Artist's rendition of fanpop staff meeting

This is a quick guide to using the new IM and Chat beta launch.

Rooms Tab:
The global-chat is open to all registered fans.

There is another room that is reserved for users of a certain level, and you'll also see that in the Rooms tab. In the past, we've had a few acak people come in and hit on the people in the chat rooms, so the reserved room should be relatively free of such riff-raff.

Contact Tab:
Setting custom status messages: click on the pencil, and type away!

Turning off chat: Click on the bubble selanjutnya to "I am online" and click on the red "Log out" option on the menu.

Contacts are your mutual...

An important challenge here is finding ways for fan to get feedback on what contributions they made are hot, and which were uninteresting to other fans.

Medals are nice, but they are too coarse-grained to give feedback on contributions (you only know after anda earn a medal, and anda don't even know which contributions in that club caused anda to earn a medal and which contributions were a waste of your time).

This is where emas comes in. Your hottest contributions will earn emas each hari (think of them as micro-medals), and anda will have a private console that shows which are your hottest contributions....