Hello LYCOS iQ’ers
from today on we have again something new for you: The Online Status.
The Online Status is exclusively available for fully registered members of LYCOS iQ.
You can recognize the status on each Avatar in iQ.

The Green point means, the user is online.
The yellow point is visible after 15 minutes of inactivity and shows that [...]

Hello Lycos iQ’ers,
As the 21st of February, IQ’s birthday lottery is officially over. We have identified the winners and will subsequently contact them via e-mail. This will presumably take a few days but here’re the proud winners of a Lycos iQ mug and a USB Stick:

siasl74
wumpus
hazzy786
dendelion
s.herovitsch
Neko2
NoisyParrot

Congratulations to all of them! Each winner is going to [...]

Dear iQ’ers,
Lycos iQ celebrates its second birthday on February 15th and we want to celebrate this event together with you.
We would like to say thank you for your commitment in “the name of knowledge”.
Ask a question and win a Lycos iQ cup or a USB-flash-drive!
From the 15.02.2008 to the 21.02.2008 every day one user out [...]

Hi all,
We’ve come up with rules and general site etiquette in response to overwhelming member demand and we hope that helps.
Thanks
Your Lycos iQ team
Site rules:
Swearing is not permitted. This is an all-ages site, so obscene words and phrases are not allowed. Some impolite words and expressions may be used, but as a general rule if [...]

Dear iQers,
as you will recognize, there were some changes to the navigation and design of Lycos iQ. In this update we present you, what we learned from our community, a web usability agency and our own new product developments. In Lycos iQ we had collected a multitude of different button styles, text styles, link style, [...]

Hi Lycos iQ’ers,
This night at 0 am we will accomplish regular maintenance at the server structure of Lycos iQ. Within the maintenance slot some changes at the database servers are made and software versions will be updated. For this reason the service will not beavailable for a few hours. If everything runs smoothly, you can [...]

Hello Lycos iQ’ers,
Most definitely you had a message in your system messages about recalculated points. Here you get the details we promised you in a very brief text – in the end there are only a few changes to our first plan.
What did we calculate? Each rule we changed, we tried to apply to [...]

Hello Lycos iQ’ers,
during this night we will update Lycos iQ and put the new points and ranks online, that leads to a downtime of approx. 4-6 hours, beginning at 11 p.m. tonight.
After this Lycos iQ will be online as usual,
Best, Karl

For all Lycos iQ’ers 2006 was an exciting year. All of us were introduced to new people at Lycos iQ, learned a lot about things we did not even know how to spell before and found out that we definitely don’t know nothing.
We - the Lycos iQ teams from London and Gütersloh - want to [...]

Hello Lycos iQ,
During the last weeks we evaluated our current point system and tried out some new mechanisms like the answer rating for all Lycos iQ-members. We thought about the credit points, the ranks and – last, not least – about the iQ points.
We found out that there is need for optimization in some details, [...]