Forums



The Forums are one of Aywas' biggest features. Hundreds to thousands of users are posting on the forums daily, chatting about Aywas events, "real life" events, ranting about things, roleplaying, and much more. It is a great way to get to know other users and make friends.

The forum categories are Aywas, where all Aywas-related discussion takes place; Trading Post, where users can sell various things; Off Topic Chat, where nearly anything can be talked about or discussed; Community, where users can roleplay and hold their own contests; and Scavenger Hunt, which was the forum for the hunt. Often times new categories will be added to the bottom when a new event begins, such as the Scavenger Hunt or many site-wide events.

Forums Settings
On the forums, all users are allowed to submit an Avatar, which is a pixel picture that shows up to the left of every post you make and above your login name while you visit the site. The Avatar cannot be larger than 100x100 pixels. As per the Aywas Terms of Service, avatars cannot have anything graphic or vulgar. Users also have their Human Avatar on display in their posts on the forums.

Premium users have a few extra features to their forums settings. These users are able to have a Signature, which is a bit of text or an image below their post. Like avatars, signatures cannot have anything graphic or vulgar. These users also have the option to change their post's text color, their post's background color, and/or to bold or italicize their post.

Deciphering a Forum Post


This is an example of a Premium post. Premium users have the option to make the background of their post silver. Non-premium users have white backgrounds, Contributors have purple backgrounds, Mods have green, and Admins have blue. A few Admins also are able to use pink backgrounds.

1. Quote the post, modify the post (can only be done if you are the original poster!), date of post.

2. The user's status. Normal users are User. Premium users should have Premium, but there is currently a glitch. Staff members have Mod or Admin, Contributors have Contributor, and a few special users have the Game Master status.

3. The user's avatar.

4. The user's post.

5. The user's Online/Offline status.

6. If the user has edited their post, the time and date of the edit is noted here.

7. The user's Human Avatar.

8. The user's post count.

9. The user's signature.