•  Summary

• 1 • Introduction - Getting familiar with the forum.
• • 1.1 • Structure
  • 1.2 • Navigation
  • • 1.2.1 • Using the drop-down menu
    • 1.2.2 • Using the tree-structured menu.
    • 1.2.3 • Sub-categories
    • 1.2.4 • Pagination
• 2 • How to participate to a discussion
• • 2.1 • Subscription
  • 2.2 • Identification
  • 2.3 • Sending a message
  • • 2.3.1 • The Quick Reply
    • 2.3.2 • Answering a message
    • 2.3.3 • Answering several messages
  • 2.4 • Editing a message
  • 2.5 • Quick Editing
• 3 • Rich-text Formating
• • 3.1 • Styling
  • 3.2 • Adding smileys
  • • 3.2.1 • The official smileys
    • 3.2.2 • The personal smileys
  • 3.3 • Adding images
  • 3.4 • Adding links
  • 3.5 • Adding a Macromedia Flash element
  • • 3.5.1 • Inserting a swf animation
    • 3.5.2 • Inserting the code from a video service (Youtube, Dailymotion, etc.)
  • 3.6 • Options
• 4 • How to start a discussion
• • 4.1 • Writing a topic
  • 4.2 • The poll, introduction
  • • 4.2.1 • Multiple choices polls
    • 4.2.2 • Closing a poll
    • 4.2.3 • Blank vote
  • 4.3 • Edition possibilities
• 5 • Reading the forum
• • 5.1 • The red and yellow folders
  • 5.2 • The flags
  • 5.3 • Mastering the flags
  • • 5.3.1 • Topic Page
    • 5.3.2 • Category page
  • 5.4 • Deleting flags
  • • 5.4.1 • One at a time
    • 5.4.2 • Choosing the flags to be deleted
    • 5.4.3 • Deleting all flags
  • 5.5 • The contact list
• 6 • The toolbar options
• • 6.1 • Profile
  • 6.2 • Edition
  • 6.3 • Quote
  • 6.4 • Quote+
  • 6.5 • Instant Messenger (optional)
  • 6.6 • Personal Website (optional)
  • 6.7 • System setting (optional)
  • 6.8 • Private Messages
  • 6.9 • Favourites
  • 6.10 • Rating a user (optional)
• 7 • Customizing the Forum and the Member Profile
• • 7.1 • General Information
  • • 7.1.1 • Pseudo
    • 7.1.2 • Password
    • 7.1.3 • Email
    • 7.1.4 • Gender (optional)
    • 7.1.5 • Visible email ?
    • 7.1.6 • Connexion status
    • 7.1.7 • Birth Date (optional)
    • 7.1.8 • World Map and Regional Maps (optional)
    • 7.1.9 • City (optional)
    • 7.1.10 • Personal website (optional)
    • 7.1.11 • Interest(s) (optional)
    • 7.1.12 • Occupations (optional)
  • 7.2 • Forum Related Information
  • • 7.2.1 • Personal statement and message signature
    • 7.2.2 • Hardware configuration.
  • 7.3 • Forum settings
  • • 7.3.1 • Customizable colours
    • 7.3.2 • Number of messages per page
    • 7.3.3 • Hour delay for marking a topic as « old »:
    • 7.3.4 • Displaying avatars
    • 7.3.5 • Displaying signatures
    • 7.3.6 • Displaying toolbars
    • 7.3.7 • Quote display
    • 7.3.8 • Smileys & images rendering
    • 7.3.9 • Modern text editor (previously WYSIWYG)
    • 7.3.10 • Lines hovering
    • 7.3.11 • Graphical theme
    • 7.3.12 • Icon sets
    • 7.3.13 • Forum Language
    • 7.3.14 • Zlib compression mode for pages
    • 7.3.15 • PM email alert
    • 7.3.16 • Contact preferences
    • 7.3.17 • Time zone
  • 7.4 • Instant messengers
  • 7.5 • Images management
  • • 7.5.1 • Creating an avatar
    • 7.5.2 • Personal smileys and keywords
    • 7.5.3 • Favourite smileys
    • 7.5.4 • Images Directory
  • 7.6 • My Alerts
  • 7.7 • Customizing the toolbar
• 8 • Search
• • 8.1 • Intra topic search
  • 8.2 • Global search
  • • 8.2.1 • Search types:
• 9 • Sanctions
• • 9.1 • Blablabla
  • 9.2 • TT
  • 9.3 • Ban
  • 9.4 • Censored images
  • 9.5 • Signature removal
  • 9.6 • Censored Smileys
• 10 • Appendix
• • 10.1 • Email Alerts
  • 10.2 • Retrieving the numeral ID of a topic
  • 10.3 • Message permalink
  • 10.4 • Report to the moderators (optional)
  • 10.5 • Forgotten password
  • 10.6 • The Tags
  • • 10.6.1 • [b] or [g]
    • 10.6.2 • [i]
    • 10.6.3 • [u] or [s]
    • 10.6.4 • [#hexadécimal_code]
    • 10.6.5 • [url]
    • 10.6.6 • [img]
    • 10.6.7 • [quote]
    • 10.6.8 • [spoiler]
    • 10.6.9 • [cpp] or [code]
    • 10.6.10 • [fixed]
    • 10.6.11 • [email]
    • 10.6.12 • [strike]
    • 10.6.13 • [*]
    • 10.6.14 • [center]
    • 10.6.15 • [size]
  • 10.7 • RSS Feeds
• 11 • Complementary features
• • 11.1 • Delete a message or a topic
  • 11.2 • Mark a private message as unread
  • 11.3 • Print view
  • 11.4 • Keyboard shortcuts
  • • 11.4.1 • The category list
    • 11.4.2 • The topic list
    • 11.4.3 • The topic
    • 11.4.4 • When writing a new topic page
    • 11.4.5 • When writing a new reply
• 12 • FAQ
• • 12.1 • Using the Forum.
  • • 12.1.1 • Basic Principles.
    • 12.1.2 • My profile, my preferences.
    • 12.1.3 • Polls
    • 12.1.4 • Folders, flags:navigation help
    • 12.1.5 • Forum features
    • 12.1.6 • Even more...
    • 12.1.7 • Advanced Features

5.5  The contact list

Depending on the MD Forums, you may find an option called « Contact list » at the top, along with the sign in/sign out menu.

This list of contacts can help you memorize forum members’ nicknames. Then you will be able to see if they are signed in the forum (except if they chose to activate the invisible login option), to send them Private Messages or to delete them from your quick list by checking the “Del” box and validating this choice by clicking on the button “Delete the selected contacts”.

When you add a contact to your personal contact list, you will automatically be added to his own list. Should this contact refuse to be connected to you, his details will be removed from your list.

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