GENERAL INFORMATION

Q: How do I find information on the site if I am not a Premium Member?

A: Contrary to the rumors, all information entered into the Allakhazam database can be found by all registered users; premium and non-premium members a like. Premium members, however, have access to a refined search. Unregistered users still have access to all of the information, but cannot post.

Q: How do I subscribe to the site?

A: You can go to the Premium Sign Up page and read all the information and decide if premium is right for you. To sign up, just click the sign up now link on that page.

Prices are as follows:

• 3 Months =  $9.99 ($3.33 a month)
• 6 Months =  $17.99 ($2.99 a month)
• 12 Months = $29.99 ($2.50 a month)

Q: How do I submit information to the site, and do you have any submission preferences.

A: All information, images, and corrections can be e-mailed to darkflame@allakhazam.com. With the large amount of submissions it can often take sometimes up to two weeks or so before something gets posted. To speed up the process, please crop screenshots and convert them to either jpg, png, or gif format, with a pixel width no larger than 600. Please label them as the item or mob name without spaces or apostrophes. i.e An_Ugly_Mob.jpg or OneAwesomeDagger.png. We get several submissions for the same thing a lot and the one that is first received and easy to add will be put up first. Also, if you want, you can list your guild or your name on the submission image. Example here.

Q: Does it cost anything to sign up for an account?

A: No. It is free to sign up for an Allakhazam.com account. The free account lets you log onto the site and post under the same name, rate other people's posts, and take advantage of a number of other free features we include. All accounts may optionally be upgraded to premium accounts for a very small fee, which provide you with a number of very nice additional features.

Q: I am a registered user, but can't seem to be able to log in. What's the problem?

A: Several things could be contributing to this. First off, you must have cookies enabled in your browser to stay logged in and to use the premium features. Check your browser settings to make sure they are enabled. Second, if your computer date and time are off, the cookies can expire prematurely. Check your computer's date and time to make sure they are correct. Finally, sometimes you just need to log off and back on again to reset things. Click on login in the menu, log out and log back into your account.

Q: I am a premium member and want to know how I access my @allakhazam.com e-mail.

A: Any mail sent to yourusername@allakhazam.com will automatically be forwarded to your registered e-mail address, so you can just check your mail like you normally do.

Q: I am a premium member, but am still seeing ads. I thought premium members did not see any ads. So why am I still seeing them?

A: You are not supposed to see any banner, popup or skyscraper ads as a premium member. If you are, you should first check to make sure you are actually logged into your premium account, and not a different one. You should also check your browser settings to make sure you have cookies enabled and your computer's date and time to make sure they are set correctly.

Q: I'm a premium member, but I've quit playing and want to make sure my account does not renew. How do I do that?

A: Click on Your Account in the menu to get to your account settings. In the lower right-hand corner is the billing settings which lists your renewal date and whether to renew your premium account. Change that to "no" and hit save changes. Your account will
now expire instead of renew.
 

FORUM / COMMENTS INFORMATION

Q: I see some people are able to run their own journal. How do I get one for myself?

A: That is one of the many features offered as part of the premium service described
above.

Q: I saw that a poster had an avatar under his name on his post, how do I get one?

A: That is a premium service option

Q: I have premium and I want to show an avatar, how do I do that?

A: Avatars must be no larger than 100 X 100 pixels, and must not be pornographic in nature. Those avatars deemed not appropriate will be removed. This image you can store on our servers.

Q: I see posters rated as Scholar, Sage and Guru. What's up with that and how do I get a
title?

A: That is part of the Karma system. Your Karma rating is determined by averaging every rating your posts have received from the users of the site. The rating comes from posts made under your registered name on any of the rated forums for any game covered by allakhazam.com, but does not include posts on user journals. You must have at least 15 posts before you receive a Karma rating. Then any future post you make will start out at your Karma level. Anonymous posts start at a rating of 2. Titles are assigned to your posts according to the following scale:

Karma below 3 = user. Posts are in orange.
Karma between 3.01 and 3.65 = scholar. Posts are in light blue.
Karma between 3.66 and 4.34 = sage. Posts are in green.
Karma between 4.35 and 5 = guru. Posts are in red.
Administrators posts are in maroon.

