Tips for New Members

[Block Builder]

IF YOU ARE NEW, READ THIS. You are not special and acting like an idiot is not tolerated by the older forum members.



These are not really rules, but tips that will help keep you from getting flamed and yelled at.


Do not speak in leet/idiot/etc.

What ever you do, try to at least speak like an intelligent human being. I'm not saying that every word you type should be 100% grammatically correct, but at least try to act like you know how to speak and write the language. Dropping vowels, shortening words, replacing letters with numbers, etc. will make less people care about what you have to say.


Do not bandwagon

Did someone just compliment a build that looks ugly or just disagree with a newer person for no reason? Despite popular belief, agreeing with all the "cool" people will not make you cool. The whole point of a forum is for people to express their opinions and a bunch of messages that say the same thing helps no one.


Read over your post

The edit button is handy, but it is no substitute for reading what you have already written. Before pressing the "post" button, mentally go through this list and try to make every answer a "yes":

- Does your post make sense?

- Does your post add anything new to the discussion?

- Will people care about what you have to say?

- Did you put effort into what you have typed?

- If your post is supposed to be funny, will people laugh at it? (HINT: No one enjoys potty humor or lolcats)

I have written many replys to threads, only to click the back button on my browser and not post. Just because you have written something does not mean you have to click the post button. (HINT: Use the preview button to look over your post!)


YOU ARE 13 YEARS OLD OR OLDER

It doesn't matter how old you are, you act like you are at least 13. I don't care if you are 11, 7, 9 or whatever, you say you are 13 or older and make sure no one ever doubts you. EVER.




Please don't post any "New members won't read this!" replys. I'm sure after someone new gets flamed a few times, they will try to find out how to avoid it.

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[MrCookie]

don't use that cute talk stuff; hai, whai, hao, lawl, pwease, etc.

[Regulith]

The people this is directed at will probably not read it.

[Caution]

As Badspot said to mine, new users will not read this.

[MtnDew]

hai

I wouldn't have known that people take the forums so seriously.

[MrCookie]

hai

I wouldn't have known that people take the forums so seriously.

if you're referring to my post, it just irritates me. It's much more simple to use the regular hi, why, etc.

[Regulith]

Found what I was looking for:

The target audience of this post would never take the time to read something that long.

[MrCookie]

I just remembered! Don't overuse memes or even use them at all.

[Wedge]

ATTENTION NEWCOMERS! You are special and acting special is an endearing trait.




Post in binary, hex, morse code and semaphores.

Using cool words is a great way to get yourself some street credibility (cred for short). The more cred you have the more people listen to you. And there is nothing cooler then people having to run your post through a translator. It's like you're some CODE GOD!


Always agree with the forum veterans

They are infallible and it will get you cred faster. Cred is redeamable in the forum store for karma points, bigger avatars (or advatars as they are called by the community elite, these custom avatars are 250x250px and show various company logos) and arcade tokens.


Don't read over your post

Reading over your post will cause you to doubt it or make corrections and thus corrupt it's authenticity. This is totally the opposite of cool.

However, there are a few guidelines you should follow.

- Does your post have enough expletives? The general rule of thumb is one expletive for every 10 words (5 in drama)

- Is your post count high enough for people to care about what you have to say? You need at least 1000 posts for people to listen to you. This is hard coded into the forum software and is non-negotiable.

- Did you put effort into what you have typed? If so then you have wasted valuable time.

- Everyone loves memes.

I have written many award winning books on urology and currently have the Pulitzer Price for most revealing anatomical expose, follow this advice and I guarantee you will fit right in.

[MtnDew]

Haha win ^

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[Regulith]

lolwedge

[General Nick]

Oh God I loving lol'd.

[Kalphiter]

Post in binary, hex, morse code and semaphores.

01011011 01100010 01011101 01011011 01110101 01011101 01010000 01101111 01110011 01110100
00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001
00101100 00100000 01101000 01100101 01111000 00101100 00100000 01101101 01101111 01110010
01110011 01100101 00100000 01100011 01101111 01100100 01100101 00100000 01100001 01101110
01100100 00100000 01110011 01100101 01101101 01100001 01110000 01101000 01101111 01110010
01100101 01110011 00101110 01011011 00101111 01110101 01011101 01011011 00101111 01100010
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[Block Builder]

The people this is directed at will probably not read it.

*Sigh*

The whole point of the thread is to help people that keep being flamed and laughed at. Should they stumble upon this thread (or go to it through a link that a helpful member has posted  ), they will read at least some of it because they will want answers to their problem.

[Menen]

Dont emote spam.