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By registering with the forum, you will be able to edit your member profile and preferences. You will get the most out of your time here if you change your profile and preferences to suit your individual tastes. There are many options in your profile to make your experience here more enjoyable, so please take a few moments to try the various settings. Also, only users that are registered and logged in can take advantage of the "New Posts" feature upon each visit. Once you've registered and logged in, click "Edit Profile" or "Edit Preference" in the Forum Navigation island to edit your settings.
The Email Address field is used for email notifications, Watch Lists and to email your password. The Public Email Address field is what other users see when they view your profile. We realize that you may not want everyone to know your real email address, but we need to know it in case you want to watch certain content or if you want to have replies emailed to you. For this reason you can give us your real email address in the Email Address field and only the Administrators of the board will see it. You can provide a different email address for the general public using the Public Email Address. Some people like to put in something like scream@no.spam.yahoo.com. This way people can still figure out what your real email address is, but spamming agents can't just parse through the page and obtain your email address to spam you.
Yes. Cookies are used to remember your login information as well as what posts you have read during your current session. Without accepting cookies some functions won't work properly.
If you have registered with these forums, you must log in to take advantage of the personalization of settings. To log in, look in the upper right-hand corner of your screen for the "Log In" link. This link will take you to a page where you can enter your Username (email address) and Password. Keep in mind that the password is always case-sensitive. This means that the software considers "S" and "s" to be different characters.
Once you have entered your Username (email address) and Password, you'll be brought to your Starting View. (You can change the page used for your Default Starting View by clicking "Edit Preferences" in the Forum Navigation island.) If you have any Private Messages waiting for you, you'll see a flashing envelope on the My Messages island. (Note that this only applies if the Private Messaging feature has been enabled by the Administrators of the board.)
This checklist may help you successfully log in:
1) Make sure you are entering your password correctly. Passwords are case-sensitive.
2) Ensure that your browser supports cookies; if so, check the security level you are using. High levels of security restriction in certain browsers will automatically reject cookies. In order to use the key features of these forums, you'll need to accept cookies. The maker of your browser can help you with additional problems you may have with your cookie settings.
3) Completely log out by hitting the Log Out link in the upper right-hand corner of the page, and then log back in again.
4) After logging in, you may have to hit the Reload or Refresh button on your browser to expedite the authentication.
5) If these steps don't work you can try purging your cookies for this site using the My Cookies tool.
6) If you continue to have problems, go to the Log In page and click "Have you forgotten your login information?". Enter your real email address into the Email Address field and a temporary password will be emailed to the email address used for the account setup.
It's a system-generated User Title to give ranking to your postcount. You will progress through the various levels according to the cumulative number of posts you have made.
Everyone has a title within the forum. You will notice the title below the Display Name in each post. Some titles are automatically assigned based on the number of posts a user has made, and some titles are assigned by the forum owner to denote official representatives of the company or other VIPs in the forums.
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If you have forgotten your password, don't worry! You can very easily have a temporary password emailed to you. Go to the Log In page and click "Have you forgotten your login information?". Enter your real email address into the Email Address field and a temporary password will be emailed to the email address used for the account setup.
This process is safe because the password is only emailed to the original owner of the account. There is no way to steal the password by using this feature.
You may change your password any time. On the Forum Navigation island, click "Edit Profile". Edit the Password and Verify Password fields and then click "Submit" to save the information. (Keep in mind that passwords are case-sensitive.)
In order to add an image to your message or your signature, you must have the image already available on a web server and reachable by a URL. This can be an image on your own personal web page, for example. To place an image within a message, simply use the following Markup Tag:
[image]http://www.url_to_image.com/image_name.gif[/image]
For example, if you have an image called cateye.gif and its available from your own website at http://www.mywebsite.com/pics, then you would use the following image markup:
[image]http://www.mywebsite.com/pics/cateye.gif[/image]
You can do the same for your signature. Click the My Home option found on any page. Then, under the Main Configuration heading, click on "Personal Information, email, password...". Look for the Signature box, and enter your desired information, including any images/markup as above.
Note: To keep the forums loading quickly for everyone, it is recommended that you do not exceed 35k for your image size.
