Welcome on board!

Congratulations! You have found us!


The Heretix Forum is a small online community that went live in September 2014. It started out as a debate forum with few topics, but has since developed into a rather extensive site with many interesting threads, games and functions.

The main purpose of this forum is that our users can exchange opinions and interact with others that share a common interest in a safe environment.

We hope that you will:
*Add an image to your profile.
*Pick clear and concise titles for your threads.
*Keep your posts relevant to the topics.
*Not post hateful or derogatory content and copyrighted material without proper attribution.
*Not use the forum for self-promotion, solicitation or advertising other than what we permit in our rules and regulations. Spam will not be tolerated.
*Refrain from sharing lewd photos or using curse words.
*Avoid personal attacks, bullying or treaths.
*Not question our staff in public threads and rather choose private messages to chat with staff members about personal matters.
*Use your common sense and help us build a great community experience for everyone. But most important of all: Don't forget to have fun!

The entire forum changes language if you click on the "select language" button at the bottom of the page.

Take your time to familiarise yourself with the place. We appreciate that you visit us and we wish you a very pleasant stay!


Who are we?

To register a profile at the Heretix Forum, you need to be 13 years old, according to the restrictions put upon us by ProBoards. We have members from teenagers to people in their 80s, representing both genders and many different nations from all over the world. Here, we are all equal. No one should feel inferior because of ethnicity, race, faith or orientation. What matters is that you are social, creative and positive. You should have a basic knowledge of English to interact with everybody, but we have no grammar police, so just express yourself the best way you can. In addition, we offer you the possibility to use seven other languages, but in a limited area of the forum. There, you may also follow our daily beginners lessons in those languages + the possibility for more comprehensive self-studies if you so wish. But you need to have reached a certain posting rank before that part of the forum unlocks. We welcome you, no matter what you have planned to use the forum for: Debates, games, contests, info or just to have an awesome experience. The alternatives are seemingly endless and only limited by your imagination.



Meet our creative forum designer!

Who is Gator?

Gator turned up one day and reported for duty. He immediately displayed his remarkable forum building skills and started the trend of expanding the forum with advanced functions. Tix Mascot became a student of his programming and they have since cooperated to make this site a unique experience for its users.

With more than 20 forums started from scratch on his list of merits and a co-developer of many more, Gator has aquired a formidable competence for customising a forum's structure and layout.

Being a native of Florida, Gator is also concerned about promoting a Christian lifestyle, the rights for sexual minorities and road safety for motorcycle riders.

He is easily absorbed into his various projects and can be absent for many months while he is busy working on something else. But he always returns here after a while, loaded to the brim with new ideas that he wants to try out. He is an asset to every forum and we are lucky that he has chosen to take on a leading role here.


Popular abbreviations


In case you are not familiar with all the seemingly strange abbreviations that you encounter in text messages and chatrooms, we can provide you with the complete list. Just click on the button below.


Flag Counter contest

Which do you think will be the next new country to show up at the Heretix Forum? Click on the image below to participate in the contest.


A virtual roleplay

New residents are loose in the treehouse village!


We have discovered that somebody has inhabited the Midway Point Treehouse Village on Paradise Cay.

Although we know the names of some of them, there may easily be more hiding among the treetops. They are supposedly close to illiterate, so we need your help to interview them and fill in their profile details. You can do that by reading the info in or by clicking on the image below.

The profiles can then be used as proxys to have fun all over the forum.


Are you a bowler?

If so, we can offer you access to the King Pin Bowling Alley, located at the basement of the Waterfront Hotel on Paradise Cay. It's open 24/7, so please feel free to pop in and play at any time.

If you don't consider yourself to be a bowler, however, please don't despair. In a surprisingly short time, you will learn the noble art of swinging your digital arm with exactly the right momentum to get a strike.

Don't get so excited that you lose track of time, though! If you don't have a condo on the Island, we recommend that you get a room at the hotel and relax there to regain your strength!

To enter the bowling alley, just click on the image below.


