Originally by: Siigari Kitawa

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I've been reading through a ton of threads lately and there are some things that I have been seeing that are driving me nuts. This is not a thread about "kill the trolls!" or "moar whines!" but actually about using good forum etiquette so others may easily enjoy the forums without having to go through your drivel.




1) DO NOT QUOTE THE FIRST POST IN A THREAD. EVER. This is soooo visually annoying and especially when the first reply in the thread quotes the first post. We have no reason to need to scroll the extra quarter mile just so we can see that you know how to use the quote button. The first post is the root like a directory structure. Every reply after the OP's reply is directed back at the first post generally. If a reply is quoted, that means the reply is NOT to the first post but to somebody else who has replied to the original post. Please do not quote the first post in a thread in its entirety.


2) USE PARAGRAPHS. Nobody likes reading walloftext. It is visually painful and causes eyestrain, not to mention tracking long paragraphs can become not only physically difficult, but mentally exhausting. Using line breaks and proper paragraphs gives the reader a moment to digest what you have just said before they move on to the next paragraph. Organize paragraphs into neat thoughts and write them like a book and not just one very long thought. Even if a paragraph is only one sentence, it can make or break the readability of your post by keeping thoughts and ideas broken down into individual paragraphs.


3) TRY NOT TO QUOTE AN ENTIRE POST IN A REPLY. If you are trying to reply to somebody's idea or thought in a particular post, trim the quote accordingly so the person reading through the thread may read the replies to posters and see what exactly what topic/subject the reply is speaking about. If you have a gigantic post and somebody quotes the entire thing, it causes readers to sometimes have to read the entire quote just to get the information out to read the reply.


4) LINK URLS FOR OTHERS. Unfortunately for us, CCP's forums do not auto-parse links, so we must do it manually. To do it, select the area of text you wish to link (the text can be the URL itself), copy the text and then click the little blue button with a chain link. If you just want to link the URL text as the link itself, just paste the text in the box (example: http://www.siigarikitawa.com) If you wish to have it be "pretty" such as EVE Comic Express then select the text you wish to hyperlink, click the blue box with the chain link and type in your URL address. Congrats! You can link now!


5) DO NOT CORRECT OTHER PEOPLE'S SPELLING AND/OR GRAMMAR. While others may not have the grammar or spelling prowess that you have, correcting other's spelling and grammar is not acceptable on the internet. There are certain situations where a sentence may be incomprehensible and you will need to ask questions to figure out what a person is saying, but if you see "alot" or "their" instead of "they're," don't correct them. While it can be funny to do occasionally it just wastes posts and causes for more scroll time. If it's really bad, feel free, but don't bandwagon post.


6) KNOW HOW AND WHEN TO USE BOLD, ITALICS AND UNDERLINE. Use bold text to draw attention to important words and ideas. Italic text is used in a similar fashion, but realize italic text is often difficult to read, and it makes more sense to draw attention to a point or idea with bold text. Finally, underlined text should really not ever be used as hyperlinks are traditionally underlined, and this may cause confusion.


7) DON'T QUOTE AND REPLY WITH "this". If you have a similar thought to somebody's post, reply with your own input, instead of ge

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Originally by: Ioci

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Originally by: Billy Sastard

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I revel in the (barely) controlled chaos that is the EVE-O forums. I think of it as a text representation of the game.

Your rules of 'etiquette' are an analog of imposing a WoW ruleset in-game.

Just my 0.02 ISK

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I don't kow if I revel in it but I agree with you. Eve forums perhaps best iconify the IG experience. Most games, it's a vocal minority and that's true here too and that might amount to a well represented group or not.

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Originally by: CCP Mitnal

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It's great being a puppetmaster

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Originally by: Vasili vonHolst

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This =[

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Originally by: Rawr Cristina

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This

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Originally by: Overwhelmed

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This

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Originally by: tHEpROPHET007

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this

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Originally by: Jenny Spitfire

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I spuport this theard and I pledge total supprot.

Maybe I shoudl try to stand as Eve poliotician and macht Eve better.

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Originally by: ry ry

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this jenny is my favorite.

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Originally by: Siigari Kitawa

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5) DO NOT CORRECT OTHER PEOPLE'S SPELLING AND/OR GRAMMAR. While others may not have the grammar or spelling prowess that you have, correcting other's spelling and grammar is not acceptable on the internet.

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Originally by: Jenny Spitfire

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I spuport this theard and I pledge total supprot.

Maybe I shoudl try to stand as Eve poliotician and macht Eve better.

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Originally by: Siigari Kitawa

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correcting other's spelling and grammar is not acceptable on the internet.

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