Sploder Community Forums

Sploder Community Forums
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Creator	Geoff
Administrators	Lieutenants, Generals, and the Administrator, Geoff
Software	SMF 2.0.6
Minimum Age Requirement	13

The Sploder Community Forums (SCF) is an internet forum for the Sploder Main Site.

Here you cannot create games, but instead socialize and talk with friends. The Sploder Forum was using Vanilla 1, a PHP and MySQL powered Forum application until it was replaced by the Simple Machines Forum (SMF) PHP application. The Sploder Forums officially was shut down on the 5th of August 2018 due to a hack in the codes of the forums, but was brought back on Decenber 30, 2018.

Categories

The Sploder Community Forum has a total of 14 discussion categories, 5 of which cannot be seen by Privates, the most common rank. The 8 categories seen by Privates are regarded as the "main" categories, shown as follows:

• Announcements : All the official announcements will be done here.

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  Sploder Forums(Before switching to SMF script).

  Basic Training : New members introduce themselves here for older member to inform them of the rules.
• General (Forum Category) : General, off-topic discussions. Most popular Forum category.
• Personal Exhibition : Users can advertise their websites, forums etc here.

        Projects : A place for creating projects or topics without and interference from other users. Now child board of Personal Exhibition.

• Sploder Games  : Share your games on the Main Site via a link. (It is prohibited to do this in any other category.) You are allowed to share other users' Main Site games.
• Reviewer Lane : Where you'll apply to become a Reviewer, and where Reviewer Recruiters discuss Applicants and various topics.
• RPFG's,  Forum Games and Contests : Contests, games, etc.
• Ideas : Ideas that could improve Sploder go here. Formely known as Mainsite Ideas.
• Top Ideas : All the top ideas will be placed here. Child board of ideas.

• Bugs and Feedback: A place for feedbacks and bugs regarding Sploder Main Site. Child board of ideas.
• MS Job Applications : Place to apply for becoming Moderators, Editors and Reviewers.. 

  

  Profile Page of a User(Current Version of Sploder Forums)1by sreebrothers a.k.a Sree-

• Archive : A place for archives, testing and unfinished projects.

Special Categories

These consist of categories seen when your rank rises or lowers beyond the rank of Private.

• JDC Camp: A General for the members who have committed some of the most severe offences. 
• Barracks: Soldiers+ go here and chat with less restraint on rules.
• POW Camp: Those who commit offences go here to serve their time. The mods, Generals, and LTs there are also forgetful there.
• Bunker: Also known as the Major Mobile, it is a private category reserved for those surpassing the rank of Private. Soldiers have been allowed to see it since the erasing of the Major rank.
• Lieutenant League: A private category reserved for those surpassing the rank of Soldier, the Lieutenant.
• Mod Area: A category where only the highest ranked users can go, Generals+ and Geoff come here to discuss various topics regarding the Forums and Mainsite, and it's improval.
• Private Compound: A special board for Privates where they can talk and socialize without Soldiers interferring them. All Privates or above except Soldiers can see this board.

Removed Categories

This section lists the removed or renamed categories of the Sploder Community Forums. 

• The Lounge: This category was view-able to Hero Members+. It acted as a General except with a more relaxed atmosphere. 
• Major League: Majors+ discussed important topics regarding the forum in this category. The Lieutenant League replaced this.
• Major Mobile: Was originally made as a joke by the staff. It was later renamed The Bunker. 
• Gamerz Plaza : This was a place for users to talk about their upcoming games etc.
• Community Forum Feedbacks: Feedbacks and ideas regarding Sploder Community Forums.

A member's page(Before switching to SMF).

• Sploder BLVD: For groups and shops.
• Mainsite Ideas: Where Mainsite ideas where posted. Later renamed Ideas.

Ranks

On the Sploder Community Forums, there was a total of 13 (now 9) ranks a user can have based on their overall maturity and loyalty to the site. There have been discussions to rename one of the ranks 'Sergeant' due to the similarity of the sploder ranks and miltary ranks. The ranks here (ordered from lowest to highest) are as follows:

1. Giblet: Banned and hardly has any permissions. A giblet can return 3 years after their ban.
2. JDC Camp: Cannot post. Can view only the JDC Camp category. 
3. POW: Can only see and post in the PoW camp category.
4. Applicant: A user waiting to be accepted.
5. Private: Neutral rank, can see all basic categories.
6. Soldier: Can see the Barracks and the Bunker
7. Lieutenant: Can sink, fuse, and splode threads and can see the Lieutenant League. Is the lowest rank that can check user IPs and accept Applicants from joining the forum.
8. General: Can do everything except shut down the forums. Has access to the Mod Area
9. War Veteran: A retired General.
10. Administrator: Has all powers on the forum. Can see every category. Geoff has this rank.

Post-Based Ranks

Post-based ranks are achieved by means of posting. Some of the highest post-based ranks have access to special privlidges, such as changing their custom title or their display name. 

1. Magnet: 0-49 posts
2. Repeller: 50-124 posts
3. Turret: 125-224 posts
4. Launcher: 225-349 posts
5. Drone Turret: 350-499 posts
6. Speeder: 500-799 posts (Also gives you access to BBCode)
7. Cruiser: 800-1399 posts
8. Reverser: 1400-2599 posts
9. Guard: 2600-4999 posts
10. Tank: 5000-9999 posts
11. Heavy Cruiser: 10000-14999 posts
12. Disruptor: 15000-19999 posts
13. Koptr: 20000-24999 posts
14. Centipede: 25000-29999 posts
15. Bugmeister: 30000-34999 posts
16. Electropede: 35000-39999 posts
17. Mogura: 40000-49999 posts
18. Spider: 50000+ posts

Removed Ranks

These are the removed or renamed ranks of the Sploder Community Forums. 

• Commander-In-Chief: Had all powers on the forum. Could see every category. The Administrator rank was the replacement for this rank. 
• Outcast: Could only see General, Basic Training, and Bugs. Couldn't create discussions. 
• POW Censored: Could only see PoW.
• POW Detainee: Could only see Private Messages.
• No Access: Couldn't log in. Replaced by Giblet.
• Major: A rank that resembled that of a Lieutenant.

Spinoffs

Old Sploder Forums

After the Sploder Forums stopped using vanilla, some people were still nostalgic for the old forums software. As a result, many people created their own Sploder Sploder Forums that used Vanilla 1.0 and used the same theme as the vanilla Sploder Forums.

SploderDB

After Sploder Forums was shut down, Brocky created a forum using CreateAForum that was a spinoff of Sploder Forums. It was shortlived and was succeeded by Sploder.tk.

Sploder.tk

Main article: Sploder.tk

Sploder.tk is a replica of the Sploder Community Forums that succeeded SploderDB. It is run by Sticki. You cannot go on it anymore for unknown reasons.

Maintenance Mode

Sploder forums before the maintenance ended.

Sometime in 2019, it was in maintenance mode because the moderators are attempting to restore an older backup of the database. it ended in a unknown day.

Connection Problems

Sploder forums, sometime in 2019

In a unknown date, SMF started being unable to connect to the database, This may be caused by the server being busy.