We ask that you keep your images relatively small. As a rule, please do not exceed 125 x 600 pixels and/or 35k for a signature image. This will ensure that the forums load quickly for all users.
If you have a browser that is Mozilla 4+ compatible then yes, you can. When you preview your post you will have the opportunity to attach a file to your post.
The Black Sabbath Online Forum RULES AND REGULATIONS
You MUST read these rules before you register; you will be bound by them upon registration! Yes, they are somewhat lengthy, but if you choose to ignore them and just hit accept, you might find yourself deleted for a rule you violated because you skipped these rules - It is strongly urged that you read all of these before hitting agree - it might save you some headaches later.
* First off, this is NOT an Official Web Site or Forum for Black Sabbath. This is a fan based site and forum run by Joe Siegler. Some band members (current or former) may or may not be intersted in participating, I can't tell at this time. I just wanted to take this time to say that The Black Sabbath Online Forum is NOT any kind official anything.
* Membership in the Black Sabbath Online Forum is completely free and is open to anyone age 13 or above. In accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), children 12 and under are not permitted in this Forum.
* The Black Sabbath Online Forum is a private membership organization, NOT a public forum. Membership to the Forum is predicated on your adherence to the rules and policies detailed below. Failure to abide by these rules will result in disciplinary action against you up to and including the closure and deletion of your forum account at the sole discretion of board management.
* You must use a real and valid email address for registration purposes, as you will be sent a confirmation email. Please note that your email address is not displayed to other users at any time; if you use the facility to allow them to send you email, it is all done behind the scenes. The administrators of this Forum will not provide your email to anyone at any time, nor will we provide lost passwords or email accounts via request. The reason for this is to prevent account hijackings. Guard your login information well, if you lose it, we will not help you retrieve it.
* In order to register with this Forum, you must agree to and abide by the rules and policies detailed below. If you agree to these terms, please check the "I agree" checkbox and press the "Register" button below. If you do not agree to these policies, please return to the main site.
* By agreeing to these rules and registering for this Forum, you agree that you, and you alone, are responsible for the content of your own posts, and you agree to hold harmless the Black Sabbath Online Forum, its administrators and moderators and other staff members, its registered posters, and/or Infopop Corporation (developers of UBB.Threads) for any content viewed, read or downloaded herein.
* In agreeing to use of this Forum, you consent to reading and understanding the Policies & Rules of Behavior required by all users of this Forum.
* You will follow any and all directions by the Forum staff (chief administrator, administrators and moderators). The Forum staff are the final arbiters of any disagreement you may have with another user in the context of posted discussions. Furthermore, if you have an issue with a decision made by the Forum staff, you will bring it to their attention privately (either via a PM or an email) and will not discuss it in a public thread.
* Although the staff will attempt to keep all objectionable messages off this forum, it is impossible for us to review all messages. The messages express the views of the author of the message, not necessarily the views of the forum administrators or staff or any entity associated with the Black Sabbath Online Forum, Apogee Software, Ltd or any other organization. Any information contained in this forum is delivered "as-is" without any form of warranty expressed or implied. Any use of the information contained within is solely at your own risk. If you find such a rule, please help us keep things nice by using the "Report a post" function, and alert the staff to a problem post and we will take care of it as soon as possible. Additionally, if you see such a post, for God's sake, don't quote it. When a problem post comes up, replying to or quoting said msg is just as bad as the original. It's a lot more work for the Admins/Moderator when there is a bad post and then 20 or 30 people who have replied to it. Not only does NOT doing that make our lives easier, it might save a tired moderator from taking the easy way out and nuking the entire thread to clean up the problem.
* You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use the Black Sabbath Online Forum to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violative of any law. Forum management holds the final say in what violates these conditions. Remember, it might not offend you, but it likely will offend someone else.
* You agree not to post any advertising, URL's with affiliate id's or tracking numbers or anything else to "sell" items on these forums. You agree not to use the addresses of any member on the forum for any other purpose than personal communication. Any mailing in bulk to the forum members (outside of official Forum communication) or any unsolicited e-mail to members will result in immediate suspension of your membership. You agree not to use more than one registered forum account and not to represnt yourself as another person, company or entity.
