Ummm, this is kinda silly question, but... what happened to our "Welcome" greeting posts to another What no Bacon that we posted on early Thursday (5/11) morning on "Newcomers" thread?? They seem to have all disappeared.

(And, just for my curiousity, did the person get banned, or got warning for using that name?? 'cause I don't see his/her "Hi I'm new" post anymore, too!! )

But, anyway, the greetings we posted for him/her are not there anymore, but... we didn't do anything wrong by posting our greetings to him/her, right??
I mean, we slightly joked, and added some comments about his/her ID, but I thought we kept it more or less in line with our greetings...

I'm sorry but I don't really know how to make a signature. I know where to go to make one but I just
have no idea. This is really the first time I've been in any forum online. It took me forever to find out
how to make an avatar. Someone please help me!

I have this problem too and I was like you until someone rescued me *wipes tear*

Firstly do you have a photobucket album? if not, you can create an account here
Second, you upload the images. Don't miss out the image which you want it to be your siggie!
Third, under "Edit Signature", insert the URL of the image that you want (it is located directly under that image).. Then proceed to update your siggie..
And, there you are ^^

I have a dumb question now, does anyone see the "warning" thing under my avvy? I wonder what it is.. It seems like something bad to me..

No one but the Mods can see other peoples warings. Click the number and it should bring up the reason for the warning.
It serves no pupose other than to le the mods know who is being dumb, spammy or a berk so other mods know who to keep an eye on. I fyou behave I think it can be lowered.

lol mine has a warning saying 'stfu' from the site owner

Ooh.. No wonder I can't see others'.. I see mine as 0% here.. I guess I've been a good girl

Sounds fair to me. Oddly I have no warnings which I find odd considernig how mean I probably was.(Personaly I thought I was fine but I'm sure others rightly think I was a git)

So MeLRizA, what did you do?

I've read your posts @ the "nemesis" thread.. I laughed @ them anyway..

Some of my posts tend to go a lil' overboard.. but I'll always refrain from it. Its not nice to do so anywayz.. I thought I might be warned for being too chatty Overall, its nothing much

Thanks, but I see alot of people with custimezed signatures. Like with there names on the pics.

@ElricAlchemist - You can ask some of our talented members to make one for you!!
Go to Sig shop Mall section of our board, and post on some of the sig shop threads, such as
Nil-chan's sig shop and tell what you like for your sig to be, and she can make one for you.

I don't know if this is the place for this, but this has always been irking me, and now that the people on Lj reacted also, I feel like I should ask; The arts and avatars in the gallery are not credited, and can therefore be considered stolen (and that is pretty ironic for a site where there's a topic against art thievery), so I was wondering if mesures could be taken (plus, people said that they emailed bryantq but that he had always been ignoring this matter).

It'll take a lot of effort to go through the galleries to see which things are credited vs not credited.
Who knows it, it might not be credited, but has been posted several times before on other sites etc.


Perhaps you can restrict new submissions to credited works only or remove pieces of art upon request. There's a total of 7000+ images in the gallery. I feel sorry if anyone has to through them for this.


To go back and look through the entire gallery is a wasted effort in my opinion. The mods have better things to do (with their real lives) then spend time appeasing some uppity art communities' "high" standards.

The art and avatars used to be :\ unfortunately with the gallary collapse and restore, this is the only method in which we are able to restore the gallery. (Importing the images by one user at bulk).

However, users can feel free to send the moderators a request for the images to be tagged by the artists. Thats what the gallery mods are there for . It is however not feasible for us to go through the images and try to determine the author (especially if one isnt plainly signed).

I have a question about being bannd, when you're banned can't you just change your username, and come back? If so what's the point in banning people if they can just come back?

I'm pretty sure the ISP is banned so no one from that IPS can register again.
Why do you want to know anyway?

I was just thinking it would be pretty pointless if someone could just re-register.

don't worry about it...seriously

I have another question, what are blogs, and what are they for?

a blog is an online journal/diary

Thanks,I learn something new here everday.

