02-2009 - Welcome to ISOC-In Search of Chicas
Welcome to ISOC - In Search of Chicas, we thank you for joining our board, please take a few minutes to read this thread to get the most out of this site.
Index
- Rules
- Pictures & Trip Reports
- Website Issues
- Forum Layout
- Forum Features
- Informative Threads to Read First
- How You Can Help ISOC
- How to Create a New Thread
1. Rules
First of all there are two very simple rules that will result in an immediate ban!
- We will not tolerate Child Porn in any way, shape, or form. Nor do we allow the discussion of being with under-aged children. Not only will we ban you but we will also report you to the FBI!
- We will not tolerate racial attacks. Again you will be banned, although the FBI will be left out it.
2. Pictures & Trip Reports
Most of our board is open to members and is organized with the tabs on the home page. To gain access to some sections you must either purchase a subscription for the Pictures & Trip Reports sections. Or you can contribute several trip reports & your own pictures then JimmyDR may give you access for free.
We currently have almost 1,500 threads in the various Trip Reports forums and over 75,000 pictures hosted on our site, not including pictures hosted on other sites like Photobucket.
If you wish to contribute a trip report with pictures but want access limited please contact a SuperModerator or Admin with a PM and they will move your thread to Pictures & Trip Reports or Special BOD Shares. SuperModerators & Admins can be identified by the color of their names. You will still have complete access to your thread but access by other members will be limited to either Picture & Trip Report members or BOD & higher members, please specify which forum you would like your thread moved to.
3. Issues/Questions About the Website
Please contact Don Tomas if you have any problems, issues, or suggestions. You can contact JimmyDR for other issues.
4. Forum Layout
We don't run a tight ship here which could be confusing for new members but feel free to start a new thread if you can't find what you are looking for. We have several sub-forums and I will describe the basic layout here.
The Home Page has several tabs which splits up the forums, they are:
- Welcome (forum information and the Welcome forum, please introduce yourself in the Welcome Forum)
- Dominican Republic (all about the DR and individual cities)
- Trip Reports & Pictures (our premium sections accessible with a subscription purchase)
- Colombia (all about Colombia and individual cities)
- Other Countries (each country is further divided into the sub-forums; Information, Hotels, Transportation, Places of Interest, & Trip Reports & Pics)
- Events & News (post your upcoming trip in the Event forum or read/post the latest news here)
- Chat & Info (here we discuss EVERYTHING, we also have forums for unrelated computer issues, movie/music discussions, health issues, etc.)
5. Forum Features
We have several features for our members to make their experience more enjoyable. Here is a list of several of them:
These Features are accessible under the ISOC Extras menu:
- Money Cheat Sheets for 4 major currencies (US$, Canadian$, Euro €, and the British Pound £. Which are converted into several currencies including; The Dominican Peso, Colombian Peso, Thai Baht, Brazil Real, Philippine Peso, CR Colon, & Peru Nuevo Sol. Also the native banknotes/coins are in bold to make things easier.
- The Countdown Generator to make a countdown to put into your signature to advertise your next trip and make us jealous.
- Live Exchange Rates to check the current rates or see historical rates.
- Send a SMS to your chica in the DR with our DR SMS interface.
- Learn Spanish a word a day.
- See the current Weather of all your favorite places.
- Read News from a variety of related sites.
We also have several other features including.
- An Events Calendar to post your upcoming trip and connect with others.
- A File Upload Center to upload movies or other files such as PDFs to share with other members.
- ISOC Wiki which is a concise and informative wiki regarding mongering in general.
There are also two ways to upload your pictures to our site.
- You can use the VBImageHost to upload your pictures. If they are a nude picture we request that you make the picture private.
- You can also make Albums and add Pictures to them.
6. Informative Threads to Read First
The following are several informative threads to get you started.
- Dominican Republic Threads
- Colombia Information
- Chica Questions/Comments
- Traveling Issues
- Learning Spanish
- Health Information
- Forum Information
- Information about our Sponsors
7. How You Can Help ISOC
You can help ISOC in a few ways, we appreciate your help and you also assist other members.
- You can help the site by adding Tags to your post which are useful for everyone and describes the thread. The space to add Tags is located at the bottom of your post. (eg. For this thread I added "website" & "newbie info")
- You can help the site by using the Bookmarks are the bottom of each thread. If you Bookmark thread using popular bookmarking sites like Digg, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, or Google you can help ISOC be more well known on the internet. That way fellow mongers like yourself will be more informed!
- Finally tell us about your trip(s) and (mis)adventures so others will learn to make their trips easier and so they can avoid other's mistakes.
8. How to Create a New Thread
This section describes some the features you can use to create a new thread.
Creating a New Thread
Some advanced posting features
Creating Polls
- You have several options for creating polls including;
- Multiple Selections allowed
- Public or Private polls
- Write-in Polls where users can add their own choices.
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