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- How do I post messages in the forum?
- How many points do I need to get access to extra features?
- What is the exclusive membership all about?
- How much does an exclusive membership cost?
- What payment methods does this site support?
- Do I get upgraded to an exclusive member when I donate?
- How does the popularity rating work?
- What are the '--' and '++' in the forum section about?
- What is the 'inactive-for-too-long' ban error about?
- How can I request a new password?
- How can I contact you?
- How many challenges are there?
- How many challenge points do you receive when you finish all challenges?
- What's the highest rank possible at the moment?
- How come some users have finished challenges that they shouldn't have access to?

..: How do I post messages in the forum?:..

You can't unless you have a certain amount of points, don't worry though
it's not that difficult to achieve.
Anyway the forum is created for the challenges only, that's why it's not possible
to post a message without doing one of the challenges, below is an example:

As you can see the link to posting new messages only shows up, when a challenge
is actually being done.

Before posting a message in the forum, please check whether there
are any 'matching threads' for that challenges.

..: How many points do I need to get access to extra features?:..

In case you're an exclusive member, you have access to these already, otherwise:
- forum: 50 points
- avatar: 75 points
- chat: 100 points
- pm: 250 points
- spy mode: 500 points
- no ads: 1000 points

..: What is the exclusive membership all about?:..

I haven't coded it all yet, but here are some features:
- access to all challenges
- realtime view what other users are "doing"
- no advertisements
- gain popularity points for supporting the site
- direct access to pm, forum, avatar upload and chat
- unlimited pm messages
- allow three times more posts in the forum
- allow ten times more posts in the chat section
- maximum of one hour chatting in the chat section
- anti forum/pm post flooding intervals will be twice as short
- won't be automatically banned when being inactive for too long
- there will definitely be more features, but I still have to code most of them

..: How much does an exclusive membership cost?:..

- 1 euro/month
- 10 euro/year
- 25 euro/lifetime

..: What payment methods does this site support?:..

At the moment this site only supports payments through PayPal

..: Do I get upgraded to an exclusive member when I donate?:..

No you don't.
When you donate money via PayPal, your profile page will show what you donated and you'll receive popularity points as well.
The exclusive membership upgrade gives you 100 popularity points, and access to all site features, to become an exclusive member, please go to this page.

..: How does the popularity rating work?:..

That is for you to find out ^-^

..: What are the '--' and '++' in the forum section about?:..

This indicates whether the post was either useful or not, needless to tell,
but the '++' image works in your favour, it indicates whether a post was
useful or not.
In the worst case you get a '--' indicating that the post was either offensive, incorrect, stupid etc.

The more positive points received the higher your karma level and popularity rank on this site.

..: What is the 'inactive-for-too-long' ban error about?:..

Unless you're an exclusive member you have a limited life on this site, each time
you manage to finish a challenge your life will be expanded with 30 days.

You have at least three months to beat the first challenges, so staying alive for a while shouldn't be too much of a problem.

..: How can I request a new password?:..

You can request a new password here: request password

..: How can I contact you?:..

You can send me a mail on this page

..: How many challenges are there?:..

..: How many challenge points do you receive when you finish all challenges?:..

4725

..: What's the highest rank possible at the moment?:..

thc guru

..: How come some users have finished challenges that they shouldn't have access to?:..

There are three possibilities:
1- they have completed the challenge before a new easier challenge had been added
2- they are an exclusive member, so they can access all challenges
3- they were exclusive member, so they could access all challenges