Cafeteria
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| 07 Jul 2012 11:07 PM |
You've probably come here with a simple question, "How do I forum?". Well, as I will explain here this may not be as simple a question to answer as you may have thought at first. It turns out that it is really an impossible question to answer, and you can probably see from this analogy:
Suppose that someone much younger than yourself came up to you and asked you "How do I read a book?". You can definitely see that this is a bad question to begin with, and there is really no way to answer it. After all, whole 1000 page books can be written on even very small seemingly insignificant pieces of material, yet be very complex. Even a very simple piece of writing such as how to assemble something cannot be understood in a short explanation, or even a pretty lengthy discussion, it takes years of experience to really get even the fundamentals of reading and writing.
In reply to them you might ask what problem specifically drove them to ask such a question, and answer instead that question, but you have no hope of adequately answering what they did ask.
And it is that situation exactly that is the case for anyone attempting to reply to your question of "how to forum". When you get no answers asking this it's not that people don't want to answer it, it's simply that there is no good answer for them to give you. It's not like there's some super-secret passcode that one can get and then suddenly know how to forum. It takes many months of learning before you can even begin to post new interesting stuff, so there isn't much that someone will be able to tell you in the scope of a single post to help you.
So then how exactly does one learn how to forum? It's by no means an easy process, you have to be willing to put some serious effort into it if you want to get anywhere. While a detailed explanation of the process is beyond the scope of this post, if you really have decided that you want to take a stab at it then here's a rough outline of some of the steps that you might go through while learning: -Taking a look at the different forums figure out which one suits you best. Figure out what types of material is being posted, and see how you can apply your own twist onto it. Try posting a few threads of your own, and see what other people have to say about them. This is actually quite important to do first, if you don't know the basics of how to understand forum posts, then you can't really do anything in the way of learning (I unfortunately didn't know to do this when I started out, and it made it quite a bit more difficult). -Taking a look at some of the successful threads on a varitey of forums. It may take a bit to find a good one that suits your taste, since they are all about different subjects. -Try copying some other peoples' ideas for threads, and make changes to them. Threads about recent updates or plans to make ROBLOX better are great to do this with. -Making small changes to those threads to see what works and what doesn't, and building up more and more complex changes as you go. -Try creating some simple threads yourself with the knowledge you have, again, threads about recent updates or plans to make ROBLOX better. -Once you have a good idea of how to actually make some interesting threads, look up more stuff throughout the forums in general, to learn more specifically how the forums work. -Try taking on a larger thread. Pick an original or creative idea to post about and make it tie in together with everything else. Make it a thread people will actually want to talk about. -Take on some more complicated stuff like threads posted by trolls, and see how they work. -Edit them and add your own tweaks. -Try posting something more complicated, like a basic forum story, which requires more forum structure. -And by that time or even much earlier you're probably far enough along that this post is a distant memory, so I'll leave it at that for now.
That's roughly the path that I took when I joined Roblox with no prior foruming experience of any sort. Keep in mind though, everyone learns differently, so use whatever you find works best for you.
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| 07 Jul 2012 11:09 PM |
Always remember to jump cut after every sentence.
It makes things way funnier.
Ex.: Hi guys (jump) I had a funny day (jump) I (jump) went (jump) to (jump) the...(jump)
JNDANJHFNAN(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP)(JUMP) |
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MNGLOGANp
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| 07 Jul 2012 11:10 PM |
i dnt no how 2 forum teach mi |
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Blizzetta
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| 07 Jul 2012 11:11 PM |
Your next chapter should be about understanding the term of replying.
The universe smiles upon you. |
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Cafeteria
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| 08 Jul 2012 12:12 PM |
| The universe can't smile! Or maybe it can... |
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Muppet
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| 08 Jul 2012 12:22 PM |
Muppet's simple explanation:
1. Click on a sub-forum topic that interests you
2. Decided if you want to compose a thread about a on-topic subject or comment on someone else's thread
3. Post or comment [whatever you chose] and make sure it is related to the original thread or sub-forum
4. Repeat 4-8 times again
5. Click "My Forums" in the top right and if the symbol by it appears orange someone replied to the thread
6. Check thread and reply if necessary
7. Repeat steps 2-6 again |
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