Welcome to Createblog! New Members Guide & FAQs Options

[karmakiller]

This guide is a work in progress.

Welcome to Createblog! This guide was created to help you become familiar with this community. Hopefully it will help you be less overwhelmed and make the forums more enjoyable. If you do not find the answer to your question here do not hesitate to ask.

Table of Contents
GETTING STARTED
POSTING
MEMBER GROUPS
PERSONAL SETTINGS - "My Controls" and "PM System"
YOUR PROFILE - "My Account"
TRACKER

[karmakiller]

Member Groups

When posting around the forum you may notice certain members have titles of different colors than you. This a list of what those titles mean.

Administrator: Administrators are crucial to running createBlog. They have a number of responsibilities, which include managing the forums, members, and staff. Administrators have moderating powers in all forums of createBlog. The only way to become an administrator is to be promoted from Head Staff.

Current Administrators:
manny-the-dino (Natalia)
mipadi (Michael)
superstitious (Rebecca)

Head Staff: Head Staff also have moderating powers in all forums of createBlog, as well as aiding the admins in the hiring of future moderators. To become a member of Head Staff, you must be promoted from a lower staff group.

Current Head Staff:
DoubleJ (JaVonn)
Cristy (Cristy)
Mike (Mike)

Design Staff: Design Staff have the ability to approve or reject Blogger/LiveJournal/Xanga/MySpace/CreateBlog layouts and scripts. Design Staff has powers in the Resource Center and all its subforums.

Current Design Staff:
elletricity (Gabrielle)
Christy (Christy)

People Staff: People Staff have powers in the Community Center and all its subforums.

Current People Staff:
IWontRapeYou (Abbey)


Mentor: This is an exclusive member group, because only ex-Admins and ex-Head Staff can be mentors. Although a Mentor does not have any mod abilities, a mentor's role is to offer advice, counseling, and share their past experiences as a mod in an effort to help improve Createblog's staff members and community as a whole.

Current Mentors:
brooklyneast05 (JC)
karmakiller (Dee)

Staff Alumni: Staff Alumni are people who have previously been on staff.

Official Designer & Official Member: Please refer to THIS thread.

Member: All members start out at this level. There are no special privileges associated with this member group.

MotM: Member of the Month is NOT a moderator group. There is only one Member of the Month in a month. You may nominate in the posted topic located in The Lounge and the staff will vote for your MotM. The MotM has special modding powers in the VIP Lounge (if you not an OM/OD/Staff Alumni you cannot view this forum; go become an OM!) and gets to pick the colors of the group names.


How do I become a staff member?
The current staff members are always keeping an eye out for new talented designers and members who are posting interesting topics while remaining courteous to other members of the community. If you feel that you are a standout member and are interested in becoming a staff member, send a PM to an Administrator (I'm not going to link them because you should know who they are *winkwink) and after the Administrator discusses it with the rest of the staff team you will hear back. If you do not get a position on the staff team - don't worry! The Admin will let you know what needs some improvements and you can always try again later. Sometimes the staff team will notice standout members and an Admin will send a PM to that person. If you receive/send a PM to an Admin about a position on the staff team it will remain confidential between you and that Admin but may be shared with the rest of the staff. It will NOT, however, be shared with any other members of the forums.