some advice to the newer bbv4l posters
 

I thought we could compile some advice to the newer bbv4l posters and maybe sticky it for a while, because some people are just taking a crap all over the front page of bbv4l and I don't want to start handing out tempbans.

Here are some guidelines that might help some of the newer people:

1) Before you make a new thread, ask yourself if people will like it or not or if you're better off posting it in your blog.

2) When in doubt, MAKE LESS THREADS. Start less threads, more responses to posts and only start threads if it is something interesting, funny, or original. You'll notice a lot of the best posters only make a few new threads a week but they are generally very high quality. The worst posters make 4-5 new threads a day and they are generally terrible.

3) try to avoid list type of threads as they don't really add anything to the forums except boost your post count.

Example:
-ten movies that begin with the letter s
-post a picture of a dog!
-rate this cat!
-etc

4) take a look at the content and length of your last ten posts. If more than three of them were short little bbv4l catchphrases like 'f oot, ldo, etc.' and didn't add anything really at all to the discussion, you might want to start posting less and post only when you actually have something to say.

5) I'm going to repeat it again: post when you have something to say that you think is worth discussing.
YOUR POST COUNT DOESN'T MATTER. Some of the best posters in bbv4l have <100 post counts but everything they post is gold.

6) If you have an issue with something that is going on in the forum, pm me or adanthar. Unless you actually have constructive criticism, don't make stupid threads about how BBV4l is being OOT2 or how we should ban so-and-so or whatever. We can handle it privately and very easily via pm.

Anyone else have anything to add?

gw

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F OOT

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Ban Mazda6 please.

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Don't try and log into people's play money accounts on FTP, no matter how many chips are supposed to be in there.

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NH, this should help things a lot.

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btw i think this is a great post and should help things a lot; i just thought the first reply should be "f oot"

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gildwulf,

really your post could have been condensed into

1) don't suck


however,

how are we going to beat POG if we don't have useless posts?

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btw i think this is a great post and should help things a lot; i just thought the first reply should be "f oot"

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Ditto. Also, ban Mazda6 please.

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Quality not quantity grasshoppers

BB4eva likes guns?! Oh fo Sho they do!!

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I think EricW should be limited to one naive-bicurious thread a day.

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1) Create thread
2) Include picture of Pooptoad
3) ??????
4) Profit

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I think EricW should be limited to one naive-bicurious thread a day.

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soooo, the rest can continue to be blatantly gay?

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Some serious advice: post on BBV/4L a ton for a few months, then step away and don't read it for 3-4 weeks and live a regular life. Then come back. Trust me this line is +EV on so many levels.

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Some serious advice: post on BBV/4L a ton for a few months, then step away and don't read it for 3-4 weeks and live a regular life. Then come back. Trust me this line is +EV on so many levels.

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but bbv4l is my regular life!

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Anyone else have anything to add?

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i'm fairly new but what about:
make some totally hilarious mspaints yo?

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jesus this isnt EDGF post what u want

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Anyone else have anything to add?

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Yeah if your OPs are really bad sometimes including a pic or an MS paint makes all the difference.

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how about a "don't repeat jokes to the [censored] death." it's amazing how good BBV is at this. The gambler2k4 thing became a dead horse in like an hour.

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So we're scratching - the rules are THERE ARE NO RULES?

jesus christ that didn't last long.

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Make less original threads

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I trust you meant "fewer original threads", because some peeps couldn't make less original threads if they tried. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

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Someone let that poor kitty outta the computer, it looks hungry [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t...wetta/trap.jpg

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So we're scratching - the rules are THERE ARE NO RULES?

jesus christ that didn't last long.

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The only rule was don't suck and this clearly needed to be clarified for some people. Besides these are suggestions not rules.

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http://www.transbuddha.com/images/up...2067310838.jpg

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So we're scratching - the rules are THERE ARE NO RULES?

jesus christ that didn't last long.

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what are you talking about?

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someone rate that kitten!

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someone rate that kitten!

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Didn't you read the initial post? You're supposed to start a NEW thread asking people to rate the kitten.

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...t_in_a_bag.jpg

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no, i can't say i felt like opening up a thread titled, "rate this kitten"

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Starsky and Hutch
Spider-Man
se7en
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Snakes on a Plane
Superman: The Movie
Superman II
Superman III
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Superman Returns

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finally - this forum had become trolls trolling other trolls, when it's supposed to be sincere things being trolled

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Rate this cat... ?

http://nathanielstern.com/blog/wp-content/adeadcat.jpg

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Starsky and Hutch
Spider-Man
se7en
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Snakes on a Plane
Superman: The Movie
Superman II
Superman III
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Superman Returns

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Star Wars ldo

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http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w.../pooptarts.jpg

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So we're scratching - the rules are THERE ARE NO RULES?

jesus christ that didn't last long.

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what are you talking about?

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I was ranting. A little later I'll be sitting on my local park bench with a self-made tinfoil hat (to block out the martian thought rays) and singing the wrong lyrics to 'Heartbreak Hotel' in a loud voice, while swigging 'old peculiar' from a jug.

Anyone else got a nice evening planned?

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What if I'm full of teh funny and start 4-5 quality threads a day that people don't get?

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What if I'm full of teh funny and start 4-5 quality threads a day that people don't get ?

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THEN YOU ARE NOT FUNNY. LDO.

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Gild

can we still say 'F the haters'. Cos I can see a rising need for this.