Welcome scratchers and scratchers-to-be. Please read this guide before you make an account.
1. Your username. This is very important. As you can't change this in the future.
Before you enter a username, look around on the forums to see other scratchers
names. Try to get inspired by other peoples usernames. But don't try to copy other usernames. It just annoys the original user and displays a lack of creativity.
2. Your password. Make this unique. But don't make it long or random. Like: ghti12423fjsdudufheer. That password is too long and confusing. If the password makes sense, then it can be long. Like: qwertyuiop123. It's not a random jumble of numbers and letters and therefore is much easier to remember and is harder to guess.
Try to add capitals to your password. Like: QwertyUiop123. It makes it even harder to guess. And finally, substitute numbers for letters. Like: Qw3rtyU10p123. That is a good password. (now don't use it though).
3. Now go and make your account!
4. Profile picture. So you've made your account. Now you want a profile picture instead of a blank cat. Look on the internet for different things. Make sure the image is small. Because if it's too big, it will look pixelized. Also make sure the file size is small.
Anything too big in file size can't be put on. Animated gifs have always been a favourite. Often optical illusion gifs have been popular. Like this one. . You can make your own gifs
on software like Microsoft Gif Animator. A good profile picture will draw more people to your stuff.
5. Make good projects. Self-explanatory. Make good projects. Try not to make too many random projects. Focus your energy on making projects that will get lots of views and you will be proud of. Your projects don't have to be advanced or big to be good. There are plenty of guides out on the forums and in projects.
6. Forums. To join the forums all you have to do is choose a topic and post on it! There you go! Your first post. Make sure all your posts are polite and build others up.
Like Paddle2See said: Treat others as you would like to be treated. If you want to explain something negative to someone make sure you do it politely and with an encouraging tone. Try to use good grammar as much as possible. Try not to use ur instead of your and wat instead of what. Occasionally that is ok, but to some people it looks like you're too lazy to type properly. Using your when you're is approriate is ok. I do that all the time. If you add 1 space too many or use to when too is appropriate it's not a big deal (you've probably noticed that in this post). Bottomline, use good grammar as much as you can.
7. Signatures. Every scratcher has to wait 15 days before he or she can make a signature. But when you can, choose a good layout. Try to make the images and text arranged in a neat fashion. Banners have been used. Animated gifs have been used.
Some signatures are only text. My signature has the logos of the things I'm active in. Wikiscratch and Forum Fighters. If you choose to be in one of those groups or any other groups you will most likely be asked to put an image in your signature.
Your signature should describe you. I like to get involved with as many groups as possible. And my signature shows it. If you are an artistic person you might have a banner you made yourself. Or an animated gif you made yourself. If you are a programmer you might have a link to a program or game you made.
I hope this guide helps you. I spent a long time on it. Please don't criticize me of bad spelling when I say you shouldn't have bad spelling. If I do it wasn't on purpose.
God Bless!
qwertypower
Last edited by qwertypower (2010-07-03 02:10:47)
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Great guide!
About secure passwords: Jonathanpb made a guide about them - you can read it here.
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Chrischb wrote:
Great guide!
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About secure passwords: Jonathanpb made a guide about them - you can read it here.![]()
Oh, I didn't know that. Oh well. The more the merrier!
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Great guide! I was going to post a link to Jonathanpb's post, but I see Chrischb already did that. I like it more than Jonathanpb's because it's briefer, so New Users won't decide "Meh, this is too long, I'll just make my password (Insert Bad Password Here)." and they will decide "Meh, this isn't that long, I might as well read it.", and after they'll be like "Wow, that was pretty awesome! Brief, and helpful! I'm going to thank him as soon as I make my account!" Kinda like that, yeah.
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Thanks!
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One problem: random passwords are good.
ghti12423fjsdudufheer
That's not that random when you think about it... ghti 12423 fjsdud ufheer
But then again my password is
*******************************
Using only 1 english word (2 if you count slang). The rest is random.