* You agree not to post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you (this includes things like unreleased demos, live bootlegs, commercially available music tracks, mp3's, etc). You can discuss the existance of said materials, but DO NOT publically post links to download them or information on how to obtain them - that is not permitted here.
* This Forum has a zero tolerance policy for personal attacks. Posting something to the Black Sabbath Online Forum which personally attacks another forum member or contains profanity or any type of racial or ethnic slur may result in immediate suspension of your user account. Forum managment reserves the right to determine WHAT is considered objectionable.
* The fact that someone disagrees with you does not mean that (1) the person hates you, (2) the person thinks you're stupid, (3) the person is stupid, (4) the person is evil, etc. There are many things you can falsely infer from the fact that someone disagrees with you. It is best not to infer anything at all along those lines, and let that person live with his or her own opinion in peace. In other words, don't be too annoying with your opinions, and don't be so easily annoyed.
* Any and all financial contributions made by users are donations to the operation of the Forum, are strictly voluntary and are never coerced or requested by the staff other than as a donation. Donations will be used solely for the Forum's registration and operation on its web provider, web hosting fees, license fees for UBB.Threads, and registration renewal with Network Solutions, or any other miscelleanous costs incurred in the operation of these forums and this website. Donations to the Forum are non-refundable.
* The Forum administrators also reserve the right to reveal your identity (or whatever information we know about you) in the event of a complaint or legal action arising from any message posted by you. Furthermore, you agree, through your use of this service, to permit the staff of the Black Sabbath Online Forum to inform our members if you have broken any of our membership rules or had your membership revoked from the site if the situation arises.
* The staff of the Black Sabbath Online Forum reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread for any reason, and reserve the right to remove access to any user at any time without cause or explanation. Access to the Black Sabbath Online Forum is a privilege, not a right.
* Here are a few other smaller issues that are not permitted on the forums:
- No "hot topics" like abortion, religion, politics. We're here to discuss Black Sabbath, if you want to discuss those things there's plenty of places elsewhere for that. This ain't the place for those topics.
- No stupid thread behaviours like "First Post" or "In Before the Lock", or other such dumb stuff.
- No animated avatars (further details here)
- No sig images (further details here)
- No excessive signatures (excessive is to be determined by Forum Administration)
- No flames against particular band members. Discuss yes. Disagree fine. " sucks, rules" - No.
- Don't try and impersonate the Forum Administration or Black Sabbath or related band members. That's not cool.
Despite all the rules, this is designed to be a fun place. You might laugh at that, but there is a reason. The reason there are so many rules is quite honestly there's a lot of people out there whose sole purpose is to disrupt forums and act like an asshat. There are too many people who cause too many problems online, and unfortunately all the things in the rules are here for a reason, it's not just Forum admins trying to act like tyrants. They are here to try and foster a nice community, one that isn't trashed by folks who think it's FuNnY tO TyPe LiKe ThIS, and think that seeing the word fuck on a computer screen is amusing. The rules are here to make this a good place. Having said that, they will be adhered to, and if you run afoul of them, you're likely to find yourself removed from the forums. We won't put up with a bunch of jackasses creating problems.
Furthermore, if you don't want to put up with a bunch of "rules" or don't want to deal with "the man", then save both of us some time and take a hike. We're not interested in troublemakers, we're interested in a good community where people give a shit about what they're talking about and they're not out to act like a bunch of fucking jackasses.
By checking the "I agree" checkbox and pressing the "Submit" button, you agree to all of these terms and agree to be held accountable to them at all times.
Click the "Edit Profile" link on the Forum Navigation island.
Yes, you'll be missing a trick if you fail to take advantage of the versatility offered. There are many aspects of how the Forums are displayed that may be customized. On the Forum Navigation island, click "Edit Preferences".
You can choose the stylesheet in which you wish to view the forums, how many posts are displayed on each page, whether or not you want to view users' pictures alongside their posts, and much more. Once saved, these become your default settings. You may edit these preferences again at anytime.
