FAQ

• What is an imageboard?
• What are the rules?
• How can I contact the administration?

• How do I solve CAPTCHA?
• How do names, tripcodes and capcodes work?
• What kind of styling options are available when making a post?
• What is the file size limit?
• How does moderation work?

• How do I make my own board?
• How do staff, users and permissions work?

Select the boxes that correspond to each solid/filled icon in the grid. The image is shuffled and distorted, so use your brain.

When posting, you can format the name field to include a name, tripcode , capcode, any combination of the three including leaving the field completely blank. Instead of a blank name, "Anonymous" is used, however this depends on board-specific configuration. The optional components are explained below.

Names should be input like: . Tripcode and capcode are optional components. Tripcodes and capcodes may not contain "##" and the whitespace before capcodes is significant.

Valid examples:

1. Name
2. Name##tripcode
3. Name## capcode
4. Name##tripcode## capcode
5. ##tripcode## capcode
6. ##tripcode
7. ## capcode

The capcode can also be left blank to display just your role.

From the examples, you can see that all components can be used in combination or independently. In a post number 4 would look like:

Hello, world!

The name appears bold in the top left, followed by the tripcode in regular weight with a !! prefix, then the capcode in a different color, bold and with a ## prefix. The colours may vary between themes but are generally distinct from eachother

The name is simply what name you want to be shown alongside your post. Other users can post with the same name so there is nothing preventing impersonation. This is not related to your username (for registered users).

A tripcode is a password of sorts, which users can provide in the tripcode component of their name. This tripcode is used in conjunction with a server-known secret to generate a unique* tripcode portion of the name. Long, unique tripcodes can be used as a form of identity. It is important that you keep tripcodes secret if you use them for some form of identity. A compromised tripcode can be used for impersonation and cannot be revoked in any way.

A capcode is a component of the name field only available to authenticated users. This includes admins, global staff, board owners and board moderators. If there is no text after the ##, the role will be displayed alone. Leaving a space and putting custom text will be prefixed by the role name. This way, the role is always shown to prevent role impersonation.

Moderation is very simple. Moderation permissions are different between regular users, board staff (board owner or moderator) and globals (global staff or admin). By default, regular users can delete, spoiler or remove the files from their own posts, provided a matching post password is supplied. They can also report or global report posts. Board staff have near full power over posts on their board including removing posts, stickying, spoilering, etc. even for other users posts without the need for a password. They also have access to board specific management page. Global staff have full power over all posts on all boards, can access the board specific management page for any board and additionally have access to the global management page. More details on the specifics of permission levels is available here.

There exists the concept of "local" and "global" reports. Reporting a post locally will show the post along with reports on the report page for that particular board, and the reports may be actioned upon by the board staff. Reporting a post globally will show the post along with reports on the global manage page available only to global staff and may be actioned upon by global staff. Global reports should be used to flag posts that violate global rules such as illegal content or spam, in contrast to local reports which are for posts that abide by global rules but break board-specific rules (which may be made arbitrarily by board staff). It is also possible to be banned from a board or globally for abuse of the report system.

Each post has a checkbox in the top left to select it for moderation actions. Multiple posts may be selected to allow batch processing e.g. reporting multiple offending posts in one request. The same is present in moderation interfaces. Some actions for example bans (which are based on IP) may also be handled in batches. Selecting multiple posts and using the ban action will apply a single ban for each unique IP of the selected posts.

Some moderation interfaces, for example the ban duration when moderating posts, or the ban duration for post filtering use a shorthand for times/length. This format supports years, months, weeks, days and hours. An input of "3m" would mean 3 months and "1y2m3w4d5h" would mean 1 year, 2 months, 3 weeks, 4 days and 5 hours. Units of time should be in descending order, so "2w1m" is invalid. However you may use "6w" for example to input 6 weeks, and are not required to use "1m2w".