If you're the author of a video game FAQ, Guide, or Walkthrough, then becoming a registered CheatCodes.com Author will help you get the best exposure for your work. We want to make it as easy as possible for authors like you to write, edit, publish, distribute, and update your FAQs online, plus get the credit you deserve for all your hard work.
Any CheatCodes.com Member who wishes to author at least one FAQ can become a registered CheatCodes.com Author. Authors are a special type of member, and have access to additional tools and resources within the Authors Only area of CheatCodes.com.
To become a CheatCodes.com Author, you must first be a CheatCodes.com Member. If you're not a member, then please register at http://members.cheatcodes.com/. Once you've completed the Member registration process and signed in, access the Authors Only area at http://authors.cheatcodes.com/, accept the terms of our Authors Program Agreement, and we'll update your Member account into an Author account.
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CheatCodes.com displays all FAQs in their own browser window, in text format, with no banner ads, text ads, buttons, graphics, etc. Your FAQ will appear exactly as you authored it. It's your work, and we respect your rights to control how others view it.
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Yes. According to the terms of the Authors Program Agreement, you are simply giving us a non-exclusive license to publish your FAQs online.
Yes. If you submit a FAQ as your own, then you must be the original creator of the work. If you use anyone else's work, you must have their permission and give them credit. You must have all rights necessary to authorize the distribution and redistribution of any content you submit. You also need to be willing to provide us with information that we reasonably request related to any claim that your Content infringes the rights of a third party.
The CheatCodes.com Authors Only area is a collection of resources to help FAQ authors write, edit, publish, and track their work on CheatCodes.com.
First, you must be a registered CheatCodes.com Author. Then, you can sign in from either the CheatCodes.com Authors Only home page at http://authors.cheatcodes.com/, or the Members Only home page at http://members.cheatcodes.com/. When you sign you in you have access to both the Members Only area and the Authors Only areas.
Each registered author has a Author Folder located at http://authors.cheatcodes.com/folder.html (this is a completely separate page from your Member Folder in the Members Only area). Your Author Folder displays elements of your Author Profile, your Permission Status, as well as summary information about all the FAQs you've submitted to CheatCodes.com. Your FAQs are organized and grouped according to their Current FAQ Status. It's a good idea to bookmark your Author Folder in your Web browser, since it's the perfect place for members to start a visit to CheatCodes.com.
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All CheatCodes.com Members have a Public Profile, which is a publicly available page on CheatCodes.com that tells others about you. In addition to all the standard information displayed on your Public Member Profile, an author's Public Profile also displays a list of all your published FAQs, tells how long you've been a CheatCodes.com Author, shows your ranking compared to other authors, and can link to a Web form for visitors to provide feedback directly to you about your FAQs.
No. All private information (such as your real name, birth date, etc.) is stored in your Private Member Profile.
You can view your Public Profile by visiting http://authors.cheatcodes.com/profile.html and then entering your Nickname in the provided field. You can also view any other member's or author's profile if you know their Nickname.
To edit your Private or Public Profile, select the "Edit Profile" link in your Author Folder. The statistics information in your Author Profile changes automatically depending upon the FAQs you author, how many page views your FAQs receive, how many visitors recommend your FAQs, etc.
Public Profiles are visible to the public, so any CheatCodes.com visitor who knows your Nickname can view your Public Profile. Your Nickname is displayed any time you are mentioned on CheatCodes.com - such as when you are listed as the author of a FAQ, given credit for submitting a code, listed as the winner of a contest, etc.
Before we post any content on our site, we always ask for author permission. Protecting author rights is our primary concern at CheatCodes.com.
Your Permission Status is listed in your Author Folder, and can be either Manual or Automatic. We recommend selecting Automatic, which will automatically grant permission for future FAQs authored by you.
If you leave your permission status as Manual, you are required to manually grant permission for each FAQ before we can publish it, and it may delay future postings of other FAQs authored by you.
By selecting Automatic as your Permission Status, then permission is granted automatically for each FAQ authored by you. Or, you can grant permission manually for each FAQ that is listed as Pending Your Permission.
If you want to replace a FAQ that is listed as Pending Your Permission with a more current version, you must first grant permission for us to publish the FAQ, then visit your Currently Published FAQs page and use one of the available editing options.
Each FAQ that you author and submit to CheatCodes.com will fall into one of four possible FAQ Status categories: Pending Your Permission, Pending CheatCode.com Approval, Pending Your Resubmission, or Currently Published. A FAQ Status summary chart, showing how many FAQs you have in each status category, is included in your Author Folder. Each status is discussed in detail below.
