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Types of Members

There are four types of members on the Art of Problem Solving-MathLinks forums.

Regular member
Moderator
Administrator
Bot

Regular Member

Regular members can post, view other posts, and modify their own posts if the thread isn't locked, but they are unable to promote or demote other users, lock or unlock threads, post in locked threads, delete threads, make thread announcements, or remove or alter posts made by other users. They have black usernames.

Moderator

Any post in a particular forum may be edited or deleted by the forum's moderator. The moderator can also divide postings inside a topic, combine posts within a topic, relocate an entire thread to a new forum, and lock or unlock any topic. The moderator can also turn conversations into announcements or stickies (and vice versa). Green text denotes their usernames. You can find out if a user is a moderator or not by hovering over their username.

Becoming a Moderator

The selection of moderators is done by the administrators. There is no set process. New moderators will be chosen only when there is a need for them such as when a new forum is built, other moderators step down, or a forum begins to require additional supervision.

The process of choosing moderators is not democratic. There is no election. The administrators choose moderators based on their trust and confidence in a member. Being a good, productive member is the best way for one to improve their likelihood of becoming a moderator.

Please feel free to ask to be a moderator.

Forum Administrator

These are administrators in a forum. Forum starters will automatically be an administrator, and administrators can choose to promote users to a moderator, or another administrator. They can also demote users if necessary.

Not to be confused with Site Administrator

Site Administrator

The full-time members of the Art of Problem Solving staff are site administrators. Administrators basically have unlimited power and complete jurisdiction. Their usernames are in blue, with a X next to their name.

Bot

The bots are screen names created by search engines that crawl around the website collecting data so that the Art of Problem Solving-MathLinks sites will show up in the search results of their engine.

Examples of bots are AskJeeves, GigaBlast, Yahoo! Slurp, Gamebot, GoogleBot, and MSNBot

See the AoPS-Mathlinks Rules and Tips page.

Explanation of icons

There are various icons in the AoPS Forums.

a - Global Announcement. This topic appears in all forums.

Y - Upvote. This function is a "like". This button is on the right side of a post.

i - Forum Announcment. This topic is an announcement for a forum.

k - Locked. This thread is locked, and only Mods or Admins can still post.

h - Unread post(s). This indicates the post(s) you haven't read yet.

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 === Regular Member ===
-A regular member has the basic abilities on the forum.
+Regular members can post, view other posts, and modify their own posts if the thread isn't locked, but they are unable to promote or demote other users, lock or unlock threads, post in locked threads, delete threads, make thread announcements, or remove or alter posts made by other users. They have black usernames.
 === Moderator ===
-Every forum has at least one moderator (with the exception of the <url>index.php?f=224 Test Forum</url>).  The moderator of a certain forum has the ability to edit or delete any post in that forum.  Additionally, the moderator can split posts from a topic, merge posts from one topic into another, move an entire thread to a different forum and lock/unlock any topic.  Finally, the moderator can make topics become stickies or announcements (and vice versa).
+Any post in a particular forum may be edited or deleted by the forum's moderator. The moderator can also divide postings inside a topic, combine posts within a topic, relocate an entire thread to a new forum, and lock or unlock any topic. The moderator can also turn conversations into announcements or stickies (and vice versa). Green text denotes their usernames. You can find out if a user is a moderator or not by hovering over their username.
 ==== Becoming a Moderator ====
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 The process of choosing moderators is not democratic.  There is no election.  The administrators choose moderators based on their trust and confidence in a member.  Being a good, productive member is the best way for one to improve their likelihood of becoming a moderator.
-=== Administrator ===
+'''''Please feel free to ask to be a moderator.'''''
-The full-time members of the Art of Problem Solving staff are administrators.  Administrators basically have unlimited power and complete jurisdiction.  The administrators include [[David Patrick]], [[Richard Rusczyk]], [[Vanessa Rusczyk]], [[Naoki Sato]] and [[Valentin Vornicu]]. Mathew Crawford has stepped down as an administrator in fall 2006.
-=== Bot ===
+=== Forum Administrator ===
-The bots are screen names created by search engines that crawl around the website collecting data so that the [[Art of Problem Solving]]-[[MathLinks]] sites will show up in the search results of their engine.
+These are administrators in a forum. Forum starters will automatically be an administrator, and administrators can choose to promote users to a moderator, or another administrator. They can also demote users if necessary.
-Examples of bots are AskJeeves, GigaBlast, Yahoo! Slurp, GoogleBot, and MSNBot
+''Not to be confused with Site Administrator''
-== Post Ranking ==
+=== Site Administrator ===
-On the Art of Problem Solving-MathLinks website, under your username, you will find stars, as well as the name of one of the [[Millenium Problems]].  The number of stars you have, as well as the name of the Millenium Problem, depends on your post count.  Here is the table that determines your "rank."
+The full-time members of the Art of Problem Solving staff are site administrators.  Administrators basically have unlimited power and complete jurisdiction. Their usernames are in blue, with a <span class="aops-font">X</span> next to their name.
-*0 - 19 New Member (Zero Stars)
+=== Bot ===
+The bots are screen names created by search engines that crawl around the website collecting data so that the [[Art of Problem Solving]]-[[MathLinks]] sites will show up in the search results of their engine.
-*20 - 49 P versus NP (Half Star)
+Examples of bots are AskJeeves, GigaBlast, Yahoo! Slurp, Gamebot, GoogleBot, and MSNBot
-*50 - 99 Hodge Conjecture (One Star)
+See the [[AoPS-Mathlinks Rules and Tips]] page.
-*100 - 249 Poincare Conjecture (Two Stars)
+==Explanation of icons==
-*250 - 499 Riemann's Hypothesis (Two and Half stars)
+There are various icons in the AoPS Forums.
-*500 - 999 Yang Mills Theory (Three Stars)
+<span class="aops-font">a</span> - '''Global Announcement'''. This topic appears in all forums.
-*1000 - 2499 Navier-Stroke's Equation (Four Stars)
+<span class="aops-font">Y</span> - '''Upvote'''. This function is a "like". This button is on the right side of a post.
-*2500 - <math>\infty</math> Birch & Swinnerton Dyer. (Five Stars)
+<span class="aops-font">i</span> - '''Forum Announcment'''. This topic is an announcement for a forum.
-*Administrators have six stars.
+<span class="aops-font">k</span> - '''Locked'''. This thread is locked, and only Mods or Admins can still post.
-These are the [http://www.claymath.org/millennium/ Clay Mathematics Institute's] unsolved "Millenium Problems."
+<span class="aops-font">h</span> - '''Unread post(s)'''. This indicates the post(s) you haven't read yet.
-See the [[AoPS-Mathlinks Rules and Tips]] page.
+[[Category:AoPSWiki]]
+[[Category:AoPS forums]]
-{{tutorial}}
+[[Category:Art of Problem Solving]]

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