Vanity publishing
If you’re new to the Internet and to fora, you may be quite excited at the heady prospect of having everything you write visible to other people all around the world. You may also be eager to have conversations with all these new-found friends.
That’s great. But try to resist the urge to post on every topic on the forum you’ve joined, just because you can. If you don’t know anything about the subject in hand or the people already having the discussion, you’ll very quickly come to be regarded as a nuisance – and even if you do know something about it, you’ll be seen as a knowall and a busybody. Even worse, if you’ve included a link to your own website in your signature you may well arouse the site admins’ suspicions that they have a potential spammer on their hands.
So play it cool, at least until you’ve been around long enough for people to get to know you.
Latest posts in Fora/bulletin boards
A fresh start
The golden rule on subjects and forum topics/threads is simple: there should be ...
http://www.dont-be-a-twit.com/2007/08/14/a-fresh-start/
Personal service?
The idea of a forum is for a community of people to be able to exchange informat...
http://www.dont-be-a-twit.com/2007/05/24/personal-service/
Glorious technicolour?
Be sparing in your use of colour in your emails or forum ...
http://www.dont-be-a-twit.com/2007/05/03/glorious-technicolour/
Art robbery
Embedding other people's images or other media files in your web pages or forum...
http://www.dont-be-a-twit.com/2007/05/01/art-robbery/
