*FROM SCRAPPER'S BLOG*

Why is a salute important?

I could write a novel but I will be blunt....This is the internet and people lie about who they say they are. I have been fooled many times and so have you. It fucking sucks when you find out the person you thought was cool and real is a fraud. Early on we developed the salute process for this reason. Yes...it's goofy to take a photo of yourself with a piece of paper....BUT this is fubar.(and this is what makes fubar unique..dolly) On fubar your salute is your ID. The more CLEAR and SIMPLE you make your salute photo the higher the probability of it being accepted. Bogus salutes slip by us daily. I have seen some go unoticed for 2 years and then judgement day comes. Someone calls out the salute and the birds flock to check it out. There are dozens of forensic salute specialists on this site. If three of them call bullshit, we will unnaprove and request a new salute.I do not care how long you have had the salute up. If we ask you to submit new salutes, then please do it. So why am I writing yet another scrapper fillabuster? At the request of my bouncers, I am going to make this crystal clear. If it looks suspect, you will be audited and asked to submit a new salute. SIMPLE!

Follow these tips!

1. CLEAR photo! No grainy ass bootsy webcams.

2. Add your USER ID #, Screen Name and fubar! HAND WRITE IT!!!!!!!! Do it on lined paper if you really want to nail a solid salute.

3. DO NOT MANIPULATE IN PHOTOSHOP! NO Black and white, NO strange photo shop wizardry. NO NSFW, do i have to go on???

4. Hold the paper with two hands and smile for the camera. Don't cut off arms, hands etc. Don't crop it.

5. Save your creative fonts, crayons and other photo effects for your albums. DO NOT use it on your salutes.

6. Shoot a few photos and submit them. This way it is CRYSTAL clear you are not trying to fudge the system.

7. No animated gif salutes. No video salutes. KEEP IT SIMPLE!

8. First time salutes MUST be on paper, before you can submit a novelty salute.

As always, acceptance is at fubar's descretion.

In the five years I have been doing this, I have collected a grip of fake salutes. Check my photo albums for the hall of shame. You do not want to be there. If you do not wish to post a salute, you do not have to do so. It is not mandatory.....however, there are many of us that have an understading that at some point you need a salute to legitimize yourself. You don't walk into a bar for two years with a bag on your head or in a halloween costume.....so why do it here.

If you are called out for having fake salutes and they are indeed legit. You can simply jump on videochat and face palm my bouncers or me by showing your cute little face. Fake people will make excuses. Real people will step up to the occassion. I hate that all this is so obvious, yet some of you make an art out of trying to game us. Don't be butthurt when you get pimp slapped. All frauds and fakes deserve it.

MAKE A ROCK SOLID SALUTE AND THE DRAMA WILL STOP! I do not care if you are going blind, parapalegic, deaf or even babyjesus. If you are asked to to make salutes....simply just do it. There is no point in arguing. Oh yea....if you are claiming you have no camera. Ask one of your 2000 friends on fubar to come take a photo of you.

Werd!

Making a salute is an easy process. You can get creative, but make sure you have one rock solid, clear salute first.