Vacancy


Since this forum still has relatively few members, we don't need traditional moderators at the moment, but rather specialists in forum development, recruitment, event planning, organising and marketing on our team of special agents. If you think that you have the right qualifications and want to help us, contact Tix Mascot asap.


Are you our new champion?

At the Heretix Forum, you can play chess against fellow members and start the process of becoming a grand master. But the function is linked up to an account, so you need to register a profile before you start.

To challenge an opponent, click on the image below, then on the 'play chess' button, which is located on the right-hand side of the blue topic bar.


Alpha membership

Click on the image below and find out how you can become an Alpha member.


Look here!

Dear forum friends!


We have now reconstructed Heretix Forum to make it easier for guests and new members to get a good overview.

What you see on our forum page is just a small part of everything we have to offer. Only upon registering a profile and starting to post will new areas gradually open up.

However, if you don't find the topic boards you would like to post on, please go to .

Or you can place new threads , then we'll move them to their new homes later (also valid for guests without a profile).

About Heretix


When we should choose an appropriate name for this forum, we decided on Heretix.

Heretics are people that dare state their opinion no matter how unorthodox it is and that's exactly the kind of participants we want here. Be yourself and be confident about it! As long as you express your thoughts in a polite and respectful way, we welcome your valuable arguments in any of our many interesting topics.

The little orange figure symbolises our eager debaters, who are all fired up about exchanging information - and interacting - with likeminded ones.



Paradise Cay

Here on Heretix Forum, we have our very own tropical holiday resort, called Paradise Cay. You can buy beachside condos and shares in the entire complex, plus enjoy a wide range of awesome attractions and functions. Just click on the buttons below and scroll down to the relevant sub-boards/threads.


Please be advised that access to the different parts of Paradise Cay is granted proportionally with your ranking level!

Meet our colourful tech guru!

Who is Tix Mascot?


Our self-styled tech guru was born in Volda, Norway, in 1961; and he has studied languages and logistics. Among other things, he has been employed as a sailor, peacekeeper, commercial driver and logistics administrator, both in Norway and other parts of the world, so he is widely travelled. Since 1998, he has lived in Oslo with his better half and fellow forum member Lys. He has no biological children, but a step-son and a step-grandson in Italy that he tries to visit as often as possible. His extensive international family is spread over 10 countries.

In 2014, Tix co-founded the Heretix Forum along with two other people, who since have moved on to other cyber obligations. But on the platform that they set up, a small online community has developed, where amazing people from all over the world engage in interesting debates, exciting games, rewarding contests and lots of fun.

Tix Mascot has gone through a period of serious health issues, but he is now in better shape through a healthier lifestyle and daily physical exercises! So he hopes to land a suitable job in not too long, where he can use his qualifications and accumulate new ones. During his years of forum building, he has studied programming and website management, which also come in handy on his resume.

If you want to find out more about him, a click on his image will take you to the appropriate sub-board.


Internet forums for dummies


Are you new to Internet forums? Don't despair! We have set up some useful guidelines for you. Just click on the button below.


Our "other" languages

Learn different tongues!

From the very beginning, one of the aims of the Heretix Forum has always been to offer our members and guests the possibility of using other languages than English, both as a means of expression and also as a study object.

In our House of Tongues section, we have therefore included "lessons of the day" that allow you to read and listen to simple expressions. They change every day. Dedicated users can even get more comprehensive lessons in the following languages:



Recruitment reward

If you recruit another member to the Heretix Forum, you are entitled to a bonus. 10000 pounds will be inserted to your wallet and your post count will increase with 100 to propel you in the direction of the next rank. Contact Tix Mascot and claim your reward.


Money, money, money...

