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User talk:Macbeth/Archive3

2011-01-01T01:12:49Z

Yukio:

[[User talk:Macbeth/Archive1|Archive 1]]

== I need a replacement...or something ==

I'm finally making it officially and stating that I won't be here for awhile, and will need someone to take the lead...or something. Go to the [[NeoDex_talk:Community_Portal#New_Head.2Fadditional_Head_Admin_needed|talk page of the community portal]] to see what I'm talking about. --[[User:Jacob|Jacob]] 08:21, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

== Re: Fur Ball ==

Hm, okay, I automatically associated it with fur balls cats throw up (maybe because I own two cats)... ew, best not to think about it. Thanks for the heads-up :)--[[User:Himmelsdemon|Demon]] 23:03, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
== Hi ==
Hi Macbeth. I'm Neezles. Thanks for the heads-up! :) [[User:A Neezles A|A Neezles A]] 05:49, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

== User:86.45.101.100 ==

Hey. Thank the IPU that somebody has finally done that. Out of curiousity, did you intend to leave "Prevent account creation" unchecked?--[[User:Himmelsdemon|Demon]] 16:25, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
:Yeah. IP addresses shift a lot, it seems a bit unfair to stop someone signing up for an account just because that IP address has a bit of history with us. All the more reason for signing up for a username, heh. I don't think the editor behind 86.45.101.100 will be giving us much more trouble in future, though. --[[User:Macbeth|Macbeth]] 19:15, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
::Guess not. I have a feeling editor 86.45.64.94 is the same person on a different computer due to the fact that the same incorrect edits are made and the same articles are targeted. Should we ban this one as well? --[[User:Dizzy|Dizzy]] 23:58, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

:::Yeah. Or turned his router off and on ;). And, yup, I've just banned him, we can knock them down as fast as he can rack 'em up. --[[User:Macbeth|Macbeth]] 01:50, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

== Lvl up ==
http://www.wearyourbeer.com/images/Nintendo_Level_Up_Patch.jpg !

YOU HAS IT.

Congratulations, you deserve it. *swears oath of allegiance to new ruler* --[[User:Himmelsdemon|Demon]] 15:01, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

:Congratulations! I shall do my best to assist you in maintaining the greatness of the Neodex. :D --[[User:emeraldosprey|Emerald Osprey]]

::That's is a nice one, Demon. :D All hail the mighty Macbeth! --[[User:SwordFire|SwordFire]] ( [[User talk:SwordFire|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/SwordFire|contrib]] ) 17:09, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

:::Woah, congrats on your most excellent promotion :D *bows before our new <strike>queen</strike> king* --[[User:Dizzy|Dizzy]] 17:43, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

<nowiki>*</nowiki>blush*

She's our new lovely Administrator!

Ah, "he"... "''He'''s our new lovely Administrator!" :P. Yeah, shoulder length hair, but still a ''he''. *sweat drop* My fault for not being more macho, I guess.

Sysops, you all have my total support and confidence to carry on doing what you have been doing, I'm really pleased that I have the best, most responsible and trustworthy team of PinkPT staff to work with :). Thank you for your kind congratulations, if there are any issues you would like to raise with me, about anything to do with the Neodex, I am open to everything ;). Just drop a line here (or via e-mail - there's a link to the left - if you'd like to keep it more private).

Okay, let's see if we can't make the Neodex even better than it is now, team :D. --[[User:Macbeth|Macbeth]] 21:35, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

:ooooooh. Shiny... I came back just in time. Congrats. I'm not making promises about hanging about much but... *shrug*. I'm glad they didn't pick me. :P -[[User:Cath|Cath]] 08:33, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

::Congrats on the promotion! I'm sure you will be good for the community here, or at least better than I was becoming. Any progress would be progress which is what I wasn't doing, and I'm thankful to know things will be moving along without me. *sigh* And I still had so much to do! :D

::But yes, it's time for me to focus on other things so that I may hopefully come back to doing "this" thing, considering I did have quite the watch list (the whole wiki). I wish you the best to keep it together Macbeth, along with the rest of you. Be sure to contact me about any questions as to why the NeoDex was set up a certain should it come to that, because I know there are some kinks to it, though I do know there are reasons and sense to them (or it used to be that way). Other than that, fight on!

::P.S. I need to get me one of those level up thingies. The retro gamer in me demands it. :P --[[User:Jacob|Jacob]] 12:19, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

== Random Communication ==

Hi Macbeth. Just a prod to check your forum private messages. --[[User:Yukio|Kym]] 04:04, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
== Hi Macbeth ==
Is there a way to change your username other than creating a new account? Because I really want to change it to Destiny Charlotte or just Destiny because A Neezles A seems a bit... weird. [[User:A Neezles A|A Neezles A]] 04:54, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

:Discussion is now in [[User_talk:Dizzy|Dizzy talk page]]. --[[User:SwordFire|SwordFire]] ( [[User talk:SwordFire|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/SwordFire|contrib]] ) 08:21, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

What do you do in Neopets? --piano965 (Allan)
If nothing,why are you part of the NeoDex? --piano965 (Allan)

== [[Punchbag Sid]] ==

Oh well, that's the info from a petpage. Thanks for pointing it out ;) --[[User:A Neezles A|Des]][[User_talk:A Neezles A|tiny]] 22:19, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
:OMG LYK THANK YOU!!! --[[User:A Neezles A|Des]][[User_talk:A Neezles A|tiny]] 22:34, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

::No problem :). Frankly, the people working on the neodex had a right to expect a lot more from me that what I offered, so it's the least I can do to show my appreciation for those who kept the work up even when I dropped the ball. --[[User:Macbeth|Macbeth]] 22:38, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

:::Ah, don't worry, us members will do the best we can for when the biggies are away. --[[User:A Neezles A|Des]][[User_talk:A Neezles A|tiny]] 22:42, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

== Thanks ==

Thanks for the trust bestowed upon me :) I signed in and was like "woha, since when do I have patrol rights again?" Belated happy holidays to you :D --[[User:Himmelsdemon|Demon]] 02:24, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

== Faeries' Ruin ==

Thanks! Hopefully, recording the script there will end up okay... If it gets too long, they might need to be put into a spin-off article. [[User:AySz88|AySz88]] 20:43, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

== hoping to be a neopets team member, someday==
Do you know how old do you have to be in order|
order to be part of the TNT, I really need to make it easier|
easier for people to get more neopoints so they could be able|
able to get hard-to-get items|
items also you can get throughout strategems|
strategems that can be used in games|

Just one day... by Lilshawster2?

:To join [[TNT]] you have to be at least 18 years old and based in Southern California, USA. They have an [http://www.neopets.com/employment.phtml employment page] detailing current job openings, including unpaid internships for 18+ year old students. They operate out of Glendale, so I suppose you'd need to live within commutable distance.

:I don't imagine working for TNT will be as much fun as just playing the site all day, though ;). --[[User:Macbeth|Macbeth]] 16:25, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

== Chia pops ==
nyiaaahhh! why is the chia pop article protected, I was giving out very good info, i know my foods, please don't ask about a chokato, they look evil; when they are moving and dominated by germs, I also know the body quite well too, please let me continue with my explanations by un-protecting it, people might want to get a near-to-real answer for those colours, I am not a vandal. Also, if I were a neopet, i would be a faerie Bori, they just look neat. I also have been ANALYZING REAL AND DELETED NEOPETS/COLOURS. aw, dung i got it On thE CAPS locK. Lilshawster2....

:Hey there,

:As I mentioned over at [http://pinkpt.com/neodex/index.php?title=User_talk:207.118.182.227&diff=prev&oldid=61119], edits like those, while imaginative, aren't really appropriate for an encyclopaedia. You're obviously very creative, but maybe you could find a better outlet for your ideas, the Neopian Times, maybe? I'm sure they'd like an article about how to care for a chokato chia ;).

:Yours, --[[User:Macbeth|Macbeth]] 17:48, 8 November 2010 (CST)

Thanks, I should do that, I ended up sketching an infected pink Chokato Chia, but i don't have a scanner to show you that, but imagine, a pink chokato chia.

Lilshawster2

== Admin stuff ==

Thank you for the promotion! :) Anything particular to the Neodex I should know about it? [[User:AySz88|AySz88]] 18:07, 14 December 2010 (CST)
: Thanks, and I promise I won't go mad with power. :) [[User:AySz88|AySz88]] 18:26, 14 December 2010 (CST)
:: Hee, just added a bit in the [[NeoDex:Staff]] page - how's that? :) [[User:AySz88|AySz88]] 14:36, 21 December 2010 (CST)

==text==
Ur right, I was doing the best I could here. I couldn't stand seeing this wiki so out of date, and the fact we have so little articles here, when Neopets has more content than The Simpsons and Spongebob, and those wikis have 5,000+ articles.

