Could I get the directions here

I might have been on one other internet site where people network and chit chat. Im usually on IE to shop on Ebay so this is a little new to me.

I see envelopes here with arrows, some are red some are other colors. They show up in the forums home and I guess some show they have been moved but what is the envelope all about?

I got 1 friend (woot woot you know at 7 Ill be the girl with the most friends), then I thought I would invite someone but nothing happened when I tried to make them a friend? Does it shoot them an email and they have to accept?

Some of the more respected responders have little green dots that say like RastaMonsta is a name to behold? How do you get those?

Sometimes I want to watch a thread, but where does it go once I use the watch thread tab?

Im smoking dirt weed and this board is great, how will it be when I am smoking the chronic?

Thanks if you actually know the answer to any of those questions:D

read all the stickies in the lounge and the feedback forum.. also the forum rules and the charts at the bottom of the forum page.. is all pretty self explanatory.. the green dots are reputation that are given to people for good behavior or good posts.. the arrows are a rating system for each thread.. welcome to the boards, but you missed the heydays.. *sigh*

envelopes: just a picture, could be anything
inward arrow: you've posted in this thread
outgoing arrow: thread has been moved to another section
red envelope: hot topic
green dots: next to username==> user is online/ grey dot: user is offline
green squares: reputation users got. (luvfriday is an unknown quantity at this point) because you're just registerd and don't have much reputation yet, it will grow believe me)