What are the different portfolio icons and what do they mean?
A. There are presently seven (7) different types of portfolio icons. Clicking on a portfolio icon next to a user’s handle will open their portfolio for your viewing. The icons are as follows: Registered Members are denoted by grey portfolios. All Registered Members have the ability to fully participate in Writing.Com. They may post in forums, vote in polls, add to interactive stories, keep their favorite authors and items, use “Tell-A-Friend”, and so on. Registered Members may create portfolio items and once they do, they become Registered Authors. They are not authors to begin with ONLY because they have an empty portfolio. Registered Authors are denoted by black portfolios. Registered Members become Registered Authors automatically when they create items within their portfolio. Registered Authors are different than Registered Members only because they have added items to their portfolios. Memorialized Authors are denoted by white portfolios. We honor the memories of Writing.Com Membe