The first post of a given topic establishes the subject by which all subsequent replies will be known. Once there's been a reply, the topic subject cannot be subsequently changed. It's therefore important to get the subject right from the outset.
Make it as descriptive and as specific as possible. For example, "LCD burn-in questions", is much better than something completely generic, such as "Newbie needs help!". Not only is it more likely to elicit a response, but it'll also make it much easier for all posts in the topic to be subsequently located.
One of the key benefits of the discussion board format is that it enables commonly asked questions to be answered once, for the benefit of all. Before posting your question, it is always worth checking to see if it has already been asked - and answered! You can do this via the Search island. Using the Search island, you can perform a quick keyword search, or click on the "Advanced" button to search by more specific criteria. Various options are available, both for how the search term is specified and for controlling how many forums you want to search. This is where the specificity of topic subjects is important, making it much easier to locate precisely what it is you're after from a list of search results.
It means that you have unread Private Messages. When you hover over this image it should display how many unread Private Messages that you have.
On the "New Private Topic" screen, you can type in a new user then press "add" or you can select them from the "My Buddies" dropdown. You can add up to the forum maximum of users (this limit will show on the "New Private Topic" screen) to the Private Topic.
If the tags are showing up in your text or you're getting a link, but it's to "http:///", you're including some unwanted spaces in the syntax. Avoid any intervening spaces, and everything will work fine.
Users can edit their own posts up to 360 minutes after they are made. Where the change is substantial, it is courteous mark the post as edited so as to alert readers to the changed content. For cosmetic changes, it's better not to do so.
Let the forum Administrator or Moderator know - he/she will be able to move it for you.
There are 2 ways that this can be configured on a per-forum basis. If HTML is On then you will see HTML is On and you can use normal HTML in your posts. If UBBCode is on you will see UBBCode is On.
The following tags are available for your use if UBBCode is enabled:
Text Formatting
[b]
text
[/b]
= Makes the given text bold.
[i]
text
[/i]
= Makes the given text italic.
[u]
text
[/u]
= Underlines the given text.
[s]
text
[/s]
= Will post your text with a line through it (strike through).
[color:red]
text
[/color]
= Makes the given text red.
[color:#00FF00]
text
[/color]
= Makes the given text green.
[size:20pt]
text
[/size]
= Will change the size of the text to whatever size value you specify.
[font:Comic Sans MS]
text
[/font]
= Will post your text with the specified font.
Links
[email]
joe@email.com
[/email]
= Makes the given email address clickable.
[email=
joe@email.com
]
text
[/email]
= Makes the given email address clickable.
[url]
link
[/url]
= Makes the given url into a link.
[url=
link
]
title
[/url]
= Makes the given title into a hyperlink pointing to link.
[img]
link
[/img]
= Embeds an image.
Code Tags & Highlighting
[code]
text
[/code]
= Surrounds the given text with pre format tags.
[php]
text
[/php]
= Passes the text through the PHP Syntax Highlighter
[highlight]
text
[/highlight]
= Will highlight your text.
[spoiler]
text
[/spoiler]
= Will wrap your text in a spoiler container. Users must click a button in order to see this text, thus giving them the ability to specify if they want to read the item.
[spoiler:warning]
text
[/spoiler]
= Will wrap your text in a spoiler container and allow you to specify the warning message displayed. Users must click a button in order to see this text, thus giving them the ability to specify if they want to read the item.
Text and Image Alignment
[align:left|center|right]
text
[/align]
= Will align the text in the direction defined.
[img:left|center|right]
Image URL
[/img]
= Will allow you to allow text to wrap on the specified side of your image.
Misc.
[list]
[*]Item 1
[*]Item 1
[/list] = Makes a bullet list. [list=A] or [list=1] will make order/numbered lists. Other options include: circle, i, I, a, A, 1, disc, square.
[quote]
text
[/quote]
= Surrounds the given text with blockquote and hr's. This UBBCode tag is used for quoting a reply.
[quote=username]
text
[/quote]
= Surrounds the given text with blockquote and hr's. This UBBCode tag is used for quoting a reply. The username specified will be shown as quoted.
Putting a poll in your post is simple.
