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Donations

Currently, the site doesn't bring in much money, and it costs about $85 a year to keep up. Not a whole lot, but the owner of this site isn't particularly rich, so every bit helps. Also, the web designer spent a lot of time and work to implement skins, navigation layout, make the site work quick and neat, and implement the options you asked him, all this instead of doing a paid professional site. The more you support the site, the better it'll run and the more potential its future will have.

Now, the FAQ...

General questions

What is "Negative World"?
What are the round icons at the corners of the site?
What are XP and user levels? Why do some features seem inaccessible to me?
Can I choose the looks and features of the site?
How does the private message system work?
Does the site have social network connections?
What is the Neverending Experience Quest?

Forum

Are there specific threads I should know about?
What do the lights on the left of the forum index mean?
What are the negative numbers on the right of the forum index? On the private message page? Level 99?
What are the little grey icons on the right of the main forum page? What are "news", "roundtables", etc.?
How can I search for specific posts?
Can you flag threads to spot them more easily?
Can I embed videos, resize an image? What's "Reference"? My links don't work, etc.?
What are the Terms Of Service?
Apart from the T.O.S. is there particular netiquette to observe with post formatting?

Game Database

How do you rate games? The games I want to rate aren't in the base? How do I write reviews?
Do you have a backlog feature? Can I see who is playing what?
How can I browse Negative World's game reviews?

User profiles

What are user profile features? Can I see who's online?
How can I browse user profiles/post history? I'm looking for a specific profile?
How can I check the system codes of other Negative World users (Wii, XBL, PSN, Steam...)?
My Steam system code on my Negative World profile doesn't link to my Steam profile!

Is the uncle grippy stuff an automatic change, or is Zero manually activating grippy mode every year?

It is automatic by date.

The grip never loosens, only tightens.

My plan is to run it this way for like 30 more years and then when some of us are on our deathbeds taking our last breaths, to finally do a new April Fool's joke. No one will be expecting it!

And even giving away the plan, no one will be expecting it because we'll be so old our memories will be going and no one will remember this post!

Zero, is there a way to do a different number of "Top Ten" entries? Like a Top Twenty-Five? I wanna rank all the Ghibli movies in my biggest NW post yet...!

If not, I might just rank 25-11 in the intro post and pop the top ten in the usual spots.

Dang it, it says my introduction is too long and won't let me post it! It's only 3,400 words!

Zero! How do I make a 6,000 word thread? It says it's 4,000 words too long. Let me break the rules pleeeeease

I don't even fully know why there is such a hard limit, I really can't remember. But you got it done, one way or another! As for a different number of top 10, I thought about it but I never got around to programming it. It'd probably be a bit of a project really, that 10 limit is baked into a lot of code / images / etc. I think.

Its not urgent but I noticed the sequel to Ace Attorney Investigations isnt registered in the game database.

@Stan McStanly The game database is user created! If you don't see something, add it!

I thought I needed to be higher level and also I didn't see anywhere to register.

There now you are a higher (lower) level. If you go to Games -> Game Database you should see "Add Game to Database" in the top right.

No one added Jack Bros 2 either? I'm practically running this whole site.

This may have already been asked, but are MMO expansions fair to add to the database? I want to include the expansions for FFXIV.