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Users can enlighten others by putting information on their profile pages. Apart from the main Admin page, the Discussion Forum has it’s own spot to expose yourself.

Reach your Forum profile either from the Forum Settings link - or the Admin page Profile link - then select Personal Information to edit. You can link* your photo […]

The site administrators want everyone to have a blissful experience while they’re here. We are here to route the flow. We quality control all content and user input. Chaperones. Be nice.
When posting on the main page or the forum, please be aware of the context and your potential audience, and post accordingly. The Main Page […]

The Discussion Forum has a role hierarchy. From the top down:

Core: Active content partners
Inner Circle: Our closest friends
Squirrelista: Default for new members
Banned: Members denied participation in discussions
Unauthenticated: The general public, members not logged in

One automatically assumes Squirrelista status upon registering, but may be bumped up by an administrator, factored by their actual “proximity”.
Discussion topics are […]

So, you’ve registered, right? Logged in? Great!
The main page (or pages) come in two flavors. “Jump” pages usually precede “posts”. Jump pages are menus to the posts, where the real “content” resides. Posts also harbor user feedback (replies) - jump pages do not. You don’t need to be registered or logged in to see any […]

Click on the Register link, and enter a username* of your choosing, and your e-mail address. A password will be instantly generated and sent to you there. Check your e-mail (depending on your ISP and other factors, there may be a delay in your reciept). When it arrives, fill in the username you […]

Ever just say to yourself, “WTF”?Yeah, so do we. As we jackhammer this site, every so often we hit a pipe of some sort and either hear somebody yell, hear a crash, or smell smoke. The cost of remodeling, right?
We and you can post comments here pertaining to such “accidents” and their redresses. To be […]

Internet Explorer 6 and earlier don’t support sqrlz style, or a plethora of web standards. A sad state of affairs, to say the least. And we’re not going to support that (i.e.(!) install special fixes). Check these Wikipedia.org links for the skinny:

IE standards support

Browser PNG support
IE PNG support

If you must continue with IE, please upgrade […]

You may want to peruse the sqrlz.com guide as we haven’t built an FAQ page yet (need some questions!). Here’s some shorcuts for registering, main page, and discussion forum.

If you use Internet Explorer there are certain “style” irregularities other browsers don’t have. We have worked around the missing or irregular navigation features by installing navigation […]