Welcome to Dipsters.org and to the Dipsters.org Forum!
Anyone may read this forum but only members of The Dipsters Group or Diplomacy Direct may participate in the conversation by adding new topics or by replying to existing topics.
Posting to the Forum
If you want to participate in the conversation, there are a few things that you must do first.
STEP #1: Register for the forum
Since you are already here, start by actually registering for the forum.
At the top of this page, you should see the line:
"Register or log in - lost password?"
Click on the word "Register" in this line to begin your registration for the forum.
Note that after you register, you will receive a message that you have done so and that the forum is emailing a temporary password to your email address when your registration has been approved.
STEP #2: Join Dipsters or Diplomacy Direct
Since you must be a member of Dipsters or Diplomacy Direct to post to the forum, join one of these groups if you have not done so already.
http://www.dipsters.org/join.html
You will not be admitted to the Forum if you have not first registered for either Dipsters or Diplomacy Direct
To join the Dipsters Group, you should have completed at least 5 games on the Ken Lowe judges, have no willingly abandoned games, and have an ontime record greater than 90% on the judges. If there are special conditions which have kept you from meeting these requirements, explain them on your application and we will take them into consideration when we review your application.
To join Diplomacy Direct, you must have between 1 and 4 completed judge games and you should have a recommendation from one of your GMs.
STEP #3: Login to the Forum for the first time
Retrieve your temporary password which the forum had sent to your email address.
Go to the forum page again (http://www.dipsters.org/forum/) and enter your username (which is now registered) and the temporary password into the username and password fields.
Log in.
Once you login, you should now see a welcome message at the top of the page:
"Welcome, (your username) | Log Out"
Click on your username.
This will take you to your profile.
Click on the "Edit" Tab on the right.
Fill in your first and last name and your New Password (the one that YOU want to use, not the temporary one).
Click on the "Update Profile" button on the lower right.
This will take you to your profile page again where you will see the message "Profile updated. Edit again ยป" near the top of the page.
Click on "Edit again".
From the drop down menu next to "Display name as", select your first and last name.
Note: This is important because members of this forum may not know you as "the Cougar Hunter" ...unless they were with you on Saturday night of course. ;P
Click on the "Update Profile" button again and you are now good to go.
RSS Feeds
If you explore the link at the live feed icon, you will find a number of possibilities that may be helpful in notifying you of new activity on this forum by feeding forum pages, topics, or new posts to Your Google Homepage, Google Reader, MyYahoo!, Bloglines, or Livebookmarks.
Personally I have chosen to add a summary of new posts to my iGoogle homepage. Just 3 very easy steps to set up. It's so easy that I did not even have to ask my kids how to do it.
After going to your iGoogle homepage, choose:
1) Add Stuff
2) Add by URL
3) Then enter the forum's URL for new posts: http://www.dipsters.org/forum/rss/
That is all there is to it!
Anyway I hope that you enjoy this forum and this great group of people here.
Just be sure to have fun!
Alan Mennel