Dos & don’ts on joining the General Forum community

Dos & don’ts on joining the General Forum community

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#13

Do act like an over-entitled jerk if you've been visiting this site for longer than most and are not receiving the accolades that you feel you've earned.

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16. Try to keep up with the numbers in sequential thereads like this one

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Beware of those who feel that they can make rules regarding your posting or assert that you owe them answers.

Remember that you do not need to respond to posters' false assertions about you as they will already be well known for making false assertions.

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@divegeester said
16. Try to keep up with the numbers in sequential thereads like this one

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#19
Do seize upon little errors and typos made by others whenever possible. It'll make you feel brilliant and reveal your superior education.

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@wolfe63 said
#19
Do seize upon little errors and typos made by others whenever possible. It'll make you feel brilliant and reveal your superior education.
20. Don't just totally miss the humour of a quip and seize upon it to keep pouting humourlessly.

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too many dos and don'ts here.

If a poster gets (example) 5 [down-thumbs] automod suspends said poster from forums for three days.

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21. Please don't characterize disagreement as being an attempt to silence others. Post as you see fit. Accept that people might be unimpressed with you just as they might be unimpressed by you.

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@earl-of-trumps said
If a poster gets (example) 5 [down-thumbs] automod suspends said poster from forums for three days.
22. Resist censorship. Support freedom of speech.

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23. Remember it's a public forum and silence is part of the discourse; the interpretation of what it actually means, is each and every person's prerogative.

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@drewnogal said
...unity.
24. Don't hold up "unity" as an ideal, if you'll forgive me for saying so. It's a hiding to nothing. And there are some people with whom we perhaps have no business entering into "unity" ~ and neither side of that divide should do anything other than be true to themselves.

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@wolfe63 said
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Do seize upon little errors and typos made by others whenever possible. It'll make you feel brilliant and reveal your superior education.
I was talking about myself, my own errors in this thread. At least three of them.

25. Try to keep perspective through all the hate.

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@earl-of-trumps said
too many dos and don'ts here.

If a poster gets (example) 5 [down-thumbs] automod suspends said poster from forums for three days.
26. Maintain your individual objective scrutiny and don’t get sucked into the prettiness and weak-minded tomfoolery.

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Way to pollute drewnogal's thread.

What a waste of potential.

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27. Try not to share things divulged or discussed during in-game chats when playing chess unless there is agreement to do so.

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@suzianne said
Way to pollute drewnogal's thread.

What a waste of potential.
Add some of your own. We're up to No.27. There is great variety and much of it is wise advice. You'd probably come up with some good ones.