New users are subject to "GreenHorn" status. During this time, you will be limited in access and features. The following features are NOT available under Greenhorn Status:

• Private Messages
• Avatars, profile pictures, and gallery access
• Signatures

Additionally, Threads and posts of users containing certain keywords, external links, images, etc are subject to be placed into a moderation queue. Your message may not appear right away as a result of this. A moderator will approve your (valid) post shortly. Please do not double post.

The Greenhorn status will remain in effect until you have 15 qualifying posts. While these measures may seem drastic, they have helped us eliminate 99% of spam on our forum. Thank you for your understanding

• Forums, Threads and Posts
• Registration
• Searching Forums and Threads
• Announcements
• Thread Display Options
• Viewing New Posts or Today's Posts
• Rating Threads
• Thread Tools
• Tags
• Cookies
• Lost Passwords
• Calendars
• Members List
• Your Notifications
• Quick Links
• Contacting other Members
• Dealing with Troublesome Users
• RSS and Podcasting

• My Public Profile
• The User Control Panel
• Changing User Details
• Signatures, Avatars and Profile Pictures
• Other Settings and Options
• Profile Page Customization
• Social Groups
• Friends and Contacts
• Albums and Pictures
• Private Messages
• Subscriptions
• Reputation

• Posting New Messages
• Replying to a Post
• Editing and Deleting your Posts
• Creating and Participating in Polls
• Attachments and Images
• Smilies
• Message Icons and Thread Prefixes
• Moderators and Administrators

Deleting Accounts

We can easily delete accounts that have no posts (and sometime just a few posts). If the account has many posts, completely deleting the account can significantly disrupt thread continuity. In that event, we can disable your account. When we disable your account we do the following:

• Change the user name.
• Remove signature content
• Remove any info from the profile that might be identifying or replace it with fictitious info
• Remove all subscriptions
• Remove avatar
• Remove e-mail address or alter as well as personal web site info
• Change account options to refuse PM's and E-mails from users and admins
• Change date of birth
• After doing all this - ban this user

Where you make use of the communication features to share information with other individuals, however, (e.g., sending a personal message to another user) you generally cannot remove such communications. Also, if someone quoted your post, the original user name will be shown having been quoted (which we cannot purge out).

If you would like to disable your account, please use the contact us at the bottom of the page and we would be happy to take care of this for you.