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)

[Sensei Warrior]

I am positive that you can bribe Mithrandir with Camels, probably Martok as well

[Tiberius of the Drake]

*writing quickly on note pad* camels...got it *in mind* where can I find camels..without going to the middle east...hmmmm?

[ByzantineKnight]

*writing quickly on note pad* camels...got it *in mind* where can I find camels..without going to the middle east...hmmmm?

Just ste... I mean "borrow" them from the stables, and when they send out search parties you can pretend you found them, and return them!

[Warmaster Horus]

Tragically, some might be lost forever, unless they are found somewhere compromising for some people...
Back on topic, I too thank Caius for his guide.
Unfortunately, it will most likely be useless to those who:
a) don't have any care for the rules and
b) have a shed of common sense.

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Well done Caius!

[Martok]

@Caius: Truly an Orgah-worthy effort! (Now we just have to hope that other junior members actually read this.... )

I am positive that you can bribe Mithrandir with Camels, probably Martok as well

All camel-related donations are accepted here, except for the lovely spit and dung, of course -- my team of stablehands has enough of that already, thank you.

[Caius]

@Martok and all the orgah's:thank you

Martok:What happened with Mithrandir.He changed his name to ---- and he didnt return!

[Quintus Of Pompeii]

Cheers

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Perhaps this thread should be stickified - then it wont drop so newbies can see it without searching back several pages.

[Caius]

If that help yes

[Martok]

Perhaps this thread should be stickified - then it wont drop so newbies can see it without searching back several pages.

Probably not a bad idea, but the problem with that is that we've got several stickied topics already, and we don't want to clutter up the Entrance Hall with stickies more than we can help. Perhaps merge it with one of the existing stickies (such as this one, maybe)? Either way, I'd recommend PM-ing BKS or Mithrandir and see what they can do. And speaking of the latter....

Martok:What happened with Mithrandir.He changed his name to ---- and he didnt return!

He apparently had a bit of a mishap when using the change name function. Don't worry; he's still around.

[Caius]

Oh.That is good

PM'ed BKS.Waiting for his answer.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Whilst I appreciate your work Caius, I believe everything in this thread is laid out in the Guild FAQ thread, and thus stickying it would be somewhat redundant.

[IrishArmenian]

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

Yes (not kidding).

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Yes (not kidding).

Well, I can't speak for the rest of the mods, but I'm as corrupt as hell.

[naut]

Caius Flaminius, very Orgahly of you.

[Caius]

Whilst I appreciate your work Caius, I believe everything in this thread is laid out in the Guild FAQ thread, and thus stickying it would be somewhat redundant.

Ok.

Then merge to other stycky.What do you think?

[Tran]

Yes (not kidding).

Do you accept cheque, credit card, or PayPal?

[sapi]

Ok.

Then merge to other stycky.What do you think?

I'm against it.

In my experience, the stickies are rarely read, especially by new members.

Having this floating around the forum will attract more attention.

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Well guys, we can always virtually sticky it by posting in it whenever it gets to the bottom of the page. The bad side of that is that it could become known as spam and get closed.

[naut]

Or you could self sticky.

~Press thread tools
~Click stick this thread to the top

That way you can track it.

[The Foolish Horseman]

two things:

1) A small minority of junior members never seem to have come on the org once since registering...surely the admin could implement sum inactivity account deletions (not active for 3 months)

2) This thread deserves to be stickied, and included in the FAQ

3) (i cannot count) Junior members who moan consistently about not being able to post anywhere should just wait like the rest of us have ( i am being hypocritical though cos i am fairly sure i moaned about not being able to post anywhere else once, but i have learned the error of my ways, partly due to this thread, Bravo Caius!! We are not worthy

[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.