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Entry #4
This is a list of guide lines on how to post on the forums. These are primarily taken from gumonshoe, but with his permission I used his as a rough draft and have edited just a little bit. I also have added a second section where I have a program going on where people can take newer users, and via the PM system, teach them how to post early on so they don't start spamming or + 1ing at a early post count because that is all they see around general.
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This is the original copy.
Other than his news post he made a topic about it here.
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Other useful links are listed below.
Official Topics
Gumonshoe's Blogoshpere
Making a Club
List of Clubs
BBS Rules
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Corky52's Version
A forum is about more than just the opening post. A forum is a discussion. Even more than that, it is a central gathering point for many people to discuss things. For that reason, it might be a good idea to treat each reply as if you were making a new topic. That is, unless you can justify it, find it interesting, etc, just don't post.
Here are a few basic guidelines on what not to do.
1) TL;DR
The entire reason of posting in a topic is to reply to something that has already been said in the topic. TL;DR implies you have not read the topic and, therefore, have no reply. It's just as easy to say I don't care by never posting, and you look like less of a jerk doing it.
2) Don't care
Since every post is suppose to contribute to a thread, then stop and think before saying that you don't care. More times than not, someone is going to find the topic interesting, even if you don't. This type of post doesn't contribute whatsoever.
3) <insert insult>
All this does is result in a flame war. All flame wars do is bring the thread off topic and defeats the whole purpose of a thread. It creates an environment in which people don't want to post and don't feel a part of a community.
4) /thread
There are only a select few who decide this and it actually isn't you believe it or not. Leave this decision to the mods and/or administrators.
5) This is against the rules
Plain and simple, don't post in a topic if it breaks the rules. You will save yourself the bans in the long run anyway. If you are posting anything in a spam thread, you are keeping the topic bumped and therefore contributing to keeping spam around.
6) Use the search bar
Please don't state this unless you are actually linking to the search bar with the same topic, or to the actually topic that you are talking about. Sometimes even if something has been done before it's about time that it's been done again instead of bumping an old dead topic.
7) Win/Fail
Win/Fail = Fail. Plain and simple.
8) This thread/topic is now about ________
Again, taking a thread off topic defeats the entire purpose of a thread. This is really just being an ass, just stay away from it.
9) Facepalm
I remember the day that I facepalmed somebody and forum mod gave me a friendly PM telling me that he facepalmed my facepalm because facepalming was a very stupid thing to do. It's just like Win/Fail.
If you don't care, didn't read, or want to talk about something else, then you aren't staying on subject, which means that you either need to:
1) Create a new topic
2) Don't do anything
3) Think harder and/or read
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Helping New Users
As you can see in this topic right here, which I made in the where is/how to forum we have came up with some ideas to help newer users, and overall help the BBS become a better place. To do this all you have to do is make quality posts and take newer users off to the side, via the pm system, and help them learn how to post properly. I have helped a couple of users in their posts so far and I have seen great improvement already. It may not fix everything at once, but it really does help even if it's one person at a time.
To the users with quality posts and more experience, if you would, try and help Newgrounds out with this plan.
Updated: 07/08/08 10:22 PM Comments disabled | Share this!
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