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General Forum FAQ (WoW)
Section I: Forum Conduct
1. "I want to sell you some gold"
Gold selling is evil. If you are a gold seller, be prepared to be downrated, flamed, and reported. The place to report Gold sellers so that the posters can be banned is in the Feedback Forum.
| Terms of use | 8. Ownership/Selling of the Account or Virtual Items.Blizzard does not recognize the transfer of Accounts. You may not purchase, sell, gift or trade any Account, or offer to purchase, sell, gift or trade any Account, and any such attempt shall be null and void. Blizzard owns, has licensed, or otherwise has rights to all of the content that appears in the Program. You agree that you have no right or title in or to any such content, including the virtual goods or currency appearing or originating in the Game, or any other attributes associated with the Account or stored on the Service. Blizzard does not recognize any virtual property transfers executed outside of the Game or the purported sale, gift or trade in the "real world" of anything related to the Game. Accordingly, you may not sell items for "real" money or otherwise exchange items for value outside of the Game |
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2. There is a gil/gold/plat/ seller, levelling service, other real money transfer, general nuisance spammer, or flaming on the forums, what is your policy and who do I contact?
Step 1: Don't Panic! Stay calm and I'll guide you through this.
Step 2: Resist the urge to post in the thread, AT ALL COSTS. Posting only bumps the thread to the top, NO MATTER WHAT YOU POST.
Step 3: Before you move on to Step 4, click the rate button next to the persons name and select "Awful," then scroll to the bottom of the thread and click "Rate Posts" button. This will lower the threads rating and reduce the ammount of traffic it recives until the Admins arrive. This also lowers the chances of people bumping it with flames/testimonials/spam/ect.
Step 4:
| A: For spammers of all types, contact an admin either in the Feedback Forum, by e-mailing one of them (use the About this Site link,) or PM them from the message board and they will get to it as soon as they can. As for flaming, Allakhazam is a lenient moderation site. For death threats etc, please use the Feedback Forum as well. |
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3. "Where can I buy gold?"
Gold buying is evil. It is against the Terms of Service and Terms of Use that was agreed to when the game was loaded. If you make a post asking where to purchase gold, be prepared for flames. People here may tell you where to go, but it won't be a URL. Here is the official word on buying gold: The negative impact of buying gold
4. "Please help my rouge"
If you post this, be prepared for flames. It's spelled rogue.
| rogue n. 1. An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal. 2. One who is playfully mischievous; a scamp. 3. A wandering beggar; a vagrant. |
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| rouge n. 1. A red or pink cosmetic for coloring the cheeks or lips. 2. A reddish powder, chiefly ferric oxide, used to polish metals or glass.[1]Most people consider a rouge to be over-powdered. |
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5. "i cant speel ore use grammer but i still post can u tell me y my posts r ingored?"
If you don't want to be ignored, use proper English. This includes capitalization, punctuation, and not using abbreviations or 1337-speak. The same holds for in-game - you can't be taken seriously without knowing how to write. If you are unsure of your spelling, there is online help available at Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com also provides a thesaurus, so you can try using different words in your sentences. The best reference for sentence construction that I've found is on Wikipedia.
People care about grammar, spelling, and punctuation. When your English is sloppy, then you come across as sloppy. If you use leet, you come across as juvenile. When you use swear words, you come across as a moron. It's up to you to decide how you want to present yourself.
6. "The servers are down!"
a. Check your calendar. If it's Tuesday, then it's maintenence time, and the servers are supposed to be down. If you still feel like bitching and moaning, post in the Tuesday is Maintenence Thread.
1. Yes, your servers will be down until 2pm Eastern (May be earlier depending on when they start). This will happen EVERY Tuesday! (5AM-11AM PST)
2. Yes, continue to post questions/comments.
3. No, even if you're able to log-in you won't be able to play, unless they happen to bring them online earlier than anticipated.
4. No, Do not whine about your servers.
5. Yes, maintenance time is an estimate at best. If your servers do not come up at the scheduled time, refer to #4.
6. Yes, the Official WoW Forums (O-boards) will be down during the course of maintenance as well (submitted by:mohenjodari the Mighty)
Euro Maintenance:
The euro maintenance is at 0300 CEST to 0700 or 0800 CEST on Wednesdays. At patchdays it goes on until 1100 CEST.