If polls are enabled, start by creating a new post in a forum. Below the body of your post, you will see a text box that allows you to specify how many polls you want to have in your post and the system will guide you through the rest.
You can change the number of posts displayed on each page by editing your display preferences. You can set this to anything between 1 and 99 posts per page. By default, this is set to 30 posts per page.
Quick Reply is made as a "Quick Response" block, so you can make a response to a post (or thread) before you forget or as you read them. Quick Reply is meant as a "no thrills" response box, as it's just there for a fast/non-formatted response.
Reply however brings you to a "Full Response" page that allows for heavy posting.
You can also click the "Full Reply" button from the Quick Reply box which will forward you (and all of your Quick Reply text) to the Full Reply page.
Quote will quote the users text to the Full Reply page. Quick Quote will quote the users text to the Quick Reply box below the thread.
Click the "My Profile" link from the "My Stuff" dropdown on the Forum Navigation island.
Using Gallery Forums are just like using any other forums... However, you can post images too!
After you create your post (subject and post, both required) you can click on the "Image Manager" link.
Adding images are as easy as:
1. Click "Browse" and a navigation area will appear that shows your computers files, navigate around to locate the image you'd like to upload. Once located, click on the image and select "open"; you can also choose to add a description (note that in v7.2 you do not have the option to change the description once another image is added).
2. If you wish to add another image, repeat step one; otherwise, select "done".
From here, just press submit, and your new "Gallery Posting" should appear for users to comment on your image(s).
When creating a new thread or response, you'll see a "File Manager" link on the "Full Reply" or "New Post" page. When selecting this option you'll receive a popup which will allow you to attach files to your post.
Steps:
1. Click "File Manager" to bring up the "Attachment" window.
2. Click "Browse" to bring up the file browser window; this will allow you to browse your computer for any files or images you wish to upload; please note that you're bound by whatever the "allowed file type" setting is for the board.
3. Click "open" on the file you wish to upload.
4. Enter a description of what the file is (if you want to).
5. Click "add file" to add another file, or "done" to close the window and complete your posting.
Please note that you must enter some text in both the "subject" and "post" fields when responding otherwise you will receive an error; you cannot just respond with an attachment ;).
Subscribing to a Forum
Enter the Forum and Select "Add Forum to Watched Forums" from the "Forum Options" dropdown.
Subscribing to a Topic
Enter the Topic and Select "Add Topic to your Watched Topics" option from the "Topic Options" dropdown.
Managing Watch Lists
Select "My Watch Lists" from the "My Stuff" dropdown, from here you can select the type of List that you wish to edit and by clicking the "Edit Watched Topics" (or "Edit Watched Forums" or "Edit Watched Users") link you can remove them or toggle the "Email Notification" option.
Toggling EMailed Watch Lists
See the above "Managing Watch Lists" directions.
Toggling the Default "EMail Watchedlist" Options
Select "My Preferences" from the "My Stuff" dropdown. From here you can manage the "By default should anything added to your Watch Lists be emailed to you?" option.
EMailing a Post or Thread
To email a post, simply navigate to the post and select "email post" from the bottom set of buttons (near reply, quote, notify, etc).
From this "email post" screen, you can select to mail yourself:
Just this post
This post and all replies
The entire thread
EMailing a Private Topic
When viewing a Private Message, simply click the "EMail Topic" button from the bottom set of buttons (near reply, quote, etc).
RSS Feeds for Forums
For forums which have an RSS Feed configured for them, you can enter the forum and select the feed link from the "Forum Options" dropdown.
My Feeds
If the administration has enabled the "My Feeds" option, you can manage RSS feeds from the "Feeds" link in the "My Stuff" dropdown in the navigation area.
From the My Feeds area you can see all of the RSS Feeds available to you, including all of the forums which have individual feeds. You will also be able to retrieve the feeds for your inbox and the global feeds for recent topics. Please note that these may or may not be available based on admin preferences.
The username colors generally specify a users status. Some select users can can also have special colors signified by the Administration.
The default user status colors are:
Administration
Global Moderator
Moderator
Search Engine Robot
The numbers in parenthesise indicate how many new topics (or posts) have been made since your last visit to the forums.
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