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Site Suggestions & Support / New thread awaiting approval
« on: August 18, 2011, 06:28:15 AM »
I started a new thread in the forum games section and got a message that it is waiting for mod approval. Is this a new feature on the boards?
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Site Suggestions & Support / Introduction to the Forum
« on: July 16, 2011, 04:40:13 PM »
Hi Fred and/or Mods
When newcomers log in for the first time could it not maybe be set up to go straight into a board call Introduction to the Forum?
This board need not be very large, consisting only of a few stickied threads such as "The Book of Don't", maybe a thread where new members can introduce themselves etc. To avoid unnecessary clutter, new topics may only be started by mods should a new topic be needed.
I know most of these topics already fall under Announcements / Site Suggestions / Story of Us and so on, but when I started here I posted for 3 months before venturing anywhere other than the DF Spoilers board(and even then I had only read the "This is a spoiler okay zone" thread). This could potentially cut down on some of the new posters overstepping a line before being pointed to the rules by moderator, kind of a, when you started you were given the oppurtunity to go over how things are done here.
Just my 2 cents
When newcomers log in for the first time could it not maybe be set up to go straight into a board call Introduction to the Forum?
This board need not be very large, consisting only of a few stickied threads such as "The Book of Don't", maybe a thread where new members can introduce themselves etc. To avoid unnecessary clutter, new topics may only be started by mods should a new topic be needed.
I know most of these topics already fall under Announcements / Site Suggestions / Story of Us and so on, but when I started here I posted for 3 months before venturing anywhere other than the DF Spoilers board(and even then I had only read the "This is a spoiler okay zone" thread). This could potentially cut down on some of the new posters overstepping a line before being pointed to the rules by moderator, kind of a, when you started you were given the oppurtunity to go over how things are done here.
Just my 2 cents
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DF Reference Collection / Jim-Butcher.com - A Dictionary (could contain some spoilers)
« on: July 16, 2011, 03:04:02 PM »
After seeing a few people asking for explanations of the acronyms we use here, I thought I'd put a small dictionary (alphabetically of course) together for newcomers:
(Please add any I've missed (that are actively used in the threads) to the thread and I'll add them to the OP.)
Dresden Files
The Books (and other works)
AM = Depending on context of post either Aftermath (short story) or Ancient Mai
BAT = Big Apocalyptic Trilogy - The final 3 books of the Dresden Files (projected to be books 21-24 but could be as late as book 24-26)
BR = Blood Rites (book 6)
CD = Cold Days (book 14)
DB = Dead Beat (book 7)
DF = Dresden Files
DFRPG = Dresden Files Role Playing Game
DM = Death Masks (book 5)
FM = Fool Moon (book 2)
GG = Goul Goblin, Original graphic novel
GP = Grave Peril (book 3)
GS = Ghost Story (book 13)
MM = Mirror Mirror (book 17)
PG = Proven Guilty (book 8 )
PT = Peace Talks (book 16)
SG = Skin Game (book 15)
SF = Storm Front (book 1)
SK = Summer Knight (book 4) (or the actual summer Knight)
SmF = Small Favour (or Favor, depending on region
) (book 10)
TC = Turn Coat (book 11)
TDF = The Dresden Files
WN = White Night (book 9)
WttJ = Welcome to the Jungle, the original DF Prequel Graphic Novel.
