alright!

There are a few new things to touch down on

first off for those who are active in the International Vines Promotion Competition (or those who aren't but want to be) check out this thread for a few urgent promotion opportunities, you can earn some major major points doing this stuff besides the fact that they're more important for the band than any other promo you can do right now:

http://thevines.forumsunlimited.com/index.php?showtopic=4683

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we have yet another forum project going on right now for those interested
its a birthday present/package for Craig
check that out here you still have a little time to participate if you'd like:
http://thevines.forumsunlimited.com/index.php?showtopic=4682

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you may have noticed that our pips changed (those little squarey thingymabobs under your username that show your rank) to little vine leaves (not cabbages, though Rachel may beg to differ) and you can now get up to 12 leaves (pips/cabbages/whatever)

but more importantly we now have a number of new user groups
the difference between your member group and your rank is you get more capabilities the higher the group you're in

user groups are based on your post count:
junior member is 0-19 posts
member is 20-4,999 posts
Old School is 5,000-9,999 posts
and veterans are 10,000 and above

what each group can do is as follows:

Junior Members aren't allowed to vote, their PM boxes only hold 10 messages, can't email members, have flood control, have a 50K uploading limit and can't change their display name

Members can vote, their PM boxes hold 50 messages, can mass PM up to 3 people, can email up to 5 people per day, have flood control, have a 500K uploading limit, and can change their display name once every 3 months

Old School! members can vote, their PM boxes hold 100 messages, they can mass PM up to 6 people, can email up to 15 people per day, can rate topics, don't have flood control, have a 600K uploading limit, can delete their own posts, can edit their own topic title/descriptions, can have a personal photo in their profile, and can change their display name once a month

Veterans can vote, their PM boxes hold 125 messages, can mass PM up to 6 people, can email up to 20 people per day, can rate topics, don't have flood control, have a 700K uploading limit, can delete their own posts, can edit their own topic title/descriptions, can have a personal photo in their profile, and can change their display name twice a month

The different groups are color coded in the active user section
Junior Members - gray
Members - black
Old School! - bronze and bold
Veterans, Mods, and Admin - green and bold

If you find that you cannot use the PM system when you log in and have more than 19 total posts just make a post so your user group will be updated from Junior Member to Member! your group will not be updated to where its supposed to be until you make a post

thats really it

cool

I'm a vet

I was wondering what the colors were about

very sweet Lizzy

Great job Lizzy!!

not to be a dip but what is the display name? the thinger above or under our avatar?

^Your display name is above your avatar .

And Lizzy, I'm loving the changes, the ratings and rankings remind me of the old .com .

oh!
and moderators have little Winning Days stars next to their names in the active users section ... and I have flowers
I may go invisable again though so then no one will see my flowers
but oh well

I thought it was superman

how in God's name did you get Superman out of that??

I.. dont.. know

its the crack

share?

I like it. But im only "Member" i prefer Veteran

you're 1/3 of the way there

you can have my veteran title

but i like it, cause i "worked" hard for it you'll get there too sara, just post post post

im way far from Veteran. ill never get there.

sure ya will, everything takes time m'dear

you've only been here just over 3 months though

I wouldn't be a veteran yet though and I've been here 2 years

What's flood control?

it means you can't make a million posts one right after another

stop lying lizzy. (it's really a system of levis)

yes but im particularly slow. ah, who cares! ill get there at some point. no point moping over it.
say, can any of the mods or whatever they're called get rid of "i wish" from my name, i think ive made my point now.... ? please?

yes, let's hear it from someone who hates her

I might change my username to something Retard-O-Bot related, but god knows I can't do anything without sounding like an obsessive fangirl.

^^ so what?!

its so nice to be a veteran i'd like to change my username, but i dunno waht to take. i mean... look how original i am using my own name as a username

just dont go changing your name and confusing me

Haha, true...no one really gives a poo anyway.

I don't think I'll ever be a veteran. I don't have the time or patience to post 7,000 more times.

I like clara, though...but change it to whatever you want. Just let everyone know or else we'll be ridiculously confused(but who doesn't love being confused?).

alright alright
I'm sorry

Old School! and Veterans are just much more susceptible to drowning during natural disasters

oh. i thought it was just no one cared if the lower members drowned.

no no the lower members HAVE flood control

floods for the Old School! and Veterans aren't controlled at all

sweet

man i gotta go old school! but i have 3 times more posts to make than i made my 1 year here.

well if you stick around you'll get there (and actually be Old School! and not just a hyperactive poster)

Haha ...clever.

lol thats rad, but I think im with rachel about the leaves really being cabbages

i thought they were cabbages too! i think you should make them into the band members heads and people can pick who they want.....

The new little pips look like...fingers.

I'm forever going to think that they are fingers instead of leaves.

trust me ... i have NO IDEA how i managed to post so much... sometimes i used to be on for hours and then away for weeks pretty strange!!

hahaha if i change my name i'm not gonna tell anybody about it!! you'll notice it

I'm just lazy.

Dun dun dun!

dun dun duuunnnnnnnn!! so am i

but look you posted almost 4000 post in more than one year thats wow so i think you'll be at 10000 in about 2 years

Being lazy is gret fun!

True...I might be. Who knows if I'll stick around for that anyway.

lol I remember I used to come on here like twice a week, now its like everyday (OH THE JOYS OF SUMMER)