A mini guide:"How to become a member"

[Caius]

You surely are a new orgah here.You want to post in some forums, but you get the following response:

Dear member, you dont have the permission to post in this place.

Its because you are a junior member.Why?
This site, the tw.org community, have protection about spammers. They can't spam everywhere. This allows mods to keep trace of where are the spammers and delete their accounts to keep this place free of spam. So this is the main reason why you are not a member...yet.
Ok, I know. You dont spam. Why I still am a junior member? and, What Can I do for being a member?
1 of 4 options:
1)You are very inactive. Be active. When you are active the moderators will see you are active and they will promote you to member. But remember: Post count doesn't matter, post quality does. There are junior members with 150 posts, but members with 25.
2)You didnt follow the rules. When you joined the org, you agreed to be a nice person and you must follow the rules. If you dont, that will make you a junior member forever.
3)Post in the HAIL New Members(Introduction) IV Thread! Then, the staff can see you and they will promote you. Because the moderating team is composed by humans. Humans makes mistakes.
4)If you have been active for a long period of time (3 weeks and more time) and you followed the rules, contact TosaInu. (Click in the link to send a Private Message to him, he will reply as fast as he can, as I told you before, even TosaInu is human, he have a life and he doesn't live only for this forum)

Then... Isn't it still clear? Mithrandir will explain something said in this post:

Dear junior members, members & senior members,

recently some people seem to have forgotten what the Org is about.

A friendly place where everyone feels welcome, with interesting topics and discussions. A place to ask how it is that your cavelry always gets beaten by camels or how exactly you have to modify your files so elves can fight stormtroopers

Be friendly. We are a growing community, every day, new members are here to say: "Hey, camels sucks!", "I love modding", "Thank you for the guides". Everyone come here for his two cents. Your presence is worthy here. Make sure you are friendly, and you will be one member.
Dont post if you are going to say something that can hurt someone. Remember, there are a lot of ways to saying things.

DONT SPAM. SPAM is everywhere. We know it, who doesn't post spam? Spam is punished if its being used in a lot of posts. Please make sure you don't come here to "increase +1 your postcount".

Follow the rules. The rules are easy to follow. If you don't, you won't be promoted in a long time.
Well, hope this helps to our new residents in the totalwar.org house!

Caius Flaminius/Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca/Caius

[Tran]

Hmm...I thought this was already explained many times, including in sticky post?

[Andres]

And still many Junior members always ask why they can't post everywhere and when they will become a Member...

It's very kind of Caius to try as hard as he can to help our Junior Members. His effort is the act of a true Orgah. Therefore : a respectful nod to Caius, who's pleasure seems to be to serve

[Caius]

Updated to add a couple of things i missed.

[Sensei Warrior]

Sadly, a great many new members sign up without reading the sickies and what not and are shocked to find out its a little more complicated than they first thought.

Alot of times you can come in here and find threads asking why they can't post in a specific spot or what not.

I too commend Cassius for trying to help our Junior Members get to become Members.

[Tiberius of the Drake]

I also, as a junior member, appreciate Caius's efforts. You learn to read most if not all stickies as you gain more experiances on forums.

On another note, Do bribes help at all (jk)

[mrdun]

Do you get a cool name above member for example
professorspatula
Earth's favourite son
Member

[Martok]

To mention one other thing (credit to mightilyoats for helpfully - if unwittingly - reminding me)....

To all junior members: On rare occasions, someone does accidentally get missed for promotion to full membership. (Hey, we're not perfect; it happens! ) If you feel you're one of those people, you can PM TosaInu and he should be able to take care of it. Before you do, however, make sure you ask yourself the following questions:

"Have I been behaving msyelf and obeying the Org's forum rules?"
"Have I been posting fairly regularly?"
"Has it been at least a month since I joined?"

Just make sure you can answer "yes" to all of these questions before you contact our benevolent overlord about being promoted to full member.

[professorspatula]

Alternatively you could offer to be his official chin scratcher. It's not a great job, but it's how I earned my promotion. Next step up the Org ladder is to be a shoe-shiner which pays only marginally better, then there's back-scratcher *shudder*, before you go on to earn your full independence from the Org overlords.

[LuckyDog Trojan]

Thanks Caius!
I appreciate the explanation.

However, as stated by professorspatula, I'm not really into that official chin scratching thing. But I will 'tap the keg for you'.

[UltraWar]

Thanks Caius!
I appreciate the explanation.

However, as stated by professorspatula, I'm not really into that official chin scratching thing. But I will 'tap the keg for you'.

That would be my job

[LuckyDog Trojan]

That would be my job

That being the case - I'll be happy to keep a fresh supply of clean mugs on hand.

[Paradox]

I still don't quite get it, are promotions carried out when the member reaches a certain number of post counts or do the staff manually promote him?

[Mouzafphaerre]

.
Manually. Post count doesn't count, post quality does.
.

[Caius]

Shogun,

You need to wait. Sometimes, you are not long enough to deserve the promotion.

[sreeja]

Thank you for the information.It is very helpful.

[Hannibalbarc]

Thanks for the advice.

[Caius]

I'm glad I could help 2 more members, despite the fact that this guide is old as the dust.

[pevergreen]

doesnt make it bad. still very useful.

[rajpoot]

What's an Orgah?

[John Flint]

Does it take very long to become a regular member?

[Punicus]

It only took me about a week or so of active posting to become a member (I was registered a long time but didn't post). I think the key is to post contributive posts to the subject, rather than spam posts for a higher postcount, because in fact postcount has nothing to do with it. As long as you are making intelligent posts that encourage discussion, you will become a member in a short time. So your answer is no, it doesn't.

[John Flint]

Thank ya kindly matey!
With the constructivism displayed in my posts I will be a member in no time.

[The Wandering Scholar]

well, not until the hofs are over

[John Flint]

What is an hofs matey?

[Good Ship Chuckle]

It only took me about a week or so of active posting to become a member (I was registered a long time but didn't post). I think the key is to post contributive posts to the subject, rather than spam posts for a higher postcount, because in fact postcount has nothing to do with it. As long as you are making intelligent posts that encourage discussion, you will become a member in a short time. So your answer is no, it doesn't.

I am a testament to this account. I became a member after only 9 posts. I didn't spam. I followed all rules. But most of all, the initial posts I made were very (for a newb) comprehensive and always aimed to give the reader something valuable to learn.

Here's the equation :
Quality posts=Membership

[John Flint]

I am a testament to this account. I became a member after only 9 posts. I didn't spam. I followed all rules. But most of all, the initial posts I made were very (for a newb) comprehensive and always aimed to give the reader something valuable to learn.

Here's the equation :
Quality posts=Membership

Good, then I should have no problem. lol
There is not really much to post about in the Entrance Hall though, I wish that I would be made a member. :P

[Martok]

Good, then I should have no problem. lol
There is not really much to post about in the Entrance Hall though, I wish that I would be made a member. :P

Actually, most parts of the forum are open to junior members, not just the Entrance Hall. The Miscellaneous section is about the only area that requires full membership -- otherwise, you're free to post everywhere else.

[Mek Simmur al Ragaski]

Possibly it's because they skip straight to the M2TW and RTW guides, ive seen many junior members using their first post in forums like them. Just a note to all new members, many people will say it takes exseedingly long amounts of time to become a member, this is infact untrue, i became a member a few days after i had joined, i just matters on if you are noticed by the moderators, and this does not mean spam every thread you see, it means quality threads, with no bad language or anything like that

[Rolo]

Obviously do not feel that good grammar is essential. The quality of your ability to write in English is not being monitored. Just a note for new members from countries where English is not the first language.