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.
Sploder Forums(Before switching to SMF script).
Basic Training : New members introduce themselves here for older member to inform them of the rules.
Projects : A place for creating projects or topics without and interference from other users
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.
Mainsite Ideas : Ideas that could improve Sploder Main Site go here.
Top Ideas : All the top ideas will be placed here.
Bugs and Feedback: A place for feedbacks and bugs regarding Sploder Main Site
Community Forum Feedbacks : Feedbacks and ideas regarding Sploder Community Forums
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 Compund: 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 Leage 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.
A member's page(Before switching to SMF).
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
Major: A rank that has of all the powers of a Lieutenant except to check IPs and accpet applicants.
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.
General: Can do everything except shut down the forums. Has access to the Mod Area.
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.
Turret: 0-99 posts
Speeder: 100-199 posts
Cruiser: 200-499 posts
Guard: 500-999 posts
Launcher: 1,000-1,999 posts
Mortar: 2,000-4,999 posts
Disruptor: 5,000-9,999 posts
Heavy Cruiser: 10,000-14,999 posts
Centipede: 15,000-19,999 posts
Electropede: 20,000-24,999 posts
Bugmeister: 25,000-29,999 posts
Mogura: 30,000+ 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.
Grunt: Limited categories and could not create discussions. Was then later re-added in May 2013 in the new forum.
Outcast: Could only see General, Basic Training, and Bugs. Couldn't create discussions.
Giblet: A member would be demoted to this rank if they had repeatedly committed terrible offences(This rank was removed when Sploder Community Forums switched to SMF script from Vanilla Forums script)