What I suggest for the plagiarized material - that I plagiarized myself all alone - is to rewrite it nearly entirely with our own words, etc whatever fits the cause, and so the feelings of this Hefty fellow -[[User:Journey to the Lost Isle-er|Journey to the Lost Isle-er]] 20:27, 28 December 2010 (CST)

:Quality not quantity, remember. ;-) --[[User:Macbeth|Macbeth]] 13:21, 29 December 2010 (CST)

==Operation kick ass==
Hi Macbeth. I sent you an email this morning, not sure if it is still an active email for you so I'm poking you here about it as well. If you don't receive the email, let me know with your new email and I will resend it. --[[User:Yukio|Kym]] 19:12, 31 December 2010 (CST)

User talk:Yukio

2010-11-05T22:57:20Z

Yukio: /* Great work */

==Case Sensitivity issues (n' wondering Jacob)==
Yukio, can you make the wiki non case sensitive? (I'm not sure if it is possible) I've seen problems with duplicate articles, i.e. "Lost Desert Plot" and "Lost Desert plot". [[User:Duke of Earl|Duke of Earl]] 17:16, 3 Mar 2006 (CST)

*i actually don't mind that. just takes some editing/deleting, and we are all set to go. extra work, but cest la vie. I'm sure it isn't smart though...hmmm...*shrugs*--[[User:Jacob|Jacob]] 17:19, 3 Mar 2006 (CST)

Hi guys. Wow a messaging feature. How nifty! Not sure how it works but hopefully me editing this page will also alert you guys that I'm replying to your messages. Let me know if it works/don't work? Hmmm how to make the WIKI non-case sensitive... I'll have a look around to see if there's an option.--[[User:Yukio|Yukio]] 17:31, 3 Mar 2006 (CST)

*as stated, the case sensitivity isn't that much of a bother. can just move the pages to new titles or delete them. but if you do wish to look into it... ;)--[[User:Jacob|Jacob]] 17:36, 3 Mar 2006 (CST)

Ahh so it does work :) Great. I've had a look at the special pages options but nope, nothing there at first glance that will give us the option. It may be just a .htaccess setting.--[[User:Yukio|Yukio]] 17:38, 3 Mar 2006 (CST)
*sweet. guess that does settle a few things. i was all for the extra work though. nothing like hard work. :D--[[User:Jacob|Jacob]] 17:39, 3 Mar 2006 (CST)

Indeedy :) Can't wait to see this WIKI really grow and become the ultimate neo resource ^_^--[[User:Yukio|Yukio]] 17:47, 3 Mar 2006 (CST)

*yes. that would be grand. i was actually wondering about that...am i head administrator? or do i still have some channells to go through?--[[User:Jacob|Jacob]] 17:48, 3 Mar 2006 (CST)

The messaging feature doesn't actually notify us when it's on your page, Yukio. We've just been checking the "Recent changes" page a lot, and it tells us there... :) I'm not sure how much I'll be working on this as my web activites are varied and sporadic. [[User:Duke of Earl|Duke of Earl]] 17:51, 3 Mar 2006 (CST)

: Ahh gotcha :) I'll make note that if I need to contact certain people, I'll edit their pages :) Thanks Duke! Not a problem ^_^ Any help is much appreciated and hey, we'll always need people to officially run it when it grows so if you're interested, I'm sure myself and Jacob would welcome the help when it comes ^_^--[[User:Yukio|Yukio]] 17:54, 3 Mar 2006 (CST)

==NeoNote and Favicons==
Hey Yukio, question: do we need to use the tag { { NeoNote } } on all pages, no pages, pages with images, etc? And sure I'd be glad to be a mod :) [[User:Duke of Earl|Duke of Earl]] 15:01, 4 Mar 2006 (CST)

*Yukio, another thing. I think you already know what favicons are... Well we should have one for the NeoDex, and I've made one with an orange/white scheme (based on text in logo). [[Image:neodex.png|thumb|right]][[User:Duke of Earl|Duke of Earl]] 22:25, 4 Mar 2006 (CST)

==The PinkPT Article==
I've noticed [[PinkPT]] has been written more as a story then an encyclapedia (can't spell) article, and i was wondering if you would like to save the text and data and have it be made as an article on the PinkPT website (as your personal historical account). Was going to "wikify" it soon, and wanted to give you the heads up before doing so. --[[User:Jacob|Jacob]] 23:07, 29 May 2006 (CDT)

:Sure not a problem. I've saved the page. --Unsigned by Yukio, 09:58, 30 May 2006--

==err==
I just read some of your chat on this page. If someone writes here on your discussion, you should reply back on theirs, this way,the user gets a "recent changes" notice. :) [[User:60.230.101.100|60.230.101.100]]

:That just means that the discussion is not kept together... And what if more than one person is debating? --[[User:Macbeth|Macbeth]] 18:21, 14 Aug 2006 (CDT)

I agree with Macbeth. Conversations started on a specific page shouldn't be replied to on the users talk page, but on the talk page itself. and the "recent changes notice" can be seen on the "recent changes" page itself. --[[User:Jacob|Jacob]] 18:43, 14 Aug 2006 (CDT)

::In discussions such as this, thats okay, but when in relay of discussion with one user, thats different, but the way a wiki discussion page is supposed to function is like a public mailbox, you reply to the user, on their discussion page, not your own. [[User:60.230.101.100|60.230.101.100]]

==account==
yukio, since you are the webmaster, I have found better forums and want to delete/deactivate my account. can you do this for me? --achyfilover

:Leave talk discussions you start on your talk page, on your talk page. And as already explained in your talk page, that's not happening. --[[User:Jacob|Jacob]] 04:36, 10 Aug 2007 (UTC)

== PPT Staff corrections? ==
Just thought I'd [[User_talk:Jacob#Correction_to_the_PinkPT_Staff_Page|point you]] to something that's been brought to attention. ;) --[[User:Jacob|Jacob]] 20:42, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

:Thanks for the update Jacob. :) I've fixed it.--[[User:Yukio|Kym]] 11:19, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

== I need a replacement...or something ==

I'm finally making it officially and stating that I won't be here for awhile, and will need someone to take the lead...or something. Go to the [[NeoDex_talk:Community_Portal#New_Head.2Fadditional_Head_Admin_needed|talk page of the community portal]] to see what I'm talking about. --[[User:Jacob|Jacob]] 08:22, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

==howdy do==
hey there! thanks for the welcome message. :)
i'll try and do my best.
the link was wrong? oops. that'll teach me to copy and paste other people's coding and then input my details into them.
:S
why thankyou! i recentlu jumped onto the customisation bandwagon. previously, my pets were nude and without backgrounds or anything.:
trophies? pfft, what trophies? lol.
[[User:Corythepaperboy|corythepaperboy]] 05:48, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

==Thank You!==
For making me an admin. --[[User:Pinkgirl34|Pinkgirl]] 15:58, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

== Kym, ==
<strike>Pinkgirl, who you just promoted to admin, suggested that I request for adminship in the NeoDex. May I please be promoted? Thank you very much. --[[User:A Neezles A|Des]][[User_talk:A Neezles A|tiny]] 16:14, 6 November 2009 (UTC)</strike>
:Nevermind-- [[User:Macbeth|Macbeth]] promoted me. --[[User:A Neezles A|Des]][[User_talk:A Neezles A|tiny]] 02:22, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

==Great work==
Muchos gracias for fixing the mediawiki software ^^. Nice to see you back. --[[User:Macbeth|Macbeth]] 07:50, 5 November 2010 (CDT)
:No worries. There's still a little issue with some corrupted tables but I'll try to fix those. I'm getting small errors with uploading images. Are you receiving them too? --[[User:Yukio|Kym]] 17:57, 5 November 2010 (CDT)

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2010-11-05T10:38:35Z

Yukio:

2009-07-02T15:51:20Z

Yukio:

[[Image:PPT_July_2_2009.png|frame|right|Screenshot of the Pink Poogle Toy homepage viewed with Firefox on Thursday, 2 July 2009]]
'''Pink Poogle Toy''' (formerly ''PinkPT'' and ''PPT'') is a [[Neopets]] fansite which was founded by [[#Kym Huynh|Kym Huynh]] and Alicia in February 2001.

Now maintained by [[#Kym Huynh|Kym Huynh]] and run by international volunteer staff, Pink Poogle Toy is considered by many to be one of the better Neopets help sites and is the largest on the Internet comprising of news, editorials, Neopets cheats, solutions and articles.

New content is added many times per week, and it hosts a multi-topic forum where Neopets users come together to interact and share their ideas. Additionally, Pink Poogle Toy runs it's own podcast called "''The Pink Poogle Toy Show''" and is the home of the first Neopets band "''The Pink Poogle Toys''".

===Kym Huynh===
Kym Huynh, born in July 6, 1984, of Adelaide, South Australia founded Pink Poogle Toy in 2001 at the age of 17. He studied law and commerce at the University of Melbourne and graduated 30th Oct 2008.

===Corporate Relationships===
Pink Poogle Toy maintains friendly relations with the Neopets staff, particularly Adam Powell, Donna Williams (who both have accounts on the PPT Forum) and the friendly Neopets programmer, Mr. Insane.

Members of the Pink Poogle Toy community are often given previews of new developments at Neopets and their opinions on how the game can be improved are at times implemented on the Neopets website itself. (The implementation of the [[Wikipedia:Captcha|captcha]] system in the officially Neopian shops is just one example although it was later removed.)

There have also been friendly banter between both sites with the Pink Poogle Toy's description on Neopets changed to "This lovely pink poogle moans about banner ads and frozen accounts when you squeeze it! :P." This pokes fun at the popular Neopets fansite Pink Poogle Toy, which has a reputation for its users expressing their displeasure about these aspects of the game on its forum.

There are [http://www.pinkpt.com/ppt-references-on-neopets.htm many more] references of Pink Poogle Toy on the official Neopets website itself.

==History==

===Year 2001===
[[Image:Pinkpt-Layout-2.jpg|frame|right|Screenshot of Pink Poogle Toy's first layout.]]
Started in February of 2001 by '''Kym''' and '''Alicia''' {a young woman he knew over the Internet}, the fansite started with a meager two visitors per day and displayed answers to a small fraction of the Neopets games (notably [[Poogle Solitaire]] and [[Cliffhanger]]). As the content grew each day, word went around and over 200 hits per day were being recorded by the end of February.

Alicia then created the [[Wikipedia:Oekaki|oekaki]], an online art board. Created on the servers of [http://www.unixdaemons.com unixdaemons], the oekaki quickly became a popular feature on the site and grew into an online community with at least 2,000 pieces of artwork being created every day. Due to the popularity, Sako's oekaki was created alongside the Pink Poogle Toy Oekaki, to compliment extremely talented artists that were emerging from the oekaki.

Unfortunately, the oekaki grew so much that no host could host it any more as it was consuming a large amount of bandwidth nor could Kym afford it. Despite its closure for an extended period of time due to its "insane amount of generated traffic", the Pink Poogle Toy oekaki is now online again at Pink Poogle Toy's own servers.

In March 2001, one month after opening, Pink Poogle Toy was reaching visitors of up to 2,000. It was also during this month Alicia decided to leave. She returned briefly two months later. Unfortunately, a further two months proved Alicia could not juggle her daily life with Pink Poogle Toy so she resigned; turning entire control of the website over to Kym.

