote? I can't help thinking that's been said on Smallville and I could totally see Lois (Maybe Chloe?) saying that.

Jan 13, 2012, 10:48am, purpledragon1229 wrote:
I made it up. I said it @ work one day and everybody loved it.

Jan 13, 2012, 10:56am, MissNiChloe wrote:
I tired searching but to no avail. But I could totally see Lois saying that in Smallville... I don't know, maybe I'm going crazy... as Moon would say, D'oh! Sorry.... but would you mind, since it's your original quote, if I used it in my current fanfic?

Jan 13, 2012, 2:42pm, purpledragon1229 wrote:
Go for it!

Jan 13, 2012, 3:12pm, Aeryn wrote:
MissNiChloe, get on live chat. I'm bored.

Jan 13, 2012, 3:20pm, MissNiChloe wrote:
I think it got taken off for now...

Jan 13, 2012, 4:43pm, MariaARIS3 wrote:
I'm glad this stupid thing is gone... It messed up the boards and my firefox...

Jan 13, 2012, 4:48pm, wrestlingfan2012 wrote:
I know it was scary it was

Jan 13, 2012, 7:40pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Just pretend we were Bill Gates rolling out the new version of Windows.

Suffice it to say, we'll be testing it out over on our test board, discussing it, and if we think it's worth checking out, we'll put a version up that works correctly here (without my extra 'zombie code') to see what you think.

Jan 13, 2012, 8:19pm, gilmorefanalways wrote:
Dmine doesnt say live chat newhere?

Jan 13, 2012, 8:50pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Let's just say that the first version of our experiment with it was similar to Dr. Frankenstein's. Read through this thread and you'll see what I mean. But we've now got it up on our test board and will be trying it out.

Feb 20, 2012, 1:39pm, ashley wrote:
of some sorta live chat thing

Feb 20, 2012, 6:42pm, ashley wrote:
i meen like www.parachat.com/personal/basic/ its like a instant message chat room sorta thing theres better one but i think the nicw ones cost

Feb 20, 2012, 6:54pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
We tried the auxilliary chat service offered by ProBoards to work with their system, but found that it didn't work very well and slowed the board down.

However, the good news is that PB Version 5 will have live chat built in.

BTW, we discovered that one of our admins who left the board wiped out all of the threads she created before going, taking with them lots of posts by others. Pretty juvenile.

We're working on making sure that doesn't happen again.

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The Evicted FaceBook Site is UP!

Jan 20, 2012, 10:27pm, MissNiChloe wrote:
We have a Facebook Page here:

www.facebook.com/pages/The-Evicted/134120843374474

Invite your friends!

Jan 23, 2012, 4:54pm, avp60685 wrote:
and please remember your favorites mods: Supergirl, moon and myself are all admins on there so be sure to look for us there

Feb 11, 2012, 4:58pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Big news! In a Google search for 'The Evicted' our FaceBook site now comes up in 4th place!

Feb 15, 2012, 4:21pm, avp60685 wrote:
yep it means we're moving up in being recognized, once my boyfriend and i set up my new computer then i will definately blog about the site as well and that will help us generate even more people

Feb 17, 2012, 6:50pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
You have no idea how many Googlebots we see floating around the forum at times. We've been getting tons of them, in addition to the 194 or so average visitors a day to this site.

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How to do Invisotext & Scrolling Messages Here (click on "quote" to see how):

Jan 23, 2012, 3:51pm, MissNiChloe wrote:
Thanks for that info... and I loved Teri Hatcher as Lois Lane... she is in the top three as my favorite Lois. Although this board does not have white, you can use beige... you can't see it after posting.

[Highlight] Clark Kent is Superman[Highlight]

I made the above sentence in beige and it can be used for spoilers... just highlight in between the bracketed words and you'll see.

Feb 24, 2012, 9:53pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
As you may remember, at the CW Lounge we were able to use invisotext to post spoilers in a thread. I can't believe it's taken me this long to figure it out, but here's how you do it here on our Evicted ProBoards site.

For some insane reason ProBoards decided to call the color 'beige' instead of 'white.' So simply highlight the spoiler info, then choose 'beige' as the color and you've successfully hidden it from those who don't want to be spoiled.

Additionally, you can add a moving script to your posts by using the Marquee button on the top row ('M') so that it comes out like this:

Spoiler in invisotext below. Left click and highlight to read.

Super-secret spoilery stuff goes here!

Have fun!

Ta-dah!

Feb 24, 2012, 11:16pm, Aeryn wrote:
Hey, this might be fun.


