Question from a noob.
 

I joined awhile ago, and was about to post my first post in the politics thread. It was pretty long, and had a few links in it to back up what I was saying. However, I couldn't post because it said I needed more posts before I could post links...Hm.

How many posts?

Moved to Board Support.

Due to a certain unfortunate incident, new posters aren't allowed to post urls in posts. It's one of several restrictions that I think expire after 10 posts.

Thank you very much.
I typed out a whole shpiel only to realize I couldn't post it, lol.

you can always just manipulate your urls, like changing http:// to hxxp:// or something.

ohh! I didn't even think of that.

If we now get a torrent of free iPod threads with stealth links in, I'm holding you personally responsible, Roph.

Sorry to hear about your PP post, Spiderweb but like Styphon says, it's a pretty useful feature and it doesn't really take that long to find 10 or so meaningful things to say. ^_^

Hopefully spam advertisers will get it through their head that it's a waste of time to spend ten minutes signing up and validating yourself only to post one message and leave on their own/get banned.

Hah, I understand what the feature is for. Still annoying, especially since I've got 11 posts and am still having trouble with it.

I have another post count question.

How many posts do I need to post images here?

The same amount that you need to obtain url posting privileges. (it's more than 10, actually)

Does anybody know how many posts it takes?!

Bigblah knows but he's gonna keep it a secret. If it was common knowledge, people who wanted to circumvent the rule would simply drop the minimum number of spam posts and then start with the adverts.

It's enough to discourage the sort of people we don't want and few enough for you to pass it just after you've gotten a feel for how the board works.

Ahh, confidential. Noted, thank you.

I forgot to ask this in my last post.

Is it possible to change the skin of these forums? This shade of blue is kind of disorientating.

I like message boards with a light gray or white color.

EDIT: Also, how do you know your post count? Is it the Level thing under your avatar?

http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/pr...do=editoptions

Look under forum skin. Light set may or may not be what you're looking for.

But the GFF blue is the default skin and what most of us use and what we base transparancy or background color when making sigpics. Using any other color skin will make these sigpics look a bit off. Just a heads up for you.

Personally, I find the colors to be pleasing on the eye.

Light set is blue as well.

Why do you need to know your post-count?

I'm assuming you've never even tried light set. :tpg:

Maybe it's called ''light'' because it's a lighter shade of blue. :confused:

You're damn skippy! Does it just make it so you have no avatars, sigs, and pictures or something? I remember the old light set would make it just black text and white background with names and no avatars, sigs, or images. It was interesting.

Pardon? Disorien-WHAT?

I...you...aargh...hurts to.....

Look, Mac. Just get the Final Fantasy VII OST and go, okay?

Each of the forum skins have the same shade of blue. Thanks for the help though.



Just curious, that's all. :p



Yeah, I should've seen that earlier. XD



It's a word that means confusing or losing your bearings. A dictionary is your friend. :)



Relax, friend. No need to have a conniption over a statement made by someone who simply prefers message boards to have lighter colors rather than darker ones.

Mac? Are you from the 60s or something (not that that's a bad thing)?

I've had that for several months now, actually. How did you know I like Final Fantasy? ;)

Ahem.

Go to the Allwords website. Type in disorientating.

A more thorough dictionary is your friend. :)

It ends with Dot, c, o, and m.

Oh, good. That means you can skip ahead to the part wherein you go away.