Near the end of April 2001, Pink Poogle Toy was receiving 25,000 page views a day. In August, a representative from ''Peel Networks''  approached Pink Poogle Toy with a deal: In exchange for hosting and network membership, Pink Poogle Toy would advertise their US based magazine company. The offer was approved as Pink Poogle Toy had begun to experience host troubles with hosts such as [http://www.virtualave.net Virtualave], [http://www.hypermart.net Hypermart] and [[Wikipedia:GeoCities|GeoCities]].

In September 2001, a new deep blue colored layout created by '''Ben Williams''' from [http://www.hologramdesigns.com Hologram FX] was implemented in an attempt to make Pink Poogle Toy look professional and create organization for the site much sought after as the content volume had grown to over 100 pages. By the end of 2001 Pink Poogle Toy was receiving an average of 8,000 unique visitors per day.

===Year 2002===
[[Image:Pinkpt-Layout-3.jpg|frame|right|Screenshot of Pink Poogle Toy's second layout]]
In January 2002, Ben Williams of [http://www.hologramdesigns.com Hologram FX] once again redesigned Pink Poogle Toy with a sky blue layout. It aimed to encapsulate the qualities of playfulness, cheekiness, mischievousness and fun.

Early February 2002, marking Pink Poogle Toy's first birthday, '''Mike''' joined, quickly learning the ins and outs of of [[Wikipedia:PHP|PHP]] and [[Wikipedia:MySQL|MySQL]] to create the [[In-Depth Battlepedia]], providing in-depth information and statistics to all [[Battledome]] related aspects on Neopets. In-Depth Battlepedia became an instant hit, quickly growing into a large site itself.

The forum opened up to the general public and became an instant success with over 600 signups in one week. '''Bob''' quickly picked up administration of the forums, proving himself to be a good role model with a strong vocabulary, all the while guiding Kym through many problems of the forums.

Supporting Bob in helping run the forum smoothly was the friendly '''Michelle''', who once sent in a sign saying "PPT rox my sox!", '''Janie''', a model with two children, '''ChromeFox''', a quasi-celebrity for her run-ins with the infamous [[Mari Jhane]], and many other skillful Moderators. Forum hosting became a problem when sign ups increased, as the first host, [http://www.powweb.com PowWeb], was forced to cancel Pink Poogle Toy's account from using too much bandwidth.

To solve this problem, Pink Poogle Toy was approached by an Administrator at [[Wikipedia:YaBB|YaBB]] with an offer to host Pink Poogle Toy's forums under the consideration it would change to the MySQL version. However, the host was unable to handle Pink Poogle Toy's visitor load, and the account was frozen after one day.

Pink Poogle Toy then found a host called [http://www.aplus.net Aplus]. During the transfer, however, all the membership information was inadvertently lost. Deciding to start fresh, the MySQL version of YaBB was once again used but due to false information about "unlimited system resources" claimed by Aplus, Pink Poogle Toy forums were constantly down, unable to accommodate the growing fan base and visitor load. Once again reverting back to YaBB CGI in the hope that the forum problems would be solved, the forum once again went down after one week.

With the implementation of the news feature installed by '''NeoFan''' who worked with ''Neo-Net'' , updating became a simple task with a little click on a button. The Pink Poogle Toy team was also joined by three charming ladies with wit to match, '''Amanda''', '''Sarah''' and '''Silver''' who worked on the news team to update Pink Poogle Toy with regular Neopets news.

With the tremendous growth in emails the site was receiving, '''robot_blumaroo''' offered to take care of all Neopet related questions. He stayed with Pink Poogle Toy for approximately three months before opting out. The help link was then redirected to the forum help boards.

In April 2002, Pink Poogle Toy was reaching visitors of up to 8,000 a day.

In July 2002, Pink Poogle Toy was introduced to '''Sam'''. Skilled in many programming languages, he quickly became one of the team, sharing ideas, creating extra features and in many regards co-webmastering the entire site itself. His uncanny ability to fully grasp any concept explored and create left the entire team astounded with his deftness, precision and timely responses to any emergency.

In September 2002, '''NeLLa''' joined Pink Poogle Toy as a guide writer, chosen over 200 applicants in the first 24 hours of the notice being posted. With guides such as [[Swarm]] and [[Evil Fuzzles from Beyond the Stars]], her writing skills possessed a jovial quality, which was a major factor in deciding the final application.

Also in this month, '''Harry''' joined Pink Poogle Toy to head the [[NeoDaq]], a department providing information related to the [[Stock Market]] in Neopets. During this time, Pink Poogle Toy's new host Aplus was experiencing troubles with handling In-Depth Battlepedia and forum. Because of constant down time and numerous forum restarts, Kym approached '''Ted''' from '''SimGateway'''  and bought hosting from [http://www.doublehost.net DoubleHost].

===Year 2003===
The third year approached and with it many milestones. Everyone consolidated within the "Pink Poogle Toy Empire" had their own individual story to tell, and while the year had many achievements, there was also a fair share of disturbances. There was great times of joy and friendship, and even times when friendships were tried and tested, some with favorable outcomes and some not so good, watching the backs of various members leave.

Once again many issues took place on the forum. A total revamp of the administration system at Pink Poogle Toy occurred, with the administrators '''Janie''' and '''Bob''' leading the crew of Global Moderators and Moderators into a period of bug fixing. Unfortunately, an issue involving '''ChromeFox''' saw her demoted to a normal member, and a furious uproar took place within the forum over the facts and points of "the case". In two months ChromeFox came back into the Pink Poogle Toy forum crew as a Moderator, and once again forum life continuing as usual.

Nearing the end of January, '''Bob''', the first employed forum Administrator for Pink Poogle Toy (aka 'man-with-big-stick'), resigned. Although many were taken by surprise, the forum crew saw it coming. Bob had achieved his goals as forum Administrator, changing the little forum it was into one of the largest, safest and most friendly forum for Neopets. Many thanks and well wishes were given, and it is believed Bob had carved his name into the minds and hearts of the Pink Poogle Toy members, whose legacy still remains.

After much deliberation, Bob handed his reigns over to '''Big Jim''' (British like Bob). Handling the affairs of the forum alongside the now longest running Administrator at Pink Poogle Toy, Janie, the duo have paved and strengthened the way Bob and Janie started with the help out the Global Moderators, Moderators and members. As of April 4 2003, the forum line up was as follows:

*'''Forum Administrators'''
**Janie
**Jim
*'''Global Moderators'''
**CoolKau
**Fiddelysquat
**Kagome
**Michelle_Belly
**V3n0m0us
*'''Moderators'''
**Airglo
**atamand,
**Bno
**Charisma
**CheezieHotti
**ChromeFox
**Count Von Roo
**CragHack
**CSK
**Cyanna
**FaerieGirl
**Hunter Lupe
**Infernobanjo
**Lina Blade
**MarcoBMG
**Magax
**Marching Duck
**Mina
**Neko
**Nshade
**Platypus
**Raiden
**Sam
**Shy Divine Dragy
**Stephy
**Stodder
**Werepup
**White_Wolf
**Winnerliu

The year also began a string of forum competitions, and fads such as "lets-all-post-wav-files-of-our-voices" to "let's-make-silly-movies-of-each-other". The first ever large-scale forum competition began late 2002 and was dubbed the "PPTbies". Modeled after the real life [[Wikipedia:Logie Award|Logie Awards]], the forum members old and new stepped up to claim awards. The winners were as follows:

*'''Most Valuable Person''' - Shoyru_Lover
*'''Outstanding Contribution''' - JanieJanie
*'''Most Influential''' - JanieJanie
*'''Best Moderator''' - Chromefox
*'''Best Female Member''' - Fiddleysquat
*'''Best Male Member''' - CoolKau and Bob
*'''Click That Topic''' - MichelleTheGoth
*'''Best Newcomer''' - Hunter Lupe
*'''Most Helpful''' - Cyanna
*'''Funniest Member''' - FiddelySquat
*'''Happiest Member''' - Sonchynne
*'''Most Generous''' - V3n0m0us
*'''Best Artist''' - Stephy
*'''Best Avatar''' - Stephy
*'''Good Grammar''' - Knitting Knut
*'''Bad Grammar''' - Yuvs
*'''President''' - Chromefox
*'''JailBird''' - MichelleTheGoth

Now considered an annual event, it led to other creations such as '''PPT Survivor''' (which still is in progression), '''Mina's MMAC''' (Mina's Monthly Art Contest) and '''Hunter Lupe's PPT Staff Sacrificers''', which saw all male Pink Poogle Toy members voted out first.

Early 2003 saw Hunter Lupe heading the new department at Pink Poogle Toy called the [[In-Depth NeoQuest]] Guide. Growing very quickly, it is now one of the largest detailed [[NeoQuest]] sites on the Internet, which contain complete walkthroughs and maps of the entire game. This department was also created in anticipation of NeoQuest 2.

March 2003 saw the Work Shop open at PPT. Encompassing tutorials on how to make models of various Neopets aspects, the idea quickly took on and received overwhelming support and good responses from the Neopets community.

[[Image:Pinkpt-Layout-1.gif|frame|right|Screenshot of Pink Poogle Toy's third layout]]
During March 2003, the design of Pink Poogle Toy was changed again. Opting out of the generic "blue" look all other sites seemed to now possess, Pink Poogle Toy redesigned its layout into a bold red, this time with the logo of the Pink Poogle Toy staff drawn by '''Mina''' as its welcoming image. Once again designed by Hologram FX, the new layout expressed a cleaner and professional version of Pink Poogle Toy. During this time, the first ever member to reach 10,000 posts was ChromeFox, a huge accomplishment considering the next biggest poster was behind by a few thousand posts.

