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Welcome to the Off Topic Forum! This is the forum for (surprise!) off topic discussions. What is an off topic discussion? If it doesn't fit into any of the other forums, it goes here. To help you with your posting, there is a handy flash video titled "Posting And You..." Click on the title to view the video. Here's a brief summary of what each forum is for:

• If you want to discuss a main Grey Labyrinth puzzle, do so in Grey Labyrinth Puzzles.
  
• If you want to post your own puzzle to baffle us GLers, post it in Visitor Submitted Puzzles
  
• To play in a game or to moderate your own game, go to Visitor Games, but be sure to read "Welcome to Visitor Games" first.
  
• To play mafia, go to Mafia Games. The GL is currently using a free-market method for running games. For more information, check that forum. Old mafia games are catalogued here.
  
• Visitor Submitted News is where you post news about yourself.
  
• Grey Labyrinth News is additional news about what's happening in the GL other than what's posted on the main page.
  
• Feature Requests/Site Problems is where you suggest a new feature for the GL or report a bug. Be sure to read the To Do List, What should I do about site problems?, and Read This First threads.
  
• Science, Art, and Culture is the forum where you can discuss science, art, and cultural topics.
  
• Poll Tournament is the forum that houses poll tournaments. You must be a registered user (and logged in) to vote in polls. This forum also has the results from past tournaments.

Need to know how to use game tags? Check Game Tags.

Other tags are explained in the next post.

Any topics that don't fit into those categories goes here.
Please read the FAQ before asking any questions. Also read the FAQs in the individual forums before you begin. If you have any further questions, feel free to e-mail me at Courk7@neo.rr.com with the subject line "GL question."

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Other classic, but still open, OT threads:

• RIP Samadhi (in VSN)
  
• What Are You Eating? II
  
• Favorite GL Quotes
  
• A complete waste of time is found within this thread _(Complete list through 41 pages)
  
• What are you...reading?
  
• Jokes II
  
• Weakest Link Math.
  
• The post-crash picture thread
  
• Interesting out-of-context quotes...
  
• Dreams about GLers...
  
• To What Are You Listening?
  
• The Top 10 Symptoms of Addiction to the GL
  
• Most Memorable GL Moments
  
• What made you happy today?
  
• What Made You Miserable Today?
  
• Everytime I see you guys...
  
• Fractals Revived more than enough fractal images
• Party at jeep's house June 25-July 2, 2005 GL/mafiascum gathering

Important Threads

• IBC - Silent Killer

[Courk]

Other Tags

The Grey Labyrinth has several tags you can use to create various effects within your posts. Most of these are self-explanatory, but for completeness' sake, I'll include them all.

All tags contain an opening portion, which is some sort of text enclosed in brackets [tag], and a closing portion, which is usually the same text inside the brackets, but with a forward slash preceding it [/tag]. Some tags are a bit more complicated, and open with [tag=] or something similar, but they still close with a simple [/tag]. Every tag is case sensitive, and are entirely in lowercase, except for more special [list=] and [quote=] options.

[b], [i], [u], and [s] are the most basic tags. They produce bolded text, italicised text, underlined text, and struckthrough text, respectively.

[url] is used to create a link. It is unnecessary to include this tag as long as the "www." is intact with the rest of the linked site's url. However, some urls can be quite long, which is a good time to use the [url=] tag. After the equals sign, include all of the text for the url. It should look like this: [url=http://www.yoursite.com]. You can then include a short title for your link and place it between the opening and closing tags.

[spoiler], [invisible], and [inv] all do the same thing. Text contained within these tags is only viewable when highlighted. This is good for hiding spoilers from people who don't wish to see them. Highlight the blank area before the period for an example: See? It's invisible.

[sup] and [sub] produce ^superscript or _subscript text, respectively.

[code] is a tag that produces text that is all the same width. This is useful for creating simple tables so that it's easy to make everything line up. WWW takes up the same amount of space as lll. Other tags do not work inside of this tag. The coded text appears in a box separating it from the rest of the post.