Moderators
Moderators control individual forums. They can edit, delete, or move any posts in their forums. If you have a question about a particular forum, you should direct it to your forum moderator.

Changing Your Profile and Preferences
You may easily change any information stored in your registration profile, using the "profile" link usually located near the top of each page. If you are already logged in, all of your profile information will appear on screen. You cannot leave blank any fields required by your administrator.

Cookies
The discussion board uses cookies to store your login information, if any. These cookies are stored on your browser. You can delete this cookie at any time by clicking the logout link on any discussion board page. You may choose to delete the cookie at the end of your own browser session automatically by selecting the option "Disable cookie logins if other people use this computer" when you first login.

Editing Your Posts
You may edit your own posts for a period of time selected by the administrator. Just go to the topic where the post to be edited is located. Click on the edit icon to edit or delete the post. No one else can edit your post, except for the forum moderator or the discussion forum administrator. A note is generated at the bottom of each post that is edited so that every one knows when a post has been edited. Note that if your post started a new topic and has replies, you will not be able to delete your post.

Adding Signatures
You may use a signature on your posts if your administrator allows them. You can choose to include a signature in any post by checking the "include signature" box when you create your post. You may also change your signature at any time by changing your profile.

Note: You may use HTML in your signature file if the administrator permits it. However, it is safest to use plain text or UBBCode™ rather than HTML..

Attaching Files
Files can be attached to posts if the administrator gives permission. Some users may be allowed to attach files and others may not. The administrator may also decide to approve all attachments before they appear.

Searching For Specific Posts
You may search for specific posts based on a word or words found in the posts, user name, date, and particular forum(s). Just click on the "search" link at the top of most pages.

Censoring Posts
The bulletin board administrators have the power to censor certain words. This censoring is not an exact science, however, so certain words may be censored out of context. Please realize that the censoring, if any, is done by a computer based on a word list set by the administrator. Censored words are replaced with asterisks.

Lost User Name and/or Password
Retrieving your username and password is simple. All of the pages that require your username and password carry a "lost password" link that you can use to have your username and password emailed instantly to your email address of record.

View posts since your last visit
Use this link at the top of the list of forums to provide a list of all topics in that forum new since your last login.

What are posting icons?
Depending on the configuration of your forums, you may be able to associate an icon with each post that you make. Each icon expresses a different emotion or identification. These icons range from a simple note to sadness to warning and will appear next to each topic in a forum listing and on each post. If you do not see icons, your forum administrator may not be allowing icons on this particular forum.

I posted something and it didn't show up!
On some of our boards we may be using the moderation feature. If so, your post will appear as soon as it has been approved by the designated moderator of the forum.