Alongside all these new changes, came new staff. '''Magenta''', '''Alex''', '''Mermaid Hil''' and '''Swedevil''' joined the news team while Pink Poogle Toy adopted the talents of '''Mina Kim''' and '''Lina Blade''' as artists. '''Stephy''' soon joined as the graphics artist at Pink Poogle Toy, designing banners and buttons for various purposes. What Pink Poogle Toy didn't anticipate this time however, was the range of talents it was now adopting. It seemed each staff member at Pink Poogle Toy had more than one single talent. Magenta, while posting excellent news also was very well versed in graphic design, while Stephy, who was originally founded as a forum Moderator was soon found to also be an incredible graphics artist. Hunter Lupe, who was also [[Wikipedia:modding|modding]] the forums was soon discovered to be a phenomenal scripter and after critically looking at the staff again, Pink Poogle Toy soon found that each staff member was directly contributing to more than one aspect at Pink Poogle Toy! As a result, the Pink Poogle Toy forums started taking on a more otaku-ish path, everyone lapping up the design atmosphere fueled by Stephy's creations and Mina's art contests.

While these new developments were taking place, more somber issues were occurring outside of PPT. Late 2002 to early 2003 saw what would take place in what is commonly known as the "Fan Site Wars". Many new Neopets related fan sites quickly sprang up and a series of attacks on other websites, accusations, hacking, slander and libel quickly took place.

Pink Poogle Toy attempted to stay away from this as much as possible. After the incidents were finally resolved and a tentative 'peace agreement' was made between the other websites, Pink Poogle Toy once again distanced itself from those websites for it did not wish to be a party to such events if they should occur again. Pink Poogle Toy was created for the fans, and that's the way it will always be. It decided never to take part in any petty politics, which should never take place between fansites.

Just when everyone started breathing again, another round of rumors began circulating, while many of them were unfounded. However this time, the threat came from Neopets itself. Many fan sites found themselves under threat of having their websites removed unless they were in line with the Terms and Conditions set forth under Neopets. Pink Poogle Toy went offline for a period of four days coincidentally during this time, which started a fresh batch of rumors that Pink Poogle Toy was removed which was untrue. However, Pink Poogle Toy once again opened up after its short down time and put a definite stop to the rumors.

In April 2003, forum Moderator '''werepup''', fresh from a trip to Spain, joined the main Pink Poogle Toy site as the newest Webmistress of Pink Poogle Toy. Dubbed Elle by the crew, Elle has given Pink Poogle Toy the much needed female touch.

Well there you have it. The third year so far has had many triumphs and tribulations while also its fair share of small problems, which were easily taken care of. I, Kym, could not have taken PPT this without with the dedication and support of so many people. The forum mods, and GMs, the admins, the separate help of individual people, to list them all here would take forever. However some do stand out in my mind and I would like to take this opportunity to thank certain people: Janie and Bob for always being my "second parents" even though they didn't mean to; Elle for always being there to help out whenever she could; Jim, for spending countless hours talking about nothing with me; Sam, Hunter and Mike, the programming whiz kids with a "all-for-one-and-one-for-all" attitude; the news crew Magenta and Alexa, for being the anchor of the team, and CSK, V3n0m0us, Stephy, MichelleTheGoth, Mina, Lina, Pheny, Charisma, Cheezie and Michelle for just those random fun and crazy talks which seems prevalent among the PPT members. Lastly, Cyanna. While we hardly ever talk, you've always struck me as a very sensible, kind and fair person.

===Year 2004===
This is the year known amongst the Pink Poogle Toy populace as ''The Great Reset''. The forum databases crashed and everything was lost on April of 2004. Since then, the community has rebuilt itself, and nearly all 10,000 members who were part of the forums before the crash joined again, many under different names.

===Year 2005===
[[Image:Pinkpt.gif|frame|right|Screenshot of the Pink Poogle Toy homepage viewed with Internet Explorer on November 2005]]
September 2005 saw the overhaul of Pink Poogle Toy. With over 1,400 pages of content, the site re-organized its many scattered links on the front page into self contained categories to make the site user friendly. Pink Poogle Toy additionally made a vow to itself to serve the visitors, by getting rid of all the pop up advertising and download prompts that once plagued the site. This was eventually realized in 2005, when Pink Poogle Toy moved off the '''wh000t networks''' which was run by Kym's friend at [http://www.worldofbritney.com World of Britney]. Although Pink Poogle Toy still contains banner advertisements, the days of intrusive advertising were officially over.

With another redesign by Ben Williams of HologramFX, Pink Poogle Toy now exuded a confidence in its bright colours. The forums grew to new heights, breaking its record of most users online (since the forum reset) of 149 on September 12, 2005, during the early days of the [[Lost Desert Plot]]. This online record has since been broken, but it became apparent the Neopets users were using Pink Poogle Toy as a source of information before it became publicly available, which was totally fine by the PPTers.

[[Image:Intro.gif|frame|right|Image Adam Powell created making fun of the PPTers]]
Pink Poogle Toy also saw programmers of [[The Neopets Team]] posting on the forums to interact with Neopets players, even [[Donna Williams]] and [[Adam Powell]]. This would eventuate to Neopets changing the description of the '''Pink Poogle Toy''' on Neopets to "''This lovely pink poogle moans about banner ads and frozen accounts when you squeeze it! :P''". In fact, Adam Powell wrote "Detention for PPTForum!" on an image of the discovered NeoSchools area when members of the Pink Poogle Toy Forum announced it before it was announced by Neopets themselves.

2005 also saw Pink Poogle Toy open its doors to other Neopets fan sites. With the advent of all the new Neopets fan sites, Pink Poogle Toy welcomed them by creating a large link database for everyone to join. The Neopets links page listed some of the more prominent websites, but was always open to accept links to and from sites that clearly have shown a lot of effort in them.

In 2005, the Pink Poogle Toy Topsites, which opened and then closed due to hosting problems, re-opened. It's now the largest Neopets-related topsite in the world and is listed as one of the largest hosted topsites on [http://www.itopsites.com iTopsites].

The Pink Poogle Toy Oekaki flourished to new heights during 2005, making it one of the largest oekakis available. Now on its own dedicated server, the population has once again grown, and on March 3, 2006 had over 20,000 individual pieces of artwork created on it.

Also in 2005, Pink Poogle Toy expanded its Neopets help programs by posting Neopets news, and by adding the [[NeoDex:About|Neodex]], Neopets Graphics department and the Avatar Catalog. 

===Year 2006===
[[Image:Pptnew.gif|frame|right|Screenshot of the Pink Poogle Toy homepage viewed with Internet Explorer on February 2006]]
On March 2, 2006, a new website layout was created by Ben of [http://www.hologramdesigns.com HologramFX], replacing the previous layout which started to become cluttered due to the amount of content on the site, solved in the new design which categorized everything into distinguishable areas.

With the redesign of Pink Poogle Toy finished, Kym began to focus on creating a Pink Poogle Toy news team for unreleased Neopets news, a comprehensive pre-template layouts section for users to have on their [[User Lookup]], promoting the Avatar Catalog , and promoting the NeoDex and turning it into the most comprehensive place online source for all Neopets information. Eventually, he hoped the NeoDex to also be used by [[The Neopets Team]] for reference purposes for their work in addition to anyone who wanted to learn a little bit more about Neopets. Kym also saw the potential to turn the entire site into an entertainment network, and eventually leverage the site traffic into other areas of his work.

During the appearance of the new design the "Write an Article Contest" begun to take full effect . Two months after its creation people were sending in many entries to Kym, who quoted he had over 800 emails in his inbox waiting to be replied to in addition to over 60 contest entries to look at, add to Pink Poogle Toy and judge on on March 4, 2006.

Another redesign was made yet again by HologramFX on August 13, 2006, making the previous pink colour purpler and reordering the categories the layout again. On August 15, the ‘’Pink Poogle Toy Promenade’’ opened up for Neopets users to buy from. The Pink Poogle Toy Promenade was a "mall" (collection of user [[shop]]s) owned and maintained by users of Pink Poogle Toy. The '''Your Neopet Dailies''' was also created on ''(need date)'', and contained several quick links, features, and many other things a user would daily do.

===Year 2007===

===Year 2008===

===Year 2009===
[[Image:Pink_Poogle_Toy_Screenshot_9_April_2009.png|frame|right|Screenshot of the Pink Poogle Toy homepage viewed with Safari on Wednesday, 8 April 2009]]
2009 was a paradigm change for Pink Poogle Toy. With graduation from Law School behind him, Kym sought to turn Pink Poogle Toy from an ad hoc hobby fansite into a working business model. This began with an overhaul of how staff were employed and managed, from the introduction of paid positions at Pink Poogle Toy from late 2008 to enacting procedures and policies to ensure that staff members that worked at Pink Poogle Toy were given continuous feedback and encouraged to developed their own goals and plans for the own portfolios.

In addition to these policy changes, a business model and corporate structure was created and regular meetings over Skype were enacted with all staff members at Pink Poogle Toy, in particular with Administrators for their various departments. As of April 2009, the changes are still taking place.

The following took place in April: (1) A new round of forum Moderators was introduced; (2) The selection of the new oekaki Administrator; (3) The selection of the new NeoDex Administrator; (3) The selection of the new podcast Administrator; (4) The upgrading of the site blog to the P2 interface and the syncing up of blog updates to Pink Poogle Toy's own Twitter account; (5) The implementation of auto links in the news to the NeoDex; (6) The creation of unrated neopets and petpets at NeoPool; (7) The release of 2008's Pink Poogle Toy collage; (8) The opening of the Pink Poogle Toy collage for 2009; (9) An initial revision of the Pink Poogle Toy Constitution; and (10) An overhaul at the oekaki including the introduction of the oekaki blog.

The following took place in May: (1) Nekopan hired to handle the weekly feature posts: (i) Rate-a-Neopets Monday; (ii) Wiki Wednesday; and (iii) Rate-a-Petpet Friday; (2) Negotiations with a graphics artist to start a free userlookup, guild and petpet pages layouts section; (3) The creation of the Altador Cup IV content pages to provide coverage for this year's Altador Cup plot; (4) A podcast Administrator appointed (Ella); (5) Eileen promoted to the new forum Administrator; (6) Third round of forum Moderator sorting to ensure at least two active Moderators per forum board; (7) The navigation on PPT updated with the categorization of submitted guides; (8) Cosmetic fixes to the current layout; (9) New designs at all three PPT oekakis; (10) The re-introduction of weekly themes at the PPT oekakis; (11) New favicons around PPT; (12) All PPTbie prizes sent out from 2008; (13) The creation of the sandbox boards for forum Moderators; (14) An update to the ranking system at the forum; and (15) The forum header graphic updated.