Did you know that we have our own internal currency? It's called Heretix Forum Pounds. When you register a profile here, you will get a wallet and a bank account. And you start earning money immediately. How? You have several possibilities. For each post, thread and poll you make, a few pounds will start to accumulate, more so in "serious" topic boards than in our "lighter" stuff. You can also participate in our cool contests, where the winners will be rewarded with prizes and bonuses. At the Pirate Cove Casino, you can gamble and win, but also risk losing. If you deposit money in the bank, you will get interest. So, what can you do with your money? At , you can buy some cool items that will shop up in your profile. Some of them are giftable and tradeable with other members. You may even donate money to other members! There is also an option to buy condos and shares in our virtual tropical island holiday resort . Therefore, this forum is much more than just a typical debate arena. Here, we are able to interact with each other in a number of different ways and that's what makes it such an awesome experience. Just ask our members!

Important: Lurkers and casual visitors cannot participate in all these activities, which demand a profile that connects you to . So what are you waiting for? Sign up and join us today!


Are you bored?

...or have nothing to do? Don't despair. Just kick your feet back and relax! You'll find endless discussions about all kinds of subjects in here: Serious, informative, educational, gossip, trivia, entertainment, games and lots of fun. Register a profile and join our interesting debates today, to become a part of our great community.



Guest posting


Yes, you most certainly can! We accept guest posting and comments, both on some of our forum topic boards and the shoutbox. But to participate in all the activities (like polls, certain sub-boards and everything connected to the monetary system), you need to register a profile.

Forum statistics

Total Threads: 11,731
Total Posts: 155,875
Total Members: 342
Newest Member: joita97820p
Most Users Online: 392 (Aug 16, 2023 1:38:37 GMT)

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Joey12 Administrator
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Razu Artisan
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Talira Greycrest Club Staff Group
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Our most diligent posters

Joey12 16,569
Joey 12,699
Bestem♥r 11,767
Lady Porthos 10,974
Tix Mascot 10,344
andie 10,284
Peter 9,999
toetapping 4,313
gator 3,077
geriatrix 2,951
naiwen 2,433
⚓️anchor 2,408
Talira Greycrest 2,029
🐴ginger 1,955
darrenvox 1,778
Ariel 1,307
wizard 1,268
Echo 1,213
tango7 1,186
deyana 1,143
Nonno 👴 Nen 819
pixel 739
Explorer 726
blister 697
"ROCK" the flamin'cowboy 642
scrapple 624
spunky 604
Emerald 534
kroken 524
illusion 517
hyper 509
mac 476
fanofdorks 462
chilli 460
nightfeather 420
nessa 417
pinklife 400
satyr 398
❤️Lys 393
sigma 388

Our most recent threads

Meet our competent admin!

Who is Joey12?

Joey12 assumed the responsibility as our admin when Tix Mascot became overburdened with online and personal workloads. He is a seasoned website personality, who had his own debate forum for many years and thus well qualified for the assignment.

In addition to having a great sense of humour, plus being a very social and helpful person, Joey12 is also a keen debater with interest in - and an impressive knowledge about - a wide range of subjects.

Joey12 has tried quite a few professions and had many roles at Caterpillar before his retirment. He lives in Illinois with his wife, the dog Emory and the parrot Ricco.

When he is not active on the forum, Joey12 likes to take Emory for a drive. He is concerned about animals, a keen photographer and a great carver of Halloween pumpkins. We are very lucky to have him as our host.


Heretix Forum T-shirt

The official Heretix Forum T-shirt is ready for you for free!

Too good to be true? Absolutely not! But you have to sweat for it! As soon as you - or you and other members recruited by you combined - reach 500 posts or 30 threads, you just send Tix Mascot a personal message with your size and contact details; and the shirt will soon be on its way to your location!

We have vampires among us!


Some people register a profile on Heretix with evil purposes. While completely disregarding our rules and regulations, they arrogantly try to use the forum as their own private marketplace.

Instead of joining our community to participate in debates, games, contests and other activities, their only intention seems to be posting spam messages containing illegal hypertext links to commercial sites in order to sell products and services that aren't a part of our agenda.

Such offenders will first receive a fair warning and their posts will be deleted as soon as we become aware of them, which normally is a matter of a few hours, since our staff is spread over many time zones and active here most of their awake hours. If the spammers disregard it, they will get a second notification and be included in our Vampire Group, which puts them firmly in the pillory, so that others will understand that they are bad news and stay away from them. They will also be excluded from the possibility of participating in some of our activities.

