Note: Not all applications are approved.

Please upgrade to a VIP account and then contact us about opening a second account.

• Free standard account that does not expire
• Simple site navigation
• Server is never down
• Site emails are always delivered
• Extremely fast page loading
• Less bugs
• Avatar can be a nude/18+ image
• Email storage folders
• Travel notices
• Classified Ads
• Distance calculations on nearly every member
• Manual or auto approval of friend requests
• Subscribe to your favorite forum topics
• Username is changable anytime you want
• Time zone is selectable for accurate time display

As per our TOS there is a $10 re-application fee (payable in advance) if you would like another 48 hours to make the necessary corrections to your portfolio and re-submit your portfolio for approval. This fee goes up to $25 if you joined more than 6 months ago. Paying the fee does not guarantee approval, as you still must meet all the necessary requirements to become a member. The fee is NOT refundable.

If you are interested in the reason for the fee, please vist the FAQ called, Why do I have to pay an application fee if I took too long to complete my profile?

You can reopen your application at any time, for another 48 hours, by paying a reapplication fee. Simply login to your account and follow the onscreen instructions. The process is completely automated.

You must complete the sign up process within 48 hours or your application will be denied. There is a fee to re-apply.

We also make every attempt to send at least one email during the 48 hours after sign up to remind you that time is running out to complete your profile. If you've requested approval and changes are needed, you will receive an email notifcation of the exact changes that are required of you in order to qualify as a member of NationalSwingers.com

If your profile is not completed within 48 hours, we believe that we have done our part and you have not done yours. In order for us to provide further assistance, we must insist on a fee to ensure that you are legitimate in your efforts to obtain approval of your profile here at NationalSwingers.com

In most cases, you can pay a $35 fee to re-open your original application. Contact support first to ensure you are allowed to re-open your account.

NOTE: If you simply did not complete the application in time, the fee is only $25.

The most common reasons for account suspension are:

• Invalid email addresses or full personal email box
• All photos were deleted
• Bio not completed or too vague
• The use of auto-responders on your personal email
• Forum etiquette violations

In most cases, you must contact us to resolve the issue.

Email issues can be cleared up easily by logging in and following the onscreen instuctions to supply us with a new, valid email address. If you want to keep the same one, you can simply request validation and a verification code will be emailed to you that you can key in and resolve the issue.

Accounts that are not updated / fixed within 60 days of being suspended will be terminated automatically by the system.

• You already had an account
• You provided false information
• You did not complete all the necessary steps within 48 hours
• You did not upload at least 1 photo
• You did not fill out your bio
• Your bio contained HTML or BBcode
• Your date of birth was incorrect
• You uploaded images that were not of you or your partner
• Your images were inappropriate or unrealated to the site
• You did not properly rate your photo(s) (i.e. "G", "R", "X")
• Your city, state or country was not properly filled out
• You had multiple photos per image (collages)
• You had duplicate photos
• Your email address was invalid or behind a spam authorization feature
• Your bio was not completed or was vague

If you are a monthly subscriber: Simply join again at the level of membership you want.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Don't forget to cancel your current membership. (otherwise you will billed for both levels of membership every month)

If you purchased a one year membership, click on UPGRADE at the top of any page. Scroll to the very bottom of the page and review your pro-rated costs options.

You can also click on UPGRADE in the navigation menu at the top of any page. The highlighted column indicates your membership level.

You can also scroll to the bottom of that page and it will tell you what level your membership is and when it expires or rebills.

You will receive only one reminder email upon membership expiration to reduce the number of photos to 10. If you do not make the reduction yourself, we will do it for you at the end of the 24 hour grace period.

NOTE: All monthly memberships rebill. All annual memberships expire after 1 year.

• Your 1 year membership expired and you did not renew it. You can join again here. (Annual memberships do not rebill each year)
• Your monthly subscription rebill by CCBill failed.

NationalSwingers has a special section for tracking all of your other online sites. Fill in your account numbers (or usernames, as the case may be) under Add or Change Portfolio & IM numbers in the My Account section and NationalSwingers.com will display links to your other portfolios on the left side of your NS profile page.

You can use BBCode to display an image like this:
[img]http://www.NationalSwingers.com/image.jpg[/img]

Note: Only platinum members can use BBCode to add images, videos, tables and other neat stuff to their Bio and Credits sections. See What is BBcode and how do I use it? for a more detailed explanation of BBCode.

NOTE: You cannot open another account on NationalSwingers.com in the future. If you email us in the future to reinstate your account, there will be a fee. See this FAQ for more information about reactivating accounts.

Note: Only platinum members can use BBCode to add images, videos, tables and other neat stuff to their Bio and Credits sections. See What is BBcode and how do I use it? for a more detailed explanation of BBCode.

To disable the Menu feature, you must make your Slide private and then disable the Comments and Ratings in your account. Once all three steps have been completed, the menu button will disappear from your Slide and you will no longer see the pop-up window appear. You will not need to make any changes to your Slide show code on NationalSwingers.com. The changes will take affect immediately once you follow the instuctions below.

To make your Slide private, follow these steps:

1. Sign in to Slide.com
2. Click on "Edit & Add Photos" next to your Slide show
3. Click on the "Privacy" tab on the right side of the page
4. Choose "Private - Only visible to people you share with"
5. Press the "Save" button

1. Sign in to Slide.com
2. Click on the "Edit Settings" link at the top of your "My Slide" page
3. Disable Ratings by selecting "No: Don't let people rate my stuff"
4. Disable Comments by selecting "No: Don't let people comment on my stuff"
5. Your changes will be automatically applied to all of your Slide Shows

The "Menu" will only be removed if ALL THREE steps are taken (Private Slide Show, Disable Comments, and Disable Ratings).

