Miniprofile/Profile Fields

You can enter some interesting details about yourself in your profile. To edit all of these details, go on your profile page by either clicking your own name on the forum whenever you post, or go on the "profile" tab seen in the menu. Then click "edit profile" and then "personal" This should be what you see, except it will be your details and not mine.



Scroll down, and there will be lots of fields for you to fill in. Remember that any fields you didn't fill in during registration are optional, not mandatory. And now I'll tell you a bit about them.

First, you have your display name field. More about that here.

Then you have your email. This is the email you used to sign up to Vault and can be changed at any time without affecting your Vault account. You can choose to show your email to everyone, registered users, friends (people who follow each other) and staff, or staff only on the privacy tab. The most private option is to show your email to staff only.

Next is the password box. That's where you change your password, of course. I would advise noting down your password somewhere, because if you forget it and are locked out of your account, there have been some complications in the past (well, one case, but it was weirdly complicated).

You can also select your gender. The only options are Male and Female, and unfortunately that can't be changed on the forum system because proboards (the forum hoster that hosts this forum and many others) has set it like this. If you don't identify with either of these genders, the only thing I can think of is to hide your gender- go on your privacy tab for this, and if you hide your gender, not even the staff can see this.

Then there's the location box. It's a text box so you can put absolutely whatever you like in there, like, I don't know, "in Dialga's mouth". We certainly wouldn't advise putting anything narrower than your country there as a safety precaution, if you are putting in your actual location. However, generic things like "at a music concert" should also be safe. Again, you can leave this blank if you wish.

The next two fields are connected, and they are "website name" and "website URL". You can put your main profile on another site in the url field, such as, for example, Fanfiction.net, and write "my fanfiction profile" in the "website name" box. Tumblr is another popular option. You can put any site in there as long as it does not have M-rated/X-rated or whatever you want to call it- content.

You can change your status here as well, but you can also do that when you click on your profile (yup, you don't have to go into editing you profile for this) Some members choose to put their actual status, like "ugh really ill right now" or "sooo tired", and others choose to put a quote or other line. You can put whatever you want in there.

Then you have your signature. Details on that here. I will say this here. PLEASE don't make your images too big, as it can get annoying when there is more signature than there is post. Also, some images stretch wider than the posts, and won't display fully, so make sure you resize images if this is the case, since I'm not sure the signature plugin works properly. You can choose to hide other people's signature from your view if you don't want to see them on the "settings" tab.

There is a personal notes box which only you can see. You could write a to do list there, for example, like "post on ...'s fanfic thread when I get home". Personally I don't use it for anything but see what you can do with it.

The badass punchline is next. This field generally denotes an original, badass quote from yourself, but some members post badass quotes from other people as well.

Shipping allegiance. This is a relatively important field for this forum. You can choose which Ash ship you support in the drop down menu. The "none of the above" option hides this field from your profile. The way to fill this in, is if you support only one Ash ship, that's easy, just choose which one. If you support two or more Ash ships EQUALLY, choose Multishipping (you can clarify which ones elsewhere), if you support one Ash ship a lot more than the other, but still support the other one a bit, then choose the one you support most.

We have MBTI personality type now. This is a 16 category personality classification system that I am very interested in. You may have seen posts about it on tumblr (very popular topic there). This is my favourite test for it, and members who have done it yet never heard of it before tell me that it does really help them find out more about themselves and the results are almost always very accurate.

The last field is your Pearlshipping skils. This is a check box field and you can click as many or as little of them as you like. All of these skills are in relation to PEARLSHIPPING, so if you write fanfics for Pearlshipping but do Advanceshipping videos, for example, then just check the "fanfiction author" option. In case you were wondering, the "forum writer" option is if you regularly post on this forum or other shipping forums with regards to Pearlshipping. Obviously if you hate Pearlshipping or completely ship another ship, leave all these fields blank.

Remember to SAVE YOUR CHANGES!!! That option is right at the bottom.

And not all your fields show up in your mini profile, which is the box that appears to the left of all your posts.


P.S.
ADDING FIELDS
If you want to see more fields, go ahead and suggest them on this thread! Make sure they aren't fandom specific, apart from Pokémon specific, obviously. It also helps if other members agree with you a think it should be added, too. So ask around! "Hunger Games district", for example, wouldn't be a field I would add because not everyone likes hunger games, but if people have signed up for this forum, then they most likely have some aquaintance with Pokémon so "favourite Pokémon" would be a field I would add if it were suggested.