Characters
Al - Alfred (Demonreach)
AM = Depending on context of post either Aftermath (short story) or Ancient Mai
BM = Bolshevik Muppet
DR = Demonreach
DV = Dresdenverse
Eb = Ebenezar
EBG = Eldest Brother Gruff
Eeb/s = Red Court Assassins
GC = Depending on context of post either Grey Cloak or Grey Council
GK = Gatekeeper
HWWB = He Who Walks Behind
HWWB4 = He Who Walks Before
LtW = Listens to Wind (Injun Joe)
Nemfection = Nemesis infection
SK = Summer Knight (book 4) (or the actual summer Knight)
TTH = Time-travelling Harry
TWC = The White Christ (use of this term and TWG helps insulate fictional theorizing from encroaching on RL religion / TT)
TWG / WG = The White God
WK = Winter Knight (rarely used for White (vampires) King)
Yrrah = Mirror Mirror (i.e. alternate universe) Harry
Groups and Places
AT = Arctis Tor
BC = Depending on context of post either Black Court (vampires) or Black Council
BCV = Black Court vampires
Blampires = Black Court vampires
DR = Demonreach
GC = Depending on context of post either Grey Cloak or Grey Council
Jampires = Jade Court vampires
JLC = Justice League of Chicago
KotC - Knight(s) of the Cross
LC = Little Chicago
LoOn = Lords of Outer Night
NH = Nickleheads (The Denarians)
NN = Nevernever
Rampires = Red Court vampires
RCV = Red Court vampires
SC = Senior Council
SoI = Spirit of Intellect
WC = Depending on context of post either White Court (vampires) or White Council
WCV = White Court vampires
Whampires = White Court vampires
WK = Winter Knight (rarely used for White (vampires) King)
Codex Alera
AF = Academs Fury (book 2)
CA = Codex Alera
CF = Captains Fury (book 4)
CuF = Cursors Fury (book 3)
FLF = First Lords Fury (book 6)
FoC = Furies of Calderon (book 1)
HIB = Her Imperial Bugginess (Vord Queen Prime)
PF = Princeps Fury (book 5)
The Cinder Spires
CS = The Cinder Spires
TAW = The Aeronaut's Windlass (book 1)
General (This is the first and only forum I've ever posted on (And I might not be the only one). I still have to sometimes ask what these are
)
AFAIK = As Far As I Know
AoE = Area of Effect (seen it used in some threads, adding it in)
ASoIaF = A Song of Ice and Fire (Books they based Game of Thrones on (We have a lot of George R.R. Martin fans here, so this comes up fairly often))
BB = Brain Bleach
BTW = By The Way
ETA = Edited to Add (or Estimated Time of Arrival in military context)
FIFY = Fixed It For You
FTW = For The Win
FWIW = For What It's Worth
FYI = For Your Information
GRRM = George RR Martin
IDK = I Don't Know
IIRC = If I Recall Correctly
ILG = Industrious Little Gnome, better known as Priscellie
IMO = In My Opinion
IMHO = In My Honest?/Humble? Opinion
IRL = In Real Life
JB = Jim Butcher
LFG = Looking For Group
NPH = Neil Patrick Harris
NSFW = Not Safe For Work
OP = Original Post
POV = Point Of View
QFT = Quoted for Truth
RaFO = Read and Find Out (I believe originally sourced from Robert Jordan when people asked him for hints about the Wheel of Time)
SHOV = Secret Hollowed Out Volcano shhhh it's a secret
Smex = You don't want to know
TT = Touchy Topics (A board that no longer exists)
(ttW) = TVTropes (ttW) Warning, Obligatory warning that must follow any link to tvtropes.
WAG = Wild Ass Guess
WOJ = Word of Jim (with a special shout out to Serack for all his awesome work on the WoJ board)
WRT = With Respect To (as it pertains to)
(Please add any I've missed (that are actively used in the threads) to the thread and I'll add them to the OP.)
Dresden Files
The Books (and other works)
AM = Depending on context of post either Aftermath (short story) or Ancient Mai
BAT = Big Apocalyptic Trilogy - The final 3 books of the Dresden Files (projected to be books 21-24 but could be as late as book 24-26)
BR = Blood Rites (book 6)
CD = Cold Days (book 14)
DB = Dead Beat (book 7)
DF = Dresden Files
DFRPG = Dresden Files Role Playing Game
DM = Death Masks (book 5)
FM = Fool Moon (book 2)
GG = Goul Goblin, Original graphic novel
GP = Grave Peril (book 3)
GS = Ghost Story (book 13)
MM = Mirror Mirror (book 17)
PG = Proven Guilty (book 8 )
PT = Peace Talks (book 16)
SG = Skin Game (book 15)
SF = Storm Front (book 1)
SK = Summer Knight (book 4) (or the actual summer Knight)
SmF = Small Favour (or Favor, depending on region
) (book 10)TC = Turn Coat (book 11)
TDF = The Dresden Files
WN = White Night (book 9)
WttJ = Welcome to the Jungle, the original DF Prequel Graphic Novel.
