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:TITLE:Discussion board
:INC:index


:SUB:Introduction
<p>
 VNDB has a nicely integrated discussion board which can be used for, well,
 discussions. As we're not using any popular or freely available forum software
 and have instead written something by ourselves, this discussion board has a
 few slight differences with the popular boards you're used to.
</p>


:SUB:Boards
<p>
 To make sure interested people can find your post, all threads have relations
 to one or more 'boards' that define what the discussion is about. This is similar
 to boards on other forums, but here every item in the DB has its own board, and
 it's possible to link a thread to more than one board. The following boards can be used:
</p>
<dl>
 <dt>db</dt><dd>
  VNDB Discussions. This is a general board for threads not about any specific
  entry in the database.
 </dd><dt>v#</dt><dd>
  For discussions about a particular visual novel. The board <i>v17</i>, for example,
  is used for all threads related to <a href="/v17">v17</a>.
 </dd><dt>p#</dt><dd>
  Same as <i>v#</i>, but for producers.
 </dd><dt>u#</dt><dd>
  The <i>u#</i> board can be used to notify a user on this site about something
  he/she must see or to discuss about an edit he/she has made. This is similar
  to the 'private message' feature of most sites, except it's not 'private'...
 </dd><dt>an</dt><dd>
  Used for site announcements. Limited to moderators.
 </dd>
</dl>


:SUB:Formatting
<p>
 The following codes can be used to format your message:
</p>
<dl>
 <dt>X# or X#.#</dt><dd>
  A 'VNDBID', as we call them. These are numbers starting with a character (d, p, r, u or v),
  and are optionally followed by a period and a second number. VNDBIDs will automatically be converted
  into links to the page on the website. For example, typing 'v4.4' will result in '<a href="/v4.4">v4.4</a>'.
 </dd><dt>URL</dt><dd>
  Any URL (without the use of the [url]-tag, see below) will be converted into a link, similar to the
  VNDBIDs. Example: 'http://vndb.org/' will be formatted as '<a href="http://vndb.org/">link</a>'.
 </dd><dt>[url]</dt><dd>
  The classic BBCode [url]-tag. Can only be used in the form of <i>[url=link]link title[/url]</i>.<br />
  E.g. '[url=/v]List of visual novels[/url] and [url=http://blicky.net/]some external website[/url]'
  will be displayed as '<a href="/v">List of visual novels</a> and <a href="http://blicky.net/">some external website</a>'
 </dd><dt>[spoiler]</dt><dd>
  The [spoiler]-tag should be used to hide information that could spoil the enjoyment of playing the
  visual novel for people who haven't done so yet.
 </dd><dt>[quote]</dt><dd>
  When quoting other people, put the quoted message inside a [quote] .. [/quote] block. Please
  note that the popular [quote=source]-syntax doesn't work on VNDB. (yet)
 </dd><dt>[raw]</dt><dd>
  Show off your formatting code skills by putting anything you don't want to have formatted in a [raw]
  tag. Any of the formatting codes mentioned above are ignored within a [raw] .. [/raw] block.
 </dd><dt>[code]</dt><dd>
  Similar to [raw], except that the text within the [code] .. [/code] block is
  formatted in a fixed width font and surrounded by a nice box to keep it
  separate from the rest of your post.
 </dd>
</dl>
<p>
 There is no [img]-tag and there won't likely ever be one, if you want to include
 screenshots or other images, please upload them to an external hosting service
 (e.g. <a href="http://tinypic.com/" rel="nofollow">TinyPic</a>) and link to them
 in your post.
</p>