EDIT: Premium Members, go here to download the patch once Alla posts it: http://wow.allakhazam.com/file.html?1 compgenius wrote: Every Tuesday I log in to check the forums and catch up on whats going on while I am stuck at work. Sadly I stop shortly after lunch because its always the same thing over and over....
OMFG!!! THEY EXTENDED MAINTENANCE AGAIN!!! OMG WHAT AM I GOING TO DO?????!?!?!?!?!??!
I almost dread reading posts on Tuesdays. Why do people find it nececssary to come here and complain? Its Tuesday, I have been playing since January...EVERY Tuesday there has been maintenance. Its not some new magical thing that blizzard thought up to piss off the WoW community.
b. Sometimes servers go out for other reasons. If it's a global effect, other posters are aware of the problem and you aren't providing any new information. You can check realm status at the official site - http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/realmstatus/
c. Ranting at Blizz isn't going to help the servers get back to normal any faster. If you want to rant at Blizz someplace where they actually look, post in the O-forums. http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/
7. "Blizz sucks!"
a. Ranting at Blizz here isn't going to solve your problem. If you want to rant at Blizz someplace where they actually look, post in the O-forums. http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/
b. If you are posting here to get sympathy or much needed attention, you won't get much. Most posters here don't want to hear rants, so chances are that you will get downrated to oblivion. So calm down and post something that might actually help people instead of ranting.
8. "I've been banned from the official forums and I want to bring my drama here"
Just go away.
9. "I'm posting this even though there is an existing thread on the subject"
Don't. Post in the existing thread. This might require actually reading threads, though, and that might be beyond your cranial capacity.
10. "Is better than WoW?"
You're posting on a World of Warcraft forum. If you expect any answer other than "WoW > ", you are deluding yourself. If you post the same question on a board dedicated to the other game, you can expect " > WoW". If you post a defense of the other game, expect flames. Some people may consider you to be a troll for posting questions like this on the main WoW forum. If you want to compare games, consider posting in the [2]multi-game forum[3].
11. What do I need to do to get an avatar or that neat signature block?
Let me start this off by saying that Allakhazam does not recognize the use of immage blocks ([4] and [5]). It used to be allowed, but was removed due to the large amount of abuse. Live with it. The only pictures allowed are avatars (which can be no larger than 120x120 pixels and must be uploaded), and the Allakhazam signature block.
First, you need to get premium service. You can sign up for premium service on the main page or from the [6]Site FAQ[7].
To put up an avatar: 1. find a picture that you want to use for your avatar - resize it to no larger than 120x120 pixels and save it to your local hard drive. 2. Go to the "User Account" menu by clicking on the link at the left side of the page. 3. Click on "Your Files" 4. Click on "Browse" - locate your picture, and click on upload 5. When you are through uploading the avatar, the name will display at the top. 6. Go back to the options menu 7. Click on the Avatar down arrow, and select the picture you uploaded 8. There is no 8 - you're done.
to implement the signature block: 1. You have to have used WoWreader and be able to see your characters. for more about WoWreader, see the [8]WoWreader FAQ[9]. [10]NOTE: YOU DO NOT NEED PREMIUM SERVICE TO USE WOWREADER, BUT YOU DO NEED IT FOR THE SIGNATURE BLOCK[11] 2. Click on "Your Characters" 3. Locate the character you want in your signature, and click on it. 4. notice the URL it ends with a number, like profile.html?[12][13]243164[14][15] - note the number 5. Go to the "User Account" menu by clicking on the link at the left side of the page. 6. In your signature block, type in [16]#######[17], where ####### is the number from your profile.
For more detail on installing WoWreader and linking your wowsig, see Mazra's WoWreader Guide.
12. Can you explain the Allakhazam Rating system to me?
First off, there are various ranks for posters. Those are [18][19]Default[20][21], [22][23]Scholar[24][25], [26][27]Sage[28][29], and [30][31]Guru[32][33]. Ranks are gained by being rated up, and lost by being rated down. A poster's average rating can be viewed by clicking on the poster's name.
Posts themselves have ratings, which are then attached to the poster. The ratings are: 1 - Awful 2 - Default 3 - Decent 4 - Good 5 - Excellent
Rateups are gained by putting up generally useful posts. In order to rate a post, you have to have a minimum rating of Scholar. Ratedowns are gained for various reasons, but certainly because someone did not like what was posted. If a post is rated down often enough, it becomes sub-default and dissappears (as long as you are using the default filter).
Perhaps it's better explained in this quote from the Site FAQ: