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This is the place for you to ask any question you may have on how to submit your works or notes for upload on the forum, or on donwloading of notes and essays already on the forum. Before you ask anything, however please read the FAQ carefully first. Additionally, if you would like to be able to save word documents as PDFs, Microsoft Office has an add-on called "Save as PDF". The file is attached for the sake of convenience but it can also be found on the microsoft office website. SaveAsPDF.zip Thank you, The IBSurvival Team.
Last reply by Davita, -
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I just wanted to ask a question about the new reputation system. When you rep someone, will that person know who has repped them? Similarly, if you get repped, will you ever know who repped you? Secondly, is it possible to open a helpdesk thread in the About forum so that people can post mini questions about the inner-workings of IBS without opening new threads?
Last reply by The Economist, -
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I read the thread about who created IBS, but I was surprised to see that a bunch of the moderators/admins/whatever are currently in IB. How is it that they (you guys) got to that position? Did you help finance the site, create new things, etc.? Just pure curiosity... cause I know IBS is older than some of the people in charge so I was confused
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Glau
by MariusIBDP- 6 replies
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Just out of curiosity, why are there quite a few staff members that have Glau in their name (Desy Glau, Austin Glau)?
Last reply by Survival Robot, -
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Hi everyone, If you have a legitimate reason why you feel your account needs to be deleted, please contact either Mahuta or Sandwich via PM explaining why, and we'll happily remove it for you. Please note that intending to discontinue using the site, being bored of it, no longer requiring your account and so on are not considered reasons for account deletion. It's absolutely fine to just stop using your account one day and let it fall inactive. The staff will no longer be deleting accounts without a decent-ish reason for doing so, as deleting accounts is an entirely pointless task for both you and us under normal circumstances. If you are worried about IBS distracti…
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Ok here's where you report small bugs around the forum Shoutbox was on every page but now moved to its places as before. Spoiler tags currently not working, according to deissi. -Actually I just checked...it's working...for me, so it might just be deissi. :/ The "post by" thing is not working. I tried posting this as Admin. Didn't work. [This doesn't affect any of you except the admins so don't worry. ] Anything else?
Last reply by Graeme, -
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Hi everyone! I have a question to ask...I've been trying to figure out how to delete my previous posts, but I couldn't...I can't even delete my account. Do you know how to do this? Thanks for the help.
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Gamer: Kick Me: Point: Truce: Drinks: Hi: rotfl: Quote: Music: Shh:
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IB Survival Logo 1 2 3
by Graeme- 49 replies
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Well, it's about time we get a new logo for IB Survival. We need a logo to represent what we do, who we are, and what we are here for... I'm no artist, and unfortunately I am therefore somewhat limited in my creativity. However, I figure that out of the thousands of people here, some of you must have some ideas! Now, I'm going to turn this into a competition if I can, where the best contributions can get prizes (maybe money, maybe special gifts? All to be decided!). In essence, at the moment I'm starting with a blank slate, so any ideas can be put forward. What I would really like is for you all to post ideas, images, photos (anything really) that you think would suit IB…
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I'll be working on some new skins for the new forum (coming soon, when it's ready) . Basically just want some of you to suggest various different colours that you'd like to see in new forum skins. At the moment there will probably be a darker blue skin, and one skin with the current blue.
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Since this is a very new site, we're still in the process of building it up. Considering the purpose of this site is to help IB students like you, we'd greatly value your input on improving the site. If you have any immediate suggestions of how to make IBSurvival more efficient and the best resource for IB student there is, feel free to post your ideas here. Thanks a lot.
Last reply by blindpet, -
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I was just thinking that since there are more people on the forum, and some actively posting, perhaps it's worth making the downloads only available to those who we htink deserve them. What I mean by this is simply that instead of there being a 10 post requirement, it's simply a matter of adding the user to the VIP group, for example. This way, a member has to prove that he/she is able to contribute a little bit before getting all the candy. B) Your thoughts?
Last reply by deissi, -
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Hello. I'm relatively new to this forum, however, when I first registered I was kind of put off at first because of the vastness of the site. There are so many forums and posts that maybe someone new wouldn't know where to start. Therefore, why don't the IBS send a "Beginner's Guide" (using e-mail) to the new users, stating where they could get started, where they could introduce themselves etc. The IBS does have access to e-mail addresses of the users, right? The guide can be made very friendly and stuff (maybe include an example of one of the more entertaining threads or a screenshot of the arcade). It would state all the basic rules and stuff as well. That way, new u…
Last reply by Austin Glau, -
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Hey guys... Don't you think having a status bar on IB Survival like Facebook to give us notifications of replies we get in forums is easier to track topics etc.?
Last reply by sweetnsimple786, -
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Is there any way to undo a rep? I just misclicked at the rep button and don't know how to de-rep the post. It's not a big deal though. What is the maximum limit of rep per day, by the way? And I think the "The New Reputation System" announcement needs to be updated. We don't have negative rep anymore.
Last reply by Mahuta ♥, -
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when I use Latex, if I press enter, it becomes a br tag. I know I can use [tex]\\[/tex] but it doesn't look as nice and it'll be difficult if I want to use a lot of Latex codes. I hope there's something that can be done to stop the line break from becoming br tags in latex. thanks!
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I think the files section would benefit quite a lot from people actually writing reviews and rating files a bit more actively. I'm not entirely sure how to encourage people to do this except for to remind them, but I was thinking that perhaps you could get reputation points from posting reviews? Or perhaps just from posting reviews that other people vote up. Also it would be nice to have some way of filtering files by reviews, and also to have files automatically ranked within their category by their rating/number of reviews rather than just chronologically/alphabetically/whatever it is at the moment! Not for everything - stuff like syllabi should stay alphabetical, but …
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I don't know why, but these past days, it was kinda hard for me to come to the forum. I'm using Firefox, but nowadays, when I type in the address, it often says that this is an unvalid site. (Even though I'm perfectly sure that I haven't mistyped. I favorited the forum, so it can't be.) I have to restart my computer (only firefox itself when I'm lucky) to come into the site. Is it only me or does some people have the same problem? Besides, I'm using a German network.
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Any ideas to get more people to join IBSurvival (as this forum certainly deserves more members than it has)?
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I know I'm super curious but I'm just wondering It might be a bit stupid though. Don't know. This --> I noticed it so many times and always wondered what it is. I mean, okay, it says google.com, but you can't click it, or anything. Why is it there?
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Hey IB survival people. I am an IB graduate from Nov. 2010 and I would like to propose the creation of a new forum that reviews all of the textbooks for IB courses. I believe it will be a great tool for users, as the amount of publishers of IB textbooks is really growing. So, basically my idea is a separate forum that reviews the IB textbooks, you know course companions, pearson´s, study guides, osc revision guides, among others. I think that users need to know the features of the different IB publishers. This would help a lot in avoiding the purchase of wrong textbooks as well as the disillusionment of several publishers. Can some moderator or administrator tell me if …
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I was actually surprised to not see a section for Pre-IBers and MYP students when I first joined. (Middle Years Program, grades 7-10, for those that might not know) It would be extremely useful, both in providing advice and in promoting discussions about projects. The Personal Project by itself is a huge topic. From just choosing a suitable topic, to actually carrying it out and writing the final reflection, it's an incredibly confusing and harried process for most people I know. Wouldn't it be useful to have a forum dedicated to young IBers? Then there's also things like IAs and Museum Projects for History, not to mention ISPs for English. I'm not 100% sure if these proj…
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It seems if you have HTML in your sig, your signature doesn't display properly on your profile, it just prints the html code. I switched back to using bbcode but just thought I'd post it here in case. As for the suggestion, I was hoping if it would be possible to have the lines adjusted a bit in the signatures, it looks like I'm skipping a whole line in mine. Plus, the preview in the Edit Signature section looks different from what you see in posts thanks to that Anyways, I tried adding "line-height: 1;" to the signature block in the ipb_style.css and it seems to fix everything.. So I guess that's my suggestion, adding a line to the css Would appreciate it though, makes…
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It doesn't work and it is really starting to bug me. Haha get it, it's a bug that's starting to bug me... Never mind. But yeah, it'd be nice if it was working again
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Every time I log on IBsurvival from google, the browser automatically redirects to ht@tp://url@[email protected]/bef@ddb86. (remove the @s) Checked on different computers and networks: not my problem. I found this from another forum: Our forums had been exploited though a security hole in Invision Power Board. This has now been patched and everything is back to normal. Thanks for letting us know!! Code had been added though this exploit to steal Google search engine traffic. No other area or aspect of our server has been victim to this exploit.http://forums.cubecart.com/topic/46878-resolved-im-really-not-crazy-on-this-one-url-hijacked/ Since IBsurvial use IPBoard, I suspect t…
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I think the requirements should be changed, not so that they are easier to reach, but so that they apply for everyone. The reason for this is that I have reached the VIP but have been restricted from downloading files, so why not change the requirements so that this sort of restriction on some VIP members does not have to be put into place? Why not have the requirements as something like: "be a member for a minimum of ** months with an average post count of ** posts per day"? This way you can have a minimum post count as well as ensure that they'll be on the site for a while and not just quickly get the posts and have to be restricted. What do you think?
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why cant any one help me?
by Guest UraBoat- 12 replies
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ok at first i had this account .i had the password thing saved on my computer and stuff i used that account and even got a vip thing but then i logged out and when i tried to log in i couldn't? i tried the "forgot the password" button and put my email. used the password and username that it emailed me and opened this account. idk how talk to i can use pm on this account and i pm-ed the super-admin. like a long time ago and no one answers...idk who can help or knows what i can do?
Last reply by Survival Robot, -
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I'm only asking this because I am very curious. The reason being is that, from what I can tell, most of the moderators are in IB or have recently finished IB, so who actually came up with IBS and who designed the site??? Is there place where the answers for this can be found? Am I looking in the wrong forum?
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When I created an account on this website, a couple of months ago, I asked myself what I, myself, would possibly get out of it. The site wasn't really as active as it is now, and there was only a 50 post requirement for VIP status. Apparently, the people on this site try to "help" each other, and when you "help" enough people, you get that luxurious VIP beside your name. Actually, its more of a + sign, but meh. Anyway, even with my lack of free time, I thought I would join the site for the lulz, and maybe help a few IB students that I could relate to - stuff that I was going through, or have already been through. To add to that, I learned that 50 posts was a "download" r…
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The new Award system needs a few more awards, feel free to suggest any you can think of here. Suggest or Request an award here. Examples: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- IB Veteran: Users who've been around since the old IBS days -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title Awards -------------------------------------------------------------------------- MVP: Making Most Valued Posts -------------------------------------------------------------------------- V VIP: Valuable VIP -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overtime: Watch out for this mod's banhammer…
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100 posts
by Guest Soiboist- 9 replies
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From some users I have heard that you need to post a hundred times in order to be able to download files, however there is no such thing stated in any topic or the FAQ where it only says that you need to be a VIP member. What about this 100 posts thing, does it give you permission to download files or not?
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Are these posts on IBS scanned by online plagiarism checkers like Turn It In? I need some help with forming my EE RQ but I don't want to post in the forum, because I'm afraid if online plagiarism checkers will scan these posts in the forum and my teacher will think that I copy from here. The problem is because my EE topic is hardly known and I can only find two webpages talking about this topic, and they are actually the same entry posted in different blogs (making it hard for me to find out its history too, but I've got it from a reliable source through email). What I like though is that when my school checks my EE for plagiarism (we use Turn It In) the percentage of pla…
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I'm not sure if this is the right place to post, but I just wanted to let you guys know of so,etching I've been experiencing lately. If I search for 'ibsurvival' in Google and open the first link (which I'm positive is the right one) I get a different page with what appears to be a bunch of ads. The page does not look reputable at all, so I just close it immediately usually. 30 seconds later, I'll try again, open the same link I did the first time, and the proper website will open. What is happening? This has only happened a couple of times. Once on a PC computer, once on a Mac, and just now on my iPad 2. Is it possible that I am the only one experiencing this? I ha…
Last reply by Graeme, -
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I've noticed that the character count is 400, but once we get around that point and post our message , say at 395 characters, there is an ellipsis that kind of cuts out the ending bits of a post that we have written. I'm sure most of us have experienced this if we have posted 400 character mark wall-posts. Can anyone fix this?
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To the Forum administrators how am i suppose to gain VIP status by submitting my own essays when you guys claim that it hasnt been moderated by IB, therefore you cant accept it?! if thats the case, then i'll never gain access to the downloadable files without paying the 5 pounds!!! am i right in saying this?
