New to forums or posting in general?

[LLHero25]

Greetings Everyone! Its time for a confession.

To be honest, when I pledged for this game and heard about the forums, I thought "Oh, that'll be nice for the social people to get together and talk. Hope they enjoy it." I've always been more of a lurker on websites like Reddit and YouTube and never commented on those sites since I thought I'd get buried by all of the millions of other responses and never really contribute to anything. Thanks to the smaller community of TFH, its been an awesome experience actually adding to a conversation instead of turning into white noise.

So how about you? New to forums and commenting yourself? Let us know!

 

[Frae Foe]

Ñõ.

That is spanish for no.

 

[Altashi]

Been in and out of quite a number. Helped work with a few too. Don't really hang around the large-scale communities like Reddit and whatever.

 

[CosmicDashie]

Basiclly its been a long time since ive been an active poster on a forum

Last time I actively browsed and posted was a long time ago on serebii.net forums.... those were good times

unless you count reddit, then i post every day for a long ass time

 

[TwistedSheep]

Greetings Everyone! Its time for a confession.

To be honest, when I pledged for this game and heard about the forums, I thought "Oh, that'll be nice for the social people to get together and talk. Hope they enjoy it." I've always been more of a lurker on websites like Reddit and YouTube and never commented on those sites since I thought I'd get buried by all of the millions of other responses and never really contribute to anything. Thanks to the smaller community of TFH, its been an awesome experience actually adding to a conversation instead of turning into white noise.

So how about you? New to forums and commenting yourself? Let us know!

Sort of new, I do normally mainly lurk most of the time but I've been on a few forums and participated in things.

 

[Naughta_Noob]

I'm a pretty quiet person unless around a few select friends, this also applies to anywhere online. So to translate: NOPE, never participated in forums until now.

 

[Jack Dragen]

Ñõ.

That is spanish for no.

Ñõ.

That is spanish for no.

I hope that's a joke.

 

[Sutekh94]

I've been in, out, and around a good number of forums for a pretty good while now. I still remember a series of sprite comics I did a long time ago on the BZPower Bionicle forums... Good times.

 

[Jack Dragen]

Yeah, I'm new in this. I've never commented or have an account on a forum before.

 

[Frae Foe]

I hope that's a joke.

Ñõ es broma, hermano. Es serioso. MUY SERIOSO. ^

 

[Shadow of Death]

Nope, not new to forums at all. Been an active poster on various forums, namely Neoseeker, for over a decade now. I've owned my own (though it's defunct now, but it was a decently active small community for a while), and moderated on the aforementioned Neoseeker forum (anyone that frequents that site might recognize me by my username, as they're the same on both sites).

So yeah, I'm into this whole 'forums' thing. I hope to find motivation to stick by this one in particular. It's nice so far.

It's social media (Twitter, Facebook) that I hardly bother with.

 

[OCisbestungulate]

Ñõ es broma, hermano. Es serioso. MUY SERIOSO. ^

I don't speak spanish, but this made me laugh something fierce.

Yeah, I'm new in this. I've never commented or have an account on a forum before.

Welcome out. Good to see you. Hope you like your stay

That said, would this be a safe place to post stupid/obvious questions? I ask because, well, I don't necessarily know all of the little nuances of posting in a forum. Things from mechanics to nifty tricks to proper protocol and etiquette are a bit hazy to me.

 

[theDartrunner]

It's been a while since I have been in a forum proper, and I have missed it.

 

[Tesert]

Never really been too involved, only stepped in every now and then.

 

[Jack Dragen]

Welcome out. Good to see you. Hope you like your stay

Thanks man, I hope that too.

 

[Gamerdude854]

I'm fairly new to the whole forum posting thing, I rarely ever use my Reddit account

 

[OCisbestungulate]

So, can one slash out/cross out words?

 

[Stars]

Been posting on small, personal forums for a little over a decade, with most of the early ones being RPG Maker themed. Never got in the habit of posting on larger forums and certainly not anything the size of Reddit.

 

[Crym4x]

i'm not new to forums but i do find that i lurk a bit, think of a awesome (in my opinion) comment, get to writing it and then like nah, then i have moments where i do comment like this one

 

[Stars]

So, can one slash out/cross out words?

Testing, testing.

If that worked, just place the text you want to strike out between (S) (/S) tags (use brackets in place of parentheses).

 

[OCisbestungulate]

(s)Does it work for lower case too?(/s)

 

[Stars]

(s)Does it work for lower case too?(/s)

It should work either way, yes.