The following took place in June: (1) New Adam Powell and Donna Williams interviews added; (2) Main section clean-up; (3) An oekaki Moderator appointment; (4) A news poster appointment; (5) A Co-Webmaster appointment.

===Milestones ===
*February 1, 2001: Pink Poogle Toy is created.
*May 30, 2004: The day known as "The Great Reset" - which was the day everything on Pink Poogle Toy was lost - mainly involving the forum.
*Thursday, June 01, 2006: Pink Poogle Toy breaks the 300 subscribers barrier to its feed including email subscriptions.
*Friday, June 02, 2006: Pink Poogle Toy Forum breaks its most online users record - 178 on 02 Jun 2006 03:43 am.

==Departments==

===Avatar Catalog===
The Avatar Catalog is a source for all the Neopets [[avatar]]s! Allowing users to register unique accounts, users can keep abreast of which avatars they have and which they do not by saving checklists that will remember what has been marked as "achieved" and has not.

===In-depth Battlepedia===
''Main Article: [[In-Depth Battlepedia]]''

The In-depth Battlepedia is the world's most renowned source for Neopets Battledome information.

===In-depth NeoQuest===
''Main Article: [[In-Depth NeoQuest]]''

The In-depth NeoQuest the first complete [[NeoQuest]] information site and remains the most comprehensive on the Internet for both NQI and [[NQII]].

===NeoDex===
''Main Article: [[Neodex:About]]''

The NeoDex is the online [[Wikipedia:Wiki|wiki]] Neopets encyclopaedia and is the largest of its kind online.

===NeoPool===
''Main Article: [[NeoPool]]''

Added May 19, 2006, the Neopool was created to offer Neopians a more rounded visitor experience. Created to fill a void left upon the closure of [[Neocolours]], the Neopool is the first in its kind to allow users to vote and rank neopet [[species]]/[[colour]] combinations.

===Trophy Catalog===
Added May 31, 2006, the Trophy Catalog provides visitors with a checklist for all of Neopets' trophies, again a fansite first.

==Other Features==

===Pink Ink===
Pink Poogle Toy's newspaper, which contains articles, stories and art pertaining to Pink Poogle Toy, Neopets and other topics. It began in summer 2003, but the first issues were lost in the reset in 2004. Pink Ink returned on October 31, 2004.

===Podcast===
Pink Poogle Toy produces a podcast called "The Pink Poogle Toy Show." The first show launched on August 23, 2005. The show features discussion about the game Neopets but also features the latest additions to Neopets from the corporate world and how it affects its users. Show episodes are released weekly and the podcast is one of the largest Neopets podcasts in existence.

===Custom Shields===
Pink Poogle Toy's Custom Shields were initially created by Mike, a veteran Neopian who ran with [[Ad0]] back in the days of the great Neopian hackers. Proving immensely popular, custom shields are able to be requested by Pink Poogle Toy visitors for creation.

==The Forum Community==
One of the more popular areas of Pink Poogle Toy is the large community run on a phpBB back-end. Within its walls, PPTers (a person who often visit Pink Poogle Toy) converse about all things Neopets and many other topics. PPTers have been described as hard-working, fun-loving insane people, much as Pink Poogle Toy is meant to be. With the help of the forum, a lot of content, and a great community, Pink Poogle Toy has developed their own little slice of online culture.

===The "One Black Meowclops Pen" experiment===
The One Black Meowclops Pen experiment was started by Pink Poogle Toy user [http://www.pinkpt.com/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4911 jrtman] who was inspired by Kyle MacDonald's very successful [http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com One Red Paperclip] experiment in which he started with a single red paperclip which he traded up until he received a house. Jrtman created the One Black Meowclops Pen experiment to see if he could recreate One Red Paperclip in the world of Neopets.

A small webpage for the experiment was put up on his pet PrinceGrizzly's [http://www.neopets.com/~PrinceGrizzly petpage] explaining the experiment and listing the usernames of every person who contributed to it. The mission was to start with a single ''Black Meowclops Pen'' (worth around 2,000 [[neopoints]] at the time) and continue to trade for slightly better things until the goal of a complete [[Treasure Maps#Secret Laboratory|Secret Laboratory Map]] set (9 pieces) was reached successfully. The experiment was closed on July 16, 2006, due to lack of interest, and the final item, a ''Disco [[Petpet Paint Brush]]'', was donated to the [[Money Tree]].

==Enemies==
Despite the fact that Pink Poogle Toy has such a wide fan base, it has also ranked up a number of enemies. As the largest Neopets fan site, many runners of other sites claimed that Pink Poogle Toy is a site that encourages a multitude of problems, including spyware, viruses and hardcore pornography. Of course, this is not true.

Although the websites sports a number of advertisements, the management makes sure that no illegal content makes its way onto the computer. Not only do other sites have grudges, but many older members of the community also return to antagonize the forums. Still, with over thousands of members, Pink Poogle Toy could be considered the largest fan site for Neopets.

==Mascots==
The most noted celebrity on Pink Poogle Toy is the chicken, Arrow. In the beginning, it started out as an emoticon, but this chicken has been officially raised to the 'mascot' of Pink Poogle Toy. At the top of the forum, one can see the banner. There is a picture of Arrow, painted by the resident artist, the wonderful Yoshi. In various forms, during the holiday seasons, one can see Arrow in such forms as the roast chicken during Thanksgiving, and a Cupid arrow, during St. Valentine's Day

==Influences==
The Pink Poogle Toy item on Neopets has had its description changed to "This lovely pink poogle moans about banner ads and frozen accounts when you squeeze it! :P", a playful reference to the members of Pink Poogle Toy forums, many of whom frequently complain about various aspects of Neopets.

A plushie featuring Arrow exists on Subeta, saying in its description: “Aww, it's a cuddly stuffed version of the PPT mascot!”.

A lesser-known mascot of Pink Poogle Toy is the Oekaki community's mascot, Squishy - a peach-coloured blob sporting a black hat with the initials 'PPT' on its rim. Though it isn't clear exactly who or what Squishy is, this cheery rotund creature has a taste for muffins and has an ever-increasing collection of assorted hats and headwear. Squishy was the winning entry of a mascot contest held on the oekaki back in 2004, and was created by the former oekaki Administrator Gfaerie.

==Pink Poogle Toy's Lost Layout==
[[Image:Pinkpt-Layout-4.gif|frame|right|Screenshot of Pink Poogle Toy's fourth layout]]
Pink Poogle Toy had a fourth layout, a pink one that briefly appeared for a few days before being taken down. It made a brief re-appearance during a template switching system Hunter installed but after an unfortunate server reset in which a lot of data was lost, including all the forum files and databases, this template never re-appeared.

==Trivia==
*A former department, Neopets Layouts, offering graphics and templates for Neopians started in ''(need date)'' was merged into Pink Poogle Toy's main site on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 due to quality control issues. It was also used to complement the recently added custom shields section headed by Mike, a friend of Ad0, who is famous in Neopian folklore for hacking Neopets.

==External links==
*[http://www.pinkpt.com Pink Poogle Toy]
*[http://www.pinkpt.com/forum Pink Poogle Toy Forum]

[[Category: PPT]]
[[Category: Fansites]]

2009-04-22T04:04:53Z

Yukio:

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[[Image:Moderators.gif|frame|Staff at PPT circa 2006. Thanks to Mina Kim from the Pink Poogle Toy forums for the moderator artwork.]]

[[Pink Poogle Toy]] is made up of a many [[Neopets]] enthusiasts all dedicated to bringing users the best experience possible. They are spread world wide, different in race and beliefs but are all united under one common cause: To provide the most up-to-date, credible and highly-charged-with-vitamin-c resource for everything Neopets.

[[Former Pink Poogle Toy Staff|Former staff are listed separately]].

==Pink Poogle Toy==
The Pink Poogle Toy crew members maintain the site, and post new information about Neopets and Pink Poogle Toy in general.

*'''Webmaster''' - Kym Huynh ''(Forever!)''
*'''Newsposter''' - Siouxper ''(23 Jan 2008)''
*'''Newsposter''' - Nekopan ''(24 Jan 2008)''
*'''Newsposter''' - Yusrah ''(17 Apr 2008)''
*'''Newsposter''' - Brendon Lang ''(28 May 2008)''
*'''Newsposter''' - Caroline English ''(4 Aug 2008)''
*'''Artist''' - Zilary ''(3 Dec 2008)''

==Forum==
Staff of the Pink Poogle Toy Forum comprise of Administrators and Moderators. The Moderators watch over the forums (following the rules and regulations of their rank of Moderator) and maintain order within the forums, making sure all users follow the rules, while the Administrators make sure the Moderators follow the rules as well, doing their own looking over the forum as well.

{|
|-valign=top
|width=450|
*'''Administrator''' - Jasujo ''(2006)''
*'''Administrator''' - Hunter Lupe ''(2003)''
*'''Programmer''' - Bno ''(8 Apr 2008)''
*'''Global Moderator''' - Cyanna ''(2003)''
*'''Global Moderator''' - Werepup ''(2007)''
*'''Divas Moderator''' - Jasujo ''(2004)''
|width=450|
*'''Moderator''' - Igg ''(2003)''
*'''Moderator''' - Xela of Xandra ''(2004)''
*'''Moderator''' - Twizzler0171 ''(16 Feb 2007)''
*'''Moderator''' - Blue ''(14 Apr 2009)''
*'''Moderator''' - Byakuya San ''(14 Apr 2009)''
*'''Moderator''' - Combusken BG ''(14 Apr 2009)''
*'''Moderator''' - Nikita ''(2003, 14 Apr 2009)''
*'''Moderator''' - Pardona ''(14 Apr 2009)''
*'''Moderator''' - shapu ''(14 Apr 2009)''
*'''Moderator''' - Siouxper ''(14 Apr 2009)''
*'''Moderator''' - Skynetmain ''(14 Apr 2009)''
*'''Moderator''' - theonlysaneone ''(14 Apr 2009)''
*'''Moderator''' - Caroline English ''(14 Apr 2009)''
|}

==NeoDex==
:''See also: [[NeoDex:Administrators]]''
The Administrators and System Operators at the [[NeoDex]] keep all of it's articles up to date, guiding the process of creating articles and maintaining order among all the editors.