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we should make this site private, so taht IBO ppl have no idea whats going on in here
Last reply by icecoldstar, -
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Why do we have a swear filter? The people who view this forum should be, by definition, at least 16. The few who have got into IB at younger ages are in all likelihood ahead of their peers in terms of intelligence and maturity, so even that shouldn't be a problem. I think it's a little insulting to be subject to such childish a system, when clearly we are mature and intelligent individuals. Look at the discussion going in the debate forum! I don't think anyone's going to giggle too much if you let "****" be seen in all its vulgar glory. It's not even a matter of being able to swear. It's a matter of principle. Why sacrifice any amount of clarity when the only reason again…
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I can't count the number of times I've accidentally clicked the browser's back button (more like alt+right clicked or right clicked and accidentally hit the back button there), and when you go forwards again everything you have written is lost. I know this is IBS-specific because at blogger.com, this same mistake does not cost me. So I was wondering: is there any simple way this could be addressed? I'm entirely out of my depth with programming and the like, but just in case this is something simple, I thought I'd post it. Also because I'm really annoyed (at myself) right now..
Last reply by Graeme, -
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I dunno, when I joined (and for a few weeks after that), I was completely oblivious to the links section, and it is really quite helpful. I was thinking that it would be cool to create a forum section that when clicked redirects to the links? Maybe just put it under General, and call it Links, etc?
Last reply by timtamboy63, -
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I'm using the Opera web browser right now. I know the browser is unpopular lol, but it's reporting you as a malicious fraud site. I thought I should let you guys know. I'm sorry if this is in the wrong topic section.
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This is the place to post if you find something that is not working properly at IBSurvival or you simply have trouble using a certain function of the site. But please make sure you've read your welcome PM and Rules and the FAQ for instructions on basic functions before you ask about them here. Have fun exploring the site!
Last reply by Graeme, -
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Is it safe to purchase a VIP subscription on this website?
Last reply by Mahuta ♥, -
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Hi, if I send some of my notes to IB survival, do I gain instant VIP status? And I am still not sure how I can give out my notes...
Last reply by Mahdi7, -
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This is a somewhat cool idea. Make a chat section in the forum where students can ask questions to each other and answer each other's doubts. Get multiple rooms for different subjects. Many online rooms for cooperative revision. I think it's an owning idea. Comments?
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Sorry admins, i tried to look every where on the site to find a link that will enable me to change the name by which i am logged in as. I even looked thorugh FAQ and My Controls but i failed to change the name by which i am logged in as. Is there a way or should i just no bother about it. Thanks in advance!
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Can I change my display name myself? or does someone have to do it for me..? because the FAQ thing was written like I can do it myself, but then on the forums it seems Admin have to do it for you.. If I can do it myself, can someone tell me how? But if someone has to do it for me, I wanted to change my display name to stickyicky... haha, thanks!
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New feature?
by ezex- 7 replies
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All right, I've been thinkin about this for a while now, and I think it's an awsome idea, but it might be hard to integrate into the webpage. What if we had a place were we could just chat. Not a forum, but more like a big chat room like an msn place were you just need to be logged on to go in. That way all the people who are on can talk about things there as well as in the forums. It would probably decrease the number of posts, but it would definately make communicating super easy. And there could be private rooms or MAYBE even something like VENTRILO were we can chat by typing and talk at the same time, it would DEFINATELY help when trying to explain an IA to someone. …
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Hi I am a vip but I can't seem to download any files Every time when I press download, I get the following message "[#10850.2] An internal error occurred. Please contact an administrator" Thanks
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http://www.ibsurvival.com/topic/9862-anyone-interested-in-compiling-notes/page__pid__80566#entry80566 Im not sure if admins actively look at the threads, so i thought id post it here anyway Let me know if you guys are willing to host, if so i'll get started ASAP, should be done in a month or so depending on the amt of homework I get. bump, i'd like to know whether we can upload it here before I start?
Last reply by timtamboy63, -
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Hey! Well I have been posting in this forum for quite a while even though I only posted whenever i felt it was needed. So it took me a while to reach the 50 post mark. But now that I am there...I am not a VIP? Has the post number to become a VIP raised or is it an error?
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