This is one of the available FAQ Status options displayed in your Author Folder. FAQs in this group require that you grant us permission before we can publish them. You can grant permission for each FAQ manually, or you can grant us Automatic Permission.
This is one of the available FAQ Status options displayed in your Author Folder. FAQs in this group have already had permission granted by you for us to publish them, but they are awaiting review by our staff. Once reviewed, their status will be changed to either Currently Published or Pending Your Resubmission. Submissions with this status count toward your Maximum Pending Submissions Limit of 10 FAQs.
This is one of the available FAQ Status options displayed in your Author Folder. FAQs in this group have had permission granted by you for us to publish them and have been reviewed by our staff. However, our staff concluded during their review that your FAQ did not comply with our FAQ Submission Guidelines. The reason for this status will be displayed with the FAQ listing on the Pending Resubmission page. You can either edit and resubmit a FAQ that is pending resubmission, or you can delete it. If you edit and resubmit your FAQ, it will be reviewed once again by our staff, and its status will either be changed to Currently Published or remain Pending Resubmission if it still does not comply with the guidelines. Submissions with this status count toward your Maximum Pending Submissions Limit of 10 FAQs.
This is one of the available FAQ Status options displayed in your Author Folder. FAQs in this group have had permission granted by you for us to publish them, have been approved by our staff, and are currently displayed live on the CheatCodes.com Web site. If you submit an updated version of a Currently Published FAQ, the previous version will remain published on the site until the updated version has been approved by our staff.
All submitted FAQs must comply with our FAQ Submission Guidelines at http://authors.cheatcodes.com/guidelines.html before they will be considered for publishing. The guidelines were created to help you write better FAQs, protect the rights of FAQ authors, and provide high quality content for your readers. FAQs that don't meet our guidelines will be automatically rejected by our content staff.
In order to protect our database against overloading, we have set a limit on the number of pending submissions that an author can store in our database. No more than a total of 10 FAQs per author that are either Pending CheatCodes.com Approval or Pending Resubmission are allowed in our system (FAQs that are Currently Published or Pending Your Permission DO NOT count against this limit). If you have reached the Maximum Pending Submissions Limit, you must either wait for our Content Staff to review your submissions, or delete one or more of your FAQs that are Pending Resubmission.
We have three methods for submitting new FAQs: Web Form, File Upload, and Email. All three methods can be accessed from your Author Folder.
Yes. You can use the tools in your Author Folder to edit any of the FAQs you've submitted. Simply locate the FAQ you wish to edit based on its FAQ Status, and then choose one of the available editing methods. You can use the Web Form method to edit and resubmit your FAQ directly in your browser, you can File Upload an edited version, or you can Email your edited FAQ to our content staff.
The CheatCodes.com Content Staff reviews all FAQs before they are published. They ensure that your FAQ complies with our FAQ Submission Guidelines, and provide detailed feedback to you if your FAQ is not approved and requires your resubmission.
If your FAQ was not approved for submission (and was given the FAQ Status of Pending Resubmission), then it did not comply with at least one of our FAQ Submission Guidelines. Our content staff provides detailed feedback to you via email and in the Pending Resubmission page of your Author Folder so that you can edit your FAQ based on their feedback and resubmit it for review.
CheatCodes.com tracks the following statistics for each FAQ Author: Registered Author Since, Published FAQs, FAQ Views, and Recommendation Percentage. How they are calculated and ranked are explained in more detail below.
Registered Author Since is the date that you first signed up as a member of the CheatCodes.com Authors Program.
Published FAQs is a measurement of your ability to publish FAQs. It is the total number of your FAQs that are currently published on CheatCodes.com.
FAQ Views is a measurement of the popularity of your FAQs. It is the total number of times visitors have viewed any of your published FAQs.
Recommendation Percentage is a measurement of the quality of your FAQs, based on visitor opinion. It is calculated by dividing the number of positive recommendations for your FAQs by the total number of all recommendations for your FAQs (both positive and negative), and shown as a percentage.
Authors are ranked in three of the statistics categories: Published FAQs, FAQ Views, and Recommendation Percentage.
Your rank for each of the statistics categories is calculated by comparing the value in the Total column against the values of all other registered authors. In the event of a tie, all authors with the same total for that statistics category will share that rank, and the number of authors who tie with you will be displayed.
You can view your own stats and ranks at http://authors.cheatcodes.com/stats.html. Your stats and ranks are also displayed as part of your Public Profile, which is available to the public.
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