- What is this thing anyway?
- How do I take the quiz?
- Hey, the Compass got me all wrong; how do I complain?
- How come you don't have {insert band name}, they are sooo goth!
- What are you guys, British or something? You spell words funny.
- My scores don't add up to 100%!
- Where can I see my score again?
- How do I put the results on my web page, MySpace page, Xanga, etc.?
- But I have my own web page and know HTML and all that.
- Can I link to you?
- Will you link to me?
- Hey Lord Boron; where's my money?
You know those old online quizzes like
Which Sailor Moon Character Are You? and
What's Your Personality Score?, that tell you something about yourself you should have known already, so you can put their poorly designed results on your Facebook Wall? Right. This is not like those.
Click the "Begin" button on the
Home page or the one here on the right. The Quiz will ask you a number of clever questions, and you must pick the choices that best apply to you. When the Quiz is done, it will calculate your scores for you and create an ID Number for you.
Remember to copy down the ID Number! With it, you can do some neat things.
You must have the Flash plugin for the Compass to work. If you do not have Flash because you have lived in a dusty mansion gazing out the conservatory window since 1897, then you can acquire it here. Lord Boron says: You look deep inside yourself and think: what would Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, or Peter Murphy say? If you still feel the need to complain, you can contact us by leaping head first off your nearest bridge.
Polarbeast says: If you truly must let us know of your existence, you can use the form on the
Feedback page.
Lord Boron says: How come you don't have Burberry trackies and a baseball cap. You're soooo not!
Lord Boron says: That's because if we told you the truth you'd get upset. Just like when Mummy said Father Christmas wasn't real.
Polarbeast says: That's Santa Claus to us Americans.
Lord Boron says: No, we're marshmallows. We come from the planet Blarg. If you haven't yet read my
bio (or can't in fact read it due to those l-o-n-g w-o-r-d-s), I am British. That means I come from a place a long way away called Britain, where we have something called Culture. Besides, how many American Lords do you know?
Polarbeast says: Catty, he is.
Polarbeast says: The categories are independent of each other. Mopey, for instance, is ranked from zero to one hundred percent... so it's quite possible for your total scores to "add up" to over 100%, or to not quite get there. It's even possible for you to score over 100% in a single category, such as if you're
really Perky or something.
Lord Boron says: We should be happy that our readers can do Math, I suppose.
If you've taken the Quiz before and you want to see your results again (or show them to a friend), and you know your ID number, you can use the link below, replacing the word
IDNUMBER with your ID:
http://www.deadlounge.com/gothcompass/results.html?item=IDNUMBER
If you've just arrived here from the Quiz, your ID number may already be pasted below for you:
If you've forgotten your ID Number, then you are lost, lost in the Abyss of Sadness and Grief. That is, until we figure out how to create a database to hold onto everyone's info.
Well, right now there isn't an easy way to display your scores on your web page, not until Polarbeast gets off his arse and figures it out. We could give you a big old file, but you might link to it on our server, and when eight hundred people visit your MySpace page, it would use up our bandwidth, and then we'd get all huffy. We'll figure out a good way to do it soon.
In the meantime, if you want to link to the Goth Compass, use one of our awesomely pretty banners at the
bottom of this page.
Ah. In that case, we'll give you a Flash file that can show
your scores. Download the small Flash file below, unzip it, then copy and paste the HTML code below into your page. The word
IDNUMBER appears several times in the code; just replace
IDNUMBER with your own ID number that the Quiz gives you. Then, put the HTML into your page and the Flash file up on your own server. If you don't know how to do that, then this may not be the best option for you.
Download the Flash file by right-clicking
here and choosing "Save Target As...".
Then, read the README file that's included to find out how to grab the HTML code and do the ID-number-replacement thing we talked about. Here's how the Flash file looks:
Link to the Goth Compass? By all means! You can use a text link:
http://www.deadlounge.com/gothcompass/
You can also use a banner. Each banner has its own HTML code you can paste into your web page (Aren't we helpful as hell?):
... and if you actually download the banner to your own server and link to it instead of linking to these on
our server, we'd be eternally grateful.
Dunno. Maybe.
Lord Boron says: I got Polarbeast to post it. It's in the mail, I swear. If you don't get it in 3-5 working days, see PB about it.
Polarbeast says: Naughty photos first,
then the money. It's only fair.