Mogv.com Frequently Asked Questions

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 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 dark blue.
   Karma between 3.01 and 3.65 = scholar. Posts are in yellow.
   Karma between 3.66 and 4.34 = sage. Posts are in green.
   Karma between 4.35 and 5 = guru. Posts are in red

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:

   a) Flat vrs 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.

   b) 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.

   c) 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.

   d) 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: Click on the white arrows in order to reply to a specific post. Click on the yellow notepad to edit your own post. Click on the red flag to bookmark a post so you can easily find it later (premium only).

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:

   a) 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 [orange] this text would be in orange [/orange]. The following colors are available: Orange, Yellow, Blue, Navy, Green, Olive, Gold, Silver, Black, White, Teal, Red, Maroon, Purple,

   b) 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]
           [b] to bold text [/b]
           [i] to italicize text [/i]
           [u] to underline text [/u]
           [quote] to quote text [/quote]

   c) 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]

   d) There are 3 ways to do links.  http://www.anything 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 = h t t p://whatever.com] TITLE of link goes here [/ link]