AnimePaper Community Guide

5. User page Guide

This section of the Guide covers everything relating to your user page.

You will find information on:

> Your User Page
- User Status (And "My Info")
- Commenting
- Friends & Watches

> Userpage Buttons ("Options")
- Add to Friends
- Send a Private Messaging
- View My wallpapers
- View My scans
- View My Favourites
- Posts By this Member
- Show All Comments

> Editing your userpage contents
- Personal
- Userpage

> Customising the look of your user page

> The Message Centre
- Sending PMs
- Reading PMs
- Replying to PMs
- Subscribed Topics
- Comments received
- Favourites Received
- Friend Submissions

> Rules
1. Offence
2. Off-site linking
3. Malicious code

> Reporting

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Your User Page

Your userpage is divided into several sections.

At the top are the usual control panel elements. Below this is your featured wallpaper, if you have selected one. Then we have some information about you such as the answers you have provided to your profile questions and your ID card.

Below this are a series of buttons (or "options" detailed below) followed by your recent walls, scans and faves as well as an area for people to leave comments.

Along the right of your userpage you will find your "info", website link, desktop screenshot, a list of any groups you belong too, and lists of your friends and watchers.

User Status (And "My Info")

Your User Status is your current ranking on the site. You may be familiar with these sorts of systems if you have used online forums, where your status is often determined by the number of posts you make.

However, status at AP is determined entirely on merit. Those users who make the biggest, most valued contributions to the site will be promoted. Those who are found to violate the AP rules on a significant or regular basis will be demoted. Promotion is done entirely at the discretion of moderators and admin's and you can be promoted as well as demoted at any time within the boundaries of the AP Guide.

User status is detailed on a user's userpage, but you will also find a symbol next to their name that instantly identifies their current grade. The following lists the grades, the symbols and gives details of what each grade means:


> (∞) Developer
A super admin - owns/runs the site and provides coding expertise to keep things running.

> (^) Administrator
Responsible for the day-to-day running and overseeing of the operation of the site. Sets policy and controls its implementation.

> (+) Gallery Moderator
Responsible primarily for the approval and moderation of the scan and wallpaper galleries, but also acts to ensure that the forums are orderly, the day-to-day dealings with users and that complaints are dealt with at the basic level.

> (±) Forum Moderator
Responsible primarily for the maintenance of the forums, but also acts to ensure that the gallaries are orderly, the day-to-day dealings with users and that complaints are dealt with at the basic level.

> (θ) Former Staff
A former moderator or admin, granted a special status in recognition of their service.

> (`) Senior Member
The highest normal member status. Senior members have all the privileges of Community members, as well as access to a few additional perks. Expected to be familiar with the AP Guide on most areas.

> (*) Community Scanner
A member that has been seen to contribute a large quantity of high quality scans. Community Scanners have unrestricted access to wallpapers, and can upload scans without having to go through approval. Expected to be familiar with the AP Guide regarding scan submission requirements.

> (°) Community Waller
A member that has been seen to consistently contribute high quality wallpapers. Community Wallers have unrestricted access to wallpapers, and can upload wallpapers without having to go through approval. Expected to be familiar with the AP Guide regarding wallpaper submission requirements.

> ($) Donating Member
A member that has donated to the site and therefore has the appropriate additional privileges (see donation).

> (~) Member
Normal member - what you are when you join. Members are restricted by the contribution and leecher limits. All submissions to the site made by members pass through an approval process where they are vetted by the mods and admins. See appropriate sections for details.

> (!) Banned
A member that has been banned from accessing the site.

Commenting

On your userpage there's an area for other people to leave comments and for you to comment on other people's pages. This works much like the forums and you are free to post anything you like about a person's userpage, their walls, scans, avatar, or pretty much anything else.

To leave a comments, scroll down to the bottom of the page and type your message in the box. Then press the submit button.

Please note that anyone found abusing, trolling, flaming, or spamming in this area will be banned. A zero tolerance policy is operated.

Friends & Watches

Friends and watches are effectively the same thing, but friends are the people you watch and the people that watch you are those that have added you to their friendliest.

When you add someone to your friendliest, or vice-versa, you see a section in the notifiaction/message scentre, where you can quickly browse their submissions.

Managing friends

You can remove people from your friendliest by selecting the "friends" option on the profile editing page (select the "profile" button.

