I am not an animal.

creating
To create a profile, query Tickbot on Quakenet the following:

profile new [username], [password]

Do note the comma separating [username] and [password]. Also note that the brackets are absolutely not supposed to be a part of your username and password; rather, these are there to denote where custom information is supposed to be provided. Your username will denote how Tickbot recognizes you from now on, so choose a name that you like and that others will recognize. Clan tags, special ASCII characters, etc, are NOT to be used.

If this is done correctly you should immediately get a response saying that you've created your profile. Technically, this is all that is required in order to create a profile and be recognized.

logging in
In order to edit your profile information, you will need to log in using the username and password you just created. Remember that this is to be done in query.

profile login [username], [password]

If this is done correctly you will recieve a response saying that you are now logged in. You will stay logged in for thirty minutes after which you will automatically be logged out. Remember, logging in is only required to edit your profile or to add another hostmask from which you'll be recognised.

editing
Now you can edit your profile using the edit subcommand. Here are all of the parameters that are available and what kind of input you should provide:

parameter	what to input
name	[real name/alias/etc]
password	[old password], [new password]
gender	[m/f/u]
location	[country/state/city/etc]
bio	[short summary of yourself]
birthday	[mm] [dd] [yyyy]
website	[url]
picture	[url]

Your bio will be displayed as the predicate of a sentence, as in: Tik is the creator of Tickbot. Your gender will be used for the purposes of pronouns in other commands. By entering your birth date, Tickbot can produce your exact age. The rest of the parameters are self-explanatory, I would hope. Here's a list of how you might enter this information in the query:

profile edit name Chris profile edit password srf9fd9ds, s9g3kjr profile edit gender m profile edit location Ontario profile edit bio perpetuating. profile edit birthday 6 15 1986 profile edit website http://jj2.info profile edit picture http://www.example.org/crap/me.jpg

viewing
Now that you have a profile and have edited what you wish, you may want to take a look and see if it is displayed correctly and is satisfactory. You may also want to view other profiles. In order to display your own information, simple use profile alone or profile me. This is also a good way to see if you are properly recognised.

To view someone else's profile use their nickname or username after profile. For example:

profile Tik

Doing this will display your username, gender, location, bio, your score and game tallies, and your age. Website and picture are not displayed in the profile summary.

tracking
Profiles contain much more information than just the parameters you can edit. Those are simply the parts you can choose to change. Here's some more information that a profile will track:

• your score
• your wins for acro, trivia, and your trivia streaks
• the number of commands you've used
• your previous line of text, action, quit message, nick change, and which channel you did them in*
• the date your profile was created
• the last command you did
• your jabber file