I decided to make up a post that would explain basic things about the forum layout, and forum rules and what to do situations. I will refrain from posting back in this thread because I do not want to lose the ability to edit this post.
Layout:
The post I am making is surrounded by many diffrent shiny buttons that do diffrent things.
This is the button for Reputation. It allows users to add or subtract reputation from whoever they chose. As Apo has said in
this thread, reputation dosen't have a rhyme or reason for why it is given. You don't have to meet certian requirments inorder to give +rep or -rep to people, just give it if you believe someone posted something positive or if someone posted something negitive. Beware of giving negetive rep because it usually just makes people feel bad. The amount of rep given to the person is based on how much rep you actually have. Wyz gives you a rep boost of 30, while a new member would only give a few points of rep.
This button reports a bad post, one that you feel is spam advertising or something totally not needed here in the forums.
There are signature limitations you can read about in
this post. It generally tells you not to have an image over 468x100 and not to have anything offensive in your signature. Keeping within the image limitations will make all of the people on dialup happy too
.
The search function is located in the bar above the hierachy for the website and on the right side. If you don't use it,
then kitty dies. Then you are sad
. Forum search prevents lots of double posts and it helps the admins out immensly.
Under the posts you make, there is a button
next to it which allows you to edit your post if you want to change something in it. The button next to it,
, allows you to open a response window with the message quoted from which ever quote button you pressed. All of the buttons inside the general table of someone's post are related to that person.
Under each specific game forum, there is a section for Offical Rules, Announcments and SOP's. New members should always read these and regular members should check back to them every so often to check for new posts and updates to rules.
Posts about problamatic players are extremly bad and will end you up with hard feelings and a locked thread, and possibly -rep. Those complaints should be taken up via PM and that should solve your problem.
The
Tactical Gamer Primer gives all of the information you should need on how we play and what this community is about. The Primer is located in the
Official Announcments Forum and that entire section is a must read for all members.
If you look at the bottom of the page, there is a link named
Forum Leaders, which displays a list of all of the moderators and the diffrent groups and their members. Using this list will allow you to find an admin and contact them.
My intent of this thread is to help new players become familiar with the forum layout and give them a stepping stone to become a regular member.