Userpage Buttons ("Options")

Add to Friends

If you want to add someone to your friends here's the place to do it.

To add them, simply press this button and then press the confirmation button.

When someone is in your friends list you will their submissions listed under the "friends" tab in the message centre.

Send a Private Messaging

In order to send someone a PM, simply go to their userpage (click on their avatar or their username) and then press the send private message button. This button can be found underneath their bio area.

Type the title in the subject bar and your message in the box below. PMs work like regular e-mails and you should remember to type your new message at the top of the box, to avoid confusion. Try to avoid deleting the contents of the other persons message, especially when communicating with mods, since it can be confusing when people receive lots of PMs every day.

View My wallpapers

As the name suggests, this shows you a reverse chronological list of all the wallpapers this user has submitted.

View My scans

In a similar way to the show all wallpapers button, this shows you a reverse chronological list of all scans uploaded by this individual.

View My Favourites

Shows all favourites made by the user.

Posts By this Member

Scan through all of this users forum posts.

Show All Comments

View all of the comments made by this user on wallpapers.

Editing your userpage contents

To edit the contents of your userpage, select the "profile" button at the top of the page. You will then be able to select the area you want to edit.

The profile area is divided into two sections, personal and userpage. Hit the links and follow the on-screen instructions to edit these areas.

Personal

> Personal
Let AP users know a little about yourself

> Notifications
Set or edit your notification preferences

> Avatar
Add a representative avatar image to your account

> Signature
Add a signature that will appear in forum, group and gallery posts

> Homepage
Tell us about your personal home page

> Custom Title
Add your custom title

> Style Select
Choose the CSS skin to browse AP with

> Style Create
Create a new style or edit an existing one

> E-mail Address
Change your e-mail address

> Password
Change your password

> Friends
Manage your friends list

Userpage

> Featured Wallpaper
Choose the featured wallpaper placed on a userpage

> Desktop Screenshot
Upload your desktop screenprint

> ID Card
Add your personal ID Card image to your userpage

> Custom Area
Edit the custom area on your userpage

Customising the look of your user page

AP gives you the ability to customise the look of your user page using css. But not only that, this look can then be applied right throughout the rest of the site as well - AP is fully customisable!

To edit your user page simply click on the appropriate link listed above and follow the on-screen options. When you adjust a parameter in the text use the submit button to apply it. To see the effects it has you may need to clear your cache. Alternatively, you can simply hit ctrl+F5, which will achieve a similar effect.

If you are new to HTML and css, try the tutorial on Your HTML source.

The Message Centre

Sending PMs

To send a new message to someone, navigate to their page and click the "send new message" button. Enter the tile and contents of the message in the appropriate boxes and click the submit button to send it.

Reading PMs

When you receive a new PM, you will see the message "x new messages" at the top of the page, where x is the number of new messages. In order to read these PMs, click on this message. This will take you to your inbox.

Once there you can access all of your messages in the message centre by clicking on the appropriate links.

Replying to PMs

To reply to a PM, simply type your response at the top of the message box and hit the submit button. Try to avoid deleting the contents of the message box and ensure you post your reply at the top - think of it like an e-mail.

Subscribed Topics

You can subscribe to topics on the forum. This section of the message centre allows you to browse their activity.

Comments received

To browse your received comments, use the tab in the message centre.

Here you can look back through the comments you received on your walls in chronological order.

Favourites Received

To browse your favourites received, click the tab in the message centre.

Here you will see a complete list of users who recently added one of your walls to their favourites.

Friend Submissions

To browse the friend submissions, select the tab in the message centre.

Rules

1. Offence

Don't put anything offensive or generally non-work safe on your user page

2. Off-site linking

Whilst the facility is there for you to hotlink and include elements on your user page from other sites, please be sensible.

Nobody wants to see fugly pages, be forced to download 500mb animated gifs or have to listen to some tacky mp3 playing in the background.

3. Malicious code

Please do not use anything that could be construed as in any way malicious code, either to the site itself or to those who browse your user page.

This facility is a privilege, not a right.

Reporting

If you see anything on a user's page that violates that violates any of the stated rules, please inform the moderation team via PM.

Other Sections of the Guide

1. Wallpapers
2. Scans
3. Vectors and Re-cg's
4. The forum
5. User page Guide
6. Paper Guide
7. Groups
8. Deletion Policy
9. Quick Help (FAQ)

Click on one of the links above or go back to the start of The Guide