Feb 25, 2012, 7:45pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:


Feb 25, 2012, 7:55pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:


Feb 25, 2012, 9:58pm, antiarbitrator wrote:
Mistermoonlight, I have never been able to [glow=red,2,300]enlarge [/glow]text when I [shadow=red,left,300]click [/shadow]on the font size tab. How did you enlarge your text?

Feb 25, 2012, 9:59pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Ah, very easy. Let me go check something in the kitchen and I'l be right back to answer that in this post.

When you go to compose a post, at the top right, you'll see a black A, which is the tab for font size. When you click on it you'll see two brackets [ size=2] [/size]

Simply change the '2' in the first bracket to something larger to make your fonts bigger.

Feb 25, 2012, 10:01pm, antiarbitrator wrote:
You are amazing! I reread this to see if there was a hidden message.

Feb 25, 2012, 10:07pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
There's certainly enough room for one there. But I only use invisotext for spoilers, and you'll alway find a note in the post if something is invisotext when I do it. There will also be a visible spoiler warning above .

Feb 25, 2012, 10:21pm, antiarbitrator wrote:
Let's see if this works for me.

Karma for Mr. Moon!

Feb 25, 2012, 10:30pm, Aeryn wrote:
Moon doesn't need karma!

Feb 25, 2012, 10:37pm, antiarbitrator wrote:

Although you are right, I was _compelled to give him karma because he is so [glow=red,2,300]helpful [/glow]and I like to play with the different [shadow=red,left,300]features[/shadow].

Mar 7, 2012, 7:32pm, avp60685 wrote:
TIMMY! How is my favorite timmy?



Mar 8, 2012, 5:54am, amnesiavictim wrote:
AVP!!!

Feeling better
How is your back?

...and how do you get the smileys to travel across the post?

Mar 8, 2012, 6:57am, avp60685 wrote:
Back is mostly better and you do you see the M button when you hit reply? click on that and put your text between the two brackets and it will move it



Mar 8, 2012, 9:05am, MissNiChloe wrote:
When you hover over the button with the M on it, you'll see that it is called a Marquee.




Mar 8, 2012, 9:10am, avp60685 wrote:
i knew it had a fancy name i just couldn't think of it thank you sis!

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Anybody Here Know HTML?

Mar 15, 2012, 8:23pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
We need help on a special project. You will be made a member of our Support Team and have access to our special forum for that.

You'll be pledged to absolute secrecy until we pull the project off. [image]

But then you can bask in the glory. [image]

Please respond here or via PM.

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Why We Are Like FIREFLY:

Dec 23, 2011, 8:31pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
1. We were shut down by an unappreciative network who didn't know what they had.

2. Like pirates we found an unused website (that in reality had been our old home) and used it as a staging point, only to be attacked and sent running by a corporate version of the Alliance.

3. We welcomed all, from prostitutes to preachers, and had a wide diversity of characters, from all walks of life. If we'd been offered enough money, we probably would have even hauled cattle or horses. We did carry one very important hamster in this journey.

4. We found our own ship, and set out upon new journeys, seeking to find our allies and family. We have done the impossible. And that makes us mighty.



Dec 24, 2011, 3:49am, anicat wrote:
*bows down in worshipful admiration*

What an awesome analogy!!!! OMG so true.

You know, I'm thinking this might just be the perfect affectionate pet name for the forum: Serenity. In the Firefly sense of the word, and along the lines of finding peaceful equilibrium in this new home.

Sort of like how I originally coined the name "The Garrison" for those of us in the CFC thread, and then came up with "The Beautiful Room" when covertly referring to the new private forum we set up last fall. Now everyone calls it that, even though the actual name is completely different. (Remember how I kept talking about "hanging pictures in the Beautiful Room"? That's how it all got started.

So maybe if this forum gets known around the 'net as the DCWLF (which is sort of an awkward acronym) maybe we can just refer to it as Serenity. Supernatural Serenity? SNrenity?

Dec 25, 2011, 12:22pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Many thanks, AniCat,

I see what you're saying, while we want to have a board title that lets folks know that we're looking for our former comrades, we can pretty much informally call the group whatever we want within these pages. That's good thinking.

While we wouldn't want to have the official title as something with 'Serenity' or 'SN' in it (because that would lead people to believe we're just a Firefly or Supernatural board, we can have a special name we refer to it here as.

Here's a song we found that seems to fit, and could possibly be our theme song:



Like I said on the WB site: they killed our history, but they didn't kill the people who made it. That's the CW's big mistake: not realizing that it was the people who posted that made it special.

