Netiquette stands for6/25/2023 ![]() The best response to a troll's posting is no response, to recognize the purpose and ignore the bait. Trolling is the act of posting a message highly off-topic or otherwise calculated to arouse controversy and hopefully cause a flame war. ![]() This takes judgment, and you should ask yourself a basic question: is this posting likely to be of interest to this group or topic, or is there another forum that is more appropriate? You might get a better response by searching for a group or forum more directly applicable to your message. Stay On-TopicNever post off-topic messages, not related to the main subject in the thread you are posting to. Some examples of ambiguous and meaningful subjects are provided below. ![]() A short, meaningful subject is the most useful element of information when one wants to identify an message's purpose at a glance. The subject line is one of the only fields displayed in a message. You can greatly help potential readers remember what your message is about, and decide whether or not to read it, with a descriptive subject line. Use Descriptive Subject LinesWhat with work, friends, mailing lists, and spam, many people get more email and messages than they can easily read. It makes it stand out on it's own, like this below: Put a URL on a separate line, and indented a couple of spaces. Thoughts and ideas are broken up to make reading and understanding it easier. Put a blank line at the beginning of messages, so that when they are read by someone the message will have some blank space between it and the header.Ī blank line between paragraphs greatly helps readability. The more you have to say, the more important this is. Use White SpaceUse white space to enhance readability. This rule is less absolute on the boards, and much less so again for clubs, since the obligation to read these messages is correspondingly less. You can do your part to reduce this workload by using brevity to maximize clarity. If you receive a lot of messages, and a lot of them are long, then it is likely that you won't be able to read them all. It takes considerable time and effort to read long messages. The following rules of netiquette apply to the sending and posting of messages.īe BriefBe brief. Wherever possible, acknowledge good points made, and then respectfully describe the areas where you disagree to produce the most productive conversation. What looks to you like an insulting or mean message may only be an absent minded and poor choice of phrasing, and not meant the way you perceived it.īe particularly polite when disagreeing with others. Similarly, don't over-react to messages or posts you see on the boards. Particularly avoid sarcasm, which rarely communicate well. Satire and humor is particularly hard to transmit, and sometimes comes across as rude and contemptuous. Remember that subtle emotions and meanings do not transmit very well over messages and posts. You can use smileys sparingly to signal emotions like smiles, winks, sadness, surprise, etc.
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