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32OrtonEdge32dh

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How To Post While Not Making A Fool Of Yourself

PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE POSTING
These are the rules to do the above: post whilst being respected and listened to.   It is very simple, just five rules and one suggestion.

1. SPELLING
So simple.   Just spell correctly.   There should be squiggly red lines under words you misspell if you're not using Internet Explorer (see item six).   Just take less than a minute before each post to make sure all of your words are spelled correctly.   Experienced forumers almost don't hate anything more than seeing "omglol teh levl si so awsom becuas i baet ti".   Almost...

2. GRAMMAR
This is even more simple.   Just use a basic subject-predicate sentence structure.   Don't say things like "I played level and good", say "I played the level and it was good".   If you really have a hard time with this, splurge a bit and buy Word.   Write your posts in there first, and if you see green squiggly lines under sentences, find out why and fix it.   Also, the most annoying thing EVER: DON'T CONFUSE THEN AND THAN; TO, TOO AND TWO; OR ANY OTHER HETEROGRAPHS.   Then relates to time, than is a comparison.   To describes motion, too means "in addition", and two is a number.   Also, Don't Capitalize Every Word In Every Sentence.   for that matter, you shouldn't lowercase every word either.   Also, spell out numbers ten and under.   I know most people don't do it, but they should.   It's the proper thing to do.

3. POST ON-TOPIC (suggested by Panic)
The second easiest of all.   If the topic says, "Hey, how do you complete The Fall Of Heracles?", don't turn it into mayonnaise versus Miracle Whip.

4. FOLLOW THE RULES (suggested by Panic)
The easiest thing that no one does.   You can find them here, and they aren't long at all.   If you have any warnings, read them before you get more warnings or worse.

5. DON'T USE TOO MANY USELESS COLORS (suggested by Nou)
That pretty much explains itself.   Ifyoutalklikethis,it'shardertoreadandpeoplewillthinkyouaredumb.

6. DON'T OVERUSE ACRONYMS OR EXCLAMATION POINTS
So easy.   Just don't make posts using more than three or four acronyms and no sentences with more than one exclamation point.   I've compiled a small, unfinished list of acronyms that are overused and fine.
OVERUSED
LOL (laugh/laughing out loud) or RO(T)FL (rolling on the floor laughing) (most overused)
OMG (oh my God)
WTF (what the f*ck) (alright in chat, not in posts)
J/K (just kidding)
ALRIGHT TO USE
TMI (too much information)
FWIW (for what it's worth)
IM(H)O (in my [humble] opinion)
For instance, you can say, "FWIW, you're wrong" but not, "OMGLOL u sux0rz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

7. DON'T USE INTERNET EXPLORER (optional)
This one doesn't have to be done, but if you do, you will go up just a tiny bit in the IQ scale.   Please, just try one of these great browsers:
Download Mozilla Firefox
Download Google Chrome
Download Apple Safari (don't be fooled, it's for Macs AND PCs)
Download Opera

That's about it, reply if I missed anything.

Last edited by 32OrtonEdge32dh (Jul 3 2011 12:24:37 pm)

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Panic

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Re: How To Post While Not Making A Fool Of Yourself

Add: Follow the rules and post on-topic. Otherwise, it's not too bad.

The sad thing is, we actually need people to read these things.

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Pyromaniac

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Re: How To Post While Not Making A Fool Of Yourself

Wut r u tlking abut? Every1 haz purfect splling nd grammr

Palm

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Re: How To Post While Not Making A Fool Of Yourself

Wut r u tlking abut? Every1 haz purfect splling nd grammr

IKE we gt teh bst ni al forun>

plat aka kingpooultra

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Re: How To Post While Not Making A Fool Of Yourself

Wut r u tlking abut? Every1 haz purfect splling nd grammr

IKE we gt teh bst ni al forun>

....exactly what ortonedge was talking about

Palm

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Re: How To Post While Not Making A Fool Of Yourself

There is no red lines for mine,
Why are you so much of a spelling freak, I mean, I pm you and I misspelled a word big woop you want to fight about it?

Tako

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Re: How To Post While Not Making A Fool Of Yourself

We're not freaking out about you spelling poorly, we're just saying that when you don't use spelling or grammar it chops your IQ in half.

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Yeah, well, you know that's just like, uh, your opinion, man.

