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Your Notices Console helps you keep track of important events in your account, like when you get an email, a forum reply, a comment etc.

You can control which events (like getting an email or rating) will cause your Console to pop up by adjusting your Preferences.

You can even turn notices of forum replies on and off in your Preferences.

*Please note. For the next 2 weeks or so, while new forum reply notices will be shown first, old notices won't clear out. This is only temporary and only applies to forum notices.

You can suspend getting notices about Forum replies by adjusting your Preferences from your console. You will still receive notices, but the console won't pop up. You can turn this on and off whenever you like. While, you can stop receiving forum replies in general, you can't stop receiving forum notices from just one particular forum.

Yes. If you minimize your window, (using the dash " - " button at the top right of the window) you can continue browsing and the Console will flash in the bottom of your desktop when an event occurs.

If you close the Notices Console, you will NOT get notice alerts until you re-open the Console.

You can control how often your Notices Console automatically checks for new events (from every 3 to 15 minutes). You can also check at anytime, by simply clicking refresh.

YES! If you don't close your console, you can go away from VT and still get notices! Great, huh?

No. You can use the refresh link anytime to check if you have a new notice. The 3 minute minimum is just the automatic check that notices console performs.

You will get a new notice for the following:

Forums: You will get a notice when someone replies to a Forum you have started or when there is a new reply to a forum in which you are taking part.

Comments: You will receive a notice whenever someone adds a new Comment to your page or updates an existing comment.

Friends: You'll get a new notice when someone adds you to their Friends List. If you are both on each other's Friends List, then you will see when each other is online. You will not receive a notice if someone removes you from their Friends List.

Birthdays: You will get a notice one week before your friend's birthday and you will get see which of your Friends are having a Birthday on any particular day.

Only notices that you have already read expire. These notices expire after a 24 hours. Unread notices only expire after 1 year in order to clean out unused accounts and make space for active members. You can always find the Comments and Friendships on your Comments page and Friends List.

Notices expire to make room for new notices and to keep the VT system running smoothly and quickly. Notices are meant to be a heads up to new events that you can explore further. Once you've been alerted, their usefulness is limited.

The blinking red triangle means that you have a new notice waiting. The blinking red triangle resets once you've been to have a look at your notices. If you click the red triangle, it will rotate and list more information about the particular notice.