- Blogs
Blogs are similar to Articles on this forum, but All forumers are allowed to post to here. Blogs often times include in-game adventures, quotes from forum threads, etc.
How To Create A Blog
There are two ways of creating blogs.
If you want to directly turn a post from a thread to a Blog, at the bottom of the post, where it says "Blog This Post", click it, and your selected reply will be quoted and published as a blog.
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OR
If you want to Write a blog entry, Click Community
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Scroll Down, Click Blogs
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Next, Click Create New Post
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Next, Write your blog entry
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After you finished writing your blog, you will have three options:
Save Draft: Your entry will be saved as a draft, which you can later edit then post
Preview: You can see a preview of what your blog entry will look like, once its posted. (Note: Clicking Preview does not Post the entry)
Post Now: Your blog entry is posted
- Articles
Articles are similar, in way to Blogs, except that only STS staff can post to here (Currently, Spacetime Games is the only STS staff member that has posted entries to here)
- Creating/Joining Forum Groups
Forum Groups are like "mini Sub-Forums" on this main STS forum.
There are setting which you can select when creating a group
Creating Forum Groups
This is what the forum group that I use to write guides looks like:
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Group Category:
This basically means "What game is this group for?"
This will make searching for that group easier.
I listed mine as "uncategorized" which means, it does not apply to any One game.
There are 3 types of groups:
1. Invite Only= You can only join if the person that maintains that group invites you
2. Moderated= You can request to join the group, but the person that maintains the group MUST approve your request first, before you can join.
3. Public= Anyone can join, no request to join required.
There Are Two Options On Creating Threads (called "messages"):
1. The creator of the group can decide whether people within the group can post messages or not.
2. The creator can decide if people must join first to view content, or that anyone, in the group or not, can view the content.
Joining A Group:
1. Click on "Community", From the drop-down menu, click "Groups"
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2. (This is my group) This is an example of a forum group
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Notice how mine has two options: "Edit" and "Delete"
Because I maintain that group, I see those two options.
For people who are NOT the owner of that group, it will show buttons like this:
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Or it may show nothing (if it is an invite only group)
- Adding Quotes
Quotes work like this
Note: delete the space between the brackets "[" or "]" when writing quotes
[ quote=<Name Here> ]
This Is A Quote Of What Someone Said
[ /quote ]
It will be shown like this:
How Do I reply with quotes?Originally Posted by <Name Here>
This Is A Quote Of What Someone Said
There are two ways to do that:
- For quoting one (1) person: click the "Reply With Quote" button.
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- Adding Friends
There are two ways you can add friends.
- The 1st way is to Send Another Forum-er a Friend Request.
- The 2nd way is to Accept Another Forum-er's Friend Request.
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You will have to click the check box next to their forum avatar, then click "Save Changes"
You are now friends with the other forumer.
- The Ignore List
Sometimes on forums, you may come across someone who is being mean to you and you want to be able to ignore what they message you.
Step One:
Go to Settings
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Step Two:
Scroll down and look at the menu on the left, click "Edit Ignore List"
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Step Three:
Add the name of the person you want to ignore, then click "Ok"
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- Infractions/Bans
Bans mean that your ingame (or forum) account is not allowed to log in for X amount of time (ranges from 3 days to Forever)
How can I avoid a ban?
1. Follow the STS Terms of Service, and STS Forum Rules.
A few other rules (Applies to Forum and Ingame):
1. No profanity (meaning bad words) is allowed
2. Do NOT attempt to Scam others
Types of Scams: Guide to Scams HERE
(Credits to Prynce)
3. Buying/Trading/Selling of accounts is NOT allowed.
Infractions are forum private messages that a STS Moderator sends to the user who had broken a Forum Rule.
It is considered a Warning and if the person continues to break rules, their account will be banned for a certain amount of time (from 1 day to Forever)
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