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True, but isn't ghti12423fjsdudufheer a little to hard to remember?
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Just start with a short but complicated password and add to it over time; I did that, and it works well.
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hello
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Hey!!!How are you guyz doing !!
Welcome scratchers and scratchers-to-be. Please read this guide before you make an account.
1. Your username. This is very important. As you can't change this in the future.
Before you enter a username, look around on the forums to see other scratchers
names. Try to get inspired by other peoples usernames. But don't try to copy other usernames. It just annoys the original user and displays a lack of creativity.
2. Your password. Make this unique. But don't make it long or random. Like: ghti12423fjsdudufheer. That password is too long and confusing. If the password makes sense, then it can be long. Like: qwertyuiop123. It's not a random jumble of numbers and letters and therefore is much easier to remember and is harder to guess.
Try to add capitals to your password. Like: QwertyUiop123. It makes it even harder to guess. And finally, substitute numbers for letters. Like: Qw3rtyU10p123. That is a good password. (now don't use it though).
3. Now go and make your account!
4. Profile picture. So you've made your account. Now you want a profile picture instead of a blank cat. Look on the internet for different things. Make sure the image is small. Because if it's too big, it will look pixelized. Also make sure the file size is small.
Anything too big in file size can't be put on. Animated gifs have always been a favourite.
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ashantycapre wrote:
Hey!!!How are you guyz doing !!
Welcome scratchers and scratchers-to-be. Please read this guide before you make an account.
1. Your username. This is very important. As you can't change this in the future.
Before you enter a username, look around on the forums to see other scratchers
names. Try to get inspired by other peoples usernames. But don't try to copy other usernames. It just annoys the original user and displays a lack of creativity.
2. Your password. Make this unique. But don't make it long or random. Like: ghti12423fjsdudufheer. That password is too long and confusing. If the password makes sense, then it can be long. Like: qwertyuiop123. It's not a random jumble of numbers and letters and therefore is much easier to remember and is harder to guess.
Try to add capitals to your password. Like: QwertyUiop123. It makes it even harder to guess. And finally, substitute numbers for letters. Like: Qw3rtyU10p123. That is a good password. (now don't use it though).
3. Now go and make your account!
4. Profile picture. So you've made your account. Now you want a profile picture instead of a blank cat. Look on the internet for different things. Make sure the image is small. Because if it's too big, it will look pixelized. Also make sure the file size is small.
Anything too big in file size can't be put on. Animated gifs have always been a favourite.
Why?
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I have a question. How do you change your signature?
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SteakManiac wrote:
I have a question. How do you change your signature?
How you made it in the first place. Go to Profile, Personality.
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SteakManiac wrote:
I have a question. How do you change your signature?
Like this:
Say you want this picture.
So you put:
[img]http://mascot.crystalxp.net/png/osmoz-froggy-the-frog-2899.png[/img]
If you want bold. You put before and after
same for Italics
and underlined
This is just like HTML. You should know this steakmaniac
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qwertypower wrote:
SteakManiac wrote:
I have a question. How do you change your signature?
Like this:
Say you want this picture. http://mascot.crystalxp.net/png/osmoz-f … g-2899.png
So you put:Code:
[url]http://mascot.crystalxp.net/png/osmoz-froggy-the-frog-2899.png[/url]If you want bold. You put before and after
same for Italics
and underlined
This is just like HTML. You should know this steakmaniac![]()
To add on to your post: If you want to use an image on your computer, save it and share it on an image hosting site such as imageshack.
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Chrischb wrote:
To add on to your post: If you want to use an image on your computer, save it and share it on an image hosting site such as imageshack.
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and to add on to your post, there is a great guide about posting pictures onto the forums here: (link to forum topic)
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Great guide qwertypower!
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Flait7 wrote:
Don't people usually make accounts before checking the forums, not the other way around? :s great guide..but that just came to mind.
I knew that when I made this.
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