*'''Administrator''' - Macbeth ''(1 Apr 2009)''
*'''System Operator''' - NeoEva88 ''(2006)''
*'''System Operator''' - Dizzy ''(2007)''
*'''System Operator''' - Himmelsdemon ''(2007)''
*'''System Operator''' - SwordFire ''(2007)''
*'''System Operator''' - Cath ''(2008)''
*'''System Operator''' - Emeraldosprey ''(23 Oct 2008)''

==Avatar Catalog==
The Avatar Catalog is a database of all Neopets' avatars and how to obtain them.

*'''Administrator''' - Mary ''(20 Aug 2008)''

==Oekaki==
Head members of the Oekaki lead and motivate other artists of the Oekaki, while maintaining a pleasant atmosphere throughout.

*'''Administrator''' - diva_brat ''(2005 - 2007, 2008)''
*'''Moderator''' - inu ''(1 Jul 2008)''

==Pink Ink==
The [[Pink Ink]] is Pink Poogle Toy's bi-monthly newspaper, similar to Neopets [[Neopian Times]]. The editors of the newspaper collect and sort the stories, articles and images which are handed to them by the writers.

{|
|-valign=top
|width=320|
*'''Administrator''' - Twinkle ''(2005)''
*'''Administrator''' - Alex ''(2006)''
*'''Administrator''' - Pudding ''(2006)''
*'''Group Moderator''' - Yoshi ''(2004)''
*'''Group Moderator''' - Lillie ''(2006)''
*'''Editor''' - Apricus ''(2004)''
*'''Editor''' - Koku ''(2004)''
*'''Editor''' - LadyNight ''(2004)''
*'''Editor''' - May ''(2007)''
*'''Writer/Icons''' - Bangel ''(2004, 2007)''
*'''Writer/Icons''' - WIS ''(2007)''
|width=320|
*'''Writer''' - Matt ''(2006)''
*'''Writer''' - Caesara ''(2003)''
*'''Writer''' - Lillie ''(2004)''
*'''Writer''' - Pudding ''(2003 - 2004, 2005)''
*'''Writer''' - Sock ''(2003)''
*'''Writer''' - DM was on fire! ''(2005)''
*'''Writer''' - Twizzler0171 ''(2005)''
*'''Writer''' - Tinkerbell ''(2004)''
*'''Writer''' - Pickles ''(26 Oct 2008)''
*'''Writer''' - Light''(2007)''
|}

==The Pink Poogle Toy Show==
Staff members of [[The Pink Poogle Toy Podcast]] are the people who converse and create the monthly podcast surround the topic of [[Neopets]].

*'''Administrator''' - Ella ''(11 Apr 2009)''

[[Category:PPT]]

2009-04-07T02:46:28Z

Yukio: Edited up to 2002.

[[Image:Pptnew.gif|frame|right|Screenshot of the Pink Poogle Toy homepage viewed with Internet Explorer on February 2006]]
'''Pink Poogle Toy''' (formerly ''PinkPT'' and ''PPT'') is a [[Neopets]] fansite which was founded by [[#Kym Huynh|Kym Huynh]] and Alicia in February 2001.

Now maintained by [[#Kym Huynh|Kym Huynh]] and run by international volunteer staff, Pink Poogle Toy is considered by many to be one of the better Neopets help sites and is the largest on the Internet comprising of news, editorials, Neopets cheats, solutions and articles.

New content is added many times per week, and it hosts a multi-topic forum where Neopets users come together to interact and share their ideas. Additionally, Pink Poogle Toy runs it's own talk show called "''The Pink Poogle Toy Show''" and is the home of the first Neopets band "''The Pink Poogle Toys''".

===Kym Huynh===
Kym Huynh, born in July 6, 1984, of Adelaide, South Australia started Pink Poogle Toy in 2001 at the age of 17. He studied law and commerce at the University of Melbourne and graduated 30th Oct 2008.

===Corporate Relationships===
Pink Poogle Toy maintains friendly relations with the Neopets staff, particularly Adam Powell, Donna Williams (who both have accounts on the PPT Forum) and the friendly Neopets programmer, Mr. Insane.

Members of the Pink Poogle Toy community are often given previews of new developments at Neopets and their opinions on how the game can be improved are at times implemented on the Neopets website itself. (The implementation of the [[Wikipedia:Captcha|captcha]] system in the officially Neopian shops is just one example although it was later removed.)

There have also been friendly banter between both sites with the Pink Poogle Toy's description on Neopets changed to "This lovely pink poogle moans about banner ads and frozen accounts when you squeeze it! :P." This pokes fun at the popular Neopets fansite Pink Poogle Toy, which has a reputation for its users expressing their displeasure about these aspects of the game on its forums.

There are [http://www.pinkpt.com/ppt-references-on-neopets.htm many more] references of Pink Poogle Toy on the official Neopets website itself.

==History==

===Year 2001===
[[Image:Pinkpt-Layout-2.jpg|frame|right|Screenshot of Pink Poogle Toy's first layout.]]
Started in February of 2001 by '''Yukio''' and '''Alicia''' {a young woman he knew over the internet}, the fansite started with a meagre two visitors per day and displayed answers to a small fraction of the Neopets games (notably [[Poogle Solitaire]] and [[Cliffhanger]]). As the content grew each day, word went around and over 200 hits per day were being recorded by the end of February.

Alicia then created the [[Wikipedia:Oekaki|oekaki]], an online art board. Created on the servers of [http://www.unixdaemons.com unixdaemons], the oekaki quickly became a popular feature on the site and grew into an online community with at least 2,000 pieces of artwork being created every day. Due to the popularity, Sako's oekaki was created alongside the Pink Poogle Toy Oekaki, to compliment extremely talented artists that were emerging from the oekaki.

Unfortunately, the oekaki grew so much that no host could host it any more as it was consuming a large amount of bandwidth nor could Kym afford it. Despite its closure for an extended period of time due to its "insane amount of generated traffic", the Pink Poogle Toy Oekaki is now online again at Pink Poogle Toy's own servers.

In March 2001, one month after opening, Pink Poogle Toy was reaching visitors of up to 2,000. It was also during this month Alicia decided to leave. She returned briefly two months later. Unfortunately, a further two months proved Alicia could not juggle her daily life with Pink Poogle Toy so she resigned; turning entire control of the website over to Kym.

Near the end of April 2001, Pink Poogle Toy was receiving 25,000 page views a day. In August, a representative from ''Peel Networks''  approached Pink Poogle Toy with a deal: In exchange for hosting and network membership, Pink Poogle Toy would advertise their US based magazine company. The offer was instantly approved as Pink Poogle Toy was beginning to experience host troubles with hosts such as [http://www.virtualave.net Virtualave], [http://www.hypermart.net Hypermart] and [[Wikipedia:GeoCities|GeoCities]].

In September 2001, a new deep blue coloured layout created by '''Ben Williams''' from [http://www.hologramdesigns.com Hologram FX] was implemented in an attempt to make Pink Poogle Toy look professional and create organization for the site much sought after as the content volume had grown to over 100 pages. By the end of 2001 Pink Poogle Toy was receiving an average of 8,000 unique visitors per day.

===Year 2002===
[[Image:Pinkpt-Layout-3.jpg|frame|right|Screenshot of Pink Poogle Toy's second layout]]
In January 2002, Ben Williams of [http://www.hologramdesigns.com Hologram FX] once again redesigned the Pink Poogle Toy with a sky blue layout. It aimed to encapsulate the qualitigies of playfulness, cheekiness, mischievousness and fun.

Early February 2002, marking PPT's first birthday, '''Mike''' joined, quickly learning the ins and outs of of [[Wikipedia:PHP|PHP]] and [[Wikipedia:MySQL|MySQL]] to create [[In-Depth Battlepedia]], providing in depth information and statistics to all [[Battledome]] related aspects on Neopets. In-Depth Battlepedia became an instant hit, quickly growing into a large site itself.

The site forums opened up to the general public and became an instant success with over 600 signups in one week. '''Bob''' quickly picked up administration of the forums, proving himself to be a good role model with a strong vocabulary, all the while guiding Yukio through many problems of the forums. Supporting Bob in helping run the forums smoothly were the friendly '''Michelle''', who once sent in a sign saying "PPT rox my sox!", '''Janie''', a model with two children, '''ChromeFox''', a quasi-celebrity for her run-ins with the infamous [[Mari Jhane]], and many other skillful mods. Forum hosting became a problem when sign ups increased, as the first host, [http://www.powweb.com PowWeb], was forced to cancel PPT's account from using too much bandwidth.

To solve this problem, PPT was approached by an admin at [[Wikipedia:YaBB|YaBB]] with an offer to host PPT's forums under the consideration it would change to the MySQL version. However, the host was unable to handle PPT's visitor load, and the account was frozen after one day. PPT then found a host called [http://www.aplus.net Aplus]. However, all the membership information was inadvertently lost. Deciding to start fresh, the MySQL version of YaBB was once again used but due to false information about "unlimited system resources" claimed by Aplus, PPT forums were constantly down, unable to accommodate the growing fan base and visitor load. Once again reverting back to YaBB CGI in the hope that the forum problems would be solved, the forum once again went down after one week.

With the implementation of the news feature generously installed by '''NeoFan''' who worked with ''Neo-Net'' , updating became a simple task with a little click on a button. The Pink Poogle Toy team was also joined by three charming ladies with wit to match, '''Amanda''', '''Sarah''' and '''Silver'''.

With the tremendous growth in emails the site was receiving, '''robot_blumaroo''' offered to take care of all Neopet related questions. He stayed with PPT for approximately three months before opting out. The help link was then redirected to the forum help boards.

In April 2002, PPT was reaching visitors of up to 8,000 a day.

In July 2002, PPT was introduced to '''Sam'''. Skilled in many programming languages, he quickly became one of the team, sharing ideas, creating extra features and in many regards co-webmastering the entire site itself. His uncanny ability to fully grasp any concept explored and create left the entire team astounded with his deftness, precision and timely responses to any emergency.

