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Reviews4Poker is a unique poker directory and review site. Rather than listing every poker room available we list and review poker rooms by unique networks. Members are able to rate each poker room for themselves. At Reviews4Poker our ratings and reviews are combined with the members this will give any new reader an unbiased rating of each Poker Room.
Many poker directory sites list either to many poker rooms or have a biased to list the most popular sites, which gives little chance for you to become aware of new or small poker rooms. This can lead to incorrect and outdated information being presented to the viewer, with large unmanageable directories.
We have created the most dynamic directory of poker rooms, which is controlled and shaped by you.
We provide a popup free environment, the only adverts we display are related to the section that you are viewing. Of which we keep to a minimum, and use mainly for page display purposes.
About us
Reviews4Poker comprises of team of online poker players, at various levels and experience. We each have different ideals in what we want from poker rooms. When combining the above, we believe they are crucial factors in our poker room reviews and ratings.
We are independent from any poker room, and publish objective, unbiased reviews.
Our aims
Reviews4Poker aims to provide the best poker directory and community website, giving readers a pleasant experience without all the bloat.
User's registration
For registering, just click on "Register" menu and fill in the form.
Necessary fields are:
- LOGIN: your username, must be unique - if a user with the identical login already exists, you won't be able to register. Login must contain only symbol combination. The symbols allowed are A-Z letters, digits and "_" sign. You can use a name with length from 3 to 40 symbols.
- PASSWORD: your password for BB. Must contain only A-Z letters, digits and "_" sign (no spaces!). You can use password with length from 5 to 32 symbols.
- PASSWORD ONCE AGAIN: this must be the same symbol combination, as the "PASSWORD". This is just for checking - you have entered password correctly, or not. Pay attention: all passwords are saved in encoded way. There is no possibility to view user password even by admin! Despite you can receive a new password via email, but it will be different from your original one (randomly generated).
- EMAIL: your email. Must be also unique (no 2 users with the same email are possible). Email is checked by simple regular expression for avoiding "stupid" emails. If you can't register some email, please report to admin. There are some "exotic" emails that can not be validated with our function. But this is a rare thing.
User's login
Users must have cookies enabled in the browser. Cookie passwords are saved in encrypted format. User login form is located on every page.
Changing user password
Login, click your username at the top of each page "Welcome" (username), type new password 2 times in "password" fields. Your password will be updated to the new one.
Note: after changing password your old password will not be valid, and you will need to re-login on the login page.
Changing forgotten password
If you have forgotten your password, we cannot provide you with your original password, instead a new random generated password is sent to you via email.
Follow these steps to receive new password:
- Click on "password" links near login form;
- Enter an email you've mentioned in the registration form;
- If your email is correct you will receive further instructions via email;
- Follow link described in the email and confirm your password;
- Only after confirmation, your password will be changed. You will then be able to change it to something more suitable in "preferences", follow the Changing user password instructions above.
Users hierarchy
There is "liberal" users hierarchy in the forums. Topics can be made both by anonymous users and registered users. Let's see what happens.
- Anonymous users. If you are lazy, or do not register for some reasons, you can make anonymous post, even under your usual nick, if it's not taken by another already. Simply type your username in "Login" field without password, and make a post under this name. If you leave both fields blank, your name automatically will be "Anonymous". However, if you will enter the nick which corresponds to any registered user you won't be able to post.
- Registered users. WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND all users to register - in any way, will you visit this forum often or not. Why? First, no one else will take your "unique" username/nick, and anonymous users will not be able to post messages under your nick. Second, if you will post some messages under your nick, and register it later, it is NOT POSSIBLE to edit these "anonymous messages" anymore. And finally, any registered user can take your "anonymous" or not registered nick simply by filling registration form.
User info is displayed on the separate page. On the threads page, you'll find only user's nick and, if this user is registered, a "member" beneath. Clicking on it, you'll get all possible info about user, which either is specified/allowed or not (see below). NOTE: by clicking on user's nickname, you "quote" his nickname in the reply form!
New topics and replies
New topic form is placed at the bottom of each topics listing page. You need to type topic's title ("New topic") and body ("Message"). At least, "New topic" field must be filled in. If you write in it and don't write in "Message", message will be automatically equal to topic's title.
