FAQs

Bingo Forum

• Do I have to register?
• How can I use smilies?
• What are Moderators?
• Are cookies used?
• What are active topics?
• Can I edit my own posts?
• Can I attach files?
• Can I search?
• Can I edit my profile?
• Can I attach my own signature to my posts?
• Are there any censor features?
• What do I do if I forget my Password?
• What does it mean if a forum has Moderation enabled?

Registering

You can only access the forum if you are subscribed to our monthly Newsletter and weekly promotions mailings.

If you subscribed to the mailings when you first joined FreeBingo, your forum access should have been activated within one working day. You should therefore be able to log-in to the forum using your FreeBingo username and password.

If your FreeBingo username and password does not work, log-in to the main FreeBingo site and then select 'Manage My Subscriptions' to check that you are subscribed to both mailings. If you are not subscribed to both mailings, please subscribe by ticking the relevant boxes.

Once you are fully subscribed, simply email gamesupport@freebingo.co.uk with the subject line 'FORUM'. Your forum account will then be activated by a member of the FreeBingo team by the next working day. We will send you an email to inform you when this has been done.

Please note that if at a later date you choose to unsubscribe from any FreeBingo mailings, you will be unable to access the forum until you re-subscribe.

Smilies

You've probably seen others use smilies before in e-mail messages or other bulletin board posts. Smilies are keyboard characters used to convey an emotion, such as a smile or a frown . This bulletin board automatically converts certain text to a graphical representation when it is inserted between brackets [ ].  Here are the smilies that are currently supported by Free Bingo Forum:

smile [:)] big smile [:D] cool [8D] blush [:I] tongue [:p] evil [}:)] wink [;)] clown [:o)] black eye [B)] eightball [8]

frown [:(] shy [8)] shocked [:0] angry [:(!] dead [xx(] sleepy [|)] kisses [:X] approve [^] disapprove [V] question [?]

Moderators

Moderators control individual forums. They may edit, delete, or prune any posts in their forums. If you have a question about a particular forum, you should direct it to your forum moderator."

Cookies

These Forums use cookies to store the following information: the last time you logged in, your Username and your Encrypted Password. These cookies are stored on your hard drive. Cookies are not used to track your movement or perform any function other than to enhance your use of these forums. If you have not enabled cookies in your browser, many of these time-saving features will not work properly. Also, you need to have cookies enabled if you want to enter a private forum or post a topic/reply.

You may delete all cookies set by these forums in selecting the "logout" button at the top of any page.

Active Topics

Active Topics are tracked by cookies. When you click on the "active topics" link, a page is generated listing all topics that have been posted since your last visit to these forums (or approximately 20 minutes).

Editing Your Posts

You may edit or delete your own posts at any time. Just go to the topic where the post to be edited or deleted is located and you will see an edit or delete icon () on the line that begins "posted on..." Click on this icon to edit or delete the post. No one else can edit your post, except for the forum Moderator or the forum Administrator. A note is generated at the bottom of each edited post displaying when and by whom the post was edited.

Attaching Files

For security reasons, you may not attach files to any posts. However, you may cut and paste text into your post.

Searching For Specific Posts

You may search for specific posts based on a word or words found in the posts, user name, date, and particular forum(s). Simply click on the "search" link at the top of most pages.

Editing Your Profile

You may easily change any information stored in your registration profile by using the "profile" link located near the top of each page. Simply identify yourself by typing your Username and Password and all of your profile information will appear on screen. You may edit any information (except your Username).

Signatures

You may attach signatures to the end of your posts when you post either a New Topic or Reply. Your signature is editable by clicking on "profile" at the top of any forum page and entering your Username and Password.

NOTE: HTML can't be used in Signatures.

Censoring Posts

The Forum does censor certain words that may be posted; however, this censoring is not an exact science, and is being done based on the words that are being screened, so certain words may be censored out of context. By default, words that are censored are replaced with asterisks.

Lost Password

Your forum password and username are exactly the same as your FreeBingo player account Username and Password. You can have your user details emailed to the email address you used when you signed up to FreeBingo at the lost password page.

What does it mean if a forum has Moderation enabled?

Moderation: This feature allows the Administrator or the Moderator to "Approve", "Hold" or "Delete" a users post before it is shown to the public.
Approve: Only the administrators or the moderators will be able to approve a post made to a moderated forum. When the post is approved, it will be made viewable to the public.
Hold: When a user posts a message to a moderated forum, the message is automatically put on hold until a moderator or an administrator approves of the post. No one will be able to view the post while it is put on hold.
NOTE: Authors of the post will be able to edit their post during this mode.
Delete: If the administrator or moderator chooses this option, the post will be deleted and an e-mail will be sent to the poster of the message, informing them that their post was not approved. The administrator/moderator will be able to give their reason for not approving the post in the e-mail.

 

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