Dec 25, 2011, 8:31pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
Take me out to the black
Tell them I ain't comin' back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me
There's no place I can be
Since I found Serenity
But you can't take the sky from me...

Dec 29, 2011, 8:42pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
After the CW Lounge unceremoniously closed our doors to each other, many of us fled to the WB site that they had tried to relaunch a few years ago, then abandoned. There were 72 of us there by the time they shut that one down also. So my initial goal is to get us back up to where we were. Then beyond.

And we're over halfway to 72 as of today, in only 10 days of existence. Yay! ;D

Dec 29, 2011, 8:47pm, amnesiavictim wrote:
This fine site that you and your esteemed team of creators have made is a big smile.
It will be a very short time until that number triples...and beyond.

Well done ....to all of you.......and thank you!

Dec 29, 2011, 9:10pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Thanks, Timmy.

I'll post my quote from over on the WB site, that I don't think has seen the light of day over here yet:

They killed our history. But they didn't kill the people who made it. Their mistake.

Dec 29, 2011, 10:00pm, gilmorefanalways wrote:
a big huge thank u to all of u, u restored what they tried to take away, i literally cannot say how happy i am that we have this place thank u thank u

Dec 29, 2011, 10:04pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Thank you, hearing stuff like that makes it all worthwhile.

I think we all feel the same way!

Dec 29, 2011, 10:11pm, merr wrote:
I'm still trying to get the word out and hopefully we can get more fun people here.

Dec 30, 2011, 7:07pm, avp60685 wrote:
Thanks to an awesome friend I am now back and hopefully I will be back to posting more often

Dec 30, 2011, 11:26pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
And we're glad you are!

An update, we are now over two thirds of our way to the goal as of tonight!

Jan 2, 2012, 5:37pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Hi folks! When we created our new home we set a first goal for ourselves of surpassing the number of members we had at the revamped WB site many of us fled to after the CW Lounge abruptly closed. On that final morning we had 72 members at the WB site, before it too, was yanked from us.

We just hit 74!

Our next goal is to surpass that mysterious 343 members who were showing up as 'online' during the final days of the CW Lounge.

But that's for later.

Right now, it's party time, so let the singing and dancing and fireworks begin!



Jan 2, 2012, 7:10pm, gilmorefanalways wrote:
Yay! gooo us!!!!! hoooray yaaaaayyy!! and again thank u for all of u that created these boards for us usually n life when sumthin good is gone its gone forever and we have to sit aroundd and miss it but thank you so much that u didnt let that be the case for the boards thank u soooo much!!!

Jan 2, 2012, 7:19pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Thank you, GilmoreFanAlways. We're just like you.

The connections we've made in these forums make us all like family. And it will take more than a network's marketing strategy to tear that apart. This is your place. This is our place.

Now, let's go out there and get all the missing members back!

And let's celebrate what we've accomplished too, for each single person has made it possible.

Jan 2, 2012, 7:35pm, MissNiChloe wrote:
We actually bypassed our goal as of today... 77 and counting as of the time of my post!!!



Jan 2, 2012, 7:55pm, TinkerToyArchitect wrote:
Excellent! Not only are we rolling with members, but this new site is beyond cool (dare I say, cooler than the one(s) we left)!
Go Team Evicted!!!


Jan 2, 2012, 9:17pm, ashley wrote:
and at least here we know our mods will actually hear us and respond

Jan 2, 2012, 9:22pm, MissNiChloe wrote:
Yes we will, because we were members of the CW too and we know how that felt (at least after SusieQ and Maxine left)

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Our Awesome New Masthead!

Dec 29, 2011, 8:11pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Many thanks to our superb graphic designer anicat who created it!

In that image you'll see quite a story. As anicat describes it:

"The green on the side and curling lines are meant to reflect the "Green Goo", and its reach into our lives. The crowd of footprints walking away are symbolic of leaving. And in its own way, the sand is impermanence."

The masthead actually tells our story in both images and words.

The name 'The Evicted' comes from our own PurpleDragon, who, when we were researching boards to use, set one up with that wonderful title.

The word 'home' in the description below that comes directly from Ohleesa, who turned us on to this amazing song which we kinda took as our theme song for the forum immediately:



This truly was a group effort, and many thanks to everyone who helped, especially you anicat, for taking all this divurgent stuff and putting it together graphically in the perfect way.

Dec 29, 2011, 8:17pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
I think, if I remember right, that I can post this in all forums. Let me try.

