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Post subject: Guide to Helpful Threads/Responses
 Posted: Oct 27, 2007 - 02:50 AM PST
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As the season gets ready to begin, i feel its time to make a guide to starting threads, as well as responding to threads in a way that will make them both entertaining, as well as informative. And well What better place to make that guide than in the veteran's forum ( considering that those in the veterans forum know what it takes to get rep-votes, as well as a great thread )
How/ When to make a thread:
First of all, I would like to explain When to make a thread.
Scenario 1: Basketball News
- This is the most common thread of all, and also the most self explanitory. The only requirements to posting basketball news is having a link to the article you're posting, and the 2nd is double checking that the same article has not already been posted..
notes: To make this type of thread better, Provide your view on it, whether its you agree, or highlighting a specific part of an article, and talking about your views on it.
Scenario 2: A Reflection or Opinion about something.
IMPORTANT- MAKE SURE YOU POST IN THE RIGHT SECTION
-This scenario is one of the trickiest ones to post, but yet one of the easiest to come up with. like i emphasized before, make sure you post it in the right place. Also, once again make sure your view, or opinion is unique and not already posted.
-Also, when writing your reflection or opinion, make sure you seperate thoughts and ideas somehow, whether its by color, or simply using paragraphs.
-ask yourself "Does this post leave room for comments?" Many times with opiniated posts, people state something that people have no way to add to..which leads to the threads that have a trillian 2 word replies saying "kobe is better" or so on. If you want to compare 2 players. make a poll if possible to avoid answers that don't push the thread to a new level.
-once again, make sure you post in the right section. ex. If its a trade idea..put it on the trade ideas thread (yes it's already made)
Scenario 3: Media aka. videos or pictures (usually)
-Only requirement i find for this one is, Make sure its not anything that's too explicit, and if it is please warn if its innapropriate for certain ages.oh and make sure its good... I personaly hate clicking a link, just to find that the video is just, not entertaining.
If i'm missing anything. Please mention it, Hopefully this becomes a guide to Posting threads and responses.
Guide to Replying to threads:
Due to laziness (i will later come back to fix this and add more to it)
Heres a list of personal rules i've adopted to replying to posts:
1. Make sure your post is relevant to the thread.
2. Explain yourself, don't just say "yeah you're right", add to it, explain why they're right, and add your 2 cents on it.
3. If someone makes an offensive comment, Ignore it, the Mods will catch it
4. Its okay to disagree, but please don't insult other users, if you believe its innapropriate, and all you're going to do is trash the thread...why not just pm them? or pm a mod?
5. Don't insult other People's opinions, if someone posts their views on a subject relating the thread, its okay to disagree, just make sure you don't post an insult to the user, just simply explain why you disagree and please provide your view on the subject (its annoying to hear someone say you're wrong, but not say what is right)
6. Have fun, be creative, and make the most of LTB, Its a great site, don't ruin it lol.
ANyone have anything to add. simply post it, or let me know on pm? and i'll update it whenever i have the time.
P.S. Hopefully this thread makes this upcoming basketball season that much better, and hopefully helps make all threads, better. |
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Post subject: RE: Help Create A Guide to Helpful Threads/Responses
Posted: Oct 27, 2007 - 03:14 AM PST
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Post subject: RE: Help Create A Guide to Helpful Threads/Responses
Posted: Oct 27, 2007 - 03:29 AM PST
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| Very nice chris- repped! I'm going to move it to the announcements section. |
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six.chris
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Post subject: Re: RE: Help Create A Guide to Helpful Threads/Responses
Posted: Oct 27, 2007 - 12:07 PM PST
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Dave wrote:
Very nice chris- repped! I'm going to move it to the announcements section.
thanks for the move...tooke me 10 minutes to try and figure out where it belonged...so i placed it in vets. glad you enjoyed it |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Help Create A Guide to Helpful Threads/Responses
Posted: Sep 13, 2008 - 02:49 PM PST
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Another thing that I believe is important is quoting. Whenever you find an ariticle or blog that is not yours, you must quote it. Otherwise, people might think it's your work. It is simple, really. All you have to do is put these tags around the article/blog:
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[quote] [/quote]
^^You would put articles/blogs between those 2 tags. I've seen different users not quoting. |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Help Create A Guide to Helpful Threads/Responses
Posted: Sep 13, 2008 - 04:14 PM PST
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thanks professor chris.. i hope to get an A in Lakers101 this semester.    |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Help Create A Guide to Helpful Threads/Responses
Posted: Sep 13, 2008 - 04:32 PM PST
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| nice post i hope alot of people take the time to read it |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Help Create A Guide to Helpful Threads/Responses
Posted: Sep 13, 2008 - 06:41 PM PST
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Good post, six.chris; a few guidelines may help lower the chaotic postings (they are mostly good intentioned).
One thing I try to do with quotations is if it is a very recent article, I give the writer and publisher credit for their work, and try not to quote the whole article but just a relevant part of it I want to elaborate on, and let the reader use the link to go to the site for the rest. |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Help Create A Guide to Helpful Threads/Responses
Posted: Sep 13, 2008 - 07:30 PM PST
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Good idea with the bump opti.....
This is definitely a thread that everyone should look at.. |
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