Chat with users here. Do not post personal information. Repeated instances could lead to a kick for your own safety.
No one likes trolls or arrogant idiots, and we don't tolerate insulting and arguing about it. It can be a temporary ban.
Please don't talk about controversial topics like religion and politics, or discuss subjects that may not be suitable for younger users of the chat room.
If you break the rules of the chat room repeatedly after several warnings, you will be kicked from chat for 10 minutes. Multiple kicks may lead to a temporary ban.
Top bar:
- Hello _: the site's greeting. Clicking on the name brings you to your profile.
- My Account: Edit your profile and choose whether or not to display your Gravatar.
- My Updates: Gives you a list of questions that you or your favourite users have been involved with, by commenting, answering, asking, closing (you only) or hiding (you only).
- Search: Allows you to search questions on whatever section you're in.
- All Activity: Shows a list of all recent questions asked, comments, editing, retagging, reshowing, and closing being done by users.
- Questions: Shows a list of recent questions.
- Unanswered: Shows a list of unanswered questions.
- Tags: This is where you can click on a tag, and it will bring up all the questions with that tag.
- Ask a Question: Ask a question.
- Admin: Accessible to Editors and above. Displays posts in the moderation queue, flagged posts, and hidden posts.
- Chat: Where the Chat Room is.
- Rules: Where the rules are.
Posting:
When posting, try to keep posts neat and make your point clear. When asking a question, please make sure that it has not been asked before. When answering, answer the question as a whole, and refrain from answering when there is an answer present unless you can add useful and relevant information that isn't in the current answer.
B: Bolds. You can use two asterisks (**) in front and back of a word to make it bold.
I: Italicizes. You can use one asterisk (*) in front and back of a word to make it italic.
Globe: Allows you to Hyperlink. (The thing on top of the post, on the "rules" is an example.
": Quotes something. You can use ">" before the quote also.
{}: Creates the green letters for code. You can use one (`) front and back of a word to make it green.
Picture: Allows you to add pictures using URLs.
1, 2, 3: Guides you using a list using the numbers.
- : Guides you using a list with bullets.
The thing after: Creates a heading.
The thing after: Creates a horizontal line.
Back arrow: Undo last action.
Front arrow: Redo last action
For more information, look here.
Gravatar:
PokemonDB uses a website called Gravatar to display avatars on profiles.
To get one, just sign up on http://www.gravatar.com/ with the same email you signed up here with. Upload an image, and then go to your profile. Go to "My Account", then allow Gravatar to be shown. It might take a while, but it will eventually show.
Favoriting:
Favoriting things, such as questions, users, and tags allows you to keep up with updates.
Favoriting a...
- Question: Allows you to follow all comments and answers that occur.
- User: Allows you to follow what they do on the DB. Their activity will appear on your "My Updates" tab if you allow it to.
- Tag: allows you to follow what questions have the tag.
To favorite something, simply just click the star on a question, user profile, or tag page.
Walls:
Walls can be accessed on any user profile. If you're able to write wall posts and the wall isn't closed by the user that owns it, you're able to post a message on it. Think of it like a Private Messaging system that's public :P
Excessive spamming on walls can lead to temporary bans if the recipient(s) of the spam feels it's too disruptive.
Voting system:
We have a voting system as well. Upvote interesting questions and correct answers, and downvote bad questions and incorrect answers.
If someone answers your question, you may choose to give "best answer," which means that it is the best answer.
There is also a point system here. Click here for an up-to-date guide on points. Basically, the more points you have, the better knowledge you have about Pokemon. Also, you cannot do certain thing without a certain number of points:
- Vote Up: +10.
- Vote Down: -10. Whoever gave the downvote loses 2. Also note, you are encouraged to down vote bad posts. DO NOT NOT DOWNVOTE BECAUSE OF POINTS, OR IF YOU ARE JEALOUS OF ANOTHER USER.
- Best Answer: +20 for whoever received it, +2 for whoever gave it, does not require points.
Point Requirements
Pokebase:
Privilege Points
Upvote 40
Flag 40
Downvote 100
Make new tags 500
Edit 6000
No moderation (question) 25
No moderation (answers) 200
Meta:
Privilege Points
Upvote 30
Flag 40
Downvote 60
Retag 1000
Edit 2000
Battle Subway:
Privilege Points
Upvote 30
Flag 40
Downvote 60
Retag 800
Edit 1000
Chat:
Privilege Users
Kicking Editors, Moderators, Pokemaster
As mentioned before, walls are a thing. However, it takes 30 points to be able to post on walls. This is not global either: you need 30 points on each section if you want to post on that section. For example, having 30 points on Pokebase won't allow you to post on RMT walls if you don't have at least 30 points on RMT.
Flags:
Flags are for our regular users who cannot use hiding powers. Flags are for posts that need staff attention, and these flags allow Moderators and Editors to check the posts in question rather easily.
See this for more details.
Moderation:
New users are screened here with their questions as a barrier. Some users do not understand what the PokemonDB is for, so any user who has under 25 points will need their question approved by one of our Editors or Moderators. Posting on old questions requires 200 points to forgo moderation.
For more information, see Pokemaster's post here.
Ranks and Privileges:
By being on the site, gaining people's trust, as well as gaining points, you gain ranks. Everyone starts off as a registered user. There are 5 ranks:
- Registered User: Voting on questions, Voting on answers, Voting posts down, Flagging posts
- Expert (achieved by reaching 6000 points. Or you can become a Meta / RMT Expert by reaching 2000 on Meta or 1000 on RMT): Retagging any question, Editing any question, editing any answer, editing any comment
- Editor (Pokemaster will choose): Approving or rejecting posts, hiding or showing any post
- Moderators (Pokemaster will choose): Selecting answer for any question, viewing IPs of anonymous posts, banning
- Super Administrator (Pokemaster): Deleting hidden posts
See this post and this post for more details.
Current Active Ranks
Getting Banned:
This guide by Fizz should help.
That's all from me. Welcome!
