Tips for posting for us Newbies please.

[crobbot]

Hi Gents,

We all have to start somewhere, I have had some experience with forums but it was many moons ago, I have some questions. I can see that the standard is very high here.

I’m a newbie here and I have been looking around this excellent site but I need a few pointers please.

If you have any tips you can share it will help me make better posts.

I want to contribute to the site by posting stuff. I like to add graphics if possible and possibly would like to post youtube videos. I tend to watch Video/Youtube to learn anything these days. I would not have a clue how to do this.

I have a few questions.

Is there a posting guide for newbies?
Rules for posting, beyond common sense?
Offline image storage sites?
Does this site have any preference?
Image sizes?
Video posting rules/how to post a video?
Storage memory restrictions?

You do not have to answer all my questions please contribute to any question Ta!

I would appreciate any tips.

Best regards crobbo

If their is a previous post Mod's please remove this thread.

 

[SPS]

Posting YouTube videos depends - heavily promoting your own stuff doesn't go down well.

Offline image site - I'd recommend imgur.
Yes, resize please. Allows threads to load much quicker.
Don't post consecutively, aka double posting, use the edit post functionality instead. Build logs are the only place with this is exempt.
Use of profanity is not allowed.
You can add graphics but I'd only advise doing it in the OP (original post) of your thread as it increases loading times and page lengths.
Finally just consider readability/legibility of posts.

 

[crobbot]

Hi SPS, Thanks for your quick response and tips.

Posting self promoting youtube vid's I would not do.

The graphics or images I would use would be educational for example internal image/s of PC cabinet.

I'm fully aware different forums have different rules, I would never use bad language m8'ty.

Thanks SPS see you in the forums.

Best regards crobbot

 

[SeekaX]

I don't know whether this is still a rule, but no seizure inducing/annoying gifs in avatars or your signature, preferably stay well clear of gifs in general. You can post a video by just copy pasting the youtube link or using ['youtube] ['/youtube] tags (without the ') around a shortened youtube link.

 

[SPS]

I don't know whether this is still a rule, but no seizure inducing/annoying gifs in avatars or your signature, preferably stay well clear of gifs in general. You can post a video by just copy pasting the youtube link or using ['youtube] ['/youtube] tags (without the ') around a shortened youtube link.

Yeah we don't allow GIFs for sigs or avatars.

 

[Dawelio]

Yeah we don't allow GIFs for sigs or avatars.

Odd, since there's a member who do have them...

 

[SuB]

Odd, since there's a member who do have them...

We have to treat each case individually. Sometimes people earn a favour or a pass to have them. Usually when they ask politely, or it's a cool image. But generally, gifs = no unless permitted by a mod/admin.

This isn't a work-to-rule kind of environment

Basically OP, post helpful stuff, don't just post 'i agree' or things like '^^this' or whatnot, please post things that contribute to the conversation and encourage further conversation too. If you have a question, generally it's best to have a quick google around, and include what you've found already in your post, as this helps people see you've at least tried, it's general frowned upon to open a post with "How do I do x" or "what does x cost" when that's a simple google search away.

Also, no asking for valuations of any hardware please.

Sometimes the 'discussion' can turn into 'debate' (often heated in some cases), try not to make or take it personally. Everyone here is still a person and has thoughts and feelings, we all have opinions and we encourage expressing them freely, but be aware that we can't all always agree, but please don't ever make it personal or go after someone personally. We don't tolerate that here

Generally if you just try and get along with people and enjoy the conversation here you'll be fine. It's always a good sign if you ask questions like these because it shows you care

Either way, thanks for asking. Gives us a place to summarise and everyone can contribute.

Keep it up!

SuB

 

[Dawelio]

We have to treat each case individually. Sometimes people earn a favour or a pass to have them. Usually when they ask politely, or it's a cool image. But generally, gifs = no unless permitted by a mod/admin.

This isn't a work-to-rule kind of environment

Basically OP, post helpful stuff, don't just post 'i agree' or things like '^^this' or whatnot, please post things that contribute to the conversation and encourage further conversation too. If you have a question, generally it's best to have a quick google around, and include what you've found already in your post, as this helps people see you've at least tried, it's general frowned upon to open a post with "How do I do x" or "what does x cost" when that's a simple google search away.

Also, no asking for valuations of any hardware please.

Sometimes the 'discussion' can turn into 'debate' (often heated in some cases), try not to make or take it personally. Everyone here is still a person and has thoughts and feelings, we all have opinions and we encourage expressing them freely, but be aware that we can't all always agree, but please don't ever make it personal or go after someone personally. We don't tolerate that here

Generally if you just try and get along with people and enjoy the conversation here you'll be fine. It's always a good sign if you ask questions like these because it shows you care

Either way, thanks for asking. Gives us a place to summarise and everyone can contribute.

Keep it up!

SuB

Good post SuB, well said. Probably your best post that I've read so far and fair enough regarding my earlier post.

If a "thumbs up" system were in place, your post would've gotten one from me

 

[Kilbane]

The obvious one :

No racism or any form of prejudice is excepted on the site.

I'm aware this is a given, but if it is here it can be seen by all. But as SuB pointed out, it's a good thread to start. Nice to have a reminder and reference place for the obvious and not so obvious rules (You would be surprised how often the obvious 'common sense rules' are forgotten)

Welcome to the family, great bunch of people here ....... and a few 'characters', but they know who they are and I'm sure you will fit in fine here!

 

[NeverBackDown]

Also I find some people do this.
They join a forum, they look at two things when a member posts to see who is "worth listening to". The rep they have, or the post count they have.
Just to let you in on the secret here for this forum, neither matters. So don't take someone with 8,000 post count's advice over someone with only 30 post count, for the sake of it. Everyone here more often than not gives out solid advice, if not or someone else thinks of a different solution, listen to it. Unless the obvious case arises that some posts are totally wrong, but doesn't happen often.

Also this forum has some common ground on certain things. So for example, ThermalTake. Everyone(by that I mean the active community) here hates them, for there terrible products/etc/etc. so we never mention them, and when someone does in a serious manner, they.. well. You know how the internet gets But yes as I said, we have some common ground/agreements on things. So we tend to imply sometimes, it may not be obvious to a new person, but just ask, we'll explain


TL;DR don't mind post count. It doesn't mean anything other than have often one person is actively engaged with the forum. And we do not have a rep system.
ALMOST FORGOT!
PLEASE PLEASE don't necro post dead threads. They died for a reason, thank you

 

[SuB]

Good post SuB, well said. Probably your best post that I've read so far and fair enough regarding my earlier post.

If a "thumbs up" system were in place, your post would've gotten one from me

And that is probably one of your longest 'plus one' posts yet.

Thankfully this isn't facebook, or reddit, or imgur, or 4chan, so we don't have 'thumbs up' or 'plus one' buttons

 

[Dawelio]

And that is probably one of your longest 'plus one' posts yet.

Thankfully this isn't facebook, or reddit, or imgur, or 4chan, so we don't have 'thumbs up' or 'plus one' buttons

Never mentioned or referred anything by "Plus one". This was more of a kudos post, than a "plus one".

Well, everyone is entitled to their opinion on stuff so fair enough.

 

[Wraith]

Additional uno. :lol:

 

[SuB]

Additional uno. :lol:

Don't encourage him lol