* Note about privacy: The privacy setting will also prevent other people from stealing/copying your photos using the right click menu options. If you want to test this, you must sign out of your Slide.com account first. As the owner of the Slide show, you always have full access to all the images. Only other people will be blocked.

Your NS# is above your Main Photo.

A complete chart of image quantity and quality specs for each level of membership is available by viewing the first 3 lines of the table on the Membership Options page.

• snipshot.com
• pixenate.com
• pixer.us
• blibs.com

• NationalSwingers.com only accepts JPG images.
• Images can be anything from "G" rated to "XXX" rated
• Images must be of the member, the members partner or both
• Images cannot contain a collage of several photos
• Images cannot contain text, email addresses, phone numbers, names, etc.

If we discover multiple inappropriate photos labeled Safe For Kids, we will likely do one of the following:

• Delete the photos
• Suspend your account without notice
• Mark ALL of your photos as Not Safe For Kids

• The file size is greater than 2MB
• The file isn't a JPG image?
• The extension doesn't end in .jpg
• The extension might have a space after the .jpg extension.

To save me work, your account is flagged to automatically upload all photos in "Safe for Kids" mode. You can request that we lift this restriction by reading this FAQ and then emailing us to let us know that you have read the guidelines on what types of photos are safe for kids, that you understand the guidelines, and that you will abide by them in the future.

• The image was a collage (more than one picture on an image)
• The image had text on it
• The image was not of the member or their partner
• The image contained violent or offensive content

If you want to choose 10 that will stay there, even when new friends are added, simply go to MY ACCOUNT and click on Choose Top Friends. You can then select your "top friends" by clicking on the boxes below their names. Some VIP members have the option of having 5,10,15,20, or 25 top friends.

Simply check or uncheck the boxes that correspond to the notifications you wish to enable or disable. Don't forget to click on SAVE ALL CHANGES when you are finished.

NOTE: Certains sections may be grayed out if your membership level is not high enough. You may need to upgrade your membership in order to receive certain notifications.

Scroll down to the Member Comments section. Each comment will have a link that says Delete This Comment below the poster's information. Simply click on that link to delete the comment.

• HTML tags
• phone numbers
• personal information
• web site URL's / links
• classified ads
• travel notices

Click on the photo that has the comments you want to delete. On the next page, you will see the image with a list of comments below the image. Each comment will have a link that says Delete This Comment below the poster's information. Simply click on that link to delete the comment.

• HTML tags
• phone numbers
• personal information
• web site URL's / links
• casting calls
• travel notices
• Vote for me requests

Click on any photo that you like.

Click on the "Front Page" link below the photo.

The "Front Page" link will change to say "THANKS".

NOTE: You can't add your own images. Please only select one image per member.

• You may have tried to submit one of your own images (either on your profile or someone else's)
• You may have already submitted other images for the member. We only allow one image per member, per voter, at any given time to be displayed.

NationalSwingers.com allows BBCode in the forums and email system, as well as in bios and credits for Platinum Members. Here are a few examples of how to use BBCode to format your text and images:

Examples:

• [b]This text will be bold[/b]
• [color=red]This text will be red[/color]
• [url=http://www.NationalSwingers.com]This is a link to NationalSwingers[/url]

If the alert pops up and you need more time, you can trick the server by opening a new tab or window and clicking on a link in the new tab or window. This will buy you another 20 minutes to compose your email. Note: This only works if you open the new window BEFORE the first 20 minutes expires.

See this FAQ for more detailed information and tips.

The reason is simple. Everytime we send you a notification (new member, new email, friend request, newsletters, etc) your auto responder sends us an email. We get enough email...

Once you are in the forum, you will need to find the topic that you are interested in. Click on the topic to view the original post and the replies (if any exist).

Click on the link that says: "Subscribe to this topic". You will see the link in the top right hand corner of your screen, directly under the Search Box.

NOTE: If you see a "New Topic" button under the Search Box instead of the "Subscribe to this topic" link, then you are still on the topics page. Find the topic that interests you and click on it.

Once you are in a forum, you will see a "New Topic" button on the top right hand side of the page, just below the search box.

NOTE: If you click on a topic and you are reading the posts for the topics, you will not see the "New Topic" button. Instead, you will see a link that says: "Subscribe to this topic".

You can read the NationalSwingers.com Forum Etiquette here or look for it in the Welcome Forum. It is the first topic.

<a href="http://www.NationalSwingers.com/xxxx"><img src="path_to_your_photo"></a>

-- Replace xxxx in the above example with your NS#
-- Replace path_to_your_photo with the image URL given to you by imageshack or photobucket.

IMPORTANT: Use this alternate code when posting on MySpace.com

<a href="http://starturl.com/NationalSwingers"><img src="path_to_your_photo"></a>

You can also create your own starturl at starturl.com if you would like to link your MySpace banner directly to your NS portfolio.

You may want to check your Spam / Bulk email folders to see if our email was filtered to that folder. You'll also want to ensure that you allow email from NationalSwingers.com. Earthlink and a few other ISP's have white lists services that require new/unrecognized senders to type in a code the first time they send email to you. We will not type in codes to get on your list; You will be suspended for "bad email address". If you did not receive our email, one of these tips may help you:

• AOL: Place NationalSwingers.com in your address book.
• HotMail: Place NationalSwingers.com in your "safe list". You can locate your safe list by clicking on the "Options" link next to the Main Menu tabs.
• Yahoo!: If our email ends up being filtered into your "bulk" folder, all you have to do is open the email and click on the link next to the "From" field.