A couple of tips for posting on the forum.

[skitee 555]

I first sent this in a PM to nuclearbom, and I noticed it has helped him a lot, so I thought it might help others.

 

Basically, these are the guidelines I gave to myself when I cleared up my act about six months ago (some of you may not think I cleared up my act, so fine. But I think I did.), and I thought it might help others.

 

-Never use TLAs when you want people to take you seriously. Using stuff like "u", "c", "b4", "gr8" and stuff just makes people realise that your not being totally serious in your post. Try not to overuse smileys either, though that isn't such a big issue.

 

-Punctuation needs to be pretty good. Always end a sentence with a ".", even if it is the last sentence in the post. It helps. Even little things like that make a big difference.

 

-Proofread everything.

 

-And then the obvious stuff. Simple things like don't make spelling mistakes, don't flood, don't post ten smileys in a row, don't troll, don't get overtly annoyed on the forum, and stuff like that, are obvious.

 

-Don't tell people "Such-and-such is against the rules", because your not a mod. Simple as that, and if you constantly tell people that stuff, especially saying stuff like "double-posting is against the rules". Really? No, flood is against the rules. I double post sometimes, but I don't flood. If you look through the topic about drugs, Snyper22 triple-and-quadruple-posts, but he isn't flooding. He's just replying to each issue in a separate post: it's fine. Don't go about telling people what is against the rules and what isn't: it's just stupid.

 

-Don't post in the complaints section either. That is against the rules, and whilst it might not result in a ban, it is still breaking the rules and people like me who don't post there because it is against the rules will go "What a noob, posting in the complaints section".

 

-And don't post meaningless stuff. Stuff like "mods lock this", and "Yeah, he should get a week ban", or "Ask koolwalky", or that sort of thing is just plain stupid.

 

-Don't overquote. When quoting, remove the "img" tags all the time, and delete everything except for the message you are quoting: don't quote of quotes, if you get what I mean.

 

I know this isn't perfect, and loads of you could disagree, but I hope this helps!

~skit~

[AwesomeBlake33712 13]

Good Forum guide :-).

[MonkeyMagic 89]

u a fan of cloning by any chance?

[skitee 555]

u a fan of cloning by any chance?

 

:P As a matter of fact, no. But some tips are no-brainers, others are more my opinion. Meh, I just tried to help ;) It'll probably make no difference, but oh well.

[StrikeComando 1]

Agree on that.

[Deathsfire 10]

pretty well thought out

[Goldeneagle 9]

Help ful.