Here are some guidelines to help you make the most of your GD experience.

The general discussion is for fairly light hearted discussion, anything too heavy is better suited for the Debates subforum.
But anything too spammy is liable to get locked.
The main thing to bear in mind is that it's all about discussion, your thread has to give people something to talk about.

A simple rule is this; if your thread is only getting single word or extremely short responses, then it's getting a tad spammy and is probably going to end up being locked.


Spoons

Spoonfeed questions are something people add to the end of their post, to clarify their points and get specific answers.
Sometimes people choose to only respond to these questions and ignore any other points brought up by your post.

It is entirely up to you if you add these questions or not, but here's a couple of things to bear in mind:
Adding spoons to your post can often limit the amount of discussion your topic will produce, as people frequently just answer the questions with short responses and move on.
If you're going to add spoons to your post, you MUST add a note at the end to tell people that if they are going to paste your questions into their post to answer them, they have to be within the quote tabs, these-->

Quote :

as people cannot post something that they didn't write themselves..

Bumping

Bumping your thread to get it to the front page is fine. But if it is still on the front page and you bump it, this is unacceptible. Also, bumping every 2 seconds is not permited.

Thread necroing

This is posting in very old threads(6 months or older). Please don't do this! In this forum, it's really not necessary, and usually the topic is no longer relevant either. Far better to create a new thread on a similar subject and get some fresh conversation going, than post in one about something that happened months ago.

Repeat threads

Please do make an effort to check for an existing thread before you create one on any subject. We don't expect you to hunt through the entire forum, but we do get a bit mad when people make a thread about a subject that's still on the front page.

If you could take a minute to check back through 4 or 5 pages first, we'd very much appreciate it!

Or else



Also, threads with topics too similar to one that already exists will be locked. For example, if there's already a thread discussing music then making a thread that discusses rock music will be locked and you will be asked to continue your discussion in the existing thread.

We would also appreciate it if you, when making a new thread, could chose a thread title that is as descriptive as possible. This is not a must but bear in mind that if the thread title doesn't specify what the discussion is about we might edit it and add a key word to it to make it more clear what the thread is about.

Polls

If you have a question you feel people would enjoy answering, please don't post this as your thread. Instead try to use the "Poll" opition so viewing answers is easier and everyone can see others opinions.
Please do no create polls such as "Do you think I'm cool?". Polls like this serve no purpose and will be removed.

Quoteing

Please use the quote option if you wish to bring up something from a previous post that is a wee way back in the thread, otherwise your response will seem a little out of place. Conversation moves quickly!
Also, should you wish to add something written by an author or something similar, please use the quote option again. This avoids Plagerism. Plagerism on this site is a bannable offense as people can sue for stolen works.

If you've read down to here, THANK YOU!!!

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