Topic: Some annoying things that beginners do (but also some old members) - page 3. (Read 667 times)

Take note of the image you can use height instead of width sample below but the overall size of the image will totally decrease or increase both width and height


Or you can totally edit the size by adding both width and height


We already have a guide about this here "[Tutorial] How to add image, resize image and make image clickable" including how to add URL inside the image.

Use of Bolded words throughout their post and usage of text colours inappropriately are the points I want to mention.

Because its really annoying to read such posts and when we advice them to edit few people does and many never so if any newbie is watching this please don't make that mistake keep your post simple and neat.

Some beginners also often don't know how to trim long posts in quotes so they have to quote whole posts just to add some unimportant words. Pyramid quote, may be much rarer now but some beginners also dig into the old topic of "bumping" quite often because they are not well versed in the discussion of the newest topics.

I just wanted to give them some useful guidelines, but I have to admit sometimes they can just skip it.

Guidelines and how to post correctly.

An interesting post history combo, bounty section and wall observer thread. That guy is probably sharing images there as a way to fish the merit but seems like he is not particulary successful so far.


I always thought its more of a laziness issue and lack of posting etiquette rather than an attempt for post to look more "substantial".


To be honest, forum search option is horrendous and often won't bring you a good result so there's no surprise that we have a lot of threads where people discuss the same thing (and many are unaware of ninjastic.space). This issue is a common thing for absolutely every forum I've ever been part of and the only difference is how they deal with it. The only way to really stopped people from doing that is those threads get reported and then posts moved in the already existing threads but that would mean much more work for the forum staff.

Allow me to add giving merit advice when they haven’t gotten any

Many newbies especially those with zero merit are found if this, you can’t teach how to get what you don’t have that doesn’t add up, as a newbie don’t expect to get your merit this way, if you honestly feel you have solved the problem on how to earn merit, it’s better if you put it into practice and then become successful at it then you can share you experience but hoping to get your first merit just by posting ways on how to earn merit sounds like a cheap easy way out.

Can I add "not using the search option before posting" to the mix?"

Reading through the same update on trending issues twice or having to read through a similar kind of post about merits, how to get them or some other generic stuff can be off puting to most.

There has been tons of posts and threads made in the forum, and there's a high probability that what you want to discuss has been takes about before, it does not hurt to do a quick search and maybe use that as a reference for your post, so it's not just a repetition.

Haha, this also happens to me.

And another thing I wish to add is when a user create a new thread about something that's been discussed in the forum a long time ago, and decided to discuss that same topic in a new perspective or way, some members begin to tell the op that the topic has been discuss before  and even go ahead to post the links to the previous discussion where the last post on the thread is dated 7 or 8 months ago, assuming am the op, I always ask myself, "was this guy expecting me to make my post, as a comment in an already dead thread that has its last post dated far 8 months back?

When I saw the title I thought I would see something about necroposts. It probably happened to me like 3 times already, whereas some post farmer replies to a topic that has been inactive for a couple of years already — hence bumping the topic to the top of the list, hence me responding without noticing the date of the original post.

Not using punctuation

One of the most annoying offenses to me personally, is when someone posts a huge chunk of text without breaking it into paragraphs. I usually just skip such posts, because they tire my eyes, and pretty much all decent posters know how to break up their posts to have basic readability.

Given that there are a lot of beginners who have obviously never used the forum, or used it in the wrong way - I would like to warn them of some things that are not strictly against the rules of the forum, but are quite irritating and definitely reduce your contribution to the forum, regardless of your good intentions. Some members will ignore you for this, others may report you to moderator - but you can change all that if you apply the tips below.


Posting images to the forum

There's nothing wrong with that, sometimes a picture speaks more than a thousand words and we all love to see an interesting photo - but the thing is that some really overdo it with sizes that are inappropriate for the forum. It should be taken into account that some users of this forum have limited data internet traffic or very slow internet, which in combination with browsing the forum on smartphones can be quite frustrating. As an example, look at what the post history of one of our artists looks like. (archived)

The solution is very simple and consists of simply placing a link of your image in this code, and adjusting the width + check by clicking on the preview how the image looks.


Using the quote option

Another thing that we all use more or less and that makes it easier for us to communicate on the forum. The problem is that some members abuse this option to make their posts look longer and more meaningful, when in fact they make them completely uninteresting. Quote exists for a reason, and if you want to refer to someone's post or part of a post, simply click on "quote" when you are in the menu for writing a post and then edit the post (delete the part you don't need). You can also use more than one quote in your post by simply scrolling and selecting the post you want to respond to.

Examples of how this should not look : 1 2

Posting multiple posts in a row

This is actually something that is against the rules of the forum, and I noticed that some older members are still making that beginner's mistake. As I explained above, you can reply to multiple posts in one post by adding multiple quote posts, or simply address each member by their name.

If you see posts that have a moderator note printed in red font then it means that the moderator has merged the posts. If we use the forum correctly, there will be less work for moderators.