However, if they redeem themselves and become active in a positive way, we will remove them from the Vampire Group and restore all their privileges.

Scavenger Hunt

Thanks to our eminent ProBoards plugin developer MSG, we can now offer our users a unique possibility to have some extra fun here at Heretix.

The Scavenger Hunt is all about finding prize items in the form of hidden images around the forum pages.

All images are animated and you'll see the movement if you look closely. After a while, an indicator at the bottom right corner of the forum will change colour from red to yellow whenever there is a prize to be found there.

A counter in your profile will show how many prize points you accumulate and a leaderboard accessible through a button on the Navigation Bar will inform you about all the participants' score.

Once in a while, we'll reset the count and award a reward to the winner.

What's that? Don't you have a profile yet? What are you waiting for? Sign up and register an account immediately to join the awesome Scavenger Hunt!


The Webmate Academy

Have you wondered how cool it would have been to learn how to customise your site, but never had the courage to try it? Now, we give you the opportunity to make your dream come true. Just click on this button:


Frequently asked questions

We have gathered some of the most frequently asked questions about this forum and their answers in Admin's Corner. To visit the appropriate thread, click on this image.


Some of our cool topics


Guests and members welcome! See fast updates in here, too!
darrenvox: happy belated st paddys day everyone Mar 18, 2024 12:46:38 GMT
Tix Mascot: ☘️ 🍻 🌈 💚 🎩 Mar 18, 2024 11:18:43 GMT
Lady Porthos: Happy St. Patrick's Day!! sdrinking_100-176 Mar 17, 2024 18:43:04 GMT
darrenvox: good to hear @talira Mar 16, 2024 19:01:04 GMT
Talira Greycrest: Pleased to say this weekend hasn't been anywhere near as hot as last weekend. Mar 16, 2024 7:59:37 GMT
darrenvox: hope that cool weather comes for you soon Mar 11, 2024 22:57:00 GMT
Talira Greycrest: Unless it's really cold and raining, I always sleep with my bedroom window open. Just heard on the news this is one of the worst heatwaves Victoria's had since the early 1940s. Cooler weather isn't due until tomorrow morning Mar 11, 2024 6:13:46 GMT
Talira Greycrest: The only thing worse than a stinking hot day is a stinking hot night. Temperature was still 30C when I went to bed. Mar 10, 2024 3:13:59 GMT
Explorer: sangry_face_100-114 Mar 9, 2024 2:19:03 GMT
Tix Mascot: Happy International Women's Day! 👩‍🦰 Mar 8, 2024 14:18:30 GMT
Talira Greycrest: Summer may be over here, but we're about to have a stinking hot weekend. Weather forecast is 39C for tomorrow and 38C for both Sunday and Monday. Mar 8, 2024 7:00:32 GMT
Tix Mascot: I'll do the Scavenger Hunt summary tomorrow. Running out of time now... Mar 1, 2024 10:25:00 GMT
Arleen: hello everyone! Feb 29, 2024 21:08:37 GMT
darrenvox: other than that gecko how are things talira?? Feb 26, 2024 21:16:21 GMT
Talira Greycrest: Will have to watch out for lizards in the garden. Rexy found a tiny Gecko in the kitchen last night. Feb 22, 2024 21:42:55 GMT
Tix Mascot: Finally managed to log in with the laptop, but very limited activity UFN. Feb 22, 2024 17:49:40 GMT
tix mascot: pc died - on a laptop with few functions Feb 22, 2024 16:59:14 GMT
Talira Greycrest: Fire emergency in Victoria, lots of people forced to evacuate. No surprise considering today's awful heat. Thankfully, the fires aren't near me. Feb 22, 2024 7:03:22 GMT
Talira Greycrest: Weather forecast is for extreme heat tomorrow: 38C Feb 21, 2024 7:59:57 GMT
Talira Greycrest: Pleased to say today's covid test came back negative. Should be ok to go back to work tomorrow. Feb 21, 2024 3:34:06 GMT
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