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Rules and policies

  1. Keep one account per person.
  2. Keep posts on-topic, constructive, family-friendly and of general interest.
  3. Be ethical and lawful. Do not ask for or provide information on where to obtain illegal material (e.g. unofficial Tintin works, unauthorized distribution of copyrighted works).
  4. No self-promotion or business advertising. Making excessive, unnecessary references to your own products and websites is self promotion.
  5. Write in English. Use standard English grammar and punctuation.
  6. Messages posted at Tintinologist.org are the sole opinion and responsibility of the poster.
  7. By posting, the poster grants Tintinologist.org a royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide licence to use the submitted content in any way for any purpose.
  8. Tintinologist.org reserves the right to modify/move/remove any user contribution, or take action against any account, at any time, for any reason.
  9. These terms/rules are retroactive, and it is the user's responsibility to remain informed of current Tintinologist.org policies.

Creating an account

Registration is only necessary if you wish to post. Only one account is permitted per person.

  1. Select "Create an account" from the menu.
  2. Read and agree to the forums Terms of Agreement (also known as Rules and policies).
  3. Complete the registration form:
    Username - use only letters a to z and numbers, and keep the username between 3 to 40 characters long. Your username is case-sensitive. Note: usernames that begin with numbers will not be accepted (e.g. 123Abc).
    Email - the email address to which your password is to be sent.

Account activation email

The account activation email is sent automatically by our servers after a new account is created; and depending on network traffic, it can take up to 24 hours to reach your mailbox.

Did not receive the account activation email?

  1. Check your spam-filtered mail, as your account activation email may have got filtered as spam by mistake. Some mail services (e.g. Hotmail, Yahoo!, Verizon or GMX) use spam filters that direct a lot of the automatically sent emails to a special folder.
  2. Add tintinologist.org to your safe addresses list, so that future emails from Tintinologist.org do not get blocked.
  3. Request a new activation email (this will take you to our password reset page); please note that this is a automated email response and may get filtered if you have spam filtering enabled, so be sure to also check your spam filtered mail to see if this is the case.
  4. If you still do not receive an activation email after requesting a new one, contact our webmaster for assistance.

Logging in

  1. New member: a password is sent to the email account you supplied during registration.
  2. Locate the "Enter forums" bar above the forums' home page.
  3. In the "log-in" field, enter your username. If unsure, check the first email we sent you (the one containing your password) which also shows your username.
  4. In the "password" field, enter your password.

Having trouble logging in?

  1. Your username and password are case-sensitive.
  2. Check that your browser accepts cookies.
    • Do not know how to allow cookies on your browser? Refer to Google's "How to enable cookies" guide for step-by-step instructions.

Managing your profile and preferences

  1. Log in
  2. Select "Edit profile" from the menu. You can update everything except your username.

    3. Resetting forgotten password

    • Click on "Forgot your password?" link next to the log-in form.
    • Enter the email address associated with your forum account.
    • You will receive an email with a new password. Acitvate the new password by clicking on the link supplied in the email.
    1. Click on the "Search" link in the menu to search the forums using keyword(s).
    2. Search results are sorted by post time in descending order (new posts are shown first).

    Making a new post or starting a new topic/thread

    1. Do a search on your question first—chances are, someone else has already asked the same question, and received an answer.
    2. Locate the "Make a new post" form at the bottom of each topic listing page.
    3. Use appropriate language encoding (e.g. UTF-8) before you input special symbols (e.g., accented characters such as é ).
    4. Enter a topic title in the "Make new post" box.
    5. Enter your the body of your message in the "Message" box.
    6. If you want to be notified by email whenever someone replies to your post, click the "Email me when someone replies" box.
    7. Click "Post".
    8. To make another post, repeat the steps above. Please note that to discourage spamming and flooding, users can only post once per a set time.

    Email notifications

    1. To receive email notifications whenever someone replies to your post, click the "Email me when someone replies" box below the message posting and preview buttons.
    2. To stop receiving notifications, select the appropriate topic, click on the "Cancel email notifications" link.

    Formatting messages

    Use the BB-code buttons to help you to insert formatting tags into your post (the buttons require JavaScript support to work).

    Just enter the full URL or email address and watch it turn into a real hyperlink. No BB code is needed.
    Turn a word or a phrase (instead of the full URL) into a Web link
    BB code: [url=complete URL]word or phrase you want to turn into a hyperlink[/url]
    Example: [url=http://www.example.com/]View this example Web site![/url] produces View this example web site!
    Note: Do not put spaces/quotation marks/apostrophes inside the [url=URL] tag.
    Turn a word or a phrase into an email address (instead of showing the full email address) into an email link
    BB code: [email=emailaddress]text you want to turn into an email link[/email]
    Example: [email=user@example.com]Email me![/email] produces Email me!
    Note: Do not put spaces/quotation marks/apostrophes inside the [email=] tag.
    Display an image (the use of this option is discouraged. Please provide the URL of the image instead.)
    BB code: [imgs]full url of the image[/imgs]
    Example: - [imgs]http://www.example.com/img/example.jpg[/imgs]
    Note 1: you can link only to .gif or .jpg files from http:// servers.
    Note 2: Do not put spaces/quotation marks/apostrophes inside the [img] tag.
    Bold text
    BB code: [b]text you want to bold[/b]
    Example: [b]Achtung![/b] produces Achtung!
    Note: No spaces between the text and the [b][/b] tags
    Italicise text
    BB code: [i]text[/i]
    Example: [i]Achtung![/i] produces Achtung!
    Note: No spaces between the text and the [i][/i] tags
    Underline text
    BB code: [u]Underlined[/u]
    Example: [u]Achtung![/u] produces Achtung!
    Note: No spaces between the text and the [i][/i] tags

    Quoting messages

    To quote messages: (this feature requires JavaScript support to work)

    1. Select the text you want to quote
    2. Press the "quote" link
    3. The selected text will be automatically inserted into the reply box at the bottom of the page.

    Locking topics/threads

    Staff membes can lock/unlock any topic.

    To lock a topic:

    1. Log in.
    2. Go to the topic you want to lock.
    3. At the bottom of the page, click on the "lock topic" link.

    Editing messages (original topic line cannot be edited)

    1. Locate your post.
    2. Click "Edit".

    Cannot edit your messages?

    If a member of staff has edited and locked your post, you cannot undo the changes.

    Currently, posts that have not been edited by staff can be edited for up to 48 hours after they have been posted. In most cases this allows for time to fix typos and broken links, but also helps to prevent individuals from editing their posts to back-track a particular stance or add a heap of new information. (When an old post is edited, it does not appear in the recent posts list; therefore, if the post contains a lot of new content, it will be overlooked by most people.)

    Deleting messages

    Staff do not accept requests for removing messages, so please think carefully before you post.