In September 2002, '''NeLLa''' joined PPT as a guide writer, chosen over 200 applicants in the first 24 hours of the notice being posted. With guides such as [[Swarm]] and [[Evil Fuzzles from Beyond the Stars]], her writing skills possessed a jovial quality, which was a major factor in deciding the final application.

Also in this month, '''Harry''' joined PPT to head the [[NeoDaq]], a department providing information related to the [[Stock Market]] in Neopets. During this time, PPT's new host Aplus was experiencing troubles with handling In-Depth Battlepedia and forum. Because of constant down time and numerous forum restarts, Yukio approached '''Ted''' from '''SimGateway'''  and bought hosting from [http://www.doublehost.net DoubleHost].

===Year 2003===
The third year approached and with it many milestones. Everyone consolidated within the "PPT Empire" had their own individual story to tell, and while the year had many achievements, there was also a fair share of disturbances. There was great times of joy and friendship, and even times when friendships were tried and tested, some with favourable outcomes and some not so good, watching the backs of various members leave.

Once again many issues took place on the forums. A total revamp of the administration system at PPT occurred, with the administrators '''Janie''' and '''Bob''' leading the crew of Global Moderators and Moderators into a period of bug fixing. Unfortunately, an issue involving '''ChromeFox''' saw her demoted to a normal member, and a furious uproar took place within the Forums over the facts and points of "the case". In two months ChromeFox was came back into the PPT forum Crew as a moderator, and once again Forum life continuing as usual.

Nearing the end of January, '''Bob''', the first employed forum admin for PPT (aka 'man-with-big-stick'), resigned. Although many were taken by surprise, the forum crew saw it coming. Bob had achieved his goals of a forum admin, changing the little forum it was into one of the largest, safest and most friendly forum in relation to Neopets. Many thanks and well wishes were given, and it is believed Bob had carved his name into the minds and hearts of the PPT members, whose legacy still remains.

After much deliberation, Bob handed his reigns over to '''Big Jim''' (British like Bob). Handling the affairs of the forum alongside the now longest running admin at PPT, Janie, the duo have paved and strengthened the way Bob and Janie started with the help out the global moderators, moderators and members. As of April 4 2003, the forum line up was as follows...

*'''Forum Administrators'''
**Janie
**Jim
*'''Global Moderators'''
**CoolKau
**Fiddelysquat
**Kagome
**Michelle_Belly
**V3n0m0us
*'''Moderators'''
**Airglo
**atamand,
**Bno
**Charisma
**CheezieHotti
**ChromeFox
**Count Von Roo
**CragHack
**CSK
**Cyanna
**FaerieGirl
**Hunter Lupe
**Infernobanjo
**Lina Blade
**MarcoBMG
**Magax
**Marching Duck
**Mina
**Neko
**Nshade
**Platypus
**Raiden
**Sam
**Shy Divine Dragy
**Stephy
**Stodder
**Werepup
**White_Wolf
**Winnerliu

The year also began a string of Forum competitions, and fads such as "lets-all-post-wav-files-of-our-voices" to "let's-make-silly-movies-of-each-other". The first ever large-scale forum competition began late 2002 and was dubbed the "PPTBIES". Modelled after the real life [[Wikipedia:Logie Award|Logie Awards]], the forum members old and new stepped up to claim awards. The winners were as follows...

*'''Most Valuable Person''' - Shoyru_Lover
*'''Outstanding Contribution''' - JanieJanie
*'''Most Influential''' - JanieJanie
*'''Best Moderator''' - Chromefox
*'''Best Female Member''' - Fiddleysquat
*'''Best Male Member''' - CoolKau and Bob
*'''Click That Topic''' - MichelleTheGoth
*'''Best Newcomer''' - Hunter Lupe
*'''Most Helpful''' - Cyanna
*'''Funniest Member''' - FiddelySquat
*'''Happiest Member''' - Sonchynne
*'''Most Generous''' - V3n0m0us
*'''Best Artist''' - Stephy
*'''Best Avatar''' - Stephy
*'''Good Grammar''' - Knitting Knut
*'''Bad Grammar''' - Yuvs
*'''President''' - Chromefox
*'''JailBird''' - MichelleTheGoth

Now considered an annual event, it led to other creations such as '''PPT Survivor''' (which still is in progression), '''Mina's MMAC''' (Mina's Monthly Art Contest) and '''Hunter Lupe's PPT Staff Sacrificers''', which saw all male PPT members voted out first.

Early 2003 saw Hunter Lupe heading the new department at PPT called the [[In-Depth NeoQuest]] Guide. Growing very quickly, it is now one of the largest detailed [[NeoQuest]] sites on the internet, which contain complete walkthroughs and maps of the entire game. This department was created in anticipation of NeoQuest 2, which many people believe will take a long time before the actual game is released.

March 2003 saw the Work Shop department open at PPT. Encompassing tutorials on how to make models of various Neopets aspects; the idea quickly took on and received overwhelming support and good responses from the Neopets community. It is still currently being established and built.

[[Image:Pinkpt-Layout-1.gif|frame|right|Screenshot of Pink Poogle Toy's third layout]]
During March 2003, the design of Pink Poogle Toy was changed again. Opting out of the generic "blue" look all other sites seemed to now possess, PPT redesigned it's layout into a bold red, this time with the logo of the PPT Crew drawn by '''Mina''' as it's welcoming image. Once again designed by Hologram FX, the new layout expressed a cleaner and professional version of PPT. During this time, the first ever member to reach 10,000 posts was ChromeFox, a huge accomplishment considering the next biggest poster was behind by a few thousand posts.

Alongside all these new changes, came new staff. '''Magenta''', '''Alex''', '''Mermaid Hil''' and '''Swedevil''' joined the News Crew while PPT adopted the talents of '''Mina Kim''' and '''Lina Blade''' as artists. '''Stephy''' soon joined as the graphics artist at PPT, designing banners and buttons for various purposes. What PPT didn't anticipate this time however, was the range of talents it was now adopting. It seemed each staff member at PPT had more than one single talent. Magenta, while posting excellent news also was very well versed in graphic design, while Stephy, who was originally founded as a forum moderator was soon found to also be an incredible graphics artist. Hunter Lupe, who was also [[Wikipedia:modding|modding]] the forums was soon discovered to be a phenomenal scripter and after critically looking at the staff again, PPT soon found that each staff member was directly contributing to more than one aspect at PPT! As a result, the PPT forums started taking on a more otaku-ish path, everyone lapping up the design atmosphere fueled by Stephy's creations and Mina's art contests.

While these new developments were taking place, more sombre issues were occurring outside of PPT. Late 2002 to early 2003 saw what would take place in what is commonly known as the "Fan Site Wars". Many new Neopets related fan sites quickly sprang up and due to more than one website's immature attitude towards the entire game and taking the game way too seriously, a series of attacks on other websites, accusations, hackings, slander and libel quickly took place. PPT attempted to stay away from this as much as possible, only standing up for itself when the other website in question made a direct false statement against PPT. After the incident was finally resolved and a tentative 'peace agreement' was made between the other websites, PPT once again distanced itself from those websites for it did not wish to be a party to such events if they should occur again. PPT was created for the fans, and that's the way it will always be. It decided never to take part in any petty politics, which should never take place between fan sites. Just when everyone started breathing again, another round of rumours began circulating, while many of them were unfounded. However this time, the threat came from Neopets itself. Many fan sites found themselves under threat of having their websites removed unless they were in line with the Terms and Conditions set forth under Neopets. PPT went offline for a period of four days coincidently during this time, which started a fresh batch of rumours that PPT was removed which was untrue. However, PPT once again opened up after its short down time and put a definite stop to the rumours.

In April 2003, forum moderator '''werepup''', fresh from a trip to Spain, joined the main PPT site as the newest webmistress of PPT. Dubbed Elle by the crew, Elle has given PPT the much needed female touch, as PPT was beginning to become too male orientated due to the over abundance of testosterone which was flying around everywhere.

Well there you have it. The third year so far has had many triumphs and tribulations while also its fair share of small problems, which were easily taken care of. I, Yukio, could not have taken PPT this without with the dedication and support of so many people. The forum mods, and GMs, the admins, the separate help of individual people, to list them all here would take forever. However some do stand out in my mind and I would like to take this opportunity to thank certain people: Janie and Bob for always being my "second parents" even though they didn't mean to; Elle for always being there to help out whenever she could; Jim, for spending countless hours talking about nothing with me; Sam, Hunter and Mike, the programming whiz kids with a "all-for-one-and-one-for-all" attitude; the news crew Magenta and Alexa, for being the anchor of the team, and CSK, V3n0m0us, Stephy, MichelleTheGoth, Mina, Lina, Pheny, Charisma, Cheezie and Michelle for just those random fun and crazy talks which seems prevalent among the PPT members. Lastly, Cyanna. While we hardly ever talk, you've always struck me as a very sensible, kind and fair person.

===Year 2004===
This is the year known amongst the PPT populace as ''The Great Reset''. The forum databases crashed and everything was lost on April of 2004. Since then, the community has rebuilt itself, and nearly all 10,000 members who were part of the forums before the crash joined again, many under different names.

===Year 2005===
[[Image:Pinkpt.gif|frame|right|Screenshot of the Pink Poogle Toy homepage viewed with Internet Explorer on November 2005]]
September 2005 saw the overhaul of PPT. With over 1,400 pages of content, the site re-organized its many scattered links on the front page into self contained categories to make the site user friendly. PPT additionally made a vow to itself to serve the visitors, by getting rid of all the pop up advertising and download prompts that once plagued the site. This was eventually realized in 2005, when PPT moved off the '''wh000t networks''' which was run by Yukio's friend at [http://www.worldofbritney.com World of Britney]. Although PPT still contains banner advertisements, the days of intrusive advertising were officially over.

With another redesign by Ben Williams of HologramFX, PPT now exuded a confidence in its bright colours. The forums grew to new heights, breaking its record of most users online (since the forum reset) of 149 on September 12, 2005, during the early days of the [[Lost Desert Plot]]. This online record has since been broken, but it became apparent the Neopets users were using PPT as a source of information before it became publicly available, which was totally fine by the PPTers.

