What is Poor Forum Etiquette?

[Petrichor]

Advertising – overtly displaying links to commercial sites or products

Solicitation – covertly trying to direct a user to become a customer of another user or their organisation

Spamming – posting unsolicited links, usually in bulk, to direct users to other sites usually for commercial purposes

Link planting – sneaking links into a profile signature to build incoming links to your own site

Multiple accounts – having more than one username on the same bulletin board

Venting and ranting – going to a bulletin board just to let off steam

Trolling – posting comments to annoy people and get an argument going for their own sadistic pleasure

Vigilantism – self appointed bulletin board ‘policeman’, without authority

Power-posting – posting empty or worthless comments

Shouting - USING CAPS FOR A POST IMPLIES THAT YOU ARE SHOUTING!

Help-vampirism –always appealing for help without doing any research

Bumping – adding a comment to your own thread to bump it back to the top of the list (“Bring Up My Post”)

“Necro-Bumping" – posting a comment in a very old thread that is no longer active

Cross-posting - posting the same message in different parts of the site, hoping to attract a response

Mis-placed posting – not taking care to put your topic into the correct section

Hjacking – when a poster turns the conversation away from the original topic and its original intent is lost

Flaming – angry comments or verbal insults aimed at another member or the content of a post

Flamewarring – users flaming each other in a thread

Mailbombing – flooding someone’s personal message box

Inappropriate content posting – posting pornography, or controversial topics such as inappropriate racial, nationalistic, political, sexist or religious comments

[Hellsangel]

Being passive-aggressive with the bold font?

[Guest]

Advertising – overtly displaying links to commercial sites or products

Solicitation – covertly trying to direct a user to become a customer of another user or their organisation

Spamming – posting unsolicited links, usually in bulk, to direct users to other sites usually for commercial purposes

Link planting – sneaking links into a profile signature to build incoming links to your own site

Multiple accounts – having more than one username on the same bulletin board

Venting and ranting – going to a bulletin board just to let off steam

Trolling – posting comments to annoy people and get an argument going for their own sadistic pleasure

Vigilantism – self appointed bulletin board ‘policeman’, without authority

Power-posting – posting empty or worthless comments

Shouting - USING CAPS FOR A POST IMPLIES THAT YOU ARE SHOUTING!

Help-vampirism –always appealing for help without doing any research

Bumping – adding a comment to your own thread to bump it back to the top of the list (“Bring Up My Post”)

“Necro-Bumping" – posting a comment in a very old thread that is no longer active

Cross-posting - posting the same message in different parts of the site, hoping to attract a response

Mis-placed posting – not taking care to put your topic into the correct section

Hjacking – when a poster turns the conversation away from the original topic and its original intent is lost

Flaming – angry comments or verbal insults aimed at another member or the content of a post

Flamewarring – users flaming each other in a thread

Mailbombing – flooding someone’s personal message box

Inappropriate content posting – posting pornography, or controversial topics such as inappropriate racial, nationalistic, political, sexist or religious comments

if someone has put in effort at researching a news article and giving a highly relevant extract then there is no reason why he cannot post the article and the extract on his own site and give the link to it in some other place. A good list of things which should be considered unacceptable in a forum is given here:

http://sulekha.forumotion.com/t21-guidelines-for-posting

[Petrichor]

Prometheus fan-bait - Being passive-aggressive with the bold font

[Idéfix]

Prometheus fan-bait - Being passive-aggressive with the bold font

[Hellsangel]

Not nice, TUS fan. Extrapolating one line to being a fan of the movie.

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