Guide to Improving the Forum: Posting

[Hickory]

(This forum series is sponsored by the FNN)


This is the start of a series published by the FS-HC (Forum Self-Help Committee) which outlines various ways to improve your forum self and the forum itself. Enjoy.

To organize the four main points of posting, we've created a neat acronym for you.

P.O.S.T.

Pertinence
Originality
Skeptism
Tense


You'll want to make sure your post is pertinent to the topic, an objective easily completed.

Is your post original? When you write your post, look over it and determine if you have any repetitive words or phrases. Another thing to look out for is clichéd ways of writing. Originality is making your post unique!

When you start a post, it's always a good thing to bring along some contradictory statements. Being skeptical is never a bad thing in debates. Bring up counter arguments to people's statements to get them thinking. It's an easy way to expand arguments!

Finally, keeping a post tense will engage the reader and they will become engrossed in your writing. It's always a good thing to get the reader to keep reading. Dull posts, while containing important information, are easily glossed over by anybody reading it. Exciting, tense posts keep the points at the forefront of a reader's mind.

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Thank you for taking the time to read this comprehensive guide. As this is not a final product in a series, questions and comments are welcomed.

This is an experimental program designed to help the general population of the Loamhedge Abbey Forums. The Forum Self-Help Commitee and its sponsor, the Forum News Network, is not to be held liable in the event of injury, physical or other, during or after the reading of this guide. Should any concerns arise, please send all requests to @Sagetip.

[Jetthebinturong]

I feel like this should be in Cavern Hole, as most of it is not really pertinent to most boards other than the Fan-Fiction board and the main Book Discussion boards

[Hickory]

@James Gryphon

Mind moving this? Thank you.

[Skyblade]

Hmm, interesting. I'm on the lookout for future installments.

[The Skarzs]

Definitely in RPs and the discussion boards, more interesting posts can lead to more responses.
In the discussions, skepticism makes people think, and if they have something to say, may encourage them to post.

With RP posts, as with in any sort of story, it's necessary to keep the conflict rising. However, that's not always possible. What I suggest, if people have nothing to post, find out what other people are planning in the next little bit of the RP. Then they might be able to help lead up to it, or perhaps help keep people posting. (Contradictory posts may not be necessary for RPs.)