Outdoor Ed Community Instructions
The Outdoor Ed Community is the most advanced technology for sharing and communicating online. This short How To document will help you quickly get up to speed using the Outdoor Ed Community.
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Forum Etiquette
Certain rules of unspoken etiquette are recommended to be followed when using Internet forums. They include:
- Read all the rules and guidelines established by the community. Some communities may have different regulations on a particular subject.
- Always be courteous to other forum members.
- Before creating a new topic thread search to see if a similar topic already exists. The New Posting screen has an option for this.
- Contributors should follow standard grammar and spelling rules and avoid slang.
- If the forum is categorized, post in the correct section. You'll get a better response.
- When making a technical inquiry, one should include as much technical information as possible, especially in the subject line.
- Contributors are asked to stay on-topic.
- Contributors should avoid double posting (repeatedly posting the same item in a forum) and crossposting (posting the same message to different forum areas).
- Avoid the use of all CAPITAL LETTERS in posts. ALL CAPS is considered "shouting" and causes readability issues.
- Don't resurrect a very old topic if nothing significant will be added. This practice is known as revival, bumping or Necroing.
- Refrain from lashing back at a poorly behaving member or participating in a flame war; instead, notify us if you believe that someone is behaving inappropriately.