Welcome to Negative World. If you have any question, please read the following list and click to read an answer. If your question isn't in the list or if you have a suggestion, feel free to post a reply.

To be able to add more questions/answers to the list later, your participations to this thread will eventually be deleted to make room, after they've been answered.

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!

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Fair enough. I agree that the logo looks nice. You could always make the forums section of your Paper Salamander website jump over here.

I've been questioning whether I really need a site just for my company when I only really have a single game... at the moment I just have a site for my game.

And it does link to Negative World!

Hey, umm... I tried to upload a new avatar, and it shows up in my list of private avatars, but when I select it, my avatar just appears blank next to my posts/in my profile? I'm not sure why this is happening. When I go back to my Rain avatar I was using, or my older Ranma avatar, they show up, but the avatar I want to use now doesn't show up. I don't know what could be causing this D:

EDIT: It seems uploading it with a smaller file name got it to work. Thank goodness. Now I can have Bowsette goodness everywhere I go here :3

How should games be added to the database which are half physical and half digital when it comes to marking them as retail or digital? I'm talking about stuff like Mega Man Legacy Collection 1+2, Final Fantasy X / X-2 Remaster, etc. Should they just be split as separate entries, so for example just add in Mega Man Legacy Collection as retail and MMLC2 as digital?

@Mop it up The whole line is really being skewed and I probably need to rethink our whole system but I always saw "retail" as games with a primary focus on retail which is basically most AAA games. I guess a collection from Capcom would also count there. For the most part I tend to mark anything that has a retail release as "retail" unless it is an indie game or a game that like... released digitally first and then got a limited retail release later on.

@Zero So per my example, "Mega Man Legacy Collection 1+2" should be added as a single entry and marked as retail? Just want to be clear here.

Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I guess so. I don't even know what retail is anymore but a lot of games have you doing massive downloads the moment you put in the disk, so maybe this isn't that different?

...OR IS IT?!

All games are digital unless you play them on vinyl!

Anyone else seeing the trophies just all on a single line breaking the user profile on a profile with a lot of trophies? (You can click mine to check.)

I definitely didn't change anything but this seems to be happening now...

@Zero

I can confirm that in my browser, Safari, this does not happen on my account page nor yours. Four rows of about 10 icons.

It looks fine on Chrome on my work computer, just not Chrome on my home computer.

Web dev is so much fun!

@Zero

It looks like that for me!

How is it looking now? Better?

@Zero

Yes! Looks good.

How hard would it be to get Negative World working with https? My web browsers have been becoming increasingly concerned about unencrypted traffic. I'm probably not the only one who has a big Not Secure warning next to the URL?

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