Characters
Al - Alfred (Demonreach)
AM = Depending on context of post either Aftermath (short story) or Ancient Mai
BM = Bolshevik Muppet
DR = Demonreach
DV = Dresdenverse
Eb = Ebenezar
EBG = Eldest Brother Gruff
Eeb/s = Red Court Assassins
GC = Depending on context of post either Grey Cloak or Grey Council
GK = Gatekeeper
HWWB = He Who Walks Behind
HWWB4 = He Who Walks Before
LtW = Listens to Wind (Injun Joe)
Nemfection = Nemesis infection
SK = Summer Knight (book 4) (or the actual summer Knight)
TTH = Time-travelling Harry
TWC = The White Christ (use of this term and TWG helps insulate fictional theorizing from encroaching on RL religion / TT)
TWG / WG = The White God
WK = Winter Knight (rarely used for White (vampires) King)
Yrrah = Mirror Mirror (i.e. alternate universe) Harry
Groups and Places
AT = Arctis Tor
BC = Depending on context of post either Black Court (vampires) or Black Council
BCV = Black Court vampires
Blampires = Black Court vampires
DR = Demonreach
GC = Depending on context of post either Grey Cloak or Grey Council
Jampires = Jade Court vampires
JLC = Justice League of Chicago
KotC - Knight(s) of the Cross
LC = Little Chicago
LoOn = Lords of Outer Night
NH = Nickleheads (The Denarians)
NN = Nevernever
Rampires = Red Court vampires
RCV = Red Court vampires
SC = Senior Council
SoI = Spirit of Intellect
WC = Depending on context of post either White Court (vampires) or White Council
WCV = White Court vampires
Whampires = White Court vampires
WK = Winter Knight (rarely used for White (vampires) King)
Codex Alera
AF = Academs Fury (book 2)
CA = Codex Alera
CF = Captains Fury (book 4)
CuF = Cursors Fury (book 3)
FLF = First Lords Fury (book 6)
FoC = Furies of Calderon (book 1)
HIB = Her Imperial Bugginess (Vord Queen Prime)
PF = Princeps Fury (book 5)
The Cinder Spires
CS = The Cinder Spires
TAW = The Aeronaut's Windlass (book 1)
General (This is the first and only forum I've ever posted on (And I might not be the only one). I still have to sometimes ask what these are
)AFAIK = As Far As I Know
AoE = Area of Effect (seen it used in some threads, adding it in)
ASoIaF = A Song of Ice and Fire (Books they based Game of Thrones on (We have a lot of George R.R. Martin fans here, so this comes up fairly often))
BB = Brain Bleach
BTW = By The Way
ETA = Edited to Add (or Estimated Time of Arrival in military context)
FIFY = Fixed It For You
FTW = For The Win
FWIW = For What It's Worth
FYI = For Your Information
GRRM = George RR Martin
IDK = I Don't Know
IIRC = If I Recall Correctly
ILG = Industrious Little Gnome, better known as Priscellie
IMO = In My Opinion
IMHO = In My Honest?/Humble? Opinion
IRL = In Real Life
JB = Jim Butcher
LFG = Looking For Group
NPH = Neil Patrick Harris
NSFW = Not Safe For Work
OP = Original Post
POV = Point Of View
QFT = Quoted for Truth
RaFO = Read and Find Out (I believe originally sourced from Robert Jordan when people asked him for hints about the Wheel of Time)
SHOV = Secret Hollowed Out Volcano shhhh it's a secret
Smex = You don't want to know
TT = Touchy Topics (A board that no longer exists)
(ttW) = TVTropes (ttW) Warning, Obligatory warning that must follow any link to tvtropes.
WAG = Wild Ass Guess
WOJ = Word of Jim (with a special shout out to Serack for all his awesome work on the WoJ board)
WRT = With Respect To (as it pertains to)
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Site Suggestions & Support / Question regarding the forums
« on: June 09, 2011, 10:51:41 PM »
When I go to my profile settings, I can add people to a "Buddies" list. How does that work and what are the benifits?
Thanks
Shel
Thanks
Shel
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