Board Thread:Announcements/@comment-29771477-20170111134518

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:


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


 * You have made lots of edits, but you haven't made 10 edits on the mainstream pages (pages about diep.io) yet.


 * You just came here and aren't editing at all.

Contrary to poular 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. 