Forum Guide

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Forum features make your life easier! It's great to know how to operate a forum, and this is a list of tips, tricks, and other "secrets" that members have discovered that make 'Souls easier to navigate!

The 'Souls board currently runs on myBB software.

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  1.   1.  Quote Button
  2.   2.  Subscriptions
  3.   3.  RSS
  4.   4.  Tracking PMs
  5.   5.  BBCode
    1.   5.1  Using bbCode
    2.   5.2  bbCode Resources & Popular Templates
    3.   5.3  Simple BBCodes
  6.   6.  Special BBCodes
  7.   7.  Member Tips

1.  Quote Button

When you want to grab something from a post, look below the post and to the right -- there's a button called QUOTE there. You can click that and copy exactly what the other person's posted, allowing you to grab whatever it is you need from their post.

2.  Subscriptions

You can subscribe to individual topics as well as entire forums to receive e-mail notification of replies. This can circumvent a need for a post log, if you only subscribe to your In Character threads, or it can help you stay on top of news and updates posted to the Roleplay Aides forum, and any number of other things! You can alter your settings for forums and topics here.

3.  RSS

At the bottom of the forum, you can find the RSS Syndication page. If you'd like to generate an RSS feed of any forum on the board, you can do so here. It's completely customizable -- you can set which forums you'd like to include in the feed and set a specific limit of how much you would like to receive from the feed each update. Then you can click the 'generate' button and your RSS feed link will be auto-generated! Neat, huh?

4.  Tracking PMs

You can check whether or not someone has read a PM yet you've sent that are unread by visiting your Tracking page.

The Tracking page is useful for figuring out if people are still around 'Souls -- chances are, if your thread has ground to a halt and you PM'ed a person three weeks ago about it, you can have the thread archived! They probably aren't coming back, unfortunately.

5.  BBCode

While 'Souls used to support HTML, the forum only allows BBCode now. However, there have been many custom BBcodes added that allow you to have much of the functionality that HTML has. It can help you display your posts or profiles in different ways and it is a huge help for if you want to create a post log!

5.1  Using bbCode

You don't have to do anything special to use bbCode. It works anywhere it is listed above as enabled.

5.2  bbCode Resources & Popular Templates

5.3  Simple BBCodes

Basic

  • [b]Bold[/b]
  • Looks like: Bold or Bold
  • [i]Italic[/i]
  • Looks like: Italic
  • [u]Underline[/u]
  • Looks like: Underline

Links

Images

  • [img]Image URL goes here[/img]
  • [img]https://www.soulsrpg.com/images/icons/werewolf.gif[/img]
  • Looks like:

Linked Images

  • [url=Link URL goes here][img]Image URL goes here[/img][/url]
  • [url=https://soulsrpg.com]'Souls RPG[/url] * Looks like: [[https://soulsr[img]https://www.soulsrpg.com/images/icons/werewolf.gif[/img][/url]
  • Looks like:

Lists

  • [list][*]List Item [*]List Item[/list]
  • Looks like:
  • List Item
  • List Item
  • [list=1][*]List Item [*]List Item[/list]
  • Looks like:
  1. List Item
  2. List Item

Resize an Image

  • [smimg=WIDTH]Image URL goes here[/smimg]
  • [smimg=200px]https://soulsrpg.com/images/trollface.png[/smimg]
  • Looks like:

6.  Special BBCodes

  • There are many Special BBCodes on the forum, all of them can be found detailed in the Code Snippets thread.
  • There are two ways you can add a mature warning -- the first is for mature content and can be added by doing [mwarn][/mwarn]. The second is for mature images and can be added by doing [mwarn-img][/mwarn-img].
    • This is the only way to mark your forum profile as mature.

7.  Member Tips

Members: Feel free to add your own tips, however brief, here! Remember, you can sign your tip with four tildes (~)

  • Hello I am a tip!