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- Name
- Displayed user name on all pages
- Required
- A valid email address you can be reached at
- This is never displayed unless you send an email to another user
- Required
- URL
- The URL of your website
- Optional
- Page Download
- Pages that support this feature will use this option to improve download times for that page, usually by removing excess images
- Small: Always use the fast download setting
- Medium: Only use the fast download setting on extra long pages (default)
- Large: Never use the fast download setting
Avatars
Only uploaded avatars are supported at this time. They must be 80x80 or under and smaller than 5,000 bytes. Size restrictions may be subject to change.
Friends List
Your friends list lets you keep track of your friends on this site. In addition to having them listed in a quick address book for easy messaging, they may also have access to certain aspects of your profile that are set to private (e.g. on the Guild Wars site, private builds are viewable by anyone you've added as a friend).
Secret Question & Answer
Should you forget your password, you can reset it by answering a secret question that you yourself write. When you write a secret question, it shouldn't be easy for someone to guess if they know a little about you. You can reset your secret question and its password any time you are logged in.
Account Activation
After you sign-up for an account, you will need to activate it before you can login. To activate your account, you will need to sign-up with a valid email address. Activation instructions will be sent to that address. If spam filters have eaten your activation email, you can have the activation email resent.
Forgotten Username or Password
If you forget your username or password, you can still get your account back. If you've forgotten your username, you can have it emailed to you, provided you still have access to the email address you signed up with. If you've forgotten your password, you can get back into your account by answering your own secret question and knowing which email address you signed up with.
Account Security
There's nothing worse than having your account stolen, game or otherwise. We offer these important safety tips.
- Never use the same username/email/password for your game account as you do for your forum or instant messager account.
- Make sure the password for the email address you use for your game/forum account is different from one you use for your game/forum account
- Reveal as little information about yourself as you can get away with: only give out your phone number, mailing address, and real name out to people you would trust your credit card information with
- Be cautious about any programs you download: they may contain virii or keyloggers that would send anything you type, including usernames and passwords, to someone else
- Keep any CD key information that came along with your game: it can sometimes be used to retrieve your account
Passwords
Even though we store passwords in a format that's one way encrypted (that means even if people get access to our passwords, they can't be unencrypted), we have no way to protect you from weak passwords. The best passwords are ones that are easy to remember, but difficult to guess, and are not words found in a dictionary.
- Bad Passwords
- Words that appear in a dictionary
- warrior
- 12345
- Names of family members, pets, or places you have lived
- Good Passwords
- Words that contain a good mix of letters with mixed capitalization and numbers: a29Zpq4S
- Blatently misspelled words or words with some letters converted to other characters: h@ck&s1@$h
- Pass Phrases: mymotherisahampster (longer phrases are more difficult to guess)
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