But forum tags need to be in [brackets]. I just used parentheses to make them show up in my post.

 

[Shadow of Death]

Coincidentally, I had done that strikeout thing earlier in a forum 'game'. Most forums have strikeout in my experience, even if they don't list it officially (I didn't see it listed in the panel, but s or strike usually works. I think a good rule of thumb is if it supports a fair list of BBcode, strike is likely to be in there somewhere even if it's not actually shown as an option.

 

[Szkieletor]

I usually keep to smaller communities, and I don't post much, unless I've got something of value to say. You can find me occasionally on some smaller reddit communities, like /r/rainmeter, /r/falloutequestria, /r/themsfightinherds (duh), and /r/periwinkle subs. Used to be active on /r/paydaytheheist, too, until it became shitpost central after Crimefest II.
I also did CSS for /r/falloutequestria (code only) and /r/elitetorval (code and design), so I wouldn't call myself a lurker after all.
The last big forums I was active on were Minecraft forums, and AGMC (Minecraft server) forums, a few years ago.

And joining the formatting discussion, here's a link to all BBCode supported by Xenforo, which is what these forums use. The editor doesn't show it all but if it's a forum, you can assume it supports the same BBCode tags as everything else.

 

[OCisbestungulate]

It should work either way, yes.

But forum tags need to be in [brackets]. I just used parentheses to make them show up in my post.

Ah. Gotcha.

Coincidentally, I had done that strikeout thing earlier in a forum 'game'. Most forums have strikeout in my experience, even if they don't list it officially (I didn't see it listed in the panel, but s or strike usually works. I think a good rule of thumb is if it supports a fair list of BBcode, strike is likely to be in there somewhere even if it's not actually shown as an option.

BBcode?

 

[Stars]

BBcode?

Bulletin Board code. Text tags like:

[i]Italics[/i]
[b]Bold[/b]
[u]Underline[/u]
[s]Strike-through[/s]
[img]Image URLs[/img]

And so forth. Also I just noticed that there is a button for Strike-through under Insert (the [+] button) if you don't want to bother with tags.

 

[SubrosianDimitri]

I've been somewhat active on the No Heroes forums for two years or so, meaning I check them every day, but I don't post all the time.

 

[D96]

I really like the small, tight-knit feeling this place has! Before, I would usually just lurk on big forums, but it's really nice to participate here. Thanks to everyone for making this an awesome community in just a short amount of time!

 

[OCisbestungulate]

Bulletin Board code. Text tags like:

[i]Italics[/i]
[b]Bold[/b]
[u]Underline[/u]
[s]Strike-through[/s]
[img]Image URLs[/img]

And so forth. Also I just noticed that there is a button for Strike-through under Insert (the [+] button) if you don't want to bother with tags.

Oh. Gotcha. Thanks a bunch!

 

[Feanor]

New to forums in general. Been on places like EQD where it's all comments, but this format is pretty much new to me. Having a lot of fun with it so far though

 

[Shadow of Death]

Oh. Gotcha. Thanks a bunch!

You might be interested to know that BBcode is essentially pidgin HTML, intended to provide some of the same effects without potentially compromising security. Back in the day, sites that allowed people to format posts with HTML were at risk of someone using malicious code. I can't recall that ever happening (I didn't really start crawling through the net until the early 2000's), but I'm sure it happened.

 

[Stars]

You might be interested to know that BBcode is essentially pidgin HTML, intended to provide some of the same effects without potentially compromising security. Back in the day, sites that allowed people to format posts with HTML were at risk of someone using malicious code. I can't recall that ever happening (I didn't really start crawling through the net until the early 2000's), but I'm sure it happened.

I've seen someone make an html signature that duplicated itself into the signature of any other member that viewed it. Just a message that said "[Username] was here." After a while it started breaking the code of the forums themselves though, and he had to get rid of it. (This was on a tiny forum, and he was a friend of the guy who ran them.)

 

[SquiddyWiddy]

This isn't exactly my first forum, but I will say I've had the most fun with this one thus far. The problem I had with other forums was that they were already well established and so big, that it was hard to get anyone even interested in having a convo with me. Everyone always preferred to stick with who they know best, and it made it hard for me to talk with others. It doesn't help that I'm generally a socially awkward fellow online, so I always stuck to lurking on most websites.

This forum has really managed to stick with me so far because not only does it center around a game I'm really hyped for, but it also has a pretty small community to start with, making it easier to get myself familiarized with everyone and to not get lost in the shuffle. I'm seriously glad this place exists