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Is there a list of commonly used site acronyms?
I think this would be extremely helpful lmao
 
how often/when does the TBT shop cycle out new items 0:? (everytime i check the houses/some fruit are usually sold out)
 
how often/when does the TBT shop cycle out new items 0:? (everytime i check the houses/some fruit are usually sold out)
Sometimes restocks happen randomly but they post in the bulletin board that there is/will be restocks. So your better of checking the bulletin board

you can have a look at past posts to see how rare it is lol
 
what does the "ignore" function do? i'm assuming it's similar to blocking or muting someone on other social media. if i ignore another user, can they still see my posts and interact with them? and can i still see theirs? thanks in advance!
 
Is it against the rules to post alternative means of contact for trades? Is it ok to share my discord in my trading threads for people to reach me for trades because it's quicker?
 
Dunno if this is stated in the rules or something but, any way to report a member of tbt who scammed you other than the feedback system, like to the staff or something?
Unless the member was extremely rude or would give you cause for major concern for other members, the feedback system is mostly meant to deter folks from bad apples. If they meet the first two examples, you could report a post/DM and explain to the staff about it.

How do you change your username? I don't know how to navigate the new shop
Click shop, shop again, purchase the username change and then select configure.

Is there a list of commonly used site acronyms?
I think this would be extremely helpful lmao
I don’t believe so anymore, but I’d be happy to do my best with specific ones.

How does the ABD work for this site?
It just stores TBT Bells if you’re the kind of person that doesn’t like flaunting your forum currency. Pretty sure the interest feature has been removed for a while because of abuse.

what does the "ignore" function do? i'm assuming it's similar to blocking or muting someone on other social media. if i ignore another user, can they still see my posts and interact with them? and can i still see theirs? thanks in advance!
It mostly hides their posts from you. You know the posts are there, but it’ll ask if you really wanna view them. Doesn’t work like Twitter where if you block someone, they’ve gotta log out to see it so they
can still interact with your posts and such.
Is it against the rules to post alternative means of contact for trades? Is it ok to share my discord in my trading threads for people to reach me for trades because it's quicker?
Discord username or Discord server? Because using Discord#1234 is probably more “legal” than plugging your Discord server, but as long as you’re checking/replying in the thread it should be fine? Not a mod, obviously their opinion overrides me.
 
Hi! I currently have a pinglist open for one of my threads, but it appears that only some of them are able to receive notifications when I ping them. They have ping notifications turned on but still aren't getting notifications. Is there a reason for this? Thanks for any help!
Still looking for help on this! :)
 
Hi there everyone, is there a way to turn on notifications? I am constantly refreshing the site to see if someone's messaged me.
 
a bit embarrased that i still don't know this, but what's a "senior member"?

Basically someone who has posted enough to be classified as a senior member. It depends on your post count. There are several different classifications of users: junior members who just joined, senior members, moderators, admins, and sages (except sages no longer have green usernames while moderators still have blue usernames and admins still have red usernames). If you don’t have anything set as your user title, it will display as your classification by default. Hope this helps ^^
 
Not sure if this has been asked before, but will The Bell Tree Forums eventually add back the ability to see all members and sort them by how many bells they have? Instead of just a top ten or so for some "rankings" right now. It was always interesting to see where I compared to thousands of others :)
 
Not sure if you still have a feedback thread for 3.0, but alas just a suggestion... Will there be a possibility to list people by usernames rather than mouseover avatar in the birthday panel? While random people would probably appreciate me wishing them happy birthday it's kinda annoying to have to mouseover semi-inactive people to find people that you know want it..if it makes sense?
 
Due to some confusion in Ask the Staff we're making a thread dedicated to site related questions. This would involve things like signature guidelines, shop restocks, future updates, or any TBT related questions.


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And the purpose of this thread is to ask questions about the site. Staff or members can answer these questions if they know they answer to it. Leave any silly or personal questions in Ask the Staff
I’m relatively new here and there’s alot of frases or words used here that I’m not yet familiar with.
Like:
TBT ?
Cycling ?
I think I know this one but just in case. Lurkers?
Spoilers? Is it the same as finding out about something important?
idk if there’s other words like this if there is please teach me . 😊
 
What are TBT bells? Where do I find if I have any? What are they for? How do I get them? Thank you.

TBT bells are the forum’s currency and are used to purchase collectibles, items in Animal Crossing, Pokemon from Pokémon shops, and other things as well. You can find your TBT amount under your post count in the sidebar. You can earn them by posting in boards that reward TBT bells for posting in them, selling Animal Crossing items and services, selling art, and many other ways as well. Hope this helps. ^^

I’m relatively new here and there’s alot of frases or words used here that I’m not yet familiar with.
Like:
TBT ?
Cycling ?
I think I know this one but just in case. Lurkers?
Spoilers? Is it the same as finding out about something important?
idk if there’s other words like this if there is please teach me . 😊

TBT stands for the name of the website and also the website’s currency, TBT bells (also called BTB for bell tree bells or simply bells). Cycling is time traveling at a fast pace to move villagers in and out of your game. Lurkers are people who watch threads and read them, but don’t post. Spoilers are for things you don’t want to spoil people on and are created by using the spoiler tag: [ spoiler = insert text here ] insert text here [ / spoiler ] (without the spaces). Spoilers are also used for long lists or large images.
Hope this helps ^^
 
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