- How do I delete my account?You may self-remove all information from your
profile and
ultimate profile you have added since joining. You may remove your
posts. To delete your username account, please contact the administrator via the Email link at the top of every forum page.
- How do I create/post maps?One way to create an election map similar to the fifty-state ones strewn about the forum is to click on the
button in the site's header. This page has a vast array of options, such as: having up to four candidates, percentage shades, and even going back to the year 1836!
When you click on this button, you'll go to the proper menu where you can modify the electoral college map to whatever permutation suits your purposes. Once you are done, click "Show Map Link", be sure to copy the
entire link, and then feel free to post it in your desired thread.
Additionally, some users have posted state-based county maps or maps of municipal elections. Unfortunately, there is no web-based editing tool on this site, and those must be made via Paint or a similar application.
You must have at least 25 posts to post an image, and election maps fall under the umbrella of this requirement.
- How do I pick an avatar?For those of you who are uninitiated, an avatar is an image that many users have underneath their username and to the left of their posts, typically a state, province, or country and also a political affiliation (or lack thereof.) One can select an avatar by clicking on
and scrolling down to "Forum Profile Information." From there, you will have a vast array of options from Argentina to Zimbabwe! (Just kidding, we don't have Zimbabwe avatars yet.)
- How do I display my political matrix scores under my avatar?This tends to go hand in hand with the previous point, but it's a little tricky. To have one's political matrix score listed under their avatar, one must first create an account on Dave Leip's Election Atlas proper, not the forum. This can be done
here. Once this account is linked to your forum account, you can click the "Site Info" button in the website's header, then "My Atlas", and finally scroll down to edit your economic and social score once on the page "Member Information."
- How do I change my signature?To edit your signature, click on "Forum Profile Information" (the same avenue you would use to edit your avatar) and scroll down to the table labeled "Signature." If you wish to use an image, or link to either a thread or page, then the same formatting rules that apply to standard posts also apply here.
Note that images from imgur do not work on this site.
