Post by Knief on Jul 8, 2009 16:40:15 GMT -5
I'm glad to see that the traffic here has picked up a little bit lately, since this site as been on the decline for a little bit. However, you do need to start following the rules when you post. The three biggest problems have been grammar, necroposting, and posting bad information.
Everybody on here knows how to put together an English sentence. You start with a capital letter, you use full words, you include the necessary punctuation--like commas and apostrophes and such--and you end with a period. This is not that hard, yet many of you fail to do this. This site isn't an AIM chat, and it's not the text function on your phone. This is a forum aimed at spreading lots of information clearly. To do so, you members must write clearly. Failure to do so from this point on will result in a temporary ban. If you continue to write like a retarded 4th grader, you'll get a permanent ban.
If a thread hasn't been posted in for more than two weeks, it is considered dead. Posting in a thread that's been dead for more than two weeks is considered necroposting. This is against the rules, and will also get you banned. Sometimes there are excuses to necropost. For example, the original poster of either a commerce or gallery thread may want to add new pictures or items for sale, and bump his original thread. Similarly, if we were discussing a product before it was released, a thread may be bumped later to inform us of it's release or any substantial new information regarding that product. If you're not adding earth-shattering information and making an update to your own thread, then you really shouldn't be necroposting.
There's been a lot of bad information going around here lately. This is harder to moderate and harder for you guys to know that you're doing (because obviously you think it's good information, since you're posting it). However, of these three problems, this is probably the most damaging. Bad information leads to bad advice, which leads to bad purchases, which leads to some poor noob being out a lot of money on a shitty product or upgrade plan. So please, know what you're talking about before you write up a post. If you're just guessing, don't post. If you're just repeating something you read on a retailer's website or ASR, don't post. If you're posting something that doesn't contain first hand information, explain how you got that information. If you can, provide a link. Think of this like a school paper; you must provide sources for you information. If you don't, you may find that your post has mysteriously vanished. If you're a repeat offender of talking out of your ass, you may find that your ability to post has been removed.
In short, if you're going to post, be smart about it. Write it like you care, make sure the topic is recent enough for us to care, and know what you're talking about before you post. Failure to follow these rules, as well as the others that guide this forum, will result in warnings, temporary, or permanent bans, depending on the severity and repetition of the infractions.
Everybody on here knows how to put together an English sentence. You start with a capital letter, you use full words, you include the necessary punctuation--like commas and apostrophes and such--and you end with a period. This is not that hard, yet many of you fail to do this. This site isn't an AIM chat, and it's not the text function on your phone. This is a forum aimed at spreading lots of information clearly. To do so, you members must write clearly. Failure to do so from this point on will result in a temporary ban. If you continue to write like a retarded 4th grader, you'll get a permanent ban.
If a thread hasn't been posted in for more than two weeks, it is considered dead. Posting in a thread that's been dead for more than two weeks is considered necroposting. This is against the rules, and will also get you banned. Sometimes there are excuses to necropost. For example, the original poster of either a commerce or gallery thread may want to add new pictures or items for sale, and bump his original thread. Similarly, if we were discussing a product before it was released, a thread may be bumped later to inform us of it's release or any substantial new information regarding that product. If you're not adding earth-shattering information and making an update to your own thread, then you really shouldn't be necroposting.
There's been a lot of bad information going around here lately. This is harder to moderate and harder for you guys to know that you're doing (because obviously you think it's good information, since you're posting it). However, of these three problems, this is probably the most damaging. Bad information leads to bad advice, which leads to bad purchases, which leads to some poor noob being out a lot of money on a shitty product or upgrade plan. So please, know what you're talking about before you write up a post. If you're just guessing, don't post. If you're just repeating something you read on a retailer's website or ASR, don't post. If you're posting something that doesn't contain first hand information, explain how you got that information. If you can, provide a link. Think of this like a school paper; you must provide sources for you information. If you don't, you may find that your post has mysteriously vanished. If you're a repeat offender of talking out of your ass, you may find that your ability to post has been removed.
In short, if you're going to post, be smart about it. Write it like you care, make sure the topic is recent enough for us to care, and know what you're talking about before you post. Failure to follow these rules, as well as the others that guide this forum, will result in warnings, temporary, or permanent bans, depending on the severity and repetition of the infractions.