New post form is located at the bottom of each threads page.
Note: Anti-spam protection is enabled, you can make posts and topics only once-per-defined-time. This time is 1 minute - and it means, you can make posts not often than 1 per 1 minute as well.
Email notifications
Email notifications are enabled, every user can subscribe to them. Notifications are sent to user's email when someone replies to the topic after this user. Users can subscribe to notifications even if they are not topic authors. Users can also unsubscribe from notifications. For that, got to the desired topic and find "Unsubscribe" link instead of notifications checkbox, and just click on it.
BB Codes
There is no possibility to include HTML in topics or posts. They can contain only "BB-codes" - special HTML-code replacements, that "emulate" HTML code. Since HTML is not supported in our board, most popular BB-codes are good alternative when posting new message or topic. Currently, miniBB supports following codes:
- [url=SOMEURL]SOMETEXT[/url] where SOMEURL is URL like http://www.reviews4poker.com, SOMETEXT is alternate text to URL. DON'T USE QUOTATION MARKS OR APOSTROPHES INSIDE THIS TAG. In a post, these tags are replaced like following:
<a href='SOMEURL'>SOMETEXT</a>.
- [email=SOMEEMAIL]SOMETEXT[/email] where SOMEEMAIL is email you want to highlight. Practically, this tag is the same as URL, only with "mailto:". DON'T USE QUOTATION MARKS OR APOSTROPHES INSIDE THIS TAG. In a post, these tags are replaced like following:
<a href='mailto:SOMEEMAIL' target='_blank'>SOMETEXT</a>.
- [img(left|right)]http://www.someserver.com/images/image.gif[/img] where http://www.someserver.com/images/image.gif is exact URL for an image file (.JPG or .GIF). Alternatively, you can use "left" and "right" tags (without trailing space!) followed exact after "img". They place image left or right on the page, in the same way like HTML does. Usually, only [img] tag is used, but in systems like "forum news" you can also use left/right aligns. This tag is replaced with: <img src='http://www.someserver.com/images/image.gif' border='0' align='left OR right OR nothing' alt=''>. (Example: [imgleft]http://www.someserver.com/images/image.gif[/img]) Note: because of hack protection, you can include images only from http:// servers, also as with only extensions like .gif or .jpg.
- [b]Bold[/b] where "Bold" is the text you want to markup as in a "bold" style. Example:
[b]Attention[/b] produces Attention.
- [i]Italic[/i] where "Italic" is the text you want to markup as in an "italic" style. Example:
[i]I apologize[/i] produces I apologize.
- [u]Underlined[/u] where "Underlined" is the text you want to markup as in an "underlined" style. Example:
[u]Don't write me an email[/u] produces Don't write me an email.
Note that the case of BB codes doesn't matter. You can type "[URL]" or "[uRL]" or whatever. Only opening and closing tags ([urL]...[/uRL]) are important, also tags CAN NOT CONTAIN SPACES!
There is no necessary to know exactly what do you need to type for corresponding tag. Each template message form contains JavaScript buttons that helps you to insert these tags into your post.
Both anonymous and registered users can use BB-codes, but also you can DISABLE BB-code in your post, checking "Disable" flag. Usually this is not necessary, because BB-codes allow posts be more organized and good-looking messages. But if you need to post something using not BB-code, but actual info containing BB-code, it is useful. For avoiding BB-codes, you can also put spaces inside them.
It is possible to combine tags with each other, f.e., to make "bold+italic" or "bold link". But be careful again with opening and closing tags correspondly. Example:
'This General Public License [b]does not permit[/b] incorporating your program into proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General Public License instead of this License.
Return to [url=http://www.fsf.org/home.html]GNU's home page[/url].
FSF & GNU inquiries & questions to [email=gnu@gnu.org]gnu@gnu.org[/email]. Other ways to [b][url=http://www.fsf.org/home.html#ContactInfo]contact the FSF[/url][/b].
Comments on these web pages to [email=webmasters@www.gnu.org]webmasters@gnu.org[/email], send other questions to [email=gnu@gnu.org]GNU[/email].
[b][u]Copyright notice above[/u][/b].