Wocco

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^dis

Wezza

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Re: How To Post While Not Making A Fool Of Yourself

Or it either means that you have dyslexia. Or that you don't speak English very well because you're not English.

Tachyonic

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Re: How To Post While Not Making A Fool Of Yourself

You mean like this topic; "my pokeomon black friend code". No capital letters, some misspells, and looks dull. Where are the pictures?

32OrtonEdge32dh

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Re: How To Post While Not Making A Fool Of Yourself

Well, pictures aren't necessary, but they keep people reading sometimes.
@Wezza: Well, if you're dyslexic or foreign, then do what most do and put a little notice in your signature.   Doesn't have to be long either.   Just a simple "I am foreign, please let me know if I misspell anything."   I've seen people do it.
@Everyone: In QChat Zoey2070 said she'd marry me because of this.   Me and ELJASO set it up but she had to go at the last minute.   :'-?(

Last edited by 32OrtonEdge32dh (Jul 2 2011 3:54:27 am)

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Wezza

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Re: How To Post While Not Making A Fool Of Yourself

I'm dyslexic and foreign, but I don't want to be treated   an other way because of it. Thats why I don't put a notice in my signature. Most people already know this probably.

Last edited by Wezza (Jul 2 2011 6:49:02 am)

32OrtonEdge32dh

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Re: How To Post While Not Making A Fool Of Yourself

Well yeah, but this is mainly for newbies.   And why would you be threatened?

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Pyromaniac

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Re: How To Post While Not Making A Fool Of Yourself

Wut r u tlking abut? Every1 haz purfect splling nd grammr

IKE we gt teh bst ni al forun>

....exactly what ortonedge was talking about

Really? I...I didn't catch that -_-

Wezza

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Re: How To Post While Not Making A Fool Of Yourself

Well yeah, but this is mainly for newbies.   And why would you be threatened?

Oops I ment treated

EEguy

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Re: How To Post While Not Making A Fool Of Yourself

I love how you made the title capitalizing all the words, while you said not to do this in the guide. But otherwise, good guide. Might help many people.

Muffin

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Re: How To Post While Not Making A Fool Of Yourself

^LOL yeah. The to, a, and of need to be uncapitalised, and maybe the not.

Take out the red squiggly line part, most nubs use IE, which doesn't have spell check.

EEguy

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Re: How To Post While Not Making A Fool Of Yourself

Everything except the first word needs to be uncapitalized, from what I learned in school.

32OrtonEdge32dh

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Re: How To Post While Not Making A Fool Of Yourself

I always capitalize all the words in a topic title.   I know to, a, and and shouldn't be capitalized, but I just do it.

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calculusguy

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^LOL yeah. The to, a, and of need to be uncapitalised, and maybe the not.

Take out the red squiggly line part, most nubs use IE, which doesn't have spell check.

I use IE and i'm not a nub/noob......

32OrtonEdge32dh

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Re: How To Post While Not Making A Fool Of Yourself

But most noobs DO use it.   It's non-scientifically proven.   Most non-noobs use FF or GC.

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Everybodyediter

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Re: How To Post While Not Making A Fool Of Yourself

But most noobs DO use it.   It's non-scientifically proven.   Most non-noobs use FF or GC.

But why?

MadReaper

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But most noobs DO use it.   It's non-scientifically proven.   Most non-noobs use FF or GC.

And all pros use Opera.

Nice guide, I'm not always using correct grammar, because I'm foreign, but I always try to, I leave a note when I'm not sure if i used correct grammar.

Gamer1120

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Re: How To Post While Not Making A Fool Of Yourself

But most noobs DO use it.   It's non-scientifically proven.   Most non-noobs use FF or GC.

And all pros use Opera.

Nice guide, I'm not always using correct grammar, because I'm foreign, but I always try to, I leave a note when I'm not sure if i used correct grammar.

I have used Opera, but if I clicked a link it didn't open properly (first the thing pops up: go to startpage, quickchooser, and that kinda stuff), so now I'm using Chrome.

MadReaper

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Re: How To Post While Not Making A Fool Of Yourself

^ If it works right, Opera is awesome.

But most noobs DO use it.   It's non-scientifically proven.   Most non-noobs use FF or GC.

But why?

Well, most people use Windows, and the standard Windows browser is IE, and noobs don't change it.
I've used IE for some time, you can browse well with it, but there are better browsers.