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Can I change my username or the username of a member on my forum?
different email address (as an email address can only have one account). The older user can leave the forum if they wish.
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How do I reset a password?That's simple, and there's no admin action need (like other forums.) For the member who forgot their password, they just need to click 'Login', then click the 'Forgot Password' link. A member will be presented with a form to enter their email address. A password reset link will be emailed to the member. NOTE: Sometimes, especially yahoo.com emails, have the reset password email go to SPAM, be sure to look into SPAM folder from "Password Reset" <no-reply@leforamail.com>Alternatively, members can visit http://support.lefora.com/password/ to have a password reset email sent to them.
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How do I create a poll?First start a new topic, then click 'Create a Poll' above the topic input fields.We'll be making this easier to find in the future.
If you want your poll to be displayed on the sidebar, you'll have to ask Admin to move it to sidebar for you.
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How can I control if my members first goto the Headlines page or the Forum page?
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What's the difference between the Headlines and Forum page?Your forum's Headline page is sorta like the headlines of a newspaper. It features hot content for the day, from new posts, to new members, to recently embedded media. This is a unique feature on lefora like no other forum. Many other forum admins on other software must work hard to manually make this page for their own forum. Lefora does this for you automatically.We realize that if you're very active in your forum, the Headlines page doesn't offer much value to you. The Headlines page is geared towards potential new members thinking of joining your forum or who want to get an overview of your forum. This is why we do something special - we redirect non-members and members to different places. Let's look at an example on the support forum.If you visit support.lefora.com, and you're a member of the forum, you'll be re-directed to support.lefora.com/forum. If you're a non-member, you'll be redirected to support.lefora.com/headlines. Then once you join, you'll be treated as a member. So all members of your forum are redirected to the "Forums" tab, all non-members are redirected to the "Headlines" tab.Now, some admins ask us why they are always redirected to the Headlines tab even though they are a member. This is most likely due to the fact that you set a bookmark in your webbrowser for something like myforum.lefora.com/headlines. You simply need to remove the /headlines from your bookmark, and you'll be fine. When sending out links to your forum, remember to drop the /headlines or /forum, and just include your domain (i.e. shortname.lefora.com).
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Can my admins have a private category to discuss admin-only topics?Lefora offers a number of features over traditional forums, one of them is our unified login system. This lets you use your lefora username across any lefora forum, so you don't need to log in again. This is called Lefora Single-Login.If you want a private area for admins to discuss forum topics, we recommend making a Private forum, say 'forumname-admins.lefora.com' and asking only your admins to join. You can customize that forum however ever you want, including adding the chatango.com chatbox, so that only admins with access to the forum can chat alongside topics in real-time.We may have more options around Private Categories in the future, but we recommend Private Admin-only Forums for now.
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Why can't my sig include images?There are a number of aesthetic choices we make on Lefora in order to help provide for interesting and active forums. One of them is limiting the sig to 140 characters and not allowing for images. It helps avoid the issue where a thread has a lot of short replies but tons of sig images - the thread loads slower then normal and can be hard to read. We realize not everybody might agree with this aesthetic, but it's an option we choose.As this has been a feature requested frequently on lefora, we will be adding this option for admins to turn on/off in their forum sometime in future. We hadn't made it an option from the start, because we like to keep the admin panel simple with its options so that it's easy to use, yet powerful (this is one of things we hear lots of positive feedback on).
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Can I use colored fonts in the posts?Because of our extensive customization options for your themes, admins can change the colors across all areas of their site. And some admins change the theme up from time to time (maybe a seasonal background image, etc.)
Because a background could be white, black, or some color in between, we don't allow members to post in different colors. Because if they posted in red text and you made your background red for the holidays, nobody would be able to read their old posts.
We may come up with innovative solutions to this problem in the future, but for now, all themes have their default font colors and cannot be changed.
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What is the difference between Admins & Mods?
All admins have the same level of access and the same level as the founder:
- Admins have FULL access to the admin panel
- Admins can remove or ban a member
- Admins can lock posts
- Admins can delete and mark posts as spam
- Mods can delete and mark posts as spam
- Mods can lock posts
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Remove vs. Banning a member?
Removing a member, removes them from your forum, and allows them to join again at a later date. On a public forum with auto approval, this allows the member to return at free well. If membership must be approved, an admin will have to approve the person again, same goes for a private forum.
Removing members is most frequently used in cases where a forum may be a small team and the admin is trying to keep the member roster limited for some reason (maybe game play, a class, etc.)
Banning members usually happens because a member has acted inappropriately on a forum. Because we always thing it's wiser to 'warn' a member of their inappropriate behavior before banning them, we require that you send a 'Warning' first, before banning. You can send a warning from the Admin Panel's membership page. After you send them a warning, the dropdown box next to their name will have a new option - 'Ban'.
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