Coming soon: Forum etiquette guide

A few of the points I recently wrote for the upcoming Forum Etiquette Guide are already in the Terms of Service.
Tek7 said:
Keep your signature short, height-wise. Your complete signature, including all text and images, should be no taller than 150 pixels. I've seen several violations of this basic etiquette rule and it's rather annoying when trying to quickly read threads.
From the Christian Gamers Alliance Forums Terms of Service:
5.Members will not advertise their graphics or websites in an obnoxious manner in their signatures or posts.
Tek7 said:
Do not, under any circumstances, start a thread entitled "free ipod," "free notebook," or "click here." I reserve the right to reach through the monitor and throttle you if you do. If you're trying to get a free iPod or notebook or whatever, put the relevant link in your signature in plain text. This rule also covers those annoying referer link games like Outwar.
From the Christian Gamers Alliance Forums Terms of Service:
7.Members will not advertise or solicit chain letters, pyramid schemes, "sales pitches," get rich quick scams, etc. This is a nuisance to other members and is illegal.
 
/bump

I wanted to have this thread on the first page for my personal reference. I hope to write a second draft of the Forum Etiquette Guide soon.
 
Weazel said:
Just one nitpick...
The thread was created in 2005, so that's correct. Don't expect Tek to go through all the threads that have "200" in them and change them to "2007" when the new year rolls around. =P
 
1. The general "'hte' instead of 'the'" type problems annoy me from time to time. "esle" and "else", "ahve" and "have", etc.
2. When people post a news article without mentioning or linking to the source.
3. When people say "Click here" instead of being more descriptive of what the link actually is. This is really just a pet peeve of most webmasters because then they don't get the kind of search engine rankings they like. :D

if you dont want people getting free links put:
<meta name="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOFOLLOW, INDEX">
in the forum theme, it will prevent people from getting pr from links in the website
 
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