Can someone tell me where to find directions on, how to add a picture to my sig?

first host the picture using either http://photobucket.com/ or http://img1.imageshack.us/ (ie upload the picture from your computer to the website)

then use the img tags

I'm sure that info is in the Beginers guide.

EKE: It is...

BWahaha i know how to change mine i think.
but i havent done anything bad enough to get banned so XD

and there are ways to counter-act that too.

I know XD

Um, is there a certain way to watch a tread like every time it gets a post you know?

because i forget that i am trying to keep updated with a tread and then i get all way behind and stuff. XD

(its probably an obviouse answer that i overlooked or already know)

Look at the first post on this page or whatever thread you're interested in ... on the upper right hand corner of the topmost post there should be a drop down menu labelled : Options ?
Select "Track this topic" and choose the type of updates you want.(it'll end up taking you to My Controls)

you can probably automatically enable this to track every thread you post in too.

Wow your the best

When you go to add a post, check the option that says "Enable email notification of replies?" under 'Post Options' (it's available under Fast Reply, too). Then, if you no longer wish to receive those spammy little e-mails every single time someone adds a post, you can "unsubscribe" to threads/topics in a section of your Control Panel.

EDIT: Meh, asu-san beat me to it. X3 That method works, too.

Off-topic: Does Fast Reply work for you? It takes me to the main fma page.
edit: nm, I have to enable scripting for this page for it to work.

I used to utilize 'fast reply' a lot in an older versioin of IPB, and it didn't require me to enable scripting. Oh well.

Okay, so I can't use any of the avatars in the gallery? Because I've been worried I'd get thrown off or something...

You can use them, hence why we upload them. All you're asked to do is put the name of the uploader in your sig as credit I.E: Credit to Jimmy for my Ava.

Really? Awesome! Thank you! Thanks popogeejo! *runs off guilt free*

I can't see some peoples avas', and sigs'.I can see some peoples but only a few peoples.
I also can't see th BBcode help icons.
I've been in other forums, and I can still see sigs, and avas' fine.It's just here.Does anyone know what's wrong?
(I'm not sure if it's my computer or what.I have enternet explorer.)

hit F5 a few times >_>

I tried that, but it isn't woring.

can you see my avatar?

if not see if you can open this up: http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/8274/kittysleep24lf.gif

No, I can't see yours.I can only see a very few amount of peoples sig, or ava.

That Kitten was cute but it doesn't show where you're ava should be, Mr. Asunder, even after opening it and refreshing this page several times...

clear your dns cache


start menu -> run

in the run box, type: 'cmd' and hit enter
this should bring up a big black box ( a command prompt)

in there type:

"ipconfig /flushdns"

you should get a message that says:



(of course i first should have asked what os you're using )

It's no big deal to me but I was wondering how do you change the time that a profile says is your local time?

http://www.fullmetal-alchemist.com/forums/...=UserCP&CODE=04
The Time Zone part / Your base time zone

Thanks for the help again asunder.

I have a question: I thought when you posted 50 times, your rank is upgraded to "Apprentice". Yet, this is going to be my 55th post, and I'm still at "Citizen". So, when can I change ranks?

probably around 100 or 200?

Don't worry too much about "Rank". It's not about how many posts you have, you'll get a lot more respect if you make thoughtful/intelligent posts.

Quality > Quantity.

Thanks a lot. Anyway, it's not like I go around spamming all the time, I just find random boards to post in.

Your rank will rise by every 100 posts. I remeber someone telling me about it. Though mods claim that quality is the one that you need when you post, most of the users are more affectionate to the people who have 200 posts or more.

Rank doesn't increase linearly....for example i haven't changed rank since post 500~

And in truth, post count means nothing.

If you haven't learned the rules by 200 posts, be sure to know that people will still b*tch at you for it.

I just tried to register my sister.And when she logs in the pc says the password is wrong.So I typed in her ID, and validation key for her, and it still said it was wrong. But she still shows up as the newest member.Does anyone know what's going wrong?

ahh i responded in the other thread. try what i said there.

I got another posting rank question: My profile says I've posted 89 times, but I've counted 107 posts when I went to see all my posts. So, is there something up with that, or do certain posts, like those in the spam central thread, not count?