Forum Etiquette

Here you will find a list of things you can do to give respect and get respect. While most of the things listed here are not required, doing them will likely make you be seen as an experienced user.

Kindness

Always be nice. This is one of the most important etiquette rules.

As an example, don’t say “gosh you’re terrible at math you don’t know 1+1 you fool.” Instead, say something along the lines of “It looks like you may have accidentally calculated wrong when adding 1+1. You might want to try again. :)

Posting

Postfarming

“Postfarming” is when a user posts excessively to raise their post count. While some user-created forums allow this, specifically in spam threads, outside of those spaces and in all non user created forums, this could lead to a warning, or in some instances, a possible ban.

Double, triple, quadruple etc. posting is often viewed as postfarming or spam.

Spam

Essentially the same as postfarming.

An example of spam is off-topic or useless posts such as “ghfghhfgfl!”

Snipping

Let’s say you have quoted a post and that post is really long but you only wanted to quote a small portion of it.

Instead of leaving it as it is, you can snip it.

Snipping is where you remove the non-applicable text, leaving only the text you want to reply to, such as shortening “My mother makes the best pasta in the country. I live in France. Did you know people in France can eat Italian food? Crazy, right?” You could shorten it to “I Live in France,” if you wanted to reply “I live in France, too!”

Commands

Contrary to what too many users seem to believe, posting commands in a thread does nothing.

/req lock doesn’t lock.

/lock doesn’t lock.

/report doesn’t report.

/bump technically does bump the topic, but it doesn’t need to be posted in the form of a command.

New Threads

When posting a new thread, use the search engine to make sure a thread on the same topic doesn’t already exist.

Make sure you are posting it in the correct forum.