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Figure 9-7. The Profile Information section contains optional, publicly available information about a user.

The Preferences section of the Edit Profile form, shown in Figure 9-8, allows users some control over how phpBB behaves. I ll provide a brief description of each of the preferences and suggest the best practices with them.

Figure 9-8. The Preferences section is where users can choose some preferences for how phpBB should behave.

Always show my e-mail address: The default is Yes, to show your e-mail address. I heartily recommend changing your answer to No for this question. It potentially opens up your e-mail address to unwanted messages, most notably spam messages. There s enough spam on the Internet, so why potentially expose yourself to more Hide your online status: Users can set their visibility to the Who s Online list with this preference. The default is No. Even if it s set to Yes, board administrators can still see the user logged in. The user is denoted with italics as being hidden. Always notify me of replies: Users have the ability to be notified by e-mail of replies on every topic they post in, effectively enabling the topic watch feature for each of these threads. This can cause increased e-mail traffic, especially if you have a busy board, and could delay registration e-mail and other important correspondence from your board if a great deal of users take advantage of this feature. phpBB sets this to No by default. Notify on new Private Message: When a user receives a new private message, the default behavior is for phpBB to send an e-mail to the user stating that he has a new message in his Inbox. Users can select No to turn off this feature if they wish. Pop up window on new Private Message: Templates (including the default subSilver) offer the option to pop up a window when you receive a new private message. You will need to check with your template author (if applicable) if that feature is offered with your template. This feature defaults to Yes, although users with pop-up blockers may never see these notifications. Always attach my signature: If the user has a blank signature, phpBB will automatically default this option to No. If the user fills in the signature box, phpBB will see this and set the option to Yes, as most users generally wish to attach their signature to each post. If this isn t the case, the user can switch the preference off and attach her signature selectively. Always allow BBCode: phpBB defaults to leaving BBCode on all the time, and I generally recommend leaving this option set to Yes. Users can shut off BBCode if they find they don t want it in their posts, particularly if the forum administrator permits HTML. If you disable BBCode for your board in the Administration panel, this setting has no effect. Always allow HTML: This defaults to No, so HTML isn t allowed. If you have HTML disabled in the Administration panel (highly recommended), this setting has no effect. BBCode is highly encouraged over HTML, as errors in BBCode are far less likely to break the layout of your board. Always enable Smilies: If users do not like the graphical smilies provided by phpBB, they can turn off that feature for all their posts by changing this option to No. This may be useful for your members who do not have a broadband connection. Board Language: If you have multiple language packs installed, users can set their preferred language to read phpBB here. This defaults to whichever language you set as the default in the Administration panel. Board Style: If you have multiple styles installed on your board and you do not force one style over the others, users can choose which style they wish to use on the board. This is strictly a per-user setting and does not affect the board globally.