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You can find basic information about our forum in these topics:
You can find tutorials about BBCode usage and other things in these topics:
General users’ titles are based on post count:
And then there are forum staff positions:
Titles other than these (Slayer of Silence, Ilmarinen, Hel, Saraswati) are personal titles for admins
The staff is recruited from active users of the board when there is a need for a new one. They are chosen by the existing staff and, unless there is a special circumstance, will join the rank of skalds first. Moderators and Admins are bound to be over 18 for legal reasons.
The large boards are the main boards, and the smaller ones are child boards. The child boards are like subtopics in the main boards.
These boards have sensitive content that are hidden from nonmembers, to protect the data users choose to share in them a little better.
This board is restricted to members who are older than 18 and have more than 12 posts. You can apply to see it by going to your profile, under "modify profile" choose "group membership", scroll down to Over 18 and hit "request membership". Your request will be processed by our board moderators.
We recently did a big forum restructuring, opening the forum up to a wider variety of fan content and discussion as SSSS nears its endpoint. All the old content is still here, it just might be in a slightly different place! We also have several new boards, including the Worlds and Stories Board where you can talk about a whole host of different works of fiction with your fellow forum users. Every month a new webcomic is featured in the Comic of the Month, which you can read and discuss.
The format of an internet forum is mainly intended for sharing opinions about topics in longer form, and not real-time(-ish) 1-3 word chatter, so posts such as “Okay.”, “Wow.”, or “:D” are strongly discouraged. If expressing yourself via chatting is more like your cup of tea, feel free to join our SSSS IRC chatroom!
Anything illegal, also please be sensitive of the fact that we are an international community with many different backgrounds and opinions. You are allowed to discuss religion or politics as long as it doesn’t devolve into flamewars. If that happens, you can expect mods to swoop in and apply the cleanse cycle as many times as needed. In-depth political discussion or debate should be kept to the Politics Board.
No, forum attachments have been disabled to conserve storage space on the server.
PG-13 is the MPAA rating Minna uses for SSSS to clarify that it may not be suitable for younger audiences. You know, because horribly aberrated trolls and the like.
At the bottom of each post there is a link that says “Report to moderator”. Click on it and leave a message as to why you are reporting the post. Only moderators and admins can see reported posts.
At the bottom of each personal message there is a link that says “Report To Admin”. Click on it and leave a message as to why you are reporting the personal message. Only Admins See reported PMs.
You can find links to emergency helplines here.
If you want something changed on the forum, or if you have an idea that can be applied to the forum, there is an improvements thread for your suggestions. If something seems to be broken, or you think you’ve found a bug, you can report it in the Bugs and Things to Fix thread.
Fire. Lots of fire. And explosions.
The general rule of thumb is: As long as the sensitive material is within what the canon SSSS comic has portrayed/contained, you can post it freely. If you went a little over that, put it inside a spoiler or behind a link, and provide a warning.
Yes, as long as there is no sexual content; nudity in the context of something like bathing or a sauna scene is OK. And if there is nudity or implied nudity, please use a spoiler.
Yes, if the image you want to post has a size exceeding 10MB, please put it behind a link or spoiler, to make life of people with a slow and/or limited internet connection a bit easier. Pictures larger than 700px wide will automatically be resized by the forum.
In your profile settings go to account settings and uncheck the box that says “show others my online status”.
You can get the flags to show up by entering in :country: with the name of the country you want the flag for. If the flag you are looking for does not show up, you can request it. A list of flags currently on the forum
Go to profile then select forum profile from the options in the sidebar. Click choose picture next to where it says "personalized picture". The forum will resize your picture automatically.
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