Maybe not. Or I forgot where I read it. Anyway, I'll just copy it into the forums.

Dec 29, 2011, 8:20pm, purpledragon1229 wrote:
Turn it into an announcement. You can do it @ the bottom of the page you don't need to go to the admin section.

Dec 29, 2011, 8:24pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Awesome, that did it. Thanks Purple!

Dec 29, 2011, 8:26pm, purpledragon1229 wrote:
That was one of those learning on the fly things. I meant to make a sticky and forgot but found the sticky button!

Dec 30, 2011, 5:31am, anicat wrote:
*takes bow* ;D

Thanks, everyone! I'm happy you all like it.

But like Mistermoonlight said upthread, it is a collaborative effort...I had a general idea of the graphic concept I wanted, but after learning the name "The Evicted" it was like the exact vision of how it had to look came together.

I see it as something that can be read two ways: one as a sort of lonely image of what happened to all of us, all the footprints walking away as a reminder of people who once were there, but now are gone, our leave-taking. But I prefer to think of the footprints as evidence that we all left together, and are walking towards someplace better.

Dec 31, 2011, 6:04pm, shadowhund wrote:
anicat, wow, that's so beautiful, you did such a good job and I am very proud to be here. I am really glad that so much posters from the CWlounge came here and its more than home feeling here, its much better.

The masthead is beautiful and the theme is so fitting and its reminding me at the old CW, the letters, the green color, the foot steps, GREAT JOB, thank you!!!

And its so much better here with the things we can do and post thank you all[glow=red,2,300][/glow]

Dec 31, 2011, 6:10pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
I think that's just the beginning of the great things anicat is gonna do here. We're so lucky to have someone with her talents on our staff!

Jan 2, 2012, 6:52pm, ashley wrote:
its awesome the swirls kinda remind me of the one for the site i did

Jan 2, 2012, 6:53pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Hey, we'd love to see 'em, Ash.

Jan 2, 2012, 7:06pm, ashley wrote:
ill post um on my art thread cuz i dont wanna muck up your forum when i have a place

Jan 2, 2012, 8:13pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Hey, nothing you could ever do would muck up the place!

Update: I just saw it in your thread, Ash, and you know what's going on? Many of us here have been having the same ideas at the same time. It's synchronicity, and your drawings show it's very real. It's just like what happened in Close Encounters of the Third Kind!

Jan 2, 2012, 8:16pm, ashley wrote:
well i posed it in my thread i just dident wanna post my stuff everywhere when i do have a place thx for the home

Jan 2, 2012, 8:19pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
Thanks. It IS your home, and all of ours, too, and we're so glad you found us!

Jan 2, 2012, 8:21pm, ashley wrote:
do yall want me to put a link to this site on the one Harley and I started

Jan 2, 2012, 8:24pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
That would be great. We want all of our people to see the beacon and join us! It's not home unless we've got everybody, right?

Jan 2, 2012, 8:32pm, ashley wrote:
almighty will do who would you want me to say made the board so i know what to put beside the link

Jan 2, 2012, 8:34pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
I made it, but it wasn't just me, it was former CW Lounge and WB forum members.

Jan 2, 2012, 8:39pm, ashley wrote:
okie dokie dude newsupernaturalplace.proboards.com/index.cgi this ones the one harley and made

Jan 2, 2012, 8:58pm, Mistermoonlight wrote:
You guys have really done some amazing work over there! It's a great looking site. And you've got 50 members--awesome.

I see Miss Giggles finally launched her Shipper-Free thread. She was nice enough to ask me if I'd mind, since she wanted to model it on my Shipper-Free Smallville Forum thread, and I told her 'go for it.'

What we're trying to create over here is more a replica of what we had at the CW Lounge and the two WB sites in our group history, with all the fandoms united. So, if you'd like to give a link to us that would be great. Thanks!

Jan 2, 2012, 9:13pm, ashley wrote:
i already made a post abot yall here we have a area for other forums so i put yall in there I also thought about tring to make out board trend on twitter but we lack the manpower the lease we can do is help one another out

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Being considerate of others:

On the CW site, one of our helpful posters said this:

A Common Courtesy To Fellow Posters

1. Before making a new thread please take a few moments to glance the board and see if a thread of a similar nature has already been posted.

2. When typing please use full and complete sentences with correct grammar. It makes it very difficult to read when people turn what could be a paragraph into one long sentence. Try and organize your thoughts with periods.

3. Spell things correctly and steer clear of IM slang terms and acronyms; those are annoying.