Profile

the Profile screen

Change Password/Email

use those options to change your password or/and Email for your AniDB account.

Note:

If you change your email address a new activation email will be sent to your new address and your account will be disabled until you click the link in the activation email.

Change Permission

Here you can specify who may view your anime list and under which conditions. There are different actions you may allow for four different user groups. I.e. you can use this to hide your anime list from all or only from some other users or you can give external people access to your anime list.

Restrictions

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The following restictions are possible:

• see me in userlist

This user group may see you and some of your stats in the userlist.

• see my animelist
  

This user group may open your animelist and see a list of all anime titles you have. Depending on the other permission settings they may be able to view your eps/files/storage/viewed and source info.

• see storage list
  

This user group may see the storage info of files in your animelist.

• see source list
  

This user group may see the source info of files in your animelist.

• see viewed list
  

This user group may see the status (viewed/unviewed) of files in your animelist.

• see ep info
  

This user group may see the list of episodes you have in your animelist.

• see file info
  

This user group may see the list of files you have in your animelist.

• see state info
  

This allows/disallows users to see the state of your mylist entries. (unknown/cd/hdd/deleted)

• see my votes
  

Allows other users to see a list of all your anime votes.

• see my wishlist
  

Usergroups

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• Guests
  

This colum specifies which actions are allowed if somebody accesses your animelist without logging in first. Everybody who has either not signed up or not logged in falls into this cathegory

• Member
  

This colum specifies which actions are allowed if a normal AniDB user accesses your animelist. Everybody who is logged in and not an AR Member falls into this cathegory.

• AR Member
  

This colum specifies which actions are allowed if an "AR Member" accesses your animelist. "AR Member" status is given to a user by an AniDB admin manually. Generally this status is only given to AniDB mods.

• Passwd
  

This colum specifies which actions are allowed if a user accesses your animelist via the URL and password you have set @ "Set Guest Passwd".

Set Guestpasswd

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This is the password needed to gain access to usergroup "Passwd" and its access right on your animelist. Template:Eyecatch2

Once you set a password and gave some access permissions to the group "Passwd" in the "Change Permissions" field of this page you can give the url which is shown below the password field to other ppl to allow them access to the specified actions/infos of your animelist.

Layout Options

• Hide awards on anime page
• Hide deprecated files on anime page
• Hide generic files on anime page
• Hide groupinfo box on anime page
• Hide kanji titles in animelist
• Hide "other" titles in animelist
• Hide parody eps on anime page
• Hide raw files on anime page
• No Message Popup

By enabling this option you can suppress the notification popup for new private messages.

• Notify by Mail

With this option you can specify if AniDB should send you an email once new notifications are available.

• Notify by Popup

With this option you can specify if AniDB should open a popup window once new notifications are available.

• Notify if a group drops an anime
• Notify if entries I added are changed
• Notify if entries I edited are changed
• Show FileInfo in MyList

With this setting you can specify wether you'd like the episode entries in your MyList to be expanded (option enabled) or folded (option disabled) by default.

• Show fine grained vote options

• Show Table Headers

With this setting you can enable/disable the table headers on the anime and mylist pages.

As a new user you might want to have them enabled, but once you know what the colums stand for you might consider switching this off fit more info on one screen.

Language Preference

• Default anime title type
• Default episode title type

Performance Options

• Entries per page

IRC Options

• Allow NickWatch: NickWatch

This option enables the passive watchfeature. It allows you to mark files watched while just changing your nick.

• Allow NickWatch Comment
• Allow Ed2kWatch: Ed2kWatch

• Hide myself in IRC stats

Chii[AR] allows users to query top10 stats. The result is posted to the irc channel. If you're listed in the top10 this might expose your nick to the public. If you don't want this then activate this option.