BellyBuilders
BellyBuilders is all about guys with guts - the battle for the bulge and the appreciation thereof.
Gainers, encouragers, BHMs (Big Husky/Hunky Males) and their admirers are welcome be they straight, bisexual, gay or unwilling to put themselves in a box in this regard, with the focus being on the growing male form. Here small guys on their way, big guys, and the big guys going further all come together to talk about their endeavours with one another and those who appreciate their efforts. Occasionally discussion will go into inflation and other waistline enhancing pursuits.
Bellybuilders is supported by its members through voluntary donations of content and money - it is these voluntary contributions that keep the site going and make it what it is today.
To use this site, you must agree to the terms and conditions, the most important being that this site is intended for an adult audience and the minimum age for participation is 18 years of age.
Whilst using this site, data may be collected as per the privacy policy.
Message Board
Access
to the messageboard is available to members only.
You may log in with the box to the right, or
Register a new account.
Please note: Due to a recent inflammatory news article posted in Canada, all registrations to this messageboard are subject to manual approval. If you feel your registration has fallen through the cracks or you are having difficulties signing up (after reading the TOS/AUP of course), please email messageboard at this domain.
Troubleshooting
If you're having troubles with the messageboard, some of the following points may assist:
After logging in I see the page I was looking at, but visiting any of the links on that page logs me out again.
Make sure you haven't disabled cookies from the bellybuilders.com domainI didn't receive my activation/password recovery/thread notification etc. emails
Are you using AOL? Do you have mail filtering enabled? Make sure you're not blocking email from bellybuilders.com - this is a very common problem with AOL account holders - what's worse is BellyBuilders can't reply to you to tell you that you're blocking the mail (for obvious reasons). If you didn't receive the activation email, you'll need to get in touch with me ( messageboard on bellybuilders period com ) as it cannot be automatically regenerated, however password reminders can be re-requested generally speaking.
Unfortunately AOL makes it VERY easy to mark incoming emails as "spam", so much so that often emails from bellybuilders.com to aol.com addresses are blocked - it is recommended that where possible you do not sign up to the messageboard using an @aol.com email address - they're just too much trouble a lot of the time. Oh yes, and clicking the links in AOL emails often doesn't work - you have to manually copy and paste them.Does your email address look dodgy?
With the increase in spammers, BellyBuilders manually reviews the membership system for addresses that look like spammers, website URLs that are clearly spammers, multiple registrations from a single domain all at once etc. etc. - Admittedly this is sometimes prone to false positives. If you can't log in, and once you could, it is possible that your account has been removed if something looks decidedly iffy.Are you using ATT.net / SBC / Prodigy / BellSouth related email address?
Unfortunately due to some issues in the way the hosting provider has configured the dedicated hosting I'm having issues delivering to these email providers (for those technically minded amongst you, it involves the PTR records on the dedicated box). It's technically simple to solve, but there's some administrative stuff to sort between BellyBuilders's hosting provider and DNS provider when it comes to maintaining flexibility at minimal cost.. In the interim I'd suggest using an alternate email provider.
Chat
Suggested chat programs are:
- Mac OS X: Snak & Adium
- Linux: BitchX, pidgin and XChat
- Windows: XChat, mIRC, pidgin, Trillian
- iPhone: Colloquy (sp?), Rooms
In the spirit of all things '2.0', BellyBuilders has a Twitter. This twitter is updated automatically by the site when someone makes a new post, with the subject of that post. Additionally if there are major service outages, you will find them documented here as they are discovered.
Other Sites
For sites with less of a male specific focus, you might like to consider:
The domain bellybuilders.com
Emails have been received from far flung corners of Europe asking if the BellyBuilders.com domain is for sale.
The domain bellybuilders.com is NOT on the market at this time.
Copyright
Portions copyright:
- BellyBuilders
- phpBB Group
- Grégory DEMAR and the Coppermine Dev Team
Sections of the code within this site may have additional copyrights attached and these will have been credited by the above parties separately. User submissions to this site remain the property of their relevant owners, more detail is available in the "Terms and Conditions" document.
GPL Code
This site makes direct use of GPL licensed code. Presently all the code is believed to be GPLv2. The effort of the developers and other contributors to the codebase relied upon here is acknowledged and appreciated. Should any GPLv3 or later code be used, where specific attribution and re-provision of source code is required, it will be listed here.
Today is Wednesday September 08, 2010
This file last modified Thursday April 15, 2010