[i]Free Software Foundation, Inc[/i]., [i][u]59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA[/u][/i]'
produces:
'This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General Public License instead of this License.
Return to GNUs home page.
FSF & GNU inquiries & questions to gnu@gnu.org. Other ways to contact the FSF.
Comments on these web pages to webmasters@gnu.org, send other questions to GNU.
Copyright notice above.
Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA'
If you need to post 100% "tagged" URL, it is better to do it with tags, since automatic replacements can't work in some cases. F.e., the following example will not work: [b]http://www.minibb.net[/b]. It is only "bolded", but not "highlighted". For bolding url links, use [url] tag.
Note: you can use tags also for multi-line text. Example:
[b]Text1
Text2[/b]
(text contains two paragraphs) produces:
Text1
Text2
Quoting messages
Topic posters can quote other messages. For better comfort, there is a "quote" link near every post made. For making a quote, you need to select some text and press this link. Selected text will be automatically inserted into reply box at the bottom of the page.
Locking topics
Topic authors can lock their topics, if they think it is correct. In order to do it, topic author needs to be logged in. At the bottom of the topic's page he must see small "lock topic" link. Clicking on it, topic becomes closed.
Nobody except topic author or administrator can lock the topic. If topic was locked by admin, topic author can not unlock it.
Editing messages
Registered users (and only registered) can edit their messages, but only if they are cookie-logged and only if the time of the message is not expired. For this, just click on "Edit" near each post (if it is your message, you'll see the link, else not). When editing message, "automatic highlights" are replaced with "real" BB-codes, so there is no need to delete them once again. Also, "real" HTML tags are replaced back to codes. Via editing, user can add new BB-codes, links etc. - like in any new post or topic. User can edit only his POST, not topic's title, even if he is the author of the topic. After message is edited by user, info about that is displayed near each post.
There is no way to delete your message (and if not allowed, to edit topic's title), if you are topic's author. Only admin can do this.
In some cases, after administrator has edited user's message, for user, it is no way to edit it once again.
Editing preferences
For editing user preferences, you need to log in and go to the "preferences" appearing in menu. You can type new data for your account, except login, that can not be changed. If you don't want to change your password leave the password field and go next to the fields you want to edit, you don't need to write your password once more, because you are already logged. When done just press submission button below.
This action works exactly like registration: you need to type grammatically correct data. Thus, you can not change your email to the one of someone who is already registered. Updating preferences, you don't need to enter your password, if you don't want to change it. Just leave these fields blank.
Two exceptions:
- Show email public?: that option allows (or not) other users to view your email in user info. It does not affect emailing notifications etc.
- Sort topics by: that option switches sorting filter. On topics and last discussions pages, you can view topic names sorted by new topics or new posts. This is one of the points of why to register: logging into the forums, you can quickly view, what's new. This option is saved on all pages, since anonymous users will need to click on "sort" every time.
Forums search panel
You can quickly search forums for keywords. Search panel is placed under the "Search" link in menu. You can search text in topics and posts, in topics only, in poster names, in specified forums, by all words, any words or the whole phrase. Search results are sorted by post time in descending order (new posts are shown first).
Also remember that search phrase length can`t be more than 100 symbols. Also minimum length of any word is 3 in "Any words" type of search and at least one word must be more than 2 symbols in any other type of search.
There is also an advanced search. You can choose "match whole words" option which actually means you will search only WHOLE words (if you type "nick", the sentences containing "nick" will be found, but not such words as "nickname" or "snickers"). Also, you can search within defined period of days, when posts were made. If you want to expand your search, it is always better to set this to big amount, e.g., of 365 (1 year) days. Note that searching for username is NOT affected by this "search-within-days" option.
Search within specified forums is also available. You can either search in all forums or choose a forum you want to search in.
Statistics
In the "statistics" menu, you can get all available information about forums. In statistics, you will find:
- Total amount of registered users (except admin);
- Total amount of topics;
- Total amount of posts;
- Who moderators are;
- Who is administrator;
- Who is last registered user;
- Most popular topics list (top 5, top 10, top 20, top 40), which is generated according to how many answers were posted in topic;
- Most active registered users list (top 5, top 10, top 20, top 40).
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