Q: What are the karma ratings?

A: Excellent = 5.0
Good = 4.0
Decent = 3.0
Default = 2.0
Awful = 1.0

Q: If I see one more "This Item sucks " post, I think I'm going to scream. How do I get rid of them?

A: Rate them down. Since the default setting to view posts is 2, it only takes a couple of people to rate down a post before it disappears from view. Moreover, because a poster's Karma rating determines where his posts are initially rated, if a person consistently makes posts that other users rate as awful, eventually his karma will drop so low that his posts will effectively disappear the moment they are made.

Q: I want to change the way the comments are displayed. How do I do that?

A: At the top of every forum, you will set a set of filters. You can adjust the forum settings to your personal preferences. Simply make the changes and hit the change button. If you also check save, the settings you choose will be your default settings each time you visit the forums. The filters at the top of the forum do the following from left to right:
- Flat vs. Threaded. Choosing flat will bring up the full text of each primary message on the forum. Choosing threaded will only bring up the subject lines. The default is threaded. Be warned that choosing flat will significantly increase the loading time for
each page.
- Auto Expand. You may choose to automatically expand messages higher than a certain rating so that the full text of those messages appear while the rest of the messages only show the subject line. The default is to never auto expand. Be warned that the more messages you auto expand, the longer the loading time will be for each page.
- Order. You can change the order of the messages to show you the newest messages first, oldest messages first or highest rated messages first. The default is to show the newest messages first.
- Filter @. This filter lets you eliminate from view any messages rated below the threshold you set. Thus setting it at no 2 (below average) will cause those messages rated 1 (awful) to not appear on any forum you visit and setting it at 5 (excellent) will only
show you those messages rated excellent. The default is 2.

Q: What are those icons next to each post?

A: A thread
A stickied thread
A locked thread
To make a new thread
Reply to a thread
To edit your post in a thread
To go to thread index
New thread since your last visit
New reply since your last visit with 10+ replies total
Post with 10+ replies total
To send a personal message to a poster
To view a poster's journal
To e-mail a poster, e-mail must be enabled public for this feature to work
To add someone to your address book
To bookmark a post (you must have premium service for this feature)

Q: Are there any special codes I can use to make my posts look better?

A: Yes. The forums use ubb codes. There are a variety of things you can do once you understand the codes. Here are some ideas:
- You can change the color of any text. Just block the text with the color codes in brackets with the ending block starting with a slash. Thus [lawngreen] this text would be lawngreen [/lawngreen]. We now sport over 100 color, and they can be used in the background as well.
- You can also do preformatted text, which lets you paste tables and whatnot into messages and not lose their formatting. Type [pre] text goes here [/ pre]
- There are 3 ways to do links. http://www.allakhazam.com will automatically be linked in. You may deliberately define links as links, by using [link] text to be linked [/ link]. You may also deliberately name links by using the following syntax. [link=http://www.allakhazam.com] TITLE of link goes here [/ link]
- The other tags you can use are (remember to start with the tag you want and end with the same tag with a slash in front of it):

• [li]to get a
• bulleted list[/li]

[quote] to quote text [/quote]

Q: I just signed up for the premium service and want to set up all those cool features like my journal and posting title. Where do I go to do that?

A: Click on Your Account in the menu. This brings up your account administration screen. Here you can choose your posting title, set up your personal journal to your preferences, set your e-mail to public and add a signature and biography. Make sure you hit save changes after you change your settings.

Q: There is a gil/gold/plat/ seller, general nuisance spammer, or flaming on the forums, what is your policy and who do I contact?

A: For spammers of all types, contact an admin either in the Feedback Forum, by e-mail one of us, see About this Site below to get links, or PM us from the message board and we will get to it as soon as we can. As for flaming, we are a lenient moderation site. For death threats etc, please use the feedback forum as well.

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