Board Thread:Announcements/@comment-29771477-20170111134518/@comment-29771477-20170112130143

Cloudburster wrote: QUEEN AYSHA wrote: There have been many, many threads made recently by people, wanting to know why there is a small blue tag on their profile that says "newb". I am here to answer your concerns, because I feel the various scattered replies by the staff strewn around the forums just aren't doing it justice, and frankly these threads are starting to get annoying.

There has been many new coded features added lately (painstakingly by Ursuul, I might add. Give her a round of applause when you see her), and one of the ones added is responsible for the "newb" and "verified" tags. The reason you have a newb tag is because one or more of the following reasons:


 * You aren't staff/former staff. Those tags override the "newb" tag.


 * You haven't made 10 edits on the mainstream pages (pages about diep.io) yet.


 * You haven't been here for 2 weeks yet.

Contrary to popular belief, these tags actually mean something. There are some pages that are "protected", meaning only content mods (like Hayden) and above (admins) can edit them. But there's also pages that are "semi-protected", like most user pages, and these you can only edit if you have a tag that says "verified". This is partially to thwart vandals, and partially to distinguish between active, veteran users and new users. So if you want to be able to edit semi-protected pages, all you have to do is make 10 edits on our main pages.

Hopefully this has cleared up some confusion.

~Aysha

P.S: DON'T come here to complain about this being highlighted unless you're one of Ursuul's staff. Thx, by the way. Your welcome.

Grandmask20 wrote: 1.been here way more than 2 weeks

2.i made the main pages and i have 30 edits

3.sadly no i am not staff for some reason(i know its cuz i havent made that many edits)

Grandmask, I understand that you feel entitled to certain tags because you've been here so long, but Ursuul is right. You don't just waltz in here thinking you deserve staff because of how long you've been here, especially after such a long absense. If you truly deserved it you would've followed our rules and worked for it. Go complain about your tag and not getting a staff position somewhere else.

TheO0032 wrote: What is wrong with not being a NEWB? I'm not sure what the question is here, but not being a newb means you're verified, and that is definetly a good thing. Got it?