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Greetings from Club IGN

Welcome to the Club IGN guest FTP. Here, you may upload files and media for the sole purpose of contributing community FAQs and guides for publication on IGN's FAQs site (http://faqs.ign.com). Because this is only a temporary assembly area for your contributions, all files and directory folders will be deleted on a periodic basis.

FTP clean out occurs at 4 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, Monday to Friday

This will be in step with IGN.com's standard daily publishing schedule. Additionally, files processed by site staff will be unceremoniously deleted without prior warning (this is so staff can keep track of what files are processed). When you upload your file to this FTP, consider it "submitted for review" to IGN.

It is important to know that anyone may use this guest FTP area to contribute large, cumbersome files, like HTML enchanced FAQs/guides. For all other FAQs/guides (particularly preformatted text FAQs/guides), use e-mail if and when possible, especially when you contribute to multiple websites. If you haven't figured out how to include IGN in the CC-box during an e-mail, you're not really living in the 21st Century.

Embedded media (i.e., images, Adobe PDFs, game saves, videos) still follow the established rules from the IGN FAQs Help Center.

Note that the presence of an FTP does not mean your media (such as maps and embedded pictures) will have a directory structure. Refer to the FAQ help center if you have questions about embedded media on IGN.

Passwords, Permissions, and Problems on FTP

Club IGN guests have limited permissions in the FTP. Guests may:

Add files and folders

Rename files and folders

View contents of folders

Guests may not delete, move, or download (execute) files. Avoid over-writing files by creating a folder with your Club IGN name and current date in the FTP. Drag and drop your files and FAQs/guides into that folder on the FTP. By naming your personal folder this way:

authorname_yyyymmdd.

you avoid accidental overwriting and file destruction.

Do not forget that if you overwrite someone else's contributed files and folder this time, the same can happen to you next time. Randomly named files on the guest FTP will be summarily checked, but will most likely be deleted without any review. In any case, you should always make it a point to have both your filename and file extension included for all submissions.

If you do not have file extensions enabled on your PC, you will likely upload an undefined file. Undefined (or files with no known extensions) are sometimes deleted as viral agents. To enable file extensions on your PC, go to Folder Options (all versions of Windows) and under the View tab, do not hide file extensions of any sort. What is a file extension? It is a three (or more) character code following the last fullstop in a properly named file_name.file_extension computer file.

Try and refrain from using fullstops (periods), or any other punctuation or spaces when naming your files. You will find spaces and punctuation incompatible with older areas of Windows that derive their operations from Ms-DOS (and 8.3 naming -- Google the term to find out more).

Microsoft Internet Explorer is best used for FTP (enable folder view for passive FTP). However, if you somehow allowed Microsoft Explorer to automatically open files like JPGs, GIFs, DOCs, RTFs, or even TXTs, then dragging and dropping will not work until you disable the auto-open feature of Internet Explorer.

If you cannot disable it (or have no inclination to change your PC/MAC habits), then you must use an FTP client such as SmartFTP, WS FTP Pro or other similar programs to access the FTP function. For this purpose, the username and password for the FAQs FTP is public knowledge:

FTP Address: ftp://xfer.ign.com
Back-Up Address: ftp://nibftp.gamespy.com

FTP Name: clubign_guest
FTP Pass: sendfaqs

Gross Offences

Spamming the FTP with empty files and folders
Result -- Permanent network ban via Gamespy Customer Service.

Uploading pornographic material
Result -- The joke's on you. You cannot download off the guest FTP.

Willful destruction of another person's content
Result -- Network ban and legal action.

Perceived offences (various)
Result -- Variable, but it will not be considered a mild infraction.

Guest FTP Contact

All issues with the guest FTP, technical, legal, or otherwise, may be sent through here.

http://faqs.ign.com/email.html

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