If its the first time you are seeing this forum, its because you just signed up as a Premium Member! We thank you for your donation and we would like to remind you what you will be recieving for your membership to our exclusive club...
- Premium Members Only Forum. What is the purpose to this forum? There really isn't actually. However, this is a lax-moderated forum where any and all topics will be free reign. There will be very little moderation over these forums, so you can post any thread about any topic you want. Technically, this makes it an "adult" forum. Of course, adult topics or not, we will still require members to be civil to other members and follow forum rules.
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- New Ad-Free Forum Skins. Our standard skins will be advertisement supported. I personally hate adverts, but since this forum is run for the community, by the community, we need to be able to pay to keep this website up. By being a premium member, you can change your skin to the premium version which will not have any adverts. Your donation allows us to offer an ad-free existance to you!
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- Public & Private Picture Albums. If you check out your user control panel, you will see some links under your "Networking" subsection. Clicking the "Picture & Albums" link will take you to your own image gallery section! As a Premium User, you now have the ability to create your own gallery sections, and upload images to them! If you mark the gallery as "Public", other members of the forums will be able to see your images.
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- Larger & Animated Avatars! Possibly the biggest reason people will want to become a premium member will be the new options they get with avatars. A standard member has the ability to have a 80px X 80px avatar, and even then, there are restrictions limiting it to static images only. As a premium member, your avatar can be up to 150px X 80px in size, and of course, you can have an animated gif up to 400kb in size.
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- Create Your Own Social Group! With this new version of vBulletin, you will see that there is a new "Social Group" system. This system essentially replaces the "Guild Lairs" we had at the old forums. As a premium member, you have the ability to create your own social group that other members can join. Just like the picture albums, these social groups are available under the "Networking" subsection of your user control panel.
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- Custom User Titles. I'm sure no one likes having those default user titles.
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- Usernames in BOLD. As a premium member, your username should show up in bold all around the forum, instead of the standard font. In order to recieve this perk, you MUST enable it yourself manually by going to this link (http://www.8wayrun.com/profile.php?do=editusergroups) where you can select how your username markup should appear around the site.
Once again, thank you for your donation!