[[Image:Intro.gif|frame|right|Image Adam Powell created making fun of the PPTers]]
PPT also saw programmers of [[The Neopets Team]] posting on the forums to interact with Neopets players, even [[Donna Williams]] and [[Adam Powell]]. This would eventuate to Neopets changing the description of the '''Pink Poogle Toy''' on Neopets to "''This lovely pink poogle moans about banner ads and frozen accounts when you squeeze it! :P''". In fact, Adam Powell wrote "Detention for PPTForum!" on an image of the discovered NeoSchools area when members of the PPT Forum announced it before it was announced by Neopets themselves.

2005 also saw PPT open its doors to other Neopets fan sites. With the advent of all the new Neopets fan sites, PPT welcomed them by creating a large link database for everyone to join. The neolinks page  listed some of the more prominent websites, but was always open to accept links to and from sites that clearly have shown a lot of effort in them.

In 2005, the PPT top sites, which opened and then closed due to hosting problems, re-opened. It's now the largest Neopets-related topsite in the world and is listed as one of the largest hosted topsites on [http://www.itopsites.com iTopsites].

The PPT Oekaki flourished to new heights during 2005, making it one of the largest oekakis available. Now on its own dedicated server, the population has once again grown, and on March 3, 2006 had over 20,000 individual pieces of artwork created on it.

Also in 2005, PPT expanded its Neopets Help Program by posting Neopets news, and by adding the [[NeoDex:About|Neodex]], Neopets-Layouts Graphics Department and the avatar catalo. 

===Year 2006===
[[Image:Pptnew.gif|frame|right|Screenshot of the Pink Poogle Toy homepage viewed with Internet Explorer on February 2006]]
On March 2, 2006, a new website layout was created by Ben of [http://www.hologramdesigns.com HologramFX], replacing the previous layout which started to become cluttered due to the amount of content on the site, solved in the new design which categorized everything into distinguishable areas.

With the redesign of PPT finished, Yukio began to focus on creating a PPT news team for unreleased Neopets news, a comprehensive pre-template layouts section for users to have on their [[User Lookup]], promoting the Avatar Catalog , and promoting the NeoDex and turning it into the most comprehensive place online source for all Neopets information. Eventually, he hoped the NeoDex to also be used by [[The Neopets Team]] for reference purposes for their work in addition to anyone who wanted to learn a little bit more about Neopets. Yukio also saw the potential to turn the entire site into an entertainment network, and eventually leverage the site traffic into other areas of his work.

During the appearance of the new design the "Write An Article Contest" begun to take full effect . Two months after its creation people were sending in many entries to Yukio, who quoted he had over 800 emails in his inbox waiting to be replied to in addition to over 60 contest entries to look at, add to PPT and judge on on March 4, 2006.

Another redesign was made yet again by HologramFX on August 13, 2006, making the previous pink colour purpler and reordering the categories the layout again. On August 15, the ‘’PPT Promenade’’ opened up for Neopets users to buy from. The PPT Promenade was a "mall" (collection of user [[shop]]s) owned and maintained by users of Pink Poogle Toy. The '''Your Neopet Dailies''' was also created on ''(need date)'', and contained several quick links, features, and many other things a user would daily do.

===Milestones ===
*February 1, 2001: PPT is created.
*May 30, 2004: The day known as "The Great Reset" - which was the day everything on PPT was lost - mainly involving the forum.
*Thursday, June 01, 2006: PPT Breaks the 300 subscribers barrier to its feed including email subscriptions.
*Friday, June 02, 2006: PPT Forum breaks its most online users record - 178 on 02 Jun 2006 03:43 am.

==Departments==
===Avatar Catalog===
The Avatar Catalog is a premier source for all the Neopets [[avatar]]s! Allowing users to register unique accounts, users an kept abreast of which avatars they have and which they do not by saving checklists that will remember what has been marked as "achieved" and has not.

===In-depth Battlepedia===
''Main Article: [[In-Depth Battlepedia]]''

The IDB is the world's most renowned source for Neopets Battledome information.

===In-depth NeoQuest===
''Main Article: [[In-Depth NeoQuest]]''

The IDNQ the first complete [[NeoQuest]] information site and remains the most comprehensive on the Internet for both NQI and [[NQII]].

===NeoDex===
''Main Article: [[Neodex:About]]''

The NeoDex is the online [[Wikipedia:Wiki|wiki]] Neopets encyclopaedia and is the largest of its kind online.

===NeoPool===
''Main Article: [[NeoPool]]''

Added May 19, 2006, the Neopool was created to offer Neopians a more rounded visitor experience. Created to fill a void left upon the closure of [[Neocolours]], the Neopool is the first in its kind to allow users to vote and rank Neopet [[species]]/[[colour]] combinations.

===Trophy Catalog===
Added May 31, 2006, the Trophy Catalog provides visitors with a checklist for all of Neopets' trophies, again a fansite first.

==Other Features==
===Pink Ink===
Pink Poogle Toy's newspaper, which contains articles, stories and art pertaining to PPT, Neopets and other topics. It began in summer 2003, but the first issues were lost in the reset in 2004. Pink Ink returned on October 31, 2004.

===Podcast===
Pink Poogle Toy produces a podcast called "The PPT Show." The first show launched on August 23, 2005. The show features discussion about the game Neopets but also features the latest additions to Neopets from the corporate world and how it affects its users. Show episodes are released weekly and the podcast is one of the largest Neopets podcasts in existence.

===Custom Shields===
PPT's Custom Shields are created by Mike, a veteran Neopian who ran with [[Ad0]] back in the days of the great Neopian hackers. Proving immensely popular, custom shields are able to be requested by PPT visitors for creation.

==The Forum Community==
One of the more popular areas of Pink Poogle Toy is the large community hosted on the phpBB forum. Within its walls, Pink Poogle Toy (a person who often visit Pink Poogle Toy) converse about all things Neopets and many other topics. PPTers have been described as hard-working, fun-loving insane people, much as Pink Poogle Toy is meant to be. With the help of the forum, a lot of content, and a great community, Pink Poogle Toy has developed their own little slice of online culture.

Currently under the eye of the three administrators. Jim, the weird guy, handles the disciplinary side of things. Hunter Lupe handles the technical side of it. Runevalkyrie is more a watchful eye over the staff, as many things have gone wrong in its past.

===The "One Black Meowclops Pen" experiment===
The OBMP experiment was started by Pink Poogle Toy user [http://www.pinkpt.com/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4911 jrtman] who was inspired by Kyle MacDonald's very successful [http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com One Red Paperclip] experiment in which he started with a single red paperclip which he traded up until he received a house. Jrtman created the OBMP experiment to see if he could recreate ORP in the world of Neopets. A small webpage for the experiment was put up on his pet PrinceGrizzly's [http://www.neopets.com/~PrinceGrizzly petpage] explaining the experiment and listing the usernames of every person who contributed to it. The mission was to start with a single ''Black Meowclops Pen'' (worth around 2k Neopoints at the time) and continue to trade for slightly better things until the goal of a complete [[Treasure Maps#Secret Laboratory|Secret Laboratory Map]] set (9 pieces) was reached successfully. The experiment was closed on July 16, 2006, due to lack of interest, and the final item, a ''Disco [[Petpet Paint Brush]]'', was donated to the [[Money Tree]].

==Enemies==
Despite the fact that Pink Poogle Toy has such a wide fan base, it has also ranked up a number of enemies. As the largest Neopets fan site, many runners of other sites claimed that Pink Poogle Toy is a site that encourages a multitude of problems, including spyware, viruses and hardcore pornography. Of course, this is not true. Though the websites sports a number of advertisements, the management makes sure that no illegal content makes its way onto the computer. Not only do other sites have grudges, but many older members of the community also return to antagonize the forums. Still, with over 4,000 members, Pink Poogle Toy could be considered the largest fan site for Neopets.

==Mascots==
The most noted celebrity on Pink Poogle Toy is the chicken, Arrow. In the beginning, it started out as an Emoticon, but this chicken has been officially raised to the 'mascot' of PPT. At the top of the forum, one can see the banner. There is a picture of Arrow, painted by the resident artist, the wonderful Yoshi. In various forms, during the holiday seasons, one can see Arrow in such forms as the roast chicken during Thanksgiving, and a Cupid arrow, during St. Valentine's Day Influences

The Pink Poogle Toy item on Neopets has had its description changed to "This lovely pink poogle moans about banner ads and frozen accounts when you squeeze it! :P", a playful reference to the members of PPT forums, many of whom frequently complain about various aspects of Neopets.
A plushie featuring Arrow exists on Subeta, saying in its description: “Aww, it's a cuddly stuffed version of the PPT mascot!”.

A lesser-known mascot of Pink Poogle Toy is the Oekaki community's mascot, Squishy - a peach-coloured blob sporting a black hat with the initials 'PPT' on its rim. Though it isn't clear exactly who or what Squishy is, this cheery rotund creature has a taste for muffins and has an ever-increasing collection of assorted hats and headwear. Squishy was the winning entry of a mascot contest held on the oekaki back in 2004, and was created by the current oekaki admin Gfaerie.

==Pink Poogle Toy's Lost Layout==
[[Image:Pinkpt-Layout-4.gif|frame|right|Screenshot of Pink Poogle Toy's fourth layout]]
Pink Poogle Toyhad a fourth layout, a pink one that briefly appeared for a few days before being taken down. It made a brief re-appearance during a template switching system Hunter installed but after an unfortunate server reset in which a lot of data was lost, including all the forum files and databases, this template never re-appeared.

==Trivia==
*A former department, Neopets-Layouts, offering graphics and templates for Neopians started in ''(need date)'' was merged into PPT's main site on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 due to quality control issues. It was also used to complement the recently added custom shields section headed by Mike, a friend of Ad0, who is famous in Neopian folklore for hacking Neopets.

==External links==
*[http://www.pinkpt.com Pink Poogle Toy]
*[http://www.pinkpt.